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Curtis McHale<p>Annoyed by Sonos<br />I have a set of Sonos Play speakers in my office which get 6 - 8 hours a day of usage while I’m working. I’ve enjoyed their sound for a few years, but the software has continued to get worse and worse.</p><p><a href="https://curtismchale.ca/2025/02/22/annoyed-by-sonos/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">curtismchale.ca/2025/02/22/ann</span><span class="invisible">oyed-by-sonos/</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinksOfInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinksOfInterest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sonos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sonos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/audiophile" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>audiophile</span></a></p>
Curtis McHale<p>AI doesn’t have to be successful to be dangerous<br />Links</p><p>Miriam has a good and heartbreaking post on the current state of technology in light of the pushers of technology wanting to eradicate her existence1.</p><p>The beliefs of these CEOs aren’t incidental to the AI product they’re selling us. These are not tools designed for us to benefit from, but tools designed to exploit us. To <br /><a href="https://curtismchale.ca/2025/02/19/ai-doesnt-have-to-be-successful-to-be-dangerous/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">curtismchale.ca/2025/02/19/ai-</span><span class="invisible">doesnt-have-to-be-successful-to-be-dangerous/</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinksOfInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinksOfInterest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AI</span></a></p>
Curtis McHale<p>Apple is just a business<br />Many are currently lamenting what they see as the fall of Apple from a tech company that “did it right” to one that goes where the winds of power takes them. They see Apple advertising on X again or donating to the inaguration as some personal affront to their sensibilities.</p><p>The problem is that people identified with a company and took on it’<br /><a href="https://curtismchale.ca/2025/02/13/apple-is-just-a-business/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">curtismchale.ca/2025/02/13/app</span><span class="invisible">le-is-just-a-business/</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinksOfInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinksOfInterest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fascist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fedora" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fedora</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Framework" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Framework</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>linux</span></a></p>
Curtis McHale<p>A Weird Corner of the Internet – Floor 796<br />In the sea of generic social media and governments speed running their way to Nazism Floor 796 brings back some good old internet oddness. I spent 20 minutes scrolling around absorbing what’s happening and I still could spend time seeing what’s going on.</p><p>If you know of more odd places online I’d love to see you share them.<br /><a href="https://curtismchale.ca/2025/02/12/a-weird-corner-of-the-internet-floor-796/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">curtismchale.ca/2025/02/12/a-w</span><span class="invisible">eird-corner-of-the-internet-floor-796/</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinksOfInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinksOfInterest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/internetculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>internetculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/popculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>popculture</span></a></p>
Curtis McHale<p>An interview with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@amerpie" class="u-url mention">@<span>amerpie</span></a></span><br />I enjoyed the behind the scenes look with Lou. In general I enjoy the series of blogger interviews.<br /><a href="https://curtismchale.ca/2025/02/07/an-interview-with-amerpie/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">curtismchale.ca/2025/02/07/an-</span><span class="invisible">interview-with-amerpie/</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinksOfInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinksOfInterest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>writing</span></a></p>
Curtis McHale<p>Manu – Humans are Complex<br />From Manu on Identity.</p><p>It’s also why I find broad group definitions so annoying. Lumping together potentially billions of people using arbitrary traits as the dividing line is such a lazy way to look at the richness of human diversity and experience. Every time I see people using one of these definitions—in a serious way that is—I immediately start to lose<br /><a href="https://curtismchale.ca/2025/02/06/manu-humans-are-complex/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">curtismchale.ca/2025/02/06/man</span><span class="invisible">u-humans-are-complex/</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinksOfInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinksOfInterest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>humanity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/understanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>understanding</span></a></p>
Curtis McHale<p>Robert Breen – why keep a blog<br />Robert goes over why he keeps a blog. I still think a blog is great for your career. I&#39;ll be writing more about technical stuff on my business site/blog because I&#39;m learning more about Laravel and Python and want to branch out from WordPress stuff.<br /><a href="https://curtismchale.ca/2025/02/06/robert-breen-why-keep-a-blog/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">curtismchale.ca/2025/02/06/rob</span><span class="invisible">ert-breen-why-keep-a-blog/</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinksOfInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinksOfInterest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>blogging</span></a></p>
Curtis McHale<p>High school student builds his own laptop<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/fks3PBodyiE?si=NzpvfHPB7YBjbNnV" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/fks3PBodyiE?si=NzpvfH</span><span class="invisible">PB7YBjbNnV</span></a></p><p>Yes you read the title right. This high school student built his own laptop and it’s not some janky thing it’s a viable usable laptop.<br /><a href="https://curtismchale.ca/2025/02/01/high-school-student-builds-his-own-laptop/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">curtismchale.ca/2025/02/01/hig</span><span class="invisible">h-school-student-builds-his-own-laptop/</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinksOfInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinksOfInterest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/laptop" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>laptop</span></a></p>
Curtis McHale<p>If you’re asshole things get leaked people think you’re an asshole – stop whining Zuckerberg<br />Reading this article from 404 about Mark Zuckerberg being annoyed that anything he says leaks and causes damage to his company...maybe stop saying shitty things that devalue humans. It&#39;s possible Marky that you&#39;re being an asshat and many of<br /><a href="https://curtismchale.ca/2025/01/31/if-youre-asshole-things-get-leaked-people-think-youre-an-asshole-stop-whining-zuckerberg/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">curtismchale.ca/2025/01/31/if-</span><span class="invisible">youre-asshole-things-get-leaked-people-think-youre-an-asshole-stop-whining-zuckerberg/</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinksOfInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinksOfInterest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>facebook</span></a></p>
Curtis McHale<p>The Scrollable Timeline is NOT Connection<br />Years of social media have managed to convince us that a scrollable timeline, a comment box with a characters limit and a like button are the tools we need to use to connect with each other. That is a big fucking lie and if you don’t believe me write me an email and I’ll be happy to show you. - Tiny Corners</p><p>The only social med<br /><a href="https://curtismchale.ca/2025/01/26/the-scrollable-timeline-is-not-connection/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">curtismchale.ca/2025/01/26/the</span><span class="invisible">-scrollable-timeline-is-not-connection/</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinksOfInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinksOfInterest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a></p>
Curtis McHale<p>Will my kids want my books?<br />Robert Breen says no and he&#39;s probably right, though they all say they want some of the books when I ask them today. While I place value on my book collection of a personal nature that exceeds the monetary value of the books, I also realise that as I age I need to talk to my children and give away the ones they want early then do the downsizing myself so as n<br /><a href="https://curtismchale.ca/2025/01/21/will-my-kids-want-my-books/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">curtismchale.ca/2025/01/21/wil</span><span class="invisible">l-my-kids-want-my-books/</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinksOfInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinksOfInterest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/death" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>death</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>reading</span></a></p>
Curtis McHale<p>Opt Out of Gemini Email Summaries<br />If you want to use Gmail then 404 has a post on how to turn off Gemini summaries but of course the easiest way to do this is to not use Gmail. Proton is a good option.<br /><a href="https://curtismchale.ca/2025/01/19/opt-out-of-gemini-email-summaries/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">curtismchale.ca/2025/01/19/opt</span><span class="invisible">-out-of-gemini-email-summaries/</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinksOfInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinksOfInterest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gmail" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gmail</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>google</span></a></p>
Curtis McHale<p>Don’t Confront Powerful People<br />Once again, don&#39;t go into the company of powerful people, particularly white ones, and point out the obviousness of systemic racism. They have a label for that, “identity politics.” When you think independently of the narrative that people are comfortable with, you make them uncomfortable and based on my experience, that is a grave sin. It&#39;s certainly not po<br /><a href="https://curtismchale.ca/2025/01/19/dont-confront-powerful-people/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">curtismchale.ca/2025/01/19/don</span><span class="invisible">t-confront-powerful-people/</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinksOfInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinksOfInterest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sexism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sexism</span></a></p>
Curtis McHale<p>SelfHosted – Best Self Hosted Apps of 2024<br />The title is a bit meta, but there are some excellent options on this list of best self hosted apps of 2024. I’ll set up Pinchflat to give my younger children access to YouTube creators that don’t label their content as kid friendly because that breaks their monetization, but are still totally fine to watch. I’m also interested in <br /><a href="https://curtismchale.ca/2025/01/17/selfhosted-best-self-hosted-apps-of-2024/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">curtismchale.ca/2025/01/17/sel</span><span class="invisible">fhosted-best-self-hosted-apps-of-2024/</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinksOfInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinksOfInterest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ReadLater" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReadLater</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>youtube</span></a></p>
Curtis McHale<p>Federico always makes me want to use my iPad more<br />While it&#39;s older, I just read Federico talk about his 11&quot; iPad Pro setup and as usual I want to use the iPad more. I don&#39;t think Apple is any better than other large tech companies but I&#39;ve tried other tablets and the iPad is the best tablet on the market. Nothing has even come close.</p><p>I do have an M1 iPad Pro I use for wr<br /><a href="https://curtismchale.ca/2025/01/16/federico-always-makes-me-want-to-use-my-ipad-more/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">curtismchale.ca/2025/01/16/fed</span><span class="invisible">erico-always-makes-me-want-to-use-my-ipad-more/</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinksOfInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinksOfInterest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iPad" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>iPad</span></a></p>
Curtis McHale<p>Apple wants as much of your data as it can get too<br />Unsurprisingly Apple gets as much of your data as it can. Apple fans dunk on Microsoft for ads and tracking, but Apple isn&#39;t any better with it&#39;s service upsell&#39;s in system and all the tracking it does.</p><p>But &quot;Apple is a better company&quot;...so that makes it okay? Except for the fealty payments to an insurre<br /><a href="https://curtismchale.ca/2025/01/15/apple-wants-as-much-of-your-data-as-it-can-get-too/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">curtismchale.ca/2025/01/15/app</span><span class="invisible">le-wants-as-much-of-your-data-as-it-can-get-too/</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinksOfInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinksOfInterest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AdTracking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AdTracking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataTheft" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DataTheft</span></a></p>
Curtis McHale<p>Mechanical Keyboard modded with TouchID switch<br />What the title says, here is a mechanical keyboard modded to have a TouchID switch. I love fingerprint authentication which I have on my TouchID keyboards for the macOS systems I have around and on my Framework 13&quot; laptop.</p><p>I plan to build a Linux desktop this year and need to look into adding fingerprint authentication to the system <br /><a href="https://curtismchale.ca/2025/01/15/mechanical-keyboard-modded-with-touchid-switch/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">curtismchale.ca/2025/01/15/mec</span><span class="invisible">hanical-keyboard-modded-with-touchid-switch/</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinksOfInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinksOfInterest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Apple</span></a></p>
Curtis McHale<p>Apple storage is overpriced – here are some options<br />Outside of the constant services Apple wants to push on users, or the fealty payments Tim Cook is making to the criminal insurrectionist president of the US, they charge stupid amounts for storage upgrades.</p><p>At least there are options to avoid the Apple storage tax, even if you can&#39;t stop the other crap they&#39;re doing and won<br /><a href="https://curtismchale.ca/2025/01/12/apple-storage-is-overpriced-here-are-some-options/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">curtismchale.ca/2025/01/12/app</span><span class="invisible">le-storage-is-overpriced-here-are-some-options/</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinksOfInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinksOfInterest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Apple</span></a></p>
Curtis McHaleMention of suicide
Curtis McHale<p>Being a parent can be really fucking hard<br />I was just talking with my coworker about how hard parenting can be. Like Matt, we don&#39;t have family in the area and have never had much support with our kids. To add to this my wife struggled with post-partum depression with all our kids but very deeply with our 3rd child.</p><p>Add to that I was in love with becoming a &quot;cr<br /><a href="https://curtismchale.ca/2025/01/07/being-a-parent-can-be-really-fucking-hard/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">curtismchale.ca/2025/01/07/bei</span><span class="invisible">ng-a-parent-can-be-really-fucking-hard/</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LinksOfInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinksOfInterest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/burnout" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>burnout</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/depression" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>depression</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/parenting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>parenting</span></a></p>