And I haven’t… yet. But! Because I’m an idiot and apparently love to contradict myself, I’ve been working almost exclusively from my iPad Pro¹ this week to see if I could make using it as my primary computer² work again.

The experiment’s going pretty well so far – I haven’t run into anything that’s made me think, “shit, I need my Mac for this.” That said, if I really do commit to this setup, I’ll probably go back to the 13-inch from the 11-inch for the extra screen real estate. Kinda wish I’d kept it.

Why am I like this? Why am I never happy with how I’m already doing things?

Someone please take away my credit card and slap some sense into me.

1. Mostly plugged into my Studio Display. 

2. I’d keep the Mac mini and get rid of the MacBook Air in that case. 

I recently ran into an issue with an 11" iPad Pro where I wanted to revert from an iPadOS beta (18.4) back to the release version (18.3.2 at the time of writing). I’ve done this a million times over the years on various iPads & iPhones and across various versions, but this time I couldn’t get the thing to actually perform the restore no matter what I tried.

Typically, the steps I take are very simple:

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