NACS is an open standard. Tesla could fold tomorrow and it would still be a good idea for the other manufacturers to switch to it so we don’t have multiple competing plug standards in this country.

And their cameras got worse. The shutter lag on my S22+ was ridiculous. I missed so many good moments with my kids because it either failed to take the picture on time or the picture it did take was a blurry mess. After using Samsung for several generations, I traded for an iPhone 15 Pro. The camera alone was worth the switch. It turns out if you spend years copying Apple then people would rather just buy the real thing once you’ve removed all the features that made you unique.

I used to use Twitter a ton before the Musk takeover. Switching to Mastodon has gone really well so far. It’s taken awhile to build up a follow list of people and tags that interest me, but now that I have it’s a much nicer experience than Twitter ever was.

I’m just following cool people doing cool things and it’s really fun to scroll through. The lack of an algorithm pushing content to my feed was jarring at first since I had to get used the lack of “infinite” scrolling… But it’s been way healthier overall. I can pop in, check out what’s new from people I actually follow, and then close the app and go back to more productive things. Also the people are a lot nicer.