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TIL that when people said they read a book they sometimes mean they listened to a book. Ok, it wasn’t today that I learned this but I am hearing it a lot more often.

After over 8 years my Logitech MX Master 2S had a button jam. It was a fantastic mouse and I’m very happy with the life it had. So I immediately purchased the 3S which is better in a number of ways; USB-C, better buttons, better wheel.

The Logi Options+ application, which Logitech provides to configure the mouse, is pretty nice but I’m having issues with it. For example, App Expose sometimes works sometimes doesn’t when mapped to one of the thumb buttons. Hide Others, a keyboard shortcut on the Mac I use liberally, is also a little flaky via the new mouse.

Does anyone else have these issues? Does anyone have a solution for not using Logi Options+ at all but configuring the mouse with some much less bulky?

My personal OneDrive has seemingly gone off the rails. It reported that I had deleted thousands of files when I hadn’t. I’m also seeing many duplicated files for no known reason. Stranger still, my 2021 blog post about resetting OneDrive was my most popular post last week. Coincidence?

Finally watched Perfect Days. Still swooning.

After purchasing the new MacBook Pro with a matte display (and loving it), this weekend I converted all of my devices to matte using screen protectors.

TIL about the iOS Camera app’s QuickTake video feature.

TIL what a digital mending circle is.

Jack Cheng:

What, you ask, is a digital mending circle? A virtual co-working session for the kinds of oft-neglected maintenance tasks that accrue around our digital lives. Instead of darning socks and patching jeans, we update personal websites, delete unused accounts, work on side projects, or even just catch up on email.

Oh I need this.

I feel like computer hardware (processing units, graphics/neural processors, memory, storage) has gotten mind bending fast while at the same time the software we run day-to-day has gotten noticeably poorer.

I often think “what if the software engineers of the early days were to develop software today?” You know, the men and women that had to find a way to use every single bit and byte to their advantage. The engineers that created games using systems less powerful than the processor in my AirPods. The designers that made low resolution displays display smooth type. The audio experts that somehow got single speakers to make aliens come alive.

Give those people our modern tools, gigabytes of memory, and processors that handle billions of calculations every nanosecond – I’d bet that they could make modern software sing.

I had no idea Anthony Bourdain had a Reddit account. I’ve only just recently begun to be able to start watching / reading his work again. /via Mia Quagliarello via Rolling Stone.

It turns out The Browser Company is just a company that is going to continue to build new web browsers ad infinitum. I suppose I should have known.