{"id":14755,"date":"2024-09-17T08:17:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T15:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=14755"},"modified":"2025-02-03T08:30:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T16:30:25","slug":"i-did-something-i-swore-id-never-do-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2024\/09\/17\/i-did-something-i-swore-id-never-do-again\/","title":{"rendered":"I did something I swore I&#8217;d never do again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"Apple-iOS18-icon-1505066260.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Apple-iOS18-icon-1505066260.jpg\" alt=\"Apple iOS18 icon 1505066260.\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" border=\"0\" \/>I updated all my Apple machines to the latest IOS, WatchOS, and Mac OS versions yesterday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I was perhaps foolish because while my IOS devices were updating. I was working on a project dealing with some photos. However I needed a break, and my laptop battery needed recharging, so I initiated the MacOS update while the computer was recharging.<\/p>\n<p>This worked out perfectly since I couldn\u2019t get the computer into a comfortable location to work on it while it recharged. The update is completely automatic so the computer didn\u2019t need me. An hour or so later I came back to a fully charged battery and a new operating system. Neat!<\/p>\n<p>The iPhone and iPad both took a while to do their thing.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, it was the Apple Watch that was the most tedious to update.<\/p>\n<p>I use the IOS 18 logo generically.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I was kind of ambivalent about doing it. But I\u2019m evacuated from my home and honestly\u2026 It was sort of a \u201cKlytus, I\u2019m Bored,\u201d situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"680full-ming-the-merciless.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/680full-ming-the-merciless.jpg\" alt=\"680full ming the merciless.\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/>Fans of the movie \u201c<i>Flash Gordon<\/i>\u201d will recognize the reference.<\/p>\n<p>Emperor Ming, The Merciless, starts the movie with that line. Beginning the travails of Earth.<\/p>\n<p>For those interested, the upgrades went very smoothly. Now I\u2019m re-evaluating some of the applications that I have subscriptions for. At least a couple of them may be superseded by Apple native versions with similar functionality.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I\u2019m complaining. The less money I have to spend with silly subscriptions the happier I\u2019ll be.<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t noticed any bugs yet, but I\u2019ve only been working with the new systems for less than 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>My results with upgrading my devices may differ from yours. I tend to be a minimalist when it comes to software on my devices. I\u2019ve only recently begun to wonder if that minimalism has been dictated by where I live more than by choice.<\/p>\n<p>There are very few services like food deliveries, mass transit, or some of the more well known eateries where I am. As a result, I don\u2019t have any of the usual apps because they\u2019re useless in my particular situation.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that my lack of applications contributes to the generally successful OS upgrades I enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Were I to live someplace where transit cards, or food delivery, or any of the well known conveniences existed It\u2019s more likely that problems would occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I updated all my Apple machines to the latest IOS, WatchOS, and Mac OS versions yesterday.\u00a0 I was perhaps foolish because while my IOS devices were updating. I was working on a project dealing with some photos. However I needed a break, and my laptop battery needed recharging, so I initiated the MacOS update while &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2024\/09\/17\/i-did-something-i-swore-id-never-do-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I did something I swore I&#8217;d never do again.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,9],"tags":[178,174],"class_list":["post-14755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14756,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14755\/revisions\/14756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}