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Swede’s Photographs
@Swede1952@universeodon.com
2 settimane fa

Good morning. ⏰🫘☕

13 August 2026

We received our new iPhones via UPS yesterday evening, and I spent last night getting mine set up. The process is simple enough, but it still makes me feel like a rocket scientist once everything finally transfers over. It’s mostly time‑consuming because the phone has to download every app I use — and I use a lot. Then comes the ritual of logging into each one so it’s ready when I need it. I can never remember all my passwords, so I end up flipping through my little book of hints. I use a personal code when I write them down, so even if the book fell into the hands of someone unscrupulous, they wouldn’t be able to decipher it — and not just because my handwriting is terrible.

Our old phones were iPhone 14 Pro Maxes, perfectly good devices except for one growing annoyance: charging them became a chore. Something in the Lightning connector had worn down, and I often had to spend several minutes plugging and unplugging the cable just to get it to start charging. Annoying at best, and a real problem if we were away from home and woke up to a dead phone. Hard to imagine dealing with that in simpler times. The new iPhone 17 Pro Max uses a USB‑C port, which is far more reliable and doesn’t wear out the way the old Lightning connection did.

I still don’t have cases yet, but I ordered two from pixels.com using a couple of my photos — flowers for my wife and a Caribbean sunset for me though I'm thinking about getting one with a recent pic of flying ibises.

“The biggest part of our digital transformation is changing the way we think.” — Simeon Preston

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke

“The greatest achievement of technology is not how it changes life, but how it improves it.” — Satya Nadella

Ember on the Limb "A red‑bellied woodpecker perches on an arched, weather‑worn limb, the dead wood rising in a gentle curve like a faded crescent against a pale, nearly empty sky. The branch is textured with patches of lichen — soft grays and muted greens that cling to the bark like old paint. The minimal background makes the bird feel almost suspended, as if the world has been reduced to just two elements: the curve of the limb and the small, vivid creature balanced upon it. The woodpecker’s head is turned to the right, giving the impression that it’s listening or surveying something just out of frame. That turn reveals the full glow of its red crown, a bright ember set against the crisp black‑and‑white barring on its back. Its underside is warm and buff‑colored, catching the faint light. The bird’s posture is alert but calm — tail braced, feet gripping the limb, body angled slightly forward as if ready to move but in no hurry to do so. The simplicity of the composition — bird, bra

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Georgiana Brummell
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@Swede1952@universeodon.com I just got a new phone as well. But I switched back to a regular phone with buttons after using an iPhone SE, SE2, a Galaxy A15, and an iPhone SE3, all in the matter of five years or so. . I hate touchscreens to begin with, and I'm sick of dealing with them. I just hope this has the screen reader in it that some sites say it does and that others don't even mention. It's all very confusing and frustrating, especially since everything is about the same phone (TCL Flip 2). It was easier with the Kyocera Rally that spoke everything and that had consistant information. At any rate, I am going to wait for my sighted nephew to help me set it up tomorrow. With luck, I'll have a new talking phone by the afternoon!

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