Apple
The Apple Studio Display and Realistic Expectations
The new Studio Display reviews are out, and the general consensus seems to be that it's a pretty damn good display with great speakers and a decent-to-terrible webcam that's getting fixed with a software update rolling out as we speak.
A few reviewers have criticized the product for having
Game
How the modding community made me love Elden Ring
Like 12 million other people, I bought Elden Ring and was excited to play it. I got about 4 hours
Game
Gran Turismo 7 is an Incredible Game with Some Major Problems
I absolutely love the gameplay of Gran Turismo, and I love the visuals, and I love the online Sport mode. It's undoubtedly the best sim racing game I've ever played.
That said, there are a few things that make this game harder to recommend to everyone than I'd like.
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🦎 My Lizard Brain (Newsletter #107)
Hello and welcome to the most stacked issue in recent memory. Tons of fun stuff this week and I hope you enjoy it!
The Links
* Some incredible Wordle analysis here. Did you know the average score is 4.1?
* Someone made a Wordle clone in Google Sheets 😱
* New research shows turning your camera off in
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The M1 Ultra is Still Beat by the RTX 3090
I wrote the day after the event that we should hold off on saying the M1 Ultra has more GPU performance than NVIDIA's top-of-the-line graphics card, and that's proven to be the most sober of hot takes. Mac Studio reviews are out today, and they confirm that the
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The iPhone SE's Potentially Fatal Flaw
In a Reddit thread talking about John Gruber's iPhone SE review:
I disagree with him about the battery part. My wife has a second gen SE and battery doesn’t make it through a work day. Even if the A15 is more power efficient, the display still sucks the most power and is
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Maybe Turning Your Camera Off is Better
Allison S. Gabriel: Research: Cameras On or Off?
Our results — recently published in Journal of Applied Psychology— were quite clear: Using the camera was positively correlated to daily feelings of fatigue; the number of hours that employees spent in virtual meetings were not. This indicates that keeping the camera consistently on during meetings is at
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The iPhone Will be a Failure
Jon Erlichman tweeting a photo of an AdvertisingAge article from 2007:
Every Best Buy and Circuit City is filled with a host of other divergence devices that have been enormously successful: the digital camera, the plasma TV, the wireless e-mail device, the personal video recorder, the GPS navigation device. What convergence device has been
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My Prediction for the iPhone 14 Processor
Hartley Charlton: Kuo: Only iPhone 14 Pro Models to Get 'A16' Chip, Standard Models to Retain A15
In a tweet, Kuo said that the 6.1-inch "iPhone 14 Pro" and the 6.7-inch "iPhone 14 Pro Max" will get the A16 chip, while the 6.1-inch
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Pixel 6 Delayed Updates Chip Away at Google's 'Flagship' Experience
Damien Wilde: Pixel 6 delayed updates chip away at Google's 'flagship' experience
It’s understandable that people find this infuriating. Especially if you’ve paid $599 or $899 for a brand-new Pixel and the previous generations – from the Pixel 3a to the 5a – get updates and Pixel Feature Drop extras
🇺🇦 (Newsletter #106)
Hey there and happy Friday!
The Links
* Preparation H is doing a rebrand. Maybe not the link you thought I'd start with this week, but I bet you clicked it. 😉
* Would you like to donate to help in Ukraine and get some great games out of it? itch.io has you covered. And
google
Google Says Chrome is Faster than Safari. I Tested Them to Make Sure.
From the Chromium Blog, A new speed milestone for Chrome:
We’re excited to announce that in M99, Chrome on Mac has achieved the highest score to date of any browser – 300 – in Apple’s Speedometer browser responsiveness benchmark.
I haven't run any Mac browser benchmarks for a while, so I opened up
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The End of DuckDuckGo…Apparently
Tom Parker: DuckDuckGo ends neutrality, will down-rank sites “associated with Russian disinformation”
The founder of DuckDuckGo, a Google-alternative search engine that has touted its “unbiased” search results for years, has announced that it has started down-ranking sites based on whether they’re deemed to be associated with Russian disinformation.
The DuckDuckGo subreddit
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How Does the iPhone SE (2022) Stack Up to its Android Peers?
How the new iPhone SE stacks up against its budget-friendly Android competitorsHead-to-head with a crop of competitive
Apple
So You're Tempted by the Mac Studio…
The Mac Studio looks great, and as a computer lover, I want one just because, but I thought this mental exercise was a good way to determine if it's right for you.
Consider an alternate reality where the Mac Studio was released in October 2021, and the new MacBook Pros were just revealed
Apple
Is the M1 Ultra an RTX 3090 Killer?
Apple used their now-famous vague performance charts to show how their new M1 Ultra system on a chip smoked
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They Were Never Okay with You Existing
Florida legislature passes ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill to restrict LGBTQ topics in elementary schools - The Washington Post
Florida state senators on Tuesday approved legislation that regulates school lessons about sexual orientation and gender identity, defying demands from some of their youngest constituents and pushing the state deeper into the nation’s culture battles.
Florida
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Dare I To Dream?
Luke Miani has some potentially big leaks, and if they're true, they're pretty exciting.
The Mac
