@lmika Based on true events, where I’ve noticed the trees at a station that I always imagined to be young and recently planted are, in fact, established and full height.
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Waiting for an upgrade to finish on one laptop while waiting for a virtual machine to be setup on another laptop.
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\n@Miraz Indeed. The people on the other table helped protect my sandwich when I left the table. 😄
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lmika/97809542","date_published":"2026-09-19T10:25:11+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-19 10:25","date_timestamp":1789813511,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"97782850","content_html":"\n\n\n\nIt doesn’t matter that Samsung and Google and a bunch of Chinese companies have made foldable Android phones for a decade. Almost nobody cares. The Duo is a fucking iPhone. That makes people care.
\n\n
He’s not wrong. Foldables never got mentioned at work before last week, when everyone started talking about the Duo and the new version of iOS. I do wonder if sales will be a little slow, as those talking about it stopped short of saying they’ll buy one. But I feel Apple’s got a real winner on it’s hands here.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lmika/97630161","date_published":"2026-09-16T10:54:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-16 10:54","date_timestamp":1789556056,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"97597922","content_html":"🔗 MacRumors: Apple's Weirdest iTunes Walk-Back Turns 12 Today
\n\n\n\nOn September 9, 2014, at Apple’s iPhone 6 event, Tim Cook revealed that “Songs of Innocence” would be given to every iTunes customer for nothing. The album was directly linked to accounts, and devices set to “download automatically” got it without asking. Complaints quickly followed.
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I can’t remember where I saw it, but earlier this year someone made a reference to a company’s (not Apple) faux pas as so-and-so’s “Songs of Innocents” event. Clearly an event that has lived on in infamy.
\nVia: Lex on Tech
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lmika/97385325","date_published":"2026-09-11T23:48:12+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-11 23:48","date_timestamp":1789170492,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"97380806","content_html":"@ayjay Stunning.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lmika/97380806","date_published":"2026-09-11T22:02:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-11 22:02","date_timestamp":1789164152,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"97380105","content_html":"@manton It would be nice if iOS adopted the feature Android had, where you can long-press on an icon-only button to reveal it’s tooltip. This saved me from confusion a few times when the icon was a little too obscure. I guess that’ll mean they’ll need to make this work with actions where long-press actually does something (popup menu, perhaps?)
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lmika/97330876","date_published":"2026-09-11T01:58:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-11 01:58","date_timestamp":1789091886,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"97266623","content_html":"@Miraz I guess it’s easy enough to be king of a hill you build yourself. 😀
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lmika/97251486","date_published":"2026-09-09T21:43:18+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-09 21:43","date_timestamp":1788990198,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"97249872","content_html":"@otolock Yeah, that’s what I suspect is happening too.
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