We’re dog sitting a chihuahua. I just had this conversation with their owners’ kitchen spybot:
Me: Dingus, Monday morning at 8AM, play “I Want a Dog” by Pet Shop Boys.
Spy: OK. Would you like me to make that your default alarm tone?
Me: …yes!
My wife: LOL
Don’t leave me alone with your electronics.
We’re dogsitting Holly. She thinks my jokes are hilarious.
The new cajun place next door finally has muffuletta sandwiches in stock. First, they’re every bit as delicious as I remembered from first trying them many years ago. Second, I now know how I’ll die, and that I’ll die smiling contentedly.
I’ve been up on the roof installing the mount for a new Meshtastic antenna.
I don’t actually need an encrypted mesh messaging system that doesn’t require Internet access, but it’s reassuring to have one available anyway.
I bought a Meshtastic radio and I could see getting addicted to experimenting with it. The little stubby antenna in the kit is enough to hear from nodes across the bay and let me talk to nearby nodes. I’ve already ordered an outdoor roof antenna to push that farther.
This is fun.
Finished reading: My Struggle: Book 2 by Karl Ove Knausgaard 📚
I would read a thousand pages of him describing his living room. Actually, I think I have.
Absolutely luxurious.
After Apple broke my Apple Card yesterday, I thought I’d found the correct, undocumented, undiscoverable way to update the App Store to use my new card information. Nope. Apple is still declining transactions from their own card after they unilaterally decided to change it.
I’m anticipating the moment they tell me they’ve canceled my account for nonpayment. What an unnecessary mess.
I got an email this weekend that Apple was updating my Apple Card’s expiration date. The old date would work for purchases through the end of the year.
Today Apple Music said I can’t play songs until I update my payment info. I clicked the offered button and got an unworking form with unlabeled, required fields.
When I guessed the right value for the unlabeled field (which wasn’t asking for my name; it didn’t allow me to type a space character), it told me it already had that card information on file. I closed that and went into System Settings > me > Payment & Shipping. There was no way to update the payment information there. A quick trip to Kagi said I have to update that through the App Store app instead.
So I went into that app and clicked Manage Payments. It prompted me to enter my credit card info there. That didn’t work, once again because that card was already on file. I clicked the Back button on that form and it took me to a different screen I hadn’t seen before that listed my payment methods. The form on the new screen wouldn’t let me edit my Apple Card, but it did allow me to delete that card altogether and add it right back. That seems to have been the right combination of incantations. I can listen to music again.
To recap:
Does anyone at Apple use this themselves? I’m doubtful.
Last night we said goodbye to Gigi after a sudden medical event. She went to sleep surrounded by a heartbroken family who loved her very much.
Goodnight, sweet pup.
