Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

Sir, I can no longer wait, tell me what the hiking trails are for the reefs in the US Virgin Islands

i didn't mention congaree, which i actually like, but many people dismiss as just a big swamp. for comparison, compare the number of trails available in congarees in alltrails with those available in, say, glacier:

https://www.alltrails.com/parks/us/south-carolina/congaree-national-park
https://www.alltrails.com/parks/us/montana/glacier-national-park

anyway i don't really agree with pp's criticism but i understand where it's coming from. this is a feature that is much more likely to be dreamt up in cupertino than in hoboken. but as a parks guy i think it's cool and welcome it. and it gave me an excuse to talk a bit about congaree, which has a mosquito meter.

when america is put on the scale and judged by the angel of history, i think it will be known for making two contributions to the sum of all good things in the world:

-public stewardship of public lands, and
-baseball.

everything else america has done has been a net drag on the world, an oily putrescence, an abscess in the brain. the decline of the empire cannot happen soon enough.

i mean we can argue about origins given any number of factors but you’re missing some pretty big musical gifts to the world…

all the good stuff is cancelled out by improv comedy

I have at least a dozen lines of criticism about national parks, the origins of the entire environmental movement, the Department of the Interior, and unequal access along usual race and class lines. Who has the ability to take time off from work and go somewhere where they'll need an offline hiking map on their phone?

I love the parks. I love hiking. I'm really happy that a National Monument moved in up the street from me last month. I think smartphones in general have affected who is doing what out in the backcountry and all the apps: AllTrails, Peakery, TripAdvisor, etc. have amplified all that long before Apple finally getting around to building in hiking maps.

My prediction is that more people will sacrifice themselves on Mount Baldy and search and rescue will go above and beyond to get them out of trouble.

Gawd, this is what happens when you have a complete snoozefest of a keynote.

but you’re missing some pretty big musical gifts to the world…

I'll put my map of the Channel Islands right next to my free U2 album in my phone.

Channel Islands is the absolute worst national park in the USA:

1 hour ferry slog through often rough, open water
Islands are absolutely plastered in rat/seal/pelican shit
The surrounding water is insanely treacherous and a great white feeding zone

Scratch that: The Channel Islands are the U2 of USA National Parks

Flagged for nonsense

https://i.imgur.com/R4UMomN.jpeg

I dl'd the beta of iOS18 and it is buggy af but I'll be off the grid (no cell service/wifi) next week so I wanted to make sure I have that alltrails offline integration plus satellite text capability. I hope I get an update push by the weekend.

ps: JimmyTM, I will be at an actually amazing national park, you can have the ratshit islands lol.

Lol which park u share

NW Yosemite backcountry wilderness: Poopenaut Valley -> Miguel Meadow -> Lake Eleanor

lol they pulled a classic apple deal with openai and pitched the integration as an opportunity for openai to sell subscriptions. it’s sounding like apple paid $0 and probably implemented the integration as a pluggable framework meaning they can offer other engines or replace them at any moment

Sick xp

I dl'd the beta of iOS18 and it is buggy af

― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Thursday, June 13, 2024 9:25 AM (yesterday)

battery status currently 41% after 4 hours of light/no usage 😬😬😬

I would like to see the next OS called Hawaii Volcanos

_I dl'd the beta of iOS18 and it is buggy af

― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Thursday, June 13, 2024 9:25 AM (yesterday) _


battery status currently 41% after 4 hours of light/no usage 😬😬😬

It’s indexing, like every new release of iOS since the first one. Results in temporarily reduced battery life.

the iOS developer betas also have more debug crap turned on by design ime