Our HomePods have gone completely mad in the last few days. First geolocation automations started glitching and turning off the lights when only one of us left home, instead of when the last person leaves. Then after a power cut all HomeKit accessories were offline until I restarted pretty much everything. Today they have forgotten I have any HomeKit accessories at all, as well as all my shortcuts. What’s going on?

I rarely see this level of CPU utilization. My lap is very warm now (yes this is on Intel, an 8-core i9).

Activity Monitor screenshot showing ffmpeg using 1571% CPU

I live in Finland, my device language is set to Swedish, so obviously Disney+ presents a dialog in Norwegian (or is it Danish?).

I miss this

Pick your fighter

Oh shit I have only five minutes of screen time left, say something fun real quick!

Hakaniemi/Hagnäs as seen from Kruununhaka/Kronohagen, 5 years apart

Mastodon followers, could anyone of you actually see the photo in this post in your timeline (without clicking through to the original post)? It shows up as blank in my test Mastodon account but don’t know if it’s an issue with Mastodon or micro.blog.

Pile of Hardware™ behind my desk at the office

An overflowing cardboard box - on the top of the pile is a Mac Studio (powered on), sitting on top of a MacBook box, sitting on top of a Commodore 128. Next to them is a computer manual in a thick green binder labelled “OPERATIONS MANUAL” and “16 BIT PIC • 80286 • TURBO PC • … DOS 2.11 • … 10 M … HARD DISK • DOS 3.20…”