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Posted on: Apple, Hardware.Tagline: It turns out fixing the unfixable only takes fifteen minutes and a bit of patience.Last week, I wrote that my AirPods Pro case was dead. The battery wouldn't hold a charge, and Apple's only solution was to charge me €100+ for a replacement case. Instead of throwing it away, I decided to try fixing it myself. It cost me €20 and took about 15 minutes. Here is how to do it. Finding a battery I bought a replacement battery on eBay for €20. You need one…
Posted on: Apple, Hardware.Tagline: Five years later, the lithium-ion reality sets in.I got my AirPods Pro in February 2021. They’ve been my daily drivers for over five years, which, in the world of tiny lithium-ion batteries, is basically ancient history. Now, the case has finally given up. It doesn't work unless it's plugged into a charger. The moment I pull the cable, it's a brick. It’s the classic symptom of a completely exhausted battery. If you’re in the same boat, there are a few things…
Posted on: Apple.Tagline: The favorite button in Apple Music on macOS feels broken af.You're listening to a song you love and want to save it. You click the favorite star and... nothing. You wonder if you missed the button. Did the app freeze? You're about to click again when, SECONDS later, the star finally turns red. This is the current state of Apple Music (Version 1.6.5.10) on macOS 26.5.1. Most apps use "optimistic updates." When you like a post or star a song, the UI changes immediately.…
Posted on: Logbook, Misc.Tagline: Pages from my logbook.Yesterday morning I watched a puddle drying up, taken by force by the sun's rays. A "necessary" violence to make room for the next puddle. Transformation is an act of rupture, and at this moment, I feel I am in a phase of transformation. Today I feel a bit like that puddle: a bit mortified, a bit disappointed, and a bit of a disappointment. Does evaporating mean failing?
Posted on: Apple, Review.Tagline: A brutally honest review of Apple's premium headphonesYou've probably read four hundred seventeen reviews of the AirPods Max 2 already. I'm not here to tell you they're "life-changing" or wax poetic about unboxing experiences. I'm a critical Apple fan with a collection of decent IEMs and headphones, and I have strong opinions about where these fit in the audio landscape. Let's address the elephant in the room first: they cost a ridiculous amount of money for ...
Posted on: Programming.Tagline: Rendering a 3D portrait from a single photo using Gaussian Splatting, Canvas 2D, and zero dependencies.I recently watched a video by Tsoding where he rendered a full 3D scene using just a plain canvas 2D element, without any WebGL or Three.js. The core of the video was a simple formula to calculate the position of each pixel: given (x, y, z) x' = y / z y' = x / z It tickled the part of my brain that loves graphics and it was enough to make me want to try the ...
