Sitting on hold with a doctor and every 30 seconds it says "Due to unusually long hold times, you can press 1 to leave a voicemail and we will return your call within 24 business hours."

24 business hours? So if it’s 1 PM Monday, that means they’ll get back to me on 10 AM Thursday?

The catastrophic failure of Peloton as a business is very funny in its own right, but the fact that they’ll either go bankrupt or be merged into oblivion without ever once owning peloton dot com is sort of hilarious.

The real utm_campaign was inside us all along.

In case you’re wondering how wide the new Ultra Wide (32:9 @ 5120x1440px) setting is for Mac Virtual Display on Vision Pro, it amounts to:

• 730 characters per line of text at Terminal’s default font size
• 42 cells of data at Numbers’ default sizing
• 24 slides per row in Keynotes’ Light Table view

It’s wide.

After dad’s passing, I wanted to export all of our iMessages into a portable format. There’s a much easier than extracting from an iPhone via paid proprietary software:

1. brew install imessage-exporter
2. imessage-exporter -f html

That’s it. They’ll all be in your home directory in a folder called imessage_export. github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter

Back home after 10 days spending Christmas in the Hamptons (Inn) and I gotta say, I much prefer my house to living in a hotel.

What is the best Final Fantasy game and why is it 10? youtu.be/cYMJgWdqs8o?si=n5Z6aBCB1KxFnacu

Would love to be proven wrong here, but it sure seems like Apple has finally made it impossible to take a disk image of a Mac (not even bootable, just a compressed DMG file), given two ARM Macs and a cable.

Well, this is a terrible workflow that Apple steers people through when replacing a damaged phone:

1. Apple Support app tells you to disable Find My before sending an Express Replacement iPhone
2. You receive phone and set it up with Direct Transfer from damaged phone
3. You realize a week later that replacement phone has Find My (and Activation Lock) disabled because it copied the setting from the damaged phone.

Seems bad.

Playing with some local AI stuff this afternoon, and let me just comment on how unfortunate it is that the modern language with the worst packaging and dependency experience happens to be the one everyone uses for AI/ML.

TIL that in recent versions of macOS, most stock apps can’t be deleted by the user. Want to delete News? LaunchPad won’t let you. Command-Delete ain’t it. It’ll bounce right off the trash.

What gives? It’s because they’re not really in /Applications anymore. They’re installed in /System/Applications and that’s a read-only APFS partition. Neat.

This month's essay may be the single truest thing I've ever written about myself. If you're interested in understanding me or what the heck I plan to do with the rest of my life, sign up and you'll receive it. justin.searls.co/newsletter/

Evidence I've changed as a person: someone just stopped me on the street to say, "I'm sorry I just wanted to say you have an incredible energy and I wanted to hand you my card. Your chi is beautiful." And she clearly meant what she was saying. And seemed to be of sound mind.

First time for everything.

Does anyone even work at Peloton anymore? On hold for what seems like forever listening to the same muzak loop endlessly.

Reactivating their shitty bike resulted in their backend creating two concurrent subscriptions on a single account. What a garbage product.

Train fare in Japan isn't cheap, but one way Japan gets people to choose it anyway is by directly exposing drivers to road infrastructure costs through steep highway fees.

In 8 days I drove 613 miles and racked up about $130 in highway tolls. Would have been more expensive to take trains, but just barely.

Currently recruiting friends for the Pokémon card game on iOS. Wish it wasn't so well made but here we are 1320731700089555

Spoiler alert: Gladiator II is very good.