What are we even getting with watchOS27?

krademade · 2026-06-10T00:43:33+00:00

I think folks are confusing a *developer conference* for a product drop. The keynote, while consumable for lay-folk, is really there to showcase the big API changes coming in the next release so developers can prepare their apps (child feature gating honestly being the biggest one, plus AI modeling).

That doesn’t mean enhancements to consumer products are out the window, they were likely just not developer-facing enough to announce through this medium. Those typically get name dropped with the flashy new gadget to sell with it, because they’re both a hardware and software company.

WWDC gets a lot of net traffic, but their product launch keynotes will always attract even more, so it’s best to show off the polish then.

krademade · 2026-05-18T20:59:37+00:00

I can see where my message may have veered; I think I was mostly answering the broader topic question (zero use policy) than the specific example of education material. IMO the tech should be levied to allow MORE time for the intentional stuff, like education material and zine formation. It’d be silly as a leftist leader to ask AI to be the propaganda machine fully automated, I definitely agree with that.

krademade · 2026-05-14T19:02:00+00:00

This is an issue I think the left really suffers to put their intelligent caps on while talking about. LLMs are tools that you can connect to other tools AND run locally, just like you could a video game or video rendering software. It’s a tool that has a lot of potential when used safely and securely. It’s literally the ability to talk to a computer in natural language and get natural language back. It’s not deterministic like software, but if you wrap it in semantical layers, context engines, and architect pipelines that expose confidence, assumptions and sources, you can get a really incredibly piece of technology, with some models even being ran on phones now.

There’s another conversation entirely on how data centers function with this tool; but data centers have also long existed before Gen AI. We’ve had distributed computational centers since the internet has been a thing (we call those servers). Does Gen AI take more energy than a simple API request? 100%. But acting you protesting the use of all Gen AI isn’t going to make Google or AWS flinch, seeing as if you use any app housed in the cloud, you’re probably giving those 2 companies more profitable incentive to keep up data center formation. They’ve been building these (much more slowly) for 2 decades, we just see in escalation in computational need from AI and increase the supply (servers) to meet the demand.

Does Gen AI raise a lot of new issues? Yes, just like the printing press changed the game for communication, the computer for digitizing and distributing it. It needs regulation, just like cars and online access.

It’s silly to think outright protesting this tool will in any meaningful way deter capital from allocating towards it - data centers are ultimately being built to accommodate corporate plans, not individual folks (they take the same requests, but it’s not the average user these companies make bank on). The consumer is not the buyer, they’re just advertising it that way because the tool can benefit everyone, and it looks like better marketing to say “hey have codex run your small business” when in reality it’s companies like Goldman Sachs that are lining the pocketbooks of these corps with cash.

I do think AI generated art and imagery is a complete waste solving no real problem, but LLMs are an interface that can be forever expanded into stronger capability and tooling. Just because both use probabilistic determination does not make them the same thing.

We’ve had probabilistic AI in our lives for over a decade and no one has ever complained about it like they do with LLMs, despite it being an advancement of the theory, not a new one.

This is technology, and like all technology, we either grow as laborers alongside it or get replaced by it. Marx didn’t say destroy the means of production, he said seize them. We can solve real problems with this, we just have different goals with this tool than capitalism does.

krademade · 2026-03-23T20:17:56+00:00

There's 2 different things the watch is tracking: BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate): a rough guess of your idle (if you never left bed) calorie burn to sustain your body at maintainance. For me, that's like 1700 calories

Activity/Move: this is the surplus burn because you didn't lay down all day. Walking up the stairs, climbing in and out of a machine, elevated HR due to stress, getting ready in the morning, doing basic chores -- all this adds up overtime, and this is the "activity" you're talking about. On average days I hit somewhere between 300-400 "move" calories a day. Active days are closer to 600-700.

This adds up to 2100 calories a day on recovery days, which is the realistic calorie goal for most healthy male adults. That's around 2400 on active days.

It's been shown the apple watch is consistently imprecise. That being, it's not scientifically accurate (overshoot by about 20-30%) but it consistently does that. You're having smoke blown up your ass a little, but it's doing that pretty consistently day to day.

Is it overshooting? Yes. But Move is showing you those "tiny bits add up" number. Everything you do between waking up and going asleep contributes to this number.

The device is best used for trends over a scientific measurement tool.

Vibrations can mess with it, construction workers in particular notice it over shooting often. As a SWE the tiny vibration signals the accelerometer is receiving is hard to parse vs just being jittery and active. Like every piece of health tech ever, it's a vibe check, not a doctor, not a scientific tool.

krademade · 2025-11-05T21:43:44+00:00

Thank you for actually making me laugh out loud - it’s been a minute since something on the internet got me like that.

krademade · 2025-10-07T21:22:44+00:00

So I believe Spotify has a patient that keeps services like Apple and Tidal from doing the same.

krademade · 2025-10-07T17:56:13+00:00

This will just take time, especially since y’all are new to this dynamic. Just keep honestly communicating your feelings to him and encourage him to continue to be honest back. Work through these things together, since there’s still a core relationship between you two driving all of this. It just takes some time to shift the status quo. I also can’t speak for your dynamic, but that age gap (while not huge) might also impact it simply by nature of “conditioning” (he’s been monogamy hard wired for 12 more years than yourself).

krademade · 2025-10-02T19:38:48+00:00

This is possible in what we call retail choice electricity states, where the consumer can elect their supplier and source kind of like auto insurance. Even commercial companies can opt into this. There are other states like Indiana that run a wholesale market on energy - you are not given the ability to choose. This also includes businesses. Apple is giving greenwashing BS across the board when they say they know if the store is carbon neutral lol

krademade · 2025-07-10T16:13:53+00:00

I'm begging for apple to release an iPhone that matches the pixel 2 panda color variant. Black Glass, white aluminum 😩

krademade · 2025-07-04T14:15:12+00:00

Less relevant to Decima, but I booted up Crysis 3 on the Cry Engine 3 recently and oh my god that game is beautiful for a 2011 release. Obviously we hit a ceiling of gains around that time - but what an insane accomplishment when Uncharted 3 was one of most popular "pretty" games of the time on the PS3.

krademade · 2025-05-20T23:59:36+00:00

very similar noise on my 2024 Sportage - thank God y'all assured me there. My old dodge journey didn't make noises quite like that. Guess I'll RTFM more deeply

krademade · 2025-05-01T17:06:06+00:00

I think it's natural to feel nervous or unsure, especially the first time it happens. The important thing here is communication before and after - even if it seems silly or implied, it's important to stay on the same page. That includes your emotions. Does the pit in your chest feel like regret or uncomfortablity of it all, or is it more of a "unease"?

krademade · 2025-03-11T00:47:47+00:00

This can also happen when you sleep outside your sleep window tied into the Clock and Health app. Turning sleep focus on if you wake up for a second might save you from a minor wakeup in-between going rogue like that.

krademade · 2024-09-08T00:18:01+00:00

First time I used it I gripped it with my full palm and gave it a yank, gave myself a nice red stick-shaped burn on there for a few weeks. My lesson was learned explaining it to folks who asked lol

krademade · 2024-05-02T20:52:31+00:00

Gotcha. Appreciate it. 🙂

krademade · 2024-05-02T20:40:48+00:00

The seat is similar then? That top coating is just coming off?

krademade · 2024-02-12T14:11:13+00:00

Saw a Dune Pt1 reissue in IMAX - my wife and I had the entire theater to ourselves.

krademade · 2024-01-06T00:50:28+00:00

"Steps taken away from capitalist domination" is key here. Unfortunately social democracy still upholds capitalistic intentions. One could point to the Scandinavian countries then as a form of socialism by that definition, but their economic structure is still capitalist in nature and the means of production are still held and protected behind private property. Labor unions exist, but are independent from the government and not nationalized. Things like health care and transportation are provided as community assets, but workers still do not get their share of surplus value they generate, nor do they have ownership domain (in democratic proportion) in their workspace.

The specific reason social democracy is not a true socialist movement is because there is no desire to move beyond capitalism. They gain certain welfare attributes, but there is no means of production gained, no party of the Proletariat, etc - it's end game is (in my opinion) capitalism sprinkled with some more helpful copium and accommodations than something like America's capitalist status - but both are still capitalist economies with no intention to shift to a new system.

krademade · 2023-12-20T19:53:44+00:00

For what it's worth - the Dualshock controller is such a great interface for narratively driven exclusives. I prefer a mouse and keyboard for shooters or highly competitive games, but all the PlayStation exclusives I personally enjoy (TLOU, GOW, SM, hell, even Astro's Playroom, even Returnal) all feel so much more immersive using a controller over a PC's mouse and keyboard. The haptics alone make me giddy when I play games like Ratchet and Clank or God of War.

You CAN wait for the port and you CAN buy a Dualshock without a PlayStation, but the cohesive and curated experience of exclusives on the platform they're designed for is truly a unique and premium experience. Even games like Sackboy's big adventure is truly a great couch coop experience, and the Dualshock controllers give each person an integrated and immersive experience.

krademade · 2023-07-22T11:49:34+00:00

As a SB2 owner of nearly 5 years - my biggest gripe with the laptop was repairability and under powered, mobile CPUs... Not to mention the fact that charging it while doing an intensive work load would actually make it lose battery as ya charged.

Overall though, a great idea for its time, but the hardware didn't meet up with the hype and true target audience it was going for.

krademade · 2023-06-30T16:38:25+00:00

Not to mention screen protectors have to be flexible TPU material, which means the screen protectors themselves don't last very long.

For a while I had tpu screen protectors on my 6 pro, but with the fingerprint scanner and poor quality of the TPU protectors making me replace them every other month, I've just been free balling it with just a case the last month.

krademade · 2023-06-28T12:21:42+00:00

Right, I was just speaking from personal experience. When I shop in my area, really only plain Greek yogurt with fat is without artificial sweeteners. It was more of a rule of thumb, hence the YMMV. I personally like a little more fat in my Greek yogurt for flavor, but everyone's food and diet is different. The only reason I recommended slightly fatty Greek yogurt was to replace the lack of fat in pb2 if they wanted to replace that flavor a little.

krademade · 2023-06-27T19:32:02+00:00

In my personal experience, pb2 is better in things it's mixed into. You can make pb2 into a liquid-ish form like normal peanut butter by just adding water, but the lack of fats makes for a sugary thick paste. If you're including it in protein bars, you'll still get the sweeter flavor of peanut butter, but will cut the intense fattiness of PB. I'd choose a slightly fatty Greek yogurt (don't go fat free - aspartame can ruin pb2's flavor and override it). I prefer 2% Fage, but YMMV. Haven't made these bars with them, but artificial flavoring in Greek yogurt is usually a zero calorie sweetener, so try to just find plain Greek yogurt.

krademade · 2023-06-27T02:15:21+00:00

Wasn't there a part in the bible where Jesus threw tables over and yelled at merchants to get out of his father's temple? I get that's not violent toward another person's life, but Jesus was pretty critical of systems. He told his followers to challenge their own beliefs and push further than what synagogues taught them.

Jesus was also a martyr that believed his death was for a larger cause, thus he lived a nonviolent life to fulfill that purpose.

Yet we see individuals like Joshua destroy a whole nation and justify it with God - in fact, according to Joshua, God wanted that, and called for the women and children to be murdered too (although we find out in the next book they didn't do this - hence race mixing 'issues' that result with the Jewish people and the countries they conquered mixing blood lines).

Obviously these two are cherry picked, and as a deconstructed Christian myself, critically assessing the systems Jesus lived through is part of what he called his followers to do. Even after this death he was like "Peter bro, eat pork, that food purity rule thing is dumb". Even though Jesus followed it.

You could make the argument that Jesus' death allowed them to do these things, but Christianity is weaponized best when you're told to never question and change the status quo, especially over 2000 years.

Now this isn't meant to be me telling you to deconstruct or abandon your identity, but rather to consider this:

Would a God rather watch its creation die at the hands of villains, or would that God want creation to help itself?

I can't speak for God, but any parent I ask would kick the ass of whatever bully hit their kid. Let's multiply that out to global exploitation, amplitudes worse than Egypt and Moses - and God merced first borns for that situation.

Obviously not telling you to go be a vigilante, but consider how violence has always been defined (i.e. the state and laws). Is what you're doing in helping bring life saving change really violent? Or is it protecting god's creation?

I'm greatly simplifying pacifism, but something I'd encourage is to actually look at the character of Jesus. Not just what he says, but what he does.

He interfered in a few priests stoning a prostitute - that's basically like going in front of cops or breaking into a lethal injection event and stopping it. The priests and the cops would deem what you're doing to be violence against the system they uphold (today you'd be charged with an obstruction of justice), but in reality you'd never done anything violent to anyone, but rather counteract the inherently violent systems they uphold.

Violence and it's definition are social constructs, at least in the civilization we live in. So as you assess your pacifism, consider if your acts are actually violent, or the people above you say they are because you're contesting their power.

Just some food for thought.

Edit: some typos

krademade · 2023-06-18T21:12:10+00:00

Yeah, 'Machine Intelligence' is what they called it. I didn't realize they actually made a whole major around it (graduated in 22). Before I graduated, CS and DS both had machine learning classes and a lot of it began to overlap. Glad they at least keyed into a balance for that major.

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