Unfortunately, the repository Gruber linked to targets the original USB version of the PowerMate, while mine is the Bluetooth LE model. That distinction turned out to matter quite a bit.

That ended up being the motivation to build a driver specifically for the BLE version. I did find an older Objective-C implementation (credited in my repository README), which served as a useful reference, but I’ve since rebuilt it in modern Swift 5.9 with the required entitlements and macOS support.

Check it out on GitHub

Egads!

With the new Power Control setting turned on, your iMac, Mac Mini or Mac Studio will automatically turn on when reconnected to power. So if it’s off, you can just unplug and replug it into a power outlet and it’ll automatically turn on. It’ll also automatically turn on if your house loses and then regains power.

Genius! Now if only they could find a fix for the mouse.

Sometimes people don’t like me saying it, but I say it anyway because it’s true. I only say the truth.

HA HA HA

“We get this notification from Fayette County water system saying you need to stop watering your lawns to help conserve water,” said James Clifton, an attorney and property rights advocate who obtained and shared the 2025 letter to QTS.

“So the first thing they do is lean on the individuals and the citizens to stop water consumption when we have QTS that’s just absolutely draining us — most months it’s the No. 1 consumer of water in the county,” said Clifton, who is also running for a seat on the Fayette County Board of Commissioners.

equivalent of about 23 atom bombs worth of energy dumped into this local environment every single day

The professor predicts dumping that much heat and energy into Hansel Valley will raise local temperatures by five degrees Fahrenheit during the day and up to 28 degrees at night.

And just as Secretary [Scott] Bessent said, credit card spending is through the roof. They’re spending more on gasoline, but they’re spending more on everything else, too.

The gaslighting continues…

Apple denied any wrongdoing

I was very impressed with myself to have the head of Apple calling to ‘kiss my ass,’

The hits keep coming.

Dave Treadwell, Amazon’s senior vice president of e-commerce services, reportedly wrote in an email that the team’s weekly “This Week in Stores Tech” (TWiST) meeting would in part be used to implement additional guardrails on how AI is used by engineers, including requiring more senior engineers to sign off of AI-assisted changes made by junior and mid-level engineers.

Right….

But it didn’t have to for Cook. He could have, and should have, backed out of the event. Obviously. The fact that he didn’t either suggests horrible judgement on his part or worse, cowardice. This is a man and leader of one of the biggest and most important businesses in the world who had long been thought to have a great moral compass.

Can’t innovate, my ass?