A version of Windows 11 leaked online this week and with it, a whole bunch of wallpapers. Now Microsoft may not make a mobile operating system anymore, but I thought these could use the mobile treatment, so I converted them to phone sizes. Some of them were just a matter
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Apple's App Store policies are a big mistake - Slow Boring Apple executives aren’t idiots, but then again, neither was Napoleon. And my considered view on this is that they are making a mistake — they stumbled onto a revenue stream that they don’t want to give up, but
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Final Fantasy VII Remake is the Template for “Grown-Up” JRPGs In the face of the practical hurdles to regularly playing JRPGs, Final Fantasy VII Remake has proposed an alternative model for equally robust storytelling more easily accessible for adult gamers: a more succinct mode of storytelling that uses replay mechanics
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There was a lot of good stuff in iPadOS 15 announced at WWDC last week. Hell, I’m running it on the iPad I’m using to write this post, and it’s made my iPad meaningfully better in some key ways. And yet there is a sense of disappointment
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Opinion | Magneto: These new ‘magnetic’ vaccine mutants are extremely disappointing - The Washington Post I put on my newest, most purple helmet and my best cape, and I manipulated the Earth’s magnetic field to fly myself to Ohio as fast as I could. I was so excited to recruit
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I miss the old internet | Science Fiction and Fantasy World Is it just me or is today's internet boring and overly commercialized? I feel like today's internet is like a modern mall, sterile and boring with just main-brand clothing stores, a food court, and not a lot else. Whereas I
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This is really niche, I know, but if you are lurking on tech Twitter and want to start growing an audience via social media, writing, or video, I have one piece of advice I’d give to everyone: make your content additive, not negative. I don’t mean to say
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Remixing Old Tracks in Spatial Audio Is ‘Sacrilegious’ — Pixel Envy I’m hopeful that surround sound AKA Dolby Atmos AKA Spatial Audio results in some truly unique and delightful musical experiences that I’ve never had before, but the more time goes by, the more I feel like this has
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For many years, I cared quite a bit about how many followers I had on Twitter. I wanted to get attention, so I would routinely @ more popular people and used hashtags to try to get into more people’s search results. I wanted every tweet to be pithy, snarky, and
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Apple's new Monterey wallpapers look great, but with one color option, I had to make a couple more for myself, and figured you all would appreciate them as well. There are 3 variants, including 2 colors and one black & white option. Each variant has a dark and light version.
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