. If you had a phone back then (the 3G, the worst phone they made, I broke three of them), you can look at your past purchases in the App Store. Looks like day 1 I picked up:

It's wild scrolling up from there how many apps I've downloaded that aren't being used any more. Maybe 1 in 20 stuck around. These days I don't even look at the app store, it's quite a disaster of ads and games and things I have no interest in, but 15 years ago it did feel a bit like a new era of computing.

15 Years of the App Store

, but by far the most frustrating thing about any new technology is that when it doesn’t work there’s absolutely fuck-all you can do to try to debug the issue.

I picked up a Eve smart plug for the Christmas tree. Added it to Home, flipped it off… couldn’t flip it back on. Unplugged it, plugged it back it, flipped it on, off… and that was it. Says it’s “not responding” in home. Then I notice one of the lights in that room (which has worked consistently until now), also “not responding”.

The answers online seem to always be “reset everything”, “power cycle everything”, “toggle every feature on your router”, or some other combination that would be easy if I had a trained monkey to push buttons in sequence.

Anyway, I haven’t figured it out yet, so tonight I’ll be unplugging the tree… from the smart plug.

I’d flip this table but it’s a smart one and it’s not responding

Why bother with Finder when you can grab them straight from the cloud itself.

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15 Years of the App Store

I’d flip this table but it’s a smart one and it’s not responding

TIL, you can download your iCloud data