Another full on week. Supported a day of interviews for another functions role and there was a stand out candidate whose interview I really enjoyed. Focus turning to cost workshops, KPI’s and q1 reviews.
Something is Rotten in the State of Cupertino. A blistering essay from John Gruber after Apple postponed one of their key Apple Intelligence features, personalised Siri, to “the coming year”. What we saw last year at WWDC was vaporware. Something that’s often associated with Microsoft or Google but now Apple is guilty of doing. Most of the Apple Intelligence features have been sub standard. Genmoji gets a pass, Image Playgrounds awful, summarised notification unreliable and most of the Mail features I’ve disabled. Will be very interesting to see what Apple show at this years WWDC in June…and how much will be trusted and delivered.
When looking at how poor Siri is in day to day usage and now seeing Apple postpone its big upgrade, Amazon’s recent demo showing conversational Alexa makes Apple feel even more behind. However theres not much of a surprise that Amazon is forcing your audio chats to the cloud from the end of March. Not a great look, equally running AI on current Echo devices is a non starter.
Are tools like ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini leading us to use the web less? For me yes but like this post highlights, you go down far fewer rabbit holes compared to Googling for an answer.
My Synology NAS is old and more than 90% full. An upgrade this year feels inevitable. Still swithering between an 8 bay Synology or building my own but I love the look of this new storage device from Gridstack. Looks fantastic, will still be noisy unless you go all in on SSD.
FreeMediaHeckYeah – useful list of media sites from emulators to audiobooks and everything in between.
F1 is back. Looks like Lewis Hamilton has swapped last years fourth placed team for this years fourth placed team. Only race 1 but Ferrari’s strategy calls are still the worst. Drive to Survive Season 7 dropped last week and while I enjoyed it, there’s still so much fabrication in it vs what actually happened. In its favour though they get a load of behind the scenes drama that isn’t seen anywhere else.
The White Lotus is building nicely if a little slowly, The Pitt though has been outstanding. Loving it so far.