Someone has stolen my airpods. I was flying, they fell out of my bag at an airport, and now they are gone. I have marked them as missing/lost. It has been months. They go between the airport and a random house consistently, always recharged. At this point they’ve ignored the “missing item” long enough to be maliciously keeping them without question.

As such, I have started pinging tha case and earbuds at random hours throughout the day/night hoping to just make them slightly miserable.

I am hoping to write a shortcut/script to automate this and continuously or randomly send the ping command. I know the API is limited in general for shortcuts - was hoping someone with more experience might be able to guide me to my best option.

I was considering simulating an IOS device in xcode to accomplish this but also have old physical devices i can dedicate to spamming the ping. I have considered: using a voice recording to trigger siri to “ping my airpods”. Using …

I’ve used Spotify and currently use Apple Music. Both services when you click “shuffle library” tend to be really bad at randomizing songs for some reason, and often I’ll notice that several songs I skipped yesterday are being played for me today.

Someone on reddit shared a shortcut where it found all the music that hasn’t been played in the last week (pretty simple to make), but even then it seemed like songs that I was skipping (they weren’t being added to the recently played list and thus weren’t filtered out by this) kept appearing.

I have 1300 songs in my library. Statistically, there should not be a noticeable amount of repeats with the same 20 songs.

To solve this, I wrote a shortcut that samples songs in a more uniform way. Essentially, it will bin songs by how long it’s been since they’ve been played last, in units of months. It will go through each bin and sample N songs (currently I have N=10, which gives me a queue of …

Can someone help me create this shortcut: When I press the action button I get to choose between multiple functionalities: 1. Set silent mode 2. Turn on flash light 3. Other shortcuts, like WhatsApp calling a specific person 4. Send current location to someone (one of my shortcuts)

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/6bb3ea59d9bf4db383dc41de0e5d8f6f

This shortcut utilizes yt-dlp for downloading and a-shell as the Unix terminal. You will also have the option to select from all the available video formats of the selected youtube video.

here some additional stuff:

There are a few things you might need to do before running this shortcut. First, you need to install a-shell (available in the app store) and yt-dlp. You can install yt-dlp by running “pip install -U yt-dlp” in a-shell.

Supported sites: youtube Instagram reels tiktok pintrest soundcloud

This shortcut is primarily designed for YouTube, but I’ve also added some additional services. (I use this shortcut frequently for my own purposes, which is why I’ve included it.)

If theres any questions I’m here. Im always here… never offline… yea anyway have fun :3

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/5099c3f1d11c44d5ba2627242689b491

Edit: i added a setup to select the a-shell directory

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Just looking for some brain food. Want something that will really push me. Any and all types are fair game.

Edit: Damn, y’all. You have seriously come through for me here. most of these are new to me, too. Super exicted to give them a try. Thank you so much.

My 11yo son seems to suffer from a lot of anxiety and it really comes out in him leading up to bedtime for some reason. We’re trying various things to help him atm but I wondered if anyone uses podcasts to help themselves? Any suggestions?

I was watching this video that kind of walks through the past 10 years of podcasting—and I don’t know, it got me feeling nostalgic.

I miss the era when podcasts felt more experimental, like you’d stumble on a random show recorded in someone’s garage and it would blow your mind. Now it feels like everything’s got to be a brand, a business, a 3-season arc with a marketing team.

Not saying that’s bad—but does anyone else miss the looser, scrappier stuff?

EDIT: I’m only sporadically replying at the moment, if I check my notifications at the right time, but I want to say I appreciate all of the suggestions everyone has given!

The algorithm gives me rubbish suggestions! I’m looking for some recommendations.

My favourite podcasts over the years have moslty been long form.

I rarely like the “a couple of friends chat about an interesting topic” or “someone rambles verbatim for 3 hours” formats. I prefer well structured, intentional story telling (not necessarily highly produced, tho in modern podcasting such podcasts usually are).

I also don’t really like true crime (ok I did love Serial when that first came out) or overly sensationalist content.

My favourites over the last couple of years have been:

• Mike Duncan’s History of Rome & Revolutions
• Fall of Civilisations (I do wish he broke these into 45-1.5hr long episodes!)
• Things Fell Apart with Jon Ronson (this a bit of an odd one out, …

I know it’s a weird question. But I’m looking for interesting podcasts with an insight on how people live their lives. I don’t necessarily need niche hobbies, but just day to day things about how people live their lives, a few interesting topics for me
- Japanese lifelong employment
- A guy who owns only 250 items
- Hongkong’s slums and real estate and how it works
- How Nordics love the saunas and leave their kids out in the cold
- Japanese subway being owned by multiple companies
- Super fast check outs in Germany
- Siestas in Spain

I love watching a show and then on my walk the next morning tuning into a podcast (or podcasts!) to listen to what they have to say about it. I would love to hear if others enjoy doing this? What are things that you like a podcast to do and not do when discussing the shows? Have a great day!

Hey Reddit,

I’m 25m and a voracious reader. I’m also rather sparing with my five-star ratings and desperately need something show-stopping after a recent drag - reading a lot of meh, but nothing truly amazing.

I like all genres, genuinely. Sally Rooney, Joe Abercrombie, Larry McMurtry and Haruki Murakami are some of my fav authors. I’ve read about 20 books so far this year but only two have been five-star reads: Dune; The Road.

Any recs? Want something that’s going to blow me away. I’m open to anything but love fantastic writing and gripping characters.

Thanks so much for any responses!!

Edit: Thanks so much for the suggestions. My TBR has just swollen considerably!

I’m always giving movies 5-star ratings, even when I know they’re not perfect. But books? These days I’ve been having a severe case of Not Finishing Books so I need your recommendations😭

These are some famous authors I dislike (I won’t elaborate): - Rebecca Yarros - Colleen Hoover - Sarah J Maas - Madeline Miller - Taylor Jenkins Reid - TJ Klune

These are some famous authors I do like: - Suzanne Collins (currently reading Sunrise on the reaping and I’m OBSESSED) - Stephanie Perkins (loved Anna and the French kiss) - Ali Hazelwood (loved Check & Mate) - Casey Mcquiston (loved I kissed Shara Wheeler, but Did Not Finish RWRB) - Samantha Shannon (really enjoying The Priory so far) - Shea Ernshaw (loved Winterwood)

I want books with no plot holes, an immersive + consistent worldbuilding and characters I won’t stop thinking about. This last part is the most difficult one to me.

My dad is a HUGE fan of Dave Barry. He’s recovering from a surgery and will be cooped up for many weeks. Looking for suggestions for laugh-out-loud books that I can bring him to help lift his spirits a bit. So, what’s your favorite funny book (or author!)?

Please suggest the funniest books you have read. Something you actually LOL-ed while reading.

The book you read when the world is falling apart. And it’s quick and makes you feel all the ups and downs and then things feel at least a bit better again.

Any genre.

What’s yours?

One you can’t even believe exists

Looking for games where you can either distract a certain type of enemy to attack another enemy whether this be by faction or other reasons.

For example and the easiest one to use being last of us: left behind Where you can throw a glass bottle or brick to get sleeping or distracted enemies to run and attack enemy people.

And for people who somehow don’t know about last of us then simply put looking for a game that allows me to use objects or alike to get zombies or people to attack each other.

Sorry if this isn’t put very well I don’t use Reddit very much and if you have any questions please do ask

While I use mainly Xbox, PlayStation games work to.

A game where beating it without gathering outside knowledge is nearly impossible sounds like a really good challaenge. I mostly play Terraria which requires you to be hooked up to the wiki like it’s an iv if you ever wanna beat it initially. So tell me what you think? What games are a nightmare without outside help?

games with custom character progression similar to xcom 2 but more brutal

so Ive currently been getting back into gaming since elden ring came out. Ive played some other soulslike like khazan and other games like gow and monster hunter but I am looking for new game recommendations possibly one from every genre. Like must play before you die for each genre. Any suggestions welcome 🙏

Edit: Thanks for all the suggestions you all gave me a hell of a list to finish. ill get started with RDR2 and expedition 33 cuz its new asap🫡

…I don’t know how to cheer him up, we used to play games together all the time, but now he’s unable to play any of the things we used to on the PC because he can’t control the keyboard. Does anyone know of any solutions to this? He can still use his right arm, can we somehow turn this into an advantage and somehow make it possible for him to play games again?

I was thinking of buying a VR headset for him to play Half Life Alyx but all the good ones or the ones at least partially useful, are still too expensive for me..

For a while now, I’ve gotten into the habit of playing games while listening to new music albums. Thing is, I hate listening to new stuff with background noise like game sound effects or music getting in the way.

Lately I’ve been playing a lot of Balatro, which is a perfect example for this. It’s super addictive and lets me focus on the music. Same goes for WoW, Bloons TD6, Minecraft, and others

I’m looking for more games like that really addictive but don’t require sound at all. (Yeah, I tend to get bored in a few plays so they’ve gotta hook me fast) Any suggestions?

P.S: I already played: Vampire Survivors (and bunch other “survivor” games)

Edit: Thanks for all the recs! Some of your recs I already played a lot, but there were a few I hadn’t heard of, so I wrote down some and I’ll definitely be checking them out. The ones that caught my attention the most so far were Slay the Spire, Heretics Fork, Bazaar, PowerWash Simulator, and Death Road to Canada :)