Full on week at work, diverse and challenging. Week ahead has some major events too which is always fun…if they go well…which I’m sure they will. We’re also in June so its mid year check in time.
I mentioned Zen and CityFibre outage last week. Well, turns out it’s not Zen or CityFibre but my internal network. Bugger. Let myself down not investigating properly and assuming it wasn’t me. I reckon my bonded network connection from the Synology was causing issues on the LAN. Since removing the bond its been rock solid.
We’re just over a week out from WWDC. An event I always look forward to – it’s the start of Apple’s year and it hints at the hardware and direction of Apple. However…Apple Intelligence failures, dev relationship worries, legal challenges everywhere…I’m more intrigued in how Apple is going to pitch WWDC this year. One sign of change is Grubers The Talk Show Live won’t have any Apple exec’s attending for the first time since 2015. I wonder why?
Apple also seem to be moving to tying software releases to year, no doubt as this year is seeing a major rebrand. Not overly convinced – iOS 26 on iPhone 17? Doesn’t trip off the tongue.
The Future is Colurful and Dimensional – great post and hopefully a return to some character and texture that iOS 7 pushed many in the opposite direction.
The Who Cares Era – AI and LLM’s can be a fantastically useful tool…and also turn off individual thought. Where’s the care when people shit out a post that’s generated in ChatGPT? LinkedIn is full of AI generated slop. How long before work meetings are dominated with colleagues using copilot to make their arguments. Depressing.
Said goodbye to Netflix this week. Been a subscriber for years but a look at price per play meant head ruled heart and it had to be cancelled. I don’t have the time to watch all the TV from each of the streaming channels. TV is in a real glory phase vs movies.
The Last of Us season 2 finished this week. Overall enjoyable but not as strong as season 1. At least there’s only 1, maybe 2 more so there’s an end point unlike The Walking Dead.
As for Doctor Who – what a mess. Needs a reset…maybe even a rest.
Upcoming – Nintendo Switch 2 and Mario Kart World. And hopefully it really is a new Mario Kart – its been a while!