Today I learned that an iPad or iPhone running iPad OS 26.5/iOS 26.5 can be connected to a Magic Keyboard or Magic Trackpad via USB cable and when unplugged, continue working via Bluetooth. I have nit tried this with the Magic Mouse.
A horse walks into a bar and orders a pint. The barkeep says, "You're in here pretty often. Do you think you might be an alcoholic?"
The horse replies, "I think not," and vanishes from existence.
See, the joke is about Descartes' famous philosophy of “I think; therefore, I am", but to explain that part before the rest of the joke… would be putting Descartes before the horse.
All mushrooms are edible but some only once.
Remember to leave a piece on the kitchen counter for the Coroner.
If you love someone, set them free. If you hate someone, set them free. Basically set everyone free and get a dog. People are stupid.
Trying things myself so you don't have to…
Tried a MacBook Neo experiment with the Mac Mini's Touch ID keyboard. The experiment was to see if Touch ID would work on the Neo (mine is the base model without Touch ID). Initially, I had high hopes, the option once the keyboard was paired was visible in system settings.
I clicked on the setup Touch ID prompt and it showed "Preparing for Touch ID" in a popup.
Then the popup vanished, along with the option in the sidebart of the system settings app.
So I restarted the Mac, found the setting was available, hit the add fingerprint icon.
The setting promptly vanished.
Restarted in Safe Boot, then restarted normally. Touch ID setting was back but vanished again almost as soon as it was opened.
Conclusion: External Touch ID keyboards will work OK on a base model 256 GB MacBook Neo with the exception of Touch ID itself.
Fortunately, my Apple Watch replicated most of the Touch ID features anyway.
Erwin Schrödinger admitted defeat after his cat smugly proved that the box both exists and does not exist at the same time, whether observed or not. Then later went on to prove that furballs have zero mass.
Since buying my 256 GB MacBook Neo, I’m using it a lot more than the 512 GB M5 11-in iPad Pro.
Definition of lazy.
Not wanting to leave my warm bed at 11am, I decided to run Clean My Mac on the MacBook Neo which is currently on the desk beside the Mac Mini in the home office via screen sharing from my MacBook Air. I got about halfway through the process when the connection glitched and refused to resume.
So I shared the Mac Mini’s screen and then used that connection to share the Neo’s screen. I was able to finish the cleanup of the Neo from the Air despite the two computers refusing to share their screens directly.