I’ve only had it out again for a few weeks, but I’ve already put my beloved iPhone SE back in the drawer. As much as I love its size, shape, and Touch ID, the little SE doesn’t fit as well into my life as well as the X. Its battery only gives me about a half-day of use. It doesn’t fit in my car holder. It’s a lot slower, and the camera is much worse. I could probably take care of most of these if I tried hard enough, but I’d just be swimming upstream.

Apple isn’t going to make another small phone like the SE. I’m better off moving on. It’s disappointing, but fine. It’s just a phone.

The macOS Big Sur beta has been stable overall, but hasn’t been without issues for me on the 2017 iMac. I’m keeping a list here.

• Emacs crashes on launch. I’m using emacs-plus. I’ve tried all the usual fixes but no luck.
• TiddlyDesktop crashes on launch, which means I’m editing the wiki in Firefox for now
• Chronosync won’t read it’s own sync files
• Lightroom Classic works but is so slow that it’s unusable
• Google Backup and Sync (used for Google Photos) crashes on launch
• I can’t change my desktop background to the Big Sur default image (acknowledged in release notes)

Some of these are known issues. Some could be just me. Other than Emacs not launching in a GUI, I don’t regret installing the beta, yet.

Added later:

• My menubar items are all white, making them hard to read in light mode. Had to switch to dark mode, which I dislike.

My 3rd Generation iPod Shuffle no longer holds a charge. It’s not like I’ve used it much lately, but still. It’s so tiny!