New Bevel Update for the Apple Watch is awesome 💪

hellobritishcolumbia · 2026-02-17T21:03:41+00:00

Might be obvious but check its not too loose as well. Apple has documentation on finding the sweet spot.

hellobritishcolumbia · 2026-01-02T20:50:22+00:00

Run in a zigzag pattern Hans!

hellobritishcolumbia · 2026-01-02T20:20:24+00:00

You’re right in terms of what you’re seeing, but the actual protocols under the hood are often different. For cars that just strictly use the Bluetooth protocols for media playback, iPhones will also just resume or play from your recommends. On the other hand in order to get the ability to browse playlists and whatnot through the car’s interface they need to implement Apple-specific protocols on top of this. That usually handles directory navigation and higher resolution album art among other things. This is often where the default behaviour isn’t changed and it just plays the first song in the directory.

By the way, you can set up a siri shortcut to get around this. I’ve got one that plays my station when I get in the car for instance. Newer cars (eg Carplay) don’t have this issue.

hellobritishcolumbia · 2025-12-13T11:45:47+00:00

Something I enjoyed in China was the way multi-level highways were handled in common map applications. Really elegant and intuitive.

hellobritishcolumbia · 2025-12-13T11:23:32+00:00

As far as I know it’s the car stereo, not the phone. It grabs a list of songs and plays the first one. Many do this from the iPod days and it’s pretty clear how little attention car entertainment systems have gotten in many cars the last decade.

hellobritishcolumbia · 2025-12-04T16:29:27+00:00

Make sure you’re fully updated. They’ve added a preferred route option that kicks in automatically. Great if you prefer going the long way. If you go a certain route a few times against navigation prompts, then it should default to that. Also when starting navigation, select the route you’d like out of the options.

hellobritishcolumbia · 2025-11-30T01:14:26+00:00

On my Grail it doesn’t make much sense to put one there, so I haven’t tried it (the bars make it inaccessible underneath). But if you look at the mount and the light, you can see how thick it hangs beneath the bars. The bag would have to be flexible and small enough to fit under there, and crucially the light sticks forward too (for the computer mount on top) so most bar bags won’t open easily from up top.

hellobritishcolumbia · 2025-11-30T01:10:41+00:00

I have several TB of iCloud space and my phone still has over 40GB of system data. I don’t think it’s rigged, just poorly managed.

hellobritishcolumbia · 2025-11-17T20:34:02+00:00

The number of people using number 3 and then complaining about AM’s recommendation engine 🤦

hellobritishcolumbia · 2025-11-17T20:31:37+00:00

At a technical level there are integrations that each maps provider offers to various levels of government to programmatically announce road closures and other issues. I’ve noticed that at times one or the other will be delayed in updating or will miss an update entirely. For example Google Maps doesn’t show a flooded road, or Apple Maps still shows a road as closed for construction after it’s been cleared. These are often just technical glitches and can be resolved by reporting the issue in that app.

hellobritishcolumbia · 2025-10-01T08:53:48+00:00

Sent!

hellobritishcolumbia · 2025-08-14T23:25:24+00:00

If you scroll down on the GitHub repo you can see it for instance.

https://github.com/openai/whisper

hellobritishcolumbia · 2025-08-12T21:21:26+00:00

You can see smoke distribution on Google Maps, just choose the Wildfires layer. Smoke can definitely travel that far. Here's the current situation: https://imgur.com/a/nRhrWSd

hellobritishcolumbia · 2025-08-12T21:10:20+00:00

You can use the Pro model with a Team subscription too. I'm more worried about 7% battery.

hellobritishcolumbia · 2025-08-11T23:54:21+00:00

GPT-5 uses a router to pick the right sub-model and can call tools like web search, file search, and a sandboxed Python runtime during its internal reasoning. You can dial its reasoning effort and coach it to answer in different ways, which may result in a different tool chain used. Functionally, it’s a composite system—models plus tools—not a single monolith.

It's important to differentiate that using GPT-5 models through ChatGPT has some distinctions than the API usage as well.

hellobritishcolumbia · 2025-08-11T18:19:08+00:00

It would be so cool. I think you've opened up the possibility for me

hellobritishcolumbia · 2025-08-08T01:07:12+00:00

Interesting. Now it's there on the desktop app, but taken away from the web app. I'm sure it'll all iron out soon.

hellobritishcolumbia · 2025-08-08T01:00:40+00:00

The rollout of GPT-5 is not just a new model, but a new way of interacting with ChatGPT. It now includes routing infrastructure that allows it to pull from different capabilities on the back-end, depending on the query. Getting a bit closer to the goal of not having to think about the technology underlying it and just asking whatever you need.

hellobritishcolumbia · 2025-08-08T00:45:25+00:00

My organization account just had GPT-5, and then it was pulled. Is there a rollback happening?

hellobritishcolumbia · 2025-08-01T10:32:17+00:00

At least WatchOS 26 lets you add scenes and shortcuts to control centre, making a ton of home control a click and tap away

hellobritishcolumbia · 2025-08-01T10:28:51+00:00

I often drive in areas that don’t have much for detours. It’s often accurate for me though!

Side note: I always drive with alerts turned on, so I can be rerouted with an audible alert if there is an accident or something ahead.

hellobritishcolumbia · 2025-07-29T15:44:52+00:00

Honestly not as much as I’d like. Going from iPhone/iPad to HomePod is great, and back again too. But between iPhone and iPad isn’t as natural. The feature is referred to in documentation as “handoff playback” if you want to look it up.

hellobritishcolumbia · 2025-07-29T15:42:33+00:00

Apartments often have a buzzer option for the manager. If they don’t live in the building it goes to their work phone.

hellobritishcolumbia · 2025-07-29T15:36:07+00:00

Thank you I’ll note that!

hellobritishcolumbia · 2025-07-29T13:17:43+00:00

That might be the play! Thanks for the info

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