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Hands down - We love our HomePod. I alone use it for hours on the daily.

But whenever an update drops for it, I have to do the following:

• Tap through settings into the Software Update screen from the Home app.
• back out of the Software Update screen, because it states that the HomePod is up to date
• tap back into the Software Update screen to have it refresh and display that there is in fact a new update for it
• tap update
• watch it download, with absolutely no progress bar
• back out of Software Update screen again after guessing the download and install process is done.
• hope that is installed after that window updates

Seriously, it’s a mess and has been since day one.

It went surprisingly well!

Doing anything outside of my own oil changes to our Prius has always been intimidating to me. It’s our only vehicle in the family by choice, so we rely heavily on it. To cause it to have problems by my own actions would be unfortunate to say the least. When the dash was all taken apart I definitely had a few Oh shit, what am I doing moments…, but I just took my time, read the instructions that Crutchfield sent and everything worked perfectly. Even the wizardry of the aftermarket steering wheel control doohickey that allowed me to retain volume, seek, and Siri control worked without any fiddling. And, to top it all off, the install itself came out super clean with none of it looking janky or out of place. (Biggest of the sighs of relief)

All told the installation took about 3.5 hours. With some more confidence I probably could’ve lopped an hour off of that total.

Aside from wanting to do more smallish projects in 2020, I swapped out the unit mainly to add CarPlay and wow what an upgrade that is! I never witnessed how CarPlay worked in earlier iOS versions, but with iOS13.1 its really solid. The sound (and control of the output of sound) is better, the interface is a joy to use, the screen is way more responsive than the factory unit, it’s got all the previous input methods and more! The only thing we lost was the CD player and we literally have never used that in the 6 years we’ve owned this car.

So if you are looking for a little project over the weekend I highly recommend it!

Holy crap… I am so happy about this… it’s nice to still geek out in my mid 40’s! 😁

…if an account is public, and I go to said public account on the web, don’t put up your lame “sign up/sign in” modal in front of my viewing experience after scrolling through a mere 12 to 18 pictures. That is a lose-lose for everyone involved. That and it’s just a shameful and terrible user experience. At least try to be better

If she doesn’t need my help, one of my all time favorite things to do with my best friend is line up music for her while she prepares anything in the kitchen. I love watching her face light up and dance when each track drops. It’s beyond lovely and it’s also the least I can do.

It’s a no-brainer if you like the hip-hop collective Doomtree, as it’s basically the entire group sans Dessa and Cecil Otter.

Immensely fun whilst coding on deadline.