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The Browser Company feels gross to me right now
John Voorhees writing about Arc’s latest escapades in MacStories Weekly: Issue 408
It’s that intermediate layer that makes
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The Birchtree awards for movies I watched in 2023 that didn’t come out in 2023
It’s Oscar weekend, so here are the very serious Birchtree awards for movies I watched in 2023 that didn’
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I think people still care about effort
iA: AI Videos: ******* Psychotic
Computer-generated imagery is not bad in its every fiber. There certainly are great ways to use
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What getting 217 Covid vaccines does to you
Benjamin Mueller for the New York Times: After 217 Covid Vaccines, Man Had No Side Effects and Robust Immunity
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You may have forgotten how insanely incoherent that bozo was…
Amanda Marcotte: Trump Is Degenerating Before Our Eyes — MAGA Voters Don't Notice or Don't Care
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A computer I can’t use around my wife
Listen, everyone lives different lives so I can’t speak to anyone else’s specific situation, but the biggest hurdle
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It finally got me (members post)
It’s been a hell of a few weeks over here at Birchler HQ. It’s easy to forget that good health goes such a long way to making every other part of your life better.
Pedal to the metal
A history lesson for each major computing platform Apple has released since the turn of the millennium:
* Apple released the
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How Apple (maybe) moves the needle on Mac gaming
Dan Moren: To Embrace Gaming Apple Needs to Level Up Its Game Porting Toolkit
If Apple really wants to jumpstart
The “heaviness” of visionOS, and my big fear for the Vision Pro
Before we get going, I'll mention to those who aren't following along that this is one
The Vision Pro stacks up surprisingly well to absurdly expensive industrial VR headsets
ThrillSeeker is a must follow if you’re into VR, and his most popular video of all time was on
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Micro-review of the Apple Vision Pro travel case
Listen, you don’t want 2,000 words on a travel case and I don’t particularly want to write
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Nothing replaces anything (members post)
Does the Vision Pro look like it's going to replace the Mac or the iPad? How about our phones? Maybe…possibly…in many years, but it's more likely to be yet another computer in our lives. It *can* happen, it's just rare.
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Games could be gayer 🏳️🌈
Zachary Small writing for The New York Times, citing this study:
Less than 2 percent of console video games include
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The TV business ain’t what it used to be
Sarah Nassauer for The Wall Street Journal: Walmart in Talks to Buy TV Maker Vizio
The retail giant is in
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The Vision Pro App Store is full of something rare: paid apps
Sarah Perez for TechCrunch: Over Half of Vision Pro-Only Apps Are Paid Downloads, Far More Than Wider iOS App Store
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The good, the bad, and the pixelated parts of using a Mac in visionOS
We're very much in the early days of visionOS. As I told Chris Lawley on Mastodon, "this
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Gemini? Gemini. Gemini!
2 short months ago Google announced Gemini (apparently Gemini 1.0). It came in 3 variants:
1. Gemini Nano, which