Mastodon Posts (@recursivegeek)

When are US restaurants going to adopt payment at the table so I can use device pay (phone, watch, card), and not require me to carry a credit card they take away from my table? Like other places in the world do? đŸ€”

What is up with WatchOS 11.3.1? My battery life has significantly declined. Overnight it will now drop almost 50%. Going for a 2 hour run
Drained it from 100% to 25%. Yikes!

Love the Apple Ultra 2 watch face with Snoopy. Just wish it would show the battery level so I keep it charged when it is most needed.

Outlook 365 (webmail) and Outlook for Mac Calendar appointment creation at a specific time is painful in requiring “more options” to be clicked every time. Allow an option to default to the larger dialog to avoid the extra step to get to the desired options. Like when “New Event” is clicked.

This looks interesting! As someone that thinks geeking out with C# Blazor over the holidays. telerik.com/the-blazor-holiday

It would be helpful if tagging was available at the note-level for Microsoft OneNote or Loop, to allow filtering by one or more tags. Making the data lists flatter and more useful in dynamic organization. Allow saving the filters. Similar to how SharePoint Online works with Lists & Doc Libraries.

Getting Call of Duty Black Ops 6 operation via XBox PC Games is quite the process. Game update, video driver update, in-game update, many restarts, in-app ads. Confusion on stating the game (season 01?!). Uff-da.

It is frustrating that home automation (Ring) just doesn’t work with Siri (Apple). Changing cameras to Home or Away modes should be possible without a bunch of taps on a device. Perhaps it sounds lazy, but I do enough taps in the day. Reducing the number would be wonderful. Even better, make it so leaving the house, or arriving, does this automatically. Not looking easy, if even possible.

It is a bummer that Visual Studio for Mac is no longer available. While Visual Studio for ARM works great on a VM (I use Parallels), and there is VS Code for Mac (and Windows and Linux), this is still an unfortunate change.

For those who transitioned from lightning to USB-C cords on their iPhone, how many of you have made the absent-minded mistake of trying to use a lightning cable on the new phone? 😆

Oh Apple, your iOS/iPadOS platform has gotten too complicated with all the Notification settings. Recently, there was an issue with people seeing me as “Notifications Silenced” in Messages. All of my devices, despite Silent Mode being off, didn’t have any sounds coming through. The “fix” was to turn on a focus mode (DND) and then turn it back off. Poof! Sounds back on and “Notifications Silenced” off.

What does iOS Outlook have to make it difficult (or impossible) to add images with transparent backgrounds to signatures? On top of no support to move an appointment to another account due to accidental incorrect selection?

I'm looking to replace an HP Printer from 2010 due to misfeeding on the second page. Wow, printers today are disliked. And they're not simple. Some are single-band Wi-Fi, and some require chips with cartridges. Too much time is required to research.

New Microsoft Teams on Windows Pro 11 (32GB RAM, 12th gen i7-1255U) started out strong and more agile than old Teams, but for the last two or three weeks, it has been running the CPU hard, causing 100% utilization across all cores and significant fan usage. Audio is jittery, and multitasking is slow.

The Big Door Prize, an Apple TV original, a company who pushes privacy, and a show that asks for a social security number and hand prints via a mystery machine. Umm
 grooming for scamming? Interesting show until then. Then ick factor.

It is too bad that Azure App Service access to Azure SQL is so painful, if not impossible, to be service principal-based, eliminating the need for connection strings with username and password. Unlike App Services with Azure KeyVault, which is well done.

Copilot (Chat GPT4) is great when it is helpful and frustrating when it is not. I use it for coding. It does spawn ideas, but it also just makes stuff up. Whaaa?! The latest was presuming "az sql", part of the Azure CLI, could assign permissions. When asked why it didn't work, it confessed that it doesn't exist. đŸ€Ș

I wanted to like the Apple Podcasts app with iOS 17.x. It is just so clunky with a bunch of podcasts. Too limited on management. I tried and liked Overcast and Castro, but I use video (tricked with Castro with its sideloading demo show video with TED). I am back to Pocket Casts. While not perfect, its "up next" tailoring and download management suits me best.

This seems like a barrier for usability of Copilot for Microsoft 365 (or in general) đŸ€Ș:

“Preordered” the Snapdragon¼ X Elite Compute Platform (essentially just a list - hopefully can order soon since availability is June 18). I am looking forward to comparing this to my i9 NUC with Windows 11 x64 and Apple M2 Parallels running Windows 11 on ARM. qualcomm.com/support/contact/f