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I’m someone who likes to frequently change default applications. Anyone who occasionally checks this page will have noticed that modifications happen quite often.

I’ve been using only Apple devices for a few years now. I don’t have a Windows PC or an Android smartphone. I don’t even have headphones or accessories from other brands. I subscribe to iCloud+ and use various Apple services, such as Music, Arcade, and email with a custom domain. In short, I’m a user who is totally immersed in the Cupertino ecosystem, but I’m not a satisfied user at all.

‘Se Natale nun venesse ‘cchiù,
chi chiagnesse ‘e lacreme ‘cchiù amare?
‘e commercianti o ‘e creature?

Smartphones are not the enemy, reports Kev Quirk in his blog referencing Thomas Rigby’s post. True, the phone is just a tool, and our attraction is caused by the operating system’s constant demand for attention and the apps that try to eat away at our time.

My friend Nicola, a few weeks ago, referenced this post of mine and wrote about Bitonto, the town where he lives. I admire and almost envy the way he described it. You can clearly tell that, somehow, it’s his roots and that those roots engage him.

Microsoft cannot guarantee that European citizens’ data will not be transmitted, if requested, to US authorities. Neither can Google, Meta, Amazon, Google, OpenAI, Oracle, Adobe, Dropbox, Zoom, Atlassian, Twilio, Salesforce, Cisco, Box, Slack, Anthropic, or any of the dozens of others I can’t think of right now.

One of the guys I met at my new job, when I pointed out that the software he’d developed lacked a shred of documentation and was impossible for new developers to manage, complained that requests always came to him as urgent, and so he quickly produced code—patching things up, not documenting or commenting, and neglecting privacy and security aspects—for the good of the company. Damn, for the good of the company!

Last August we visited the Netherlands. We based ourselves in Amsterdam and visited a few places and cities around there. I won’t write a review; it would be impossible to convey its beauty, its costs, its uniqueness, and its immersiveness. It was intense. That’s enough.