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The different lessons learned using a Mac
Sam Henri Gold: “This Is Not The Computer For You”
Yes, you will hit the limits of this machine. 8GB of RAM and a phone chip will see to that. But the limits you hit on the Neo are resource limits — memory is finite, silicon has a clock speed, processes cost something. You are learning
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"This is an Xbox" gets in the bin
Chris Kerr: Microsoft quietly retires 'This is an Xbox' marketing campaign
When searching for the blog post that kicked off the marketing beat earlier today, I noticed it has been removed from Xbox Wire (Microsoft's Xbox-focused news repository). In fact, the only post currently available on the 'This is
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Encrypted RCS is coming in iOS 26.4
Juli Clover: iOS 26.4 Beta Adds End-to-End Encryption for iPhone-to-Android RCS Texts
iPhone users will need to install the second beta of iOS 26.4 to exchange encrypted messages with Android users, while Google users need to have the latest version of Google Messages.
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I waited on this rumor so long we already know it's wrong
Joe Rossignol: Apple's Upcoming Studio Display 2 Rumored to Have an Unusual Feature
The tipster believes that a 90Hz refresh rate would make sense due to bandwidth considerations. Thunderbolt 5 can support 5K resolution at 120Hz without any compression, but they think Apple likely wants to ensure there will be plenty of remaining
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I'd like the less capable, more expensive computer, please
Steve Troughton-Smith on Mastodon:
A $499 MacBook Neo with the brains of a couple-year-old iPhone can run Xcode, Photoshop, Blender, Terminal, and pretty much everything else you can think of, yet your $3,200 iPad Pro, with a desktop-class chip, cannot 😑
What are we doing here?
I've been wrestling
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Of course it can use pro apps. It’s a computer
When I started doing YouTube in 2020, I was in the middle of my iPad era, and the only Mac in my life was a 2012 Mac mini. I don't remember its exact specs, but suffice to say it positively sucks by 2026 standards. And while it was very slow, it did technically
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New wallpaper generator just dropped
ColorFlow is a really cool new wallpaper and animation generator from the folks over at ls.graphics, and it'
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Micro app 12: Benchmark Studio
This micro app is pretty simple; it's just a nice, single-page website for uploading benchmark scores and
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Terraink makes rad maps on demand
Terraink is a cool new website that lets you create cool maps of whatever location you want to. That'
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Tom Scott on AI in February 2023
From the video:
I've been complaining for years that it feels like nothing has really changed since smartphones came along. And I think that maybe, maybe I should have been careful what I wished for.
It's been 2 years since Tom Scott stopped posting weekly videos on YouTube, but he was
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Apple releases the MacBook Mini
Apple's Mac Mini is such an awesome computer. No, it's not the most powerful machine Apple
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How to make Midnight City
M83’s Midnight City is one of my favorite songs of all time, and this video recreating it is brilliant.
My super quick process for adding chapters to podcasts
Chapters in podcasts are super important, in my opinion, and I make sure to add them to everything that I
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When the words on the page don’t match what you’re trying to say (follow up on the Ben Thompson post)
Ben Thompson: Technological Scale and Government Control, Paramount Outbids Netflix for Warner Bros.
This is a lot more complicated than the nuclear question, where government control and ownership was a given; the sort of actions taken by the government over the last week fly in the face of the concept of private decision making and
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Apple's new MacBooks: The pinnacle of the generation
Apple announced new MacBook Airs and Pros today, and they’re both boring and mostly excellent.
MacBook Air
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Apple's new Studio Displays
Apple updated both of their monitors today, replacing the Studio Display with a new model that's very similar
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"What are you going to do, stop me? I've got the guns," is a wild government argument for tech pundits to support
Over the last couple weeks, Anthropic and the Department of War have been engaged in a war of words over something very exciting: terms of use. Anthropic, as a private company, has created a product and reasonably established terms of use for it. However, the Department of War doesn't want to adhere to
