I'm sorry to tell you that Apple is making me hate... glass. They better fix their game before this fall.

The idea of having a linkpost blog has been floating in my head for quite some time now. Here is an example from Dave Winer. And here is another one, from Kottke.org. The latter is quite famous. It's a great version of web curation. The thing is: I don't have time and energy to make this happen. I'm barely able to keep up with Hacker News or Digg, even in beta form. I prefer to keep the Ephemeral Scrapbook going instead where you'll find some curated content, anyway.

After countless hours trying & experimenting with Elements, I finally came up with something I'm starting to like: "Who Is Numeric Citizen?", my new about page.

After seeing some processes taking 10% of CPU (looking at you "controlcenter"), it's always a good idea to reboot your Mac while testing macOS Tahoe, especially with dev beta #1. What a difference it makes! 

If you have a family setup in Apple and have Apple Family Purchase Sharing turned on, you likely know that purchases are charged to the family organizer's credit card. If all family members are adults and have their own credit cards, they should be able to use their cards for App Store purchases. However, this is not currently possible. Here’s a solution.

Ask each adult member to add an Apple Account card to their Wallet and to fund the account. All future purchases will be charged to the Apple Account card first, before any funds are taken from the family organizer's credit card.

If Apple Family Purchase Sharing is off, then each member can manage their own credit card for their App Store purchases.

I quit Twitter at the end of 2022, but over the years, I accumulated many references to it, including links to tweets in my research documents. Occasionally, I check if the authors are still on Twitter, but more often than not, they have left the platform. Therefore, I decided to systematically remove all my links to x.com (or twitter.com) when I see them.

I'm back home after a two-week vacation. I think that using my Scribbles.page blog is the best place for an update. So here we go. 

1. I had a great vacation and visited many wonderful places, like the south of Italy and Spain. I really liked Ibiza. It's not only a party place, trust me. There are great spots to visit there, provided you rent a car. Photo processing is underway. Check my Pixelfed page and Glass page to discover my discoveries. 🌅
2. I felt completely disconnected from my work and mostly from my digital world. I'm slowly reconnecting to the latter as I try to read past news and get ready for the next iteration of my newsletter. From what I'm seeing, a lot of news about AI, OpenAI and Apple. Poor Apple. More to come. 📨
3. Woke up early this morning, thanks to the jet lag ✈️. I expect a one-week recovery time is past vacations in Europe is any indication. 🥱
4. I spent some time updating my devices to the latest OS releases and applied all pending app updates. 99 were pending on my iPhone! 👀
5. I checked my website analytics and found a few surprises—some good and some bad. While I don't care too much about these, it's interesting to monitor them since my publication pattern changes throughout the year.📈
6. Just before taking off in Barcelona, I ordered a 140W Anker charger that should improve my device charging experience while on a trip. I really like their products. Ordering stuff from an iPhone while in the plane still feels science-fiction to me.🔋
7. I like writing, and I'm glad that I'm back at it, now.

Cheers! See you for the next udpate!

People are upset since Synology announced tied control of drives supported in their recently updated NAS devices. As someone who works in IT with enterprise-class storage vendors like NetApp, IBM, and Hitachi, I am accustomed to this level of control. However, home users see it as a money-grab tactic. The truth might be right in-between.