This whole Tariff war drives me insane. Mostly because so many doesn’t understand what tariffs are, who pays them (it is always end consumer that ends up paying it in the end for any tax or expense).

A tariff can be a good thing, if you want to, for example encourage people to buy local dairy products over foreign. Or just have a tax similar to VAT to try to even out prices a bit.

But when you just put a huge tariff on anything foreign no matter if there are any local alternatives or not it is just dumb. You’re just making everything more expensive.

One could add the tariff, but make it deductible against documented expenses in the process of moving things against local production.

You can’t be all stick or all carrot, that’s just dumb and counterproductive, but you can get great results with both.

I thought these right wing assholes were supposed to understand the economy?

This drives me nuts.

So if you “install” a PWA on macOS and iOS (or add it to the “dock” or “Home Screen” as they call it), you get back and forward arrows on macOS, while not on iOS.

This kind of drives me nuts, because most web apps aren’t really designed with this in mind. Sometimes navigation gestures work, other times not.

Kind of makes them useless on iOS and iPadOS.

This is a thing that have annoyed me for so long with various kinds of products. For example USB-C docks or dongles.

It seems like most of them are designed with the assumption that everyone has whatever they are connected to a laptop sitting on a desk or other larger flat surface, where the dock can be neatly placed next to it with the 5-10cm cable they all have.

My laptop is always on a stand when I’m at the desk at home. So it would be dangling on to the side. And they break when you do that.

I wish products were designed with people using things in different ways in mind when they are designed. For example by making the thunderbolt / USB-C cable from the docking to your laptop detachable. or having a longer cable.

But this is usually only available on the more expensive options. When I took a quick look this moment the options that is “good enough” for me vs the ones with longer or detachable cable is like twice as expensive.

I have an ancient Kindle Paperwhite. Looking through the order history it seems like it was a Kindle Paperwhite 3 released in 2015, bought in 2018.

Slow as fuck at this point. Otherwise I’m fine with it.

The plan for about two years have been to replace it with an iPad mini when money allows it.

Weird how long these things lasts.

This have annoyed me about loads of native apps for years. There are no progress indicators or spinners in most apps. It used to be better when iOS had a global spinner in the top back in the day.

Things may have been instant when the feature was made, but it might take longer for some users; either because of older hardware, slower connections or way more data; or even if they’re located far from where your cloud infrastructure is located.

We’ve done this in web apps since like forever. Show that something is happened. It could be a spinner or even just disabling the button when it is clicked.

I love this app. It is just a super simple app to dump an audio file on to get a transcript from it.

Been using it for at least a year at this point. Really great when you want to go back and reference something in a podcast instead of having to skip-search for it etc.

It isn’t a fast process, even on my M3 MacBook Pro, to transcribe a long podcast episode. But still prefer it to re-listening etc.

Where Apple are really good at software is anywhere they can just grind on the UX and reliability until it makes sense and works great.

Less so (most of the time) when you need to make sure it works well in all kinds of data combinations or network situations.

For example how terrible the Shortcuts app handles many Shortcuts or ones with a lot of blocks. Especially on macOS.

Or how bad MobileMe was and iCloud have been in periods from Europe (and I presume in the rest of the would outside of North America).

This is kind of the same problem you have with AI.

You have have non-deterministic part in there. Like networks or LLM’s. Apple have never been that great at it, and they kind of requires more how Google and friends are doing constant updates all the time instead of Apples big monolithic updates.

The way most weight tracking apps etc handle averages is that they take the number of weigh ins last week take the sum of the weights and divide that by the number of weigh ins.

Makes sense.

But this isn’t really a good representation of my average weight that week.

If I step more times on my smart scale during one day than another, something I often do when I work from home, then what my weight those days were will affect the average much more than the days where I just weighed in after my morning workout and before dinner.

I like how Happy Scale does it, where they only keep the “best” weigh in for a day.

I’d also like for apps that do a general average to have a better understanding of the samples. Like if you have a bunch of weigh ins very close to each other first make an average of them. Then continue that process from minutes to hours. Before you do the same for the entire day. Use that for the week and month, year.

When I got my iPhone 16 Pro I enabled the 80% charging limit, and have for the most part been fine with it.

A big part of why it works for me is that it charges really fast compared to older models.

I don’t think I have gotten very close to using all my battery more than a handfull times in close to two months.

There are a few things I wish were different with the implementation of it though.

I wish it was more obvious by looking at the screen that I have fully charged to the limit. I also wish there was a way to tell the phone to charge to 100% once (instead of the until tomorrow thingy). Plus that I could turn either the “tomorrow” or “once” setting on through the control center.