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It’s not just homes. I was working at a place when it moved to a newly built office. Plagued with dumb mistakes. Most striking was when we got into summer. First really humid day, AC stopped, wouldn’t turn back on, and then we realized water was seeping from the ceiling in the bathroom. Room was drenched. Turns out, the original building plan was for AC to use a water drain, but the building or fire inspector said it needed to be pumped. The builder did order a pump installed, but because it wasn’t in the plans, no electrical was built for it, so it was never plugged in. Just blatantly sloppy.

Between that and the condition of friends’ new homes we’d seen, we bought an older home, which has its own problems from age and previous owner workarounds, but we know any hidden and/or structural builder errors are long revealed.

Access to food, transportation, housing, it’s almost like he thinks the job of government is providing decent infrastructure.

I strongly support this idea as long as it is funded by universal healthcare and/or basic income.

Apple Maps. The integration across my iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch is too good, and I have Shortcuts and automations to bring up directions as needed. Also, we build guides for vegan-friendly restaurants for out-of-town trips, so it’s a real stress reliever.

I set most of my timers using Siri and avoid 30, 40, 50, and 60 exactly because I can’t seem to emphasize “TY”in a way to distinguish it from “TEEN”. My wife needs to me to clarify those too, so it’s definitely a me problem, not a Siri problem. I instead go over or under a minute or two, depending on the task.

FYI, new alarm app coming in iOS 26 could be what you need.

https://mastodon.social/@simonbs/114687924840611437

App Clips. I’ve used these several times to pay for meals at restaurants. Those use Local for Toast. QR code on bill. Scan it. Check the items. Add the tip. Pay with Apple Pay. I eventually installed the app, but I think it still uses the clip interface instead of opening the app. Did it for parking once too, different app. My local Sunoco also has App Clip tags at the pumps, but I don’t need those. Definitely a self-serve deal in my experience. I’d see more if I went out more often.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-app-clips-iphb3a73ec53/ios

The shortcut I shared, set to an automation triggered by stopping the alarm, respawns the alarm until you go through a minimum two-step process to kill it.

I don’t know of a purpose-built app, but I make the stock alarm do a lot more using automations in Shortcuts. I modified my morning alarm to make each snooze raise the bedroom lights a bit. Stopping it resets the lights to 100% before turning them off, plus a few more tricks. You could do something similar with each snooze triggering a vibration that increases in count each time, and a loud alert when you stop the alarm. Or stopping the alarm could trigger the creation of a second alarm, which you can delete by answer a prompt. Even if you don’t trick out the prompt, deleting the new alarm requires a second prompt, so it’s a two-step process to confirm you don’t need the second alarm. If you stop the second alarm, that’s on you, but you could make this work on all alarms, including the newly created one. Here’s an example I threw together. Set it to run in an automation when your alarm stops. https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/be78b93ff29a4fbab53d25aa041d4f61

Because Star Wars day sounds better when you say “May the Fourth be with you”. That said, I could be convinced to switch to Yoda-style “With you, the Fourth May be”.

To be clear, DC is a federal territory, not a state, so it doesn’t matter who their highest local elected official is. The only official with pardon power in federal territory is POTUS.

The only difference between a Wal-Mart steak and a Trump Steak™ is the 200% markup.