Subspace Radio Episode 43: Wedding traditions (LD 4×04 Something Borrowed, Something Green)
Kevin Yank and Rob Lloyd explore the intersecting wormholes that permeate Star Trek canon, inspired by each new episode to hit the subspace relays.
Kev and Rob are swept away in the romance (and the repeated stabbings) of "Something Borrowed, Something Green", and narrowly avoid the "hump dungeon" on their way to exploring other wedding traditions in Star Trek, including "Data's Day" (TNG) and "You Are Cordially Invited" (DS9).
The alert klaxon on the Orion ship in the cold open sounded suspiciously distinctive. Have we heard that before somewhere…?
This one had a couple of turns of phrase that smacked of an inexperienced Trek writer: Riker introduced himself as "Commanding officer William Riker" (rather than "Commander" or "First Officer"), and Crusher called him "Bill" rather than "Will".
On the bright side, I can rationalise these as evidence that this is far from a canon story. 🤣
Subspace Radio episode 42: Lessons in Leadership (LD 4×03 In the Cradle of Vexilon)
Kevin Yank and Rob Lloyd explore the intersecting wormholes that permeate Star Trek canon, inspired by each new episode to hit the subspace relays.
Rob & Kev planned to turn this entire episode over to a friendly computer super-intelligence, but it was down for a software update, so they recorded their thoughts on "In the Cradle of Vexilon" all by themselves. They also explored other lessons in leadership from Star Treks past, including "The Galileo Seven" (TOS), "Good Shepherd" (VOY), "Pen Pals" (TNG), and "Valiant" (DS9).
Subspace Radio Episode 41: Captivity (LD 4×01 Twovix & LD 4×02 I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee)
Kevin Yank and Rob Lloyd explore the intersecting wormholes that permeate Star Trek canon, inspired by each new episode to hit the subspace relays.
Kev & Rob narrowly avoid being merged in a transporter accident, and inspired by "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee", pay a visit to the menagerie of episodes in which humanity is put in a cage, including "The Eye of the Beholder" (TAS), "The Cage" (TOS), and "I, Mudd" (TOS). They also briefly discuss the first of the Very Short Treks, "Skin a Cat", as well as Star Trek Day 2023.
Subspace Radio Episode #40: Zero G (SNW 2×10 Hegemony)
Kevin Yank and Rob Lloyd explore the intersecting wormholes that permeate Star Trek canon, inspired by each new episode to hit the subspace relays.
Rob & Kev float through the highlights of the season two finale of Strange New Worlds, "Hegemony", before seeking out other instances of our characters floating in zero gravity, including "Star Trek: First Contact", "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country", and the Enterprise NX-01's "sweet spot".
Pike's look to camera in the final frames of this episode echoes the same look in the transporter room at the end of the season one finale.
Subspace Radio #39: Camp Trek (SNW 2×09 Subspace Rhapsody)
Kevin Yank and Rob Lloyd explore the intersecting wormholes that permeate Star Trek canon, inspired by each new episode to hit the subspace relays.
Kev & Rob agree that "Subspace Rhapsody" had its charms, but didn't quite live up to the hype, and that "Bride of Chaotica!" (VOY) is the last time going over the top into silliness was the point of an episode. Finally, as a bonus, Rob re-watched Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and was surprised by how much he enjoyed it!
Subspace Radio #38: War stories (SNW 2×08 Under the Cloak of War)
Kevin Yank and Rob Lloyd explore the intersecting wormholes that permeate Star Trek canon, inspired by each new episode to hit the subspace relays.
In Subspace Radio 38, Rob & Kev need a sonic shower after the slow march through the Federation-Klingon war and its ugly consequences that was "Under the Cloak of War". Reflecting on the Federation at war, they look back at "Yesterday's Enterprise" (TNG) and "The Siege of AR-558" (DS9).
This was confirmed to be a bug in the Pocket Casts TestFlight build I was using.
Resolved! But still mysterious.
I decided to try uninstalling and reinstalling every recently updated app on my phone, starting with my TestFlight apps. The first one I tried, Pocket Casts, doesn’t even have a Share Sheet extension, but after uninstalling it and rebooting my phone, my Share Sheet looks normal again! Reinstalling the Pocket Casts build did not reintroduce the problem.
I had definitely tried uninstalling and reinstalling several apps with Share Sheet extensions before to no avail, but this was the first TestFlight build I had tried uninstalling since the issue arose.
YMMV.
Mmm. The only thing on there left for me to try is to uninstall every recently-updated app I can think of with a Share Sheet extension. Will give it a try!
Good idea, but Content & Privacy Restrictions aren’t enabled.
iOS 16 & 17 - Share sheet all apps missing
Anyone have any ideas on how to resolve an issue I'm having on my iPhone where the share sheet only shows AirDrop, Messages, Mail, News, and Books? I have many, many apps installed that offer share extensions (Facebook, Instapaper, Things, among many others), and many of Apple's own apps (e.g. Notes) are missing from this list too.
You'll note from my screenshots that the missing apps are not listed under More.
What I've tried so far:
- Reboot my iPhone
- Delete and reinstall some of the missing apps
- Upgrade from iOS 16.5.1c to iOS 17 Public Beta 1
- Reset All Settings
None of these have made any difference to the issue.
I’m happy to manage my own subscriptions and block settings to hide any content from Threads or other instances I may not enjoy. I don’t need my instance doing that for me.
My understanding of the argument for defederation is basically “but they might monetise all our social graphs”, but our content is publicly available on the Internet, so they can do that regardless.
If you're on Gmail, buy Mimestream for Mac and never look back.
If you're not using Google for your email, and/or you're looking for something on iPhone then it's a tougher choice. I wrote an extensive review of the options not too long ago and landed on Spark, but your priorities may be different from mine. Have a look and see what you think: https://kevinyank.com/posts/email-apps/
But you're thinking hardware and not software? In that case, sounds like I need to book a visit to my local Apple Store.
Advice for troubleshooting frequent random iPhone resprings?
For several months now, but with increasing frequency in recent days, my iPhone 13 mini will randomly respring (crash to black screen with spinner, then back to the Lock Screen) multiple times a day. I notice this happening often within the first 30 seconds after unlocking my phone, but it could also be happening in my pocket throughout the day without me knowing.
When iPhone resprings, is there any record of the cause logged that would help me narrow down what app or setting could be causing this?