John Gruber on a Bloomberg article stating Apple "pushed back" their VR headset to 2023: It’s a semantic argument, but “pushed back” feels fair for an unannounced product. Shipping is hard, COVID makes everything harder. “Delayed” and “setback” don’t feel fair, though. When it actually does get announced,
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Elaine Godfrey writing for The Atlantic: In Arizona this weekend, 51-year-old Tammy Shutts put it this way to me: “100 percent, 1,000 percent, 1 million percent Biden didn’t win” her state, she said, gesturing to the hordes of people around her. “I’ve been in Arizona for almost
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I've found my way into a Google Pixel 6 (non-pro) and after using it for a week-ish, and wanted to share my thoughts. I'm not getting into any Android vs iOS stuff here since y'all already know how you feel about that. General DesignThe design of the phone is solid.
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Happy Friday, everyone! The LinksMust…play: WaPo has a mini-golf game created using gerrymandered districts around the US.Absurdle is the best Wordle remix yet. You have to work this one into a corner 😏This week is all about games, apparently, as looptap is a good, mindless time killer."The
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Mike Fahey writing for Kotaku: While the merging of Microsoft and Activision feels like far too much power being consolidated under one roof, once you understand what a monopoly is, it’s pretty clear this isn’t it.I'm not an antitrust lawyer by any means, but this seems like
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I was looking through a few posts and found this doozy from 2015: With this week’s news that Apple is working on a keyboard with literally no moving parts, it hit me like a ton of bricks: of course physical keyboards are on the way out.And: Don’t
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David Sparks: I’ve had a lot of questions about the relationship between Keyboard Maestro and Shortcuts for Mac. Specifically, is Shortcuts for Mac going to replace Keyboard Maestro? In a word, no.Yeah, Shortcuts is great, but Keyboard Maestro is just on another level. David does a great job
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Federico Viticci updated his WordleBot shortcut based on user feedback: Although well-intentioned, my original approach was misguided: even with line-based scores, the grid of emoji characters still performed horribly with screen-reading technologies such as Apple’s VoiceOver. WordleBot didn’t do much to make results more accessible for VoiceOver users
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The National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund put out their 2021 End-Of-Year Preliminary Law Enforcement Officers Fatalities Report (PDF) and it leads with: [A]s of December 31, 2021, 458 federal, state, tribal and local law enforcement officers died in the line-of-duty in 2021. This is an increase of 55% from
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Doodled Dragons takes at least $30,000 after tweeting "our charity will instead now be... my bank account" They announced on Twitter that they would be donating $30,000, "our first donation", to the World Wildlife Fund. Two hours later, they tweeted, "actually. fuck that. our charity will instead now
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