| Costa’s Hummingbird – Hesperaloe flowers – early morning
backlighting, Coachella Valley, California. I’m grateful this holiday
season for the beauty of nature and the time I get to spend in it. I
hope the imagery I share brightens your day in a small way and inspires
you to help preserve nature around us. Video excerpt from my video and
print exhibition at the Sunnylands Center and Gardens near Palm Springs,
California, on exhibit all winter. If you’re not near Palm Springs,
please come over to
Last year, Apple outraged independent technicians when they updated the
Iphone design to prevent third party repair, adding a “feature” that
allowed handsets to detect when their screens had been swapped (even
when they’d been swapped for an original, Apple-manufactured screen) and
refuse to function until they got an official Apple unlock code.
Now, this system has come to the MacBook Pros and Imac Pros, thanks to
the “T2 security chip” which will render systems nonfunctional after
replacing the keyboard, screen, case, or other components, until the a
proprietary Apple “configuration tool” is used to unlock the system.
Apple does not tell its customers that the computers it sells are
designed to punish them for opting to get their property repaired by
independent technicians; the details of the T2 came from a leaked
service manual.
Shit like this is why we are supposed to keep businesses on a leash of government regulation but half of ya think that’s too mean and unfair to the livelihoods of trazilluonaires
this white steller’s jay was seen in boulder county, colorado. the bird is not albino - it was seen gradually gaining more and more white feathers over time. suggested causes are illness, trauma or a mutation.
