895th Friday Blog Roundup

Every time you think the world is a dumpster fire and humans are awful awful awful, you see a news story that spins your brain 180 degrees. (I mean, not literally. That would be horrific! Your brain spinning in your skull.)

Apple announced new features coming to iOS including door detection: “Door Detection can help users locate a door upon arriving at a new destination, understand how far they are from it, and describe door attributes — including if it is open or closed, and when it’s closed, whether it can be opened by pushing, turning a knob, or pulling a handle. Door Detection can also read signs and symbols around the door, like the room number at an office, or the presence of an accessible entrance symbol.”

THIS IS AN AMAZING WORLD.

Or live captions, which generates captions in real time that are on the device. So it can tell you what people are saying in a Zoom call or FaceTime call. Or you can use it if you’re sitting in the same room having a conversation. Do you know how life-changing this will be?

People — they’re awful awful awful but sometimes they invent really amazing things.

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Stop procrastinating. Go make your backups. Don’t have regrets.

Seriously. Stop what you’re doing for a moment. It will take you fifteen minutes, tops. But you will have peace of mind for days and days. It’s the gift to yourself that keeps on giving.

As always, add any new thoughts to the Friday Backup post and peruse new comments to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.

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And now the blogs…

But first, second helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week. To read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:

• “Apparently Friday the 13th Isn’t an Unlucky Day At All” (InStyle)
• “I’m Retiring from Aunthood” (Yael Wolfe)

Okay, now my choices this week.

Grumpy Rumblings shares a post they wrote a long time ago that is still relevant today: the idea of doing something vs. doing more. They explain it as: “People who do something small sometimes get yelled at for not trying to reform an entire system.” If you can’t do everything and fix the entire problem in one fell swoop, then what you did do was worthless. Or worth less.

Bio Girl writes a letter to her son as he enters the teen years. The Internet is amazing because we get to see people grow up and change. In our corner of the blogosphere, we often hear more about life before birth — we know the hope that goes into building the family — so I love hearing about that life continuing. And this line made me weepy: “So whatever your age, I love you in that moment – and I ache, just a little, for all those moments past with my very favorite person. So if I try to pick you up today, just let me – so I can believe I can still hold you, if I really tried.” Yes to life moving too quickly.

Lastly, I love Infertile Phoenix being grateful for what she is not doing — moving. She begins: “I’m. Not. Moving!!! My boyfriend reminded me of this today as we were not packing. I have moved five times in the last six years.” Home is a place and a feeling. I like the twist on the saying.

The roundup to the Roundup: People invent amazing things. Your weekly backup nudge. And lots of great posts to read. So what did you find this week? Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between May 13 – May 20) and not the blog’s main URL. Not understanding why I’m asking you what you found this week? Read the original open thread post here.