One thing I'd like to see is one file being able to be unlocked via multiple keys so for example my desktop could use a password+keyfile whereas my laptop would need password+hardware key, but they both backup to the same file. Do any other managers enable this?
Hmm... you could probably construct this yourself. Make a new database for the new auth method, then set it up to automatically open the 'core' database (which essentially just saves the decryption key in the new database): https://keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide.html#_automat...
It took me months of living with someone eating peanut-only pb to get used to it, at some point I stopped thinking about how gross it was, and then I tried ye olde sugar pb again after a year and almost gagged. You totally can get used to it.
Some quality of life tricks to make it easier:
buy multiple jars and store them upside down so gravity can help you start mixing
mix initially (if you're able) by rapidly rotating the jar in your hand (twisting your forearm), this will get you 90% of the way
finish off the mix with a knife
keep the well mixed open jars in the fridge
Also, if the jar is glass (many natural PBs are) then 30 seconds or so in the microwave on first open makes it much, much easier to stir. It will be very runny until it cools and sightly hard to spread, but it will quickly cool on the bread and taste fine.
To me, Apple Maps still doesn't feel as good for searching obscure things as Google Maps did 5 years ago, but neither does Google Maps.
An example: I recently searched for "photography repair" in my area and Apple gave me film developing places and local event photographers, Google gave me (I kid you not, first result) McDonalds and Best Buy. The latter I can understand, they sell photography equipment and they do repair things (I don't think photo gear?..) but McD? McD pin is also always visible in Google Maps for me now.
Neither result set was helpful, though I guess that's because what I was looking for probably doesn't even exist in the area. Apples results were more useful, I could at least call those places and ask for advice and they're local businesses. Google on the other hand was just irrelevant paid advertising basically. They are regressing.
I should say too I've been trying to main Apple Maps for 5 years and it has gotten a lot better as a mapping/navigation tool, it has been my main navigator for 3 years but I still bounce to Google for search variety.
With Google Maps I will know about a Maverik gas station that is on my route that I know I want to stop at. I'll search for it "along my route" and I get a bunch of other gas stations that I don't want.
I suspect they are prioritizing the other gas station brands because they paid for preference, and selected "Maverik" as one of their keywords, but the impact to me is that the exact thing I searched for doesn't come up even though I know it's there because I've stopped there before.
If somebody gives me a simple maps product algorithm that just shows me what I'm asking for without preferencing paid people using key words and I'll likely switch. I've loved Google for many years but they are getting much worse.
I wish there was a premium product that I could pay for. I’d pay an annual fee if the search is accurate, supports offline, has good navigation and supports CarPlay. Right now I use Apple Maps for online navigation and Here maps for offline. Neither does a good job of search. And both suck to different extent with navigation. Navigation is so crucial to us these days it’s totally worth paying for. I have been using Apple Maps for a few years now and it has gotten a ton better than it used to be. If that continues it’ll be part of the Apple tax and I’d be glad to continue as an Apple customer.
Adding to the anecdata, this was actually infuriating recently while I was on a road trip. I was searching along my route for gas stations and it seemed to be prioritizing Chevron stations. I ended up at a sketchy gas station in the middle of nowhere where half the pumps didn't work and the other half had broken card readers. Come to find out there was a Love's less than 5 miles up the road, right off the highway, with clean restrooms and working amenities.
Was also having this recently. Apple for some reason was failing at finding anything along the main stretches of highway I was on (with pit stop style gas/convenience combos) whereas Google was recommending gas 5 minutes off the highway but also recommending Subway which was located in the pitstops with the lesser known gas so then I'm just searching for Subway to find the rest stations instead of gas...
Perhaps one day they, or a competitor, will do a ‘Maps Premium’ that simply charges the user inserted of all the ads, targeting, etc. And maybe a ‘Maps Premium+’ that allows for customization and going back to the peak usability design of Maps.
The problem is the higher-level decision makers having fully internalized "never leave money on the table". If there is a premium paid product, it will later have advertising added to it, and results prioritized, because that is an additional source of revenue. Never mind that it defeats the entire purpose of using the premium in the first place.
The second level is that customers know that this will happen, and don't bother looking into the more expensive options. Why bother paying a premium when you get the same poor experience out of it?
The third level happens when market research shows that people are not willing to pay for a premium product. This gets erroneously attributed to people preferring cheap ad-ridden junk, rather than being a response to markets producing expensive ad-ridden junk. (Side note, I despise the concept of "revealed preferences" for this reason.)
Your right in that there are people who have near sighted foolish thoughts like that. The truly impressive folks, if they’re around, will see past that kind of nonsense. Someone who doesn’t subscribe to another’s dogma in Steve Job’s words.
> An example: I recently searched for "photography repair" in my area and Apple gave me film developing places and local event photographers, Google gave me (I kid you not, first result) McDonalds and Best Buy.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but your results might have been more satisfying if you had searched using the term “camera repair”.
Yeah bit of a brain fart when I wrote this, I probably searched for that but I tried a couple of terms in each.
Actually I probably was searching "photography" at some point because "camera" was bringing up general retail more and I was hoping an actual repair business would hav photography as a keyword more than a retail business would. Just further illustrates how frustrating this is.
I agree, I’ve often found smaller or less “online” businesses (e.g. a local car stereo shop) on Google that Maps doesn’t surface. But I usually just search for these in a browser anyway, and open Maps when I actually want to navigate there.
I made it a habit to report all missing businesses/locations on Apple Maps I find via other means. Mostly for my own convenience but also to help others/those businesses.
Some years ago I went to do something by voice and wanted to cancel "Ok Google ... nevermind" and then it played Nevermind by Nirvana. Thought that was goofy, I didn't ask to play music or anything.
I had a package of these opened by a government agency in the US!
My partner at the time had and loved one of these and then lost it, so I bought 8 of them for like $7 each from a store in the UK. When it arrived it had all this official government tape on it and a note that it had been opened. I forget what the tape/note said but it was not obvious which agency did the opening. Not so long after that I had something else totally innocuous (literally a postcard sized cardboard envelope with a sticker in it) opened by Customs and Border Patrol and that was well labeled as such.
I guess for IED reasons they were interested but now I'm paranoid I'm on some list.
edit: oh and I should say I got 8 to have a variety of color options, they were a great gift and after shipping it was only like $80. Highly recommend, one of them would match any outfit. Kind of fun to watch them all drift variably over several months too.
Definitely not for IED reasons. It is one of the most counterfeited watches, even though it is already one of the cheapest. This past October was especially busy for customs and border patrol: https://usa.watchpro.com/louisville-border-force-seizes-1050...
Oh interesting! Good call. I didn't think counter terrorism made sense it's not like opening would have revealed anything that an xray wouldn't, but perhaps for checking counterfeit makes a lot more sense.
One thing I'd like to see is one file being able to be unlocked via multiple keys so for example my desktop could use a password+keyfile whereas my laptop would need password+hardware key, but they both backup to the same file. Do any other managers enable this?