In zehn Minuten (19:00 Uhr) läuft "Dinner for One" im #MDR.

#DinnerForOne #SameProcedureAsEveryYear #FreddieFrinton #MayWarden #MissSophie #Silvester #Silvester2025 #NewYearsEve #ProstNeujahr #tv #willkommen2026

And I thought it couldn't get worse: now macOS 26.2 draws glitched and flickering lines of pixels at the top edge of my wallpaper on multiple machines (not showing up in screenshots). Lovely.

#louvre louvre is the new admin admin

A new track by #Lazerhawk "Haunted Highway"!! This sets the mood for the coming days.

https://lazerhawk.bandcamp.com/album/haunted-highway

#synthwave

After changing Apple accounts which resetted my iBooks library to zero, I definitely won't buy an eBook with DRM ever again. Vendor lock-in for books is the dumbest thing ever!
I buy unprotected ePUBs from a regional book store instead now and drop them into Calibre and/or Books.app. Feels more future-proof to me.

#drm #epub

Plasma 6.5 is out! Look forward to cool interface re-designs (rounded corners! Automatic smooth light-to-dark transitions!), features (smart KRunner searches! Pinned clipboard items!) and tons of usability and accessibility improvements:

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.5.0/

#desktop #Plasma6 #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Release

Captain Kirk was already briefed about power consumption and capabilities of the upcoming M5 chip. What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3aIkX_fPUQ&t=19s

#m5

I’m slowly becoming a Shortcuts app fan because of the iPhone's Action Button. Mine now opens Duolingo in the morning, my public transport ticket during the day and my SomaFM radio in the evening 😁.

I made the right choice, the #iPhoneAir is pretty amazing – even after just a few hours of using it.
It feels luxurious with the thin screen edges and the light weight. It's much easier to handle one-handed than the Pros.

The iPhone Air's little MagSafe battery backpack is almost as large and heavy as my entire iPhone 13 mini 😅.

That's my first external phone battery, so I'm curious to see how well it fits into my daily life. It also supports Qi/USB-C charging for headphones, etc. which is a big reason why I got it.

#MagSafe #iPhoneAir

This is the first #macOS release I'm not using on day 1.
I'll keep an eye on the Tahoe fixes and improvements with a VM. Sequoia runs stable, gets all the security updates and I don't feel like I'm missing anything yet.

I did choose the #iPhoneAir today with all its compromises. I'm bored by the regular sized iPhones at the moment and there is also sadly no real successor to my 13 mini.

#iPhone

Finally tackled the migration to a single Apple Account on my devices. There are still some store purchases and subscriptions I have to review and maybe redo, but nothing time-critical.
I lost my Apple Music library in the process, but it's also somehow freeing to start over.

Since returning to Linux I thought that VirtualBox was still my only realistic enduser VM option. Now I found Gnome Boxes via Flathub and it's significantly faster and better. It also runs well on KDE.

https://apps.gnome.org/Boxes/

Frankfurter Landgericht stoppt Apple-Werbung wegen Greenwashing

Apple hatte drei seiner Smartwatches als "CO2-neutral" beworben. Das hat das Frankfurter Landgericht jetzt in einem Urteil untersagt und ist damit einer Klage der Deutschen Umwelthilfe gefolgt. Diese sah "dreistes Greenwashing".

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/apple-werbung-greenwashing-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Apple #Greenwashing #DeutscheUmwelthilfe #AppleWatch #Urteil

That's neat! I can drag and throw a window into the direction of the Dock to minimize it in #iPadOS26. I already knew about double-tap to maximize, but that speeds things up even more.
Using the traffic lights still feels slower than necessary.

I didn't expect #ios26 to be so much worse on iPhone than on iPad. There I barely had any problems (excluding the UI design), but on the phone it's crashy and even my entire screen flickers sometimes. I"ll keep suffering through it…

Looks like #xcode 26 beta 5 fixed the low-res app icons on non-Tahoe releases. That regression kept me from using Icon Composer *.icon files in my new builds.

I was hoping for a bit more contrast in #ipados26 beta 5. Maybe next time…

You can actually double-tap the title area on any window to switch between fullscreen and window mode on #iPadOS26. That speeds things up!