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Me, Linn and Linn’s father just 🎞 watched Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020) and it was a delightfully stupid movie. Highly recommended if you want to laugh and not think.
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Allow me to be somewhat of the contrarian here. To me the iPhone SE (and 4/4S and 5/5s) was the most beautiful iPhone. The look and feel of it was and still is exquisite. However I don’t think it’s the best one simply due to the nature of technological progress. There’s just been to much improvements to every part of the phone since the SE’s launch for that to be true.
Like Patrick I held on to my SE (and 5s before that one) for dear life but once it started falling apart, I decided to bite the bullet and get an iPhone 11. It was a rough transition to the bigger phone. For a whole day or two. I can still miss the portability of the smaller device but these days when I hold even Linn’s iPhone 6s in my hands it feels like a tiny baby-phone. The SE seems ridiculously small.
My ideal iPhone would be small like an SE in the pocket, but then I should be able to pull on its side and enlarge it so a 11 size once I use it.
That being said, we like what we like. If you (not pointed directly at either of you gentlemen) love your iPhone SE more than any other phone and want to keep using it, please do so. I hope it lasts you a really long time. :) If however you’re forced by entropy to change it for newer one you might find that the grass is if not greener, then at least an interesting different shade of green.1
@MrHenko Indeed, using an SE will become untenable over time. As @ChrisJWilson said, it’s a great phone but a not-as-great pocket computer. Noticing that I’ve been using my phone (an iPhone X) for less and less recently, I figured it was a good time to see how the SE fares as a daily driver. I’ll never not love the form factor. And I’m finding that having Touch ID is a relief, making me wonder if the new SE could be an option one day.
@jack Yeah, considered as “just” a phone, and by phone we mean thing people use to make phone calls and send text messages, then I can agree that the SE is Apple’s best attempt. (Though if that is the definition of phone, I miss my old pre-smart phone Motorola. Physical numerical keyboard, great battery life and insanely thin. Also, it worked with iSync to sync my calendar and contacts. :) )
It appears quite a few people miss Touch ID which I find interesting. To me after using Face ID for a couple of days, using Touch ID on my iPad felt like bashing two pieces of rock together to produce fire. It felt so ancient. Touch ID never worked flawlessly for me whereas Face ID works almost every time. The only exceptions are when I’m laying down in bed.
What is it about Touch ID that you find better/more appealing? (Other people who read this should feel free to chime in as well.)
@MrHenko Touch ID feels consistent to me, somehow. I feel like I’m in more control my phone. I know, it doesn’t make much sense. Also, Touch ID works great while wearing a mask :). Could be that what I miss is the Home button and Touch ID is riding along. When Face ID doesn’t work I find myself flailing about moving my phone and face trying to get it to work. With Touch ID I just lift and reset my thumb. Or it could be nostalgia. Ask me again in a week!
@aaronpk I find the opposite! I’ve just upgraded to an iPhone 11 and it’s the first phone I’ve had with Face ID. I find it very fast, and it is almost immediate when I‘m already using my phone and use Face ID to log into an app/account that uses it, such as my bank’s app.
@aaronpk TouchID always worked well for me except that, as a Minnesotan I end up wearing gloves muck of the year, which was roughly as problematic as masks are in today’s world.
Ideally some combination of the two forms of authentication will become viable eventually.
@aaronpk If I could get enough to pay off my 11 Pro, I would sell it and go for the SE 2 just because it has the touch ID. As a blind guy, I don’t need to pick up my phone to look at it and so often just leave it on the desk when reading a quick notification or something — can’t do that with face ID. I know OnePlus and others have a fingerprint sensor under the glass, not quite sure how that works, but maybe Apple could implement something similar and offer people the best of both worlds. Here’s hoping.
@jack It’s definitely not you, I feel the same way. Face ID might be cool or something, but it’s just not as practical as touch ID, at least in my apparently not so humble opinion. :)
@jack I can see what you mean by being more in control with a home button and Touch ID. Also the mask thing is absolutely a thing for most of the world. Though as a Swede it’s currently not a problem than I’m having. (Pretty much nobody wears a mask here.)
I’ll try to remember asking you in a week. :)
@aaronpk Thanks for chiming in. I appears that the question of TouchID vs FaceID is very much a question of circumstances. To me TouchID works unreliably because Sweden have long and cold winters, resulting in dry hands and/or gloves and bad reliability whereas Sweden also has a COVID-19 strategy that’s different from the rest of the world that means wearing a mask is just not a thing, so FaceID works very well.
As for the problem with the phone laying down I’m with you fully, though I think I’ve either never really used it that way or I’ve trained myself out of it.
@aaronpk Another thing, not related to this at all: Thank you so much for your YouTube videos about the Atem Mini and Mini Pro. It was through your videos that I heard about the Atem Mini and got one for work and it really simplified my lectures during the spring semester. So thanks!
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[…] it feels almost impossible to be alive today and live a life untouched by Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram.
– Facebook is out of control. If it were a country it would be North Korea
It may feel like it, but it’s not true.
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and tagged it with Apple Watch TL/DR I finally bought myself an Apple Watch, it arrived a few days ago and I really like it.
There are few, if any, purchasing decisions that I’ve been sweating for as long time as the Apple Watch. I never really felt the need for one but the want for one has been there since its initial release. However I didn’t like the look of the first aluminum ones and I though the steel ones were too expensive. Eventually I got a Pebble Steel for my thirtieth birthday and I really liked that watch and found it useful.
After a few years and the Pebble corporation being ”sunset” it stopped working properly, it’s app started hogging disk space on my phone and so on so I stopped using it and got myself a regular watch.
EDIT: This photo was added after publication of the article.
The idea of getting an Apple Watch has been in the back of my mind more and more these past few years as I think the aluminum ones have gotten better looking. So last year I was quite close to buying one but in the end I decided not to, just to change my mind this summer. The reason (more likely excuse) was that it would be nice to track my activity when I go swimming in the lake.
I knew I wanted to silver aluminum one but I did some waffling about which band to get. In the end I decided to get two, the Alaska Blue Sports Band and the Milanese Loop
I’m surprised about how much I like the Sports Band. I mostly got it because I wanted to wear the watch when swimming and I didn’t want to use the Milanese loop for that but right now the Sports Band is my favorite of the two. It looks got and is comfortable.
The Milanese loop is still eligible for a return to Apple but I think I’ll keep it. I will use it some times and if I return it now I’ll definitely not buy it or something similar again because I will get cheap. So having one is probably better than not having one.
As mentioned above I got the silver aluminum watch and I chose the 40 mm one. I have quite small wrists and I’m not a fan of big watches so this smaller one fits me great.
I also decided to go with the cellular version, something I’ve always cheaped out on for my iPads. With the iPads I’ve never really regretted that cheapness since I never, I mean never, carry and iPad with me outside of a place with WiFi without also carrying my iPhone and tethering has always worked perfectly for me. For the watch I wanted to try and see if I decided to leave the phone behind for walks and other potential, though still not actual, exercise. So far I haven’t been able to get the cellular working because of some problem with my carrier that I need to go to a store to sorts of and I just haven’t had the time yet.
I’ve heard CGP Grey and Marco Arment among others complain about the various watch-faces. So far I don’t agree with them. I do think third-party watch-faces should be a thing, and if that isn’t a thing there should be far more watch-faces by Apple, but the current ones works for me right now.
So far I haven’t really decided on a particular favorite. Instead I have a few that I circle between during the day for various contexts.
First of, there the Simple watch face with a petroleum blue second hand. This is my night time watch. So far I wear the watch at night as well to track my sleep so I think it’s nice to have a fairly clean-looking watch-face for nighttime viewing.
I use four complications, one in each corner:
(Clockwise from top left)
The main one here is Sleep++ by _David Smith. I’m a big fan of David and his work and curiosity about his watch apps are part of the reason why I wanted one. I put the Sleep++ complication there on this face to make sure I activate sleep tracking each night but I gotta say that the automatic tracking works very well as well, so maybe I don’t really need it there. Still, it’s nice to have the crescent moon there as a visual cue that this is the night watch-face and that I’m supposed to sleep when I see it.
I imagine this will be my main work watch-face, the one I turn to on a working day after I’ve woken up and will use until work is done for the day. In that context I love how many complications I can, and have, fill it with, though it does make it quite busy which.
The main complication here is the topmost ”multi function” one that is hosting OmniFocus. This way I can always see what I should be doing next and it’s a great feeling to check off a lot of items and then see the Done text appear, indicating that there’s nothing more I need to do.
However, I would like it even better if I could chose different OmniFocus perspectives for the watch complication and the watch widget. Right now those need to be the same. It’s in no way a big complaint but OmniFocus is this wonderful power tool of choice and settings, so it would be great if this particular thing could be a setting as well.
As for the outer complications, they are (again clockwise from top left)
Pedometer++ is another great tool by David Smith. It was the first app I got for my iPhone 5S that made use of the ”motion co-processor” and the main reason why I’ve worn my iPhone as much as possible ever since. I just love to track my step amount and I think Pedometer++ is a nice app to do it with. On the watch it works equally well and so far I’m more interested in just my steps rather than my ”exercise” and ”standing” so I prefer this one to the Apple Activity Rings.1
Yr is a weather app from Norwegian National(?) weather service. I’ve used their phone app for ages and I find their forecasts better that the Apple ones.
Home is for controlling the IKEA Trådfri lights in my house. If I work at the office that is not going to be very useful but when working from home it’s nice to have quick access to the various lighting scenarios.
Then there’s the inner complications. A time complication from Watchsmith, yet another awesome David Smith creation. It’s an app whose sole purpose is to provide useful and highly customizable complications for the watch. Very geeky, truly amazing!
Then there’s a date complication and finally the Overcast one. Overcast is my podcast player of choice and having quick access to it is great. I’m not 100% sold on the dark mode icon on the watch but I haven’t bothered checking out whether I can change it or not.
Finally there’s the Infographic Modular face which I use as my free time watch-face, or awake but with with nothing particular to do watch-face.
I like the digital time on this one for precision telling of the time and in combination with the fuzzy time beneath it it’s great. The fuzzy time is another Watchsmith complication.
On the bottom there are three complications (left to right):
All of these feature on watch-faces mentioned above, so look there for more information.
The complication next to the digital time is the battery indicator. This one will probably be changed to something else soon. I find I don’t really care that much about the battery. Maybe it will be replaced by the activity rings, but that would than make the Pedometer++ one fairly redundant so it would need to be changed as well. Or maybe I’ll change the battery to the weather.
There will be lots of fiddling over the summer and hopefully a few blog posts about it
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Min del i det här har varit att spela in och mixa ambisonics-ljudmixen.
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Innocence, once lost, can never be regained.
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Nightswimming
@MrHenko Wow
@MrHenko Yes! Another great one.
@MrHenko WHOA 😯 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
@maique The view or the song I’m referring to? :)
@Gabz Thanks!
@MrHenko The photo 😊 The view is nice, yes, but I had no idea it was also a song! Searching now…
@MrHenko Found the song. Somehow I missed R.E.M. while growing up, never listened to them that much 😊
@maique Thank you. I’m glad you appreciate the photo. I don’t think I captured the actual colors very well but I blame that on the camera.
I used the Insta360 One X which is not that great at capturing stills in low light. I did use it because I wanted to get a 360 video. I might publish that somewhere soon.
@maique R.E.M. was never really a band of my youth either. It think U2 was my R.E.M. But I’ve been slowly getting into them over the last couple of years and they are a real “summer band” for me. And I just love the song Nightswimming. It perfectly captures the feeling of the activity.
@MrHenko I’ll give it another chance 😊
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kaa
6 juli, 2020 06:40@MrHenko totally agree. loved its mindless nature, just like eurovision itself :).
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6 juli, 2020 23:47@kaa Haha, good point! :)