Hardly news at this point, I guess, but just in case you’ve missed it: you cannot use the iPhone 14 Pro’s satellite communication functionality outside a very limited number of geographical regions (mainly the U.S. mainland). e.g. I thought I’d give it a whirl as I was flying out of Houston, out over the Gulf … Read more
A major reason I purchased an Apple Watch Ultra was for its loudly advertised ability to function as a dive computer, much like some Garmins. It’s been a rough and disappointing road. Right out of the gate, it didn’t work. It requires a 3rd-party application, Oceanic+, which didn’t exist at Apple Watch Ultra release time. … Read more
By default, Final Cut Pro prefers to “copy” all files on import. Indeed you’d think this is the only sensible option most of the time, since most of the time you’re importing from a memory card and you do need to make a local copy somewhere on your computer. However, Final Cut Pro has a … Read more
Ventura’s new System Settings app, replacing System Preferences, removes the ability to control quite a few important things. One of those is whether or not the system goes to sleep automatically. Well, it does let you control this setting but only for when the system is on mains power: By default the system will sleep … Read more
Say you want to perform some operation after a delay, and/or at regular intervals, inside a Swift actor – maybe your actor represents a weather station and you want to periodically fetch the latest weather information, automatically. How do you do that? You could punt the problem to some other code, outside the actor – … Read more
Casey Liss mused about a home project to wire his whole house with ethernet, in several ATP episodes. Coincidentally around that time I had need to run ethernet to a specific device anyway. So I thought – well, if you’re going to do something, do it ad stupidium…
The Nikon Z9 is supposed to be able to work using USB power. And it appears to – if you have a battery installed that’s not flat. Otherwise, it refuses to function – showing a “Shutter release disabled. Recharge battery” message in the viewfinder for a second or two before turning itself off again. I … Read more