u/EffectiveDandy

Dropped to 99% (I check after every new update).

Safari has constant lag, freezing for 2-6 seconds before becoming completely unresponsive, needing to be ejected. Which drags the entire OS down. Typing also stalls frequently and takes 2-3s to resume (where it dumps all the input all at once).

My iPad M4 Pro runs like a space heater no mater what I do.

I have all AI turned off, No Siri, and have disabled all my apps from Spotlight. Spotlight indexing has also finished long ago.

With the public beta looming, just a friendly FYI. This build is a catastrophe!

I was skipping home from work excited to feed my crows some aging beef I had put aside the night before when I rounded the corner. A treat I give them in small doses not because of any dietary concerns but the fact they want nothing else after the taste of beef hits their beaks. (Their poop does look like death afterwards, so that’s no really pleasant.)

The house behind me feeds a flock of pigeons every day with a cup full of seed. This lone crow tags along and I always thought they had reached a pact or had a mutual understanding.

I wasn’t around when it went down, but given the pool of feathers behind him, I don’t see a natural cause of death. The little crow did not even seem phased as people walked by, most not even looking up from their phones (le sigh).

I know this sub loves giving and recommending peanuts and fruit, and I have all but stopped butting in saying they are scavengers and eat more like coyotes than birds. But I do feel somewhat vindicated lol.

The wilds are a savage place, but everything has to eat and instinct is one hell of a hideous, bitch goddess!

Woke up this morning, opened my blinds and saw this little guy motionless on the windowsill outside. It’s summer here but it’s rainy and dreary so I’m sure he was soaked and cold. And hungry!

I don’t really keep white, refined sugar in our house but did have some powdered sugar (didn’t want to give him brown sugar because of the molasses). He gobbled it up while I held my hand over him to give him some rain cover (hence why the shaky cam, sorry did the best I could).

When he finished eating, I got him on a piece of paper towel and brought him inside so he could dry out and get a bit of warmth in him. Once he climbed on the paper towel, he started grooming himself and I knew he’d be just fine.

He spent the next hour grooming and slowly regaining his energy before flying off into the sky.

He came to the right place, let me tell you! Good luck little dude, thank you for keeping this world turning 🙏🐝🫶

I've had crows show up before who looked pretty busted up, but this one really broke my heart as he's so young!

This little guy showed up the other week and has been looming around since. He gets chased away as he's quite low in the pecking order, but I've made it my mission to make sure he gets fed regardless of how many times the bigger crows shoe him off.

I know he's part of a bigger murder that comes and goes, but I've managed to get him coming back for 3 days in a row now. Hoping to adopt him if he lets me!

What hurts me the most is that he's so young and if you look at how his leg with the missing foot moves, it looks like he's got phantom limb, which leads me to believe the little guy lost his foot after birth.

I can't give him a new foot, but I can give him all the food!

I said a spreadsheet and he comes back with a blank word doc.

Will report back after some testing this weekend 🫡

Edit 1: it’s bad. It replies with a wall of text like a search engine. The UI is so janky even for a beta that it requires so much manipulation to even close after asking her anything. Also, bear in mind there is no going back. You are now on the “new” Siri. The Siri app is pretty broken and looks like an intern’s vibe coded project after onboarding.

The male on the left has known me for some time and was one of the first to eat from my measuring spoon when he kept refusing each time to move from the windowsill so I could place it near his feet (you can see the crack on the left, their is about a foot gap). Instead he gently picked each piece of kibble and took his walnut to go. His mate is less trusting and flies away (my guys walk on the sill, no need to flap).

But each time they come, I get a show. I love how he gently positions her head and how it changes her posture. He did it and stood her right up like a cobra.

We are making progress after a couple of weeks and today she also ate from my spoon as she too refused to leave the open window as I handed out their meal.

They are a regular Ozzie and Harriet!

😬

iOS27 beta 1

This bonded pair comes around daily, and the little one (on the right) is always just the most perfectly behaved gentleman during their visit. Last time they flew in, they warbled and pecked bills in the cutest little display of affection.

The one on the left looks like it was discipling him this time around, poor little fellow. He looked so defeated. I made sure to sneak him a piece of cookie nobody else got. Just between us girls.

Fortunately, only a small handful of my crows are comfortable with me being so close to the window. As such, just standing there boxes out most of Lenny's competitors (he's been getting boxed out a few times by bigger crows and I don't like it, not one bit).

You take all the time you want to eat lil dude, I gotchu.

This is Lenny patiently waiting for his treats. It was windy and raining all morning. And he’s been busy defending his turf! The cutest little crow you will ever meet, but don’t mess around on his turf!

Trust me, those floofy pants are so hot rn.

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/crows/comments/1tljj8p/this_is_lenny_this_is_his_fifth_visit_in_the_past/

Lenny usually comes 3-4x a day and has slowly been inducted with a bigger group who he brings with him (they let him eat his fill first before picking up the leftovers and he frequently offers them parts of his share).

In the past week he’s been coming more and more and yesterday came a total of 11x. Throughout the day, he was mostly alone, ferrying food back and forth from my window to his various hiding spots. This was also unusual as I’ve never seen him squirrel away that much food before. I suspected (and hoped) for nesting behaviour as that what was all the evidence was pointing to.

Later that day, he came back a few times with a female who he kept warbling to. They cuddled on my ledge. Both grabbed food and flew down onto his roof across the street which he has claimed as his own, ate it together, and spent a good chunk of time just cuddling and grooming each other. The jury is out on whether they have kids just yet, but he’s been back with her (and by himself) an awful lot today already.

PS: the building is a ways away so this was the closest shot I could manage.

Update: https://www.reddit.com/r/crows/comments/1tmlo1l/update_on_lenny_the_dating_rumours_were_true/

I noticed Lenny about 3 years ago, living alone on the roofs of the buildings across the street. He mostly kept to himself which made me sad to see him isolated and alone. Especially when most of the block feeds crows, so we have lots of bonded families living amongst him. The crows come to roost some 200-300 strong just down the block, but I guess Lenny hasn’t had much luck.

I began feeding crows at start of this year and wanted to find him a mate or a murder he could become part of as a side quest. Then it became my main quest as he became one (if not perhaps the only) I could identify on sight by way of his broken talon. From there, I would make it a point to always feed him something special (I feed each crow personally with scoops of food from my sill) and invite other crows around when he shows up.

About 2 weeks ago, she showed up with a much larger crow. And as soon as he landed, he did the cutest little warble for her before pecking away. Since then he’s showed up with her a few more times and often comes at least twice a day, personally. He does the special warble whenever she’s with him. The warble in the video is the first from him, to me. He’s eaten from my hand before and will eat with me inches away without hesitation, without a doubt my most trusting crow.

Today, he has been back 6 times already (once more as I wrote this) and it’s only been 2 hours since his first visit of the day! I have watched him fly back and forth, stashing his haul all around. His feathers are all speckled with poop, like he’s been rooting around in a nest. So I hope that means what I think it means!

Fingers crossed! 🤞