🔗 Jmail, logged in as jeevacation@gmail.com

… via @gruber … so clever.

ChatGPT running through some stuff for me this morning - and one part it was really tripping up over - so i explained what was wrong - ‘thinking’ … long reply - embedded in there was

… the generated “dodecahedron” was definitely auditioning for a different role

💬 ChatGPT

I dunno - I thought that was quite funny.

🤯

If you have at all been paying attention to this stream you will know that I have been wrestling with a mouse issue. My Trackpad is fine - never an issue. My Magic Mouse is fine - only one issue - in a browser - any browser - I have to swipe and swipe and swipe to scroll down a page - any page. With the trackpad - smooth as silk. Outside of a browser - no problems at all.

I have posted into bulletin boards, logged onto community, changed my user profile, asked Apple - changed every friggin' setting known to humanity - and much more besides - including for the cognoscenti - I even learned about ‘EtreCheckPro’ and installed … ** Nada.**

This morning I happened to read about someone having an unresolvable Mac issue - and so turned to ChatGPT … 🤯 - number two.

I have been a paid user of Claude and ChatGPT for a while - but sometimes I still forget that they are there … so I thought - hell - why not.

it took it 4 or 5 minutes of back and forth to make sure it was happy that I had all the right bits switched on and off - and then we did some testing on sites - and then - Terminal …. so now I knew I was going into uncharted waters.

AND - I kid you not - about another 5 minutes later including a couple of reboots - FIXED - after months of elapsed time and HOURS of actually trying to fix this very weird thing … all done in less than 10 minutes.

This was the final recommendation that turned it around.

It’s fine that Google stopped allowing for the creating of new links a while back, but there’s no reason they should ever stop redirecting existing links. The whole reason anyone might have used goo.gl instead of something like bit.ly is misplaced trust in Google. I trust Google with almost nothing long-term. Mark my words, they’re going to do this with Gmail accounts eventually.

💬 John Gruber

What Gruber said.

💬 Me

Always liked Ashton’s thinking - another writer that fell off my RSS tracker that I am reconnecting with as I sort out my RSS feeds.

🔗 The boomers ruined everything? Think again.

The Party’s Over

Fuller

… needed.

Early

Just an idea for coffee drinkers in Auckland.

I know - it’s great coffee - that’s why the line is ‘out the door’ … but why not line along side of the building - rather than straight out across the walkway and into the street - AND THEN turn.

Makes it a little easier for all.