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Apple opens up more iPhone repair options, which raises an interesting question
Jason Koebler for 404 Media: Apple Announces Half Measure to Make iPhones More Repairable Immediately After Law Banned Its Repair Practices
What this means, practically, is that Apple will let you swap the screen of one iPhone with the screen of another iPhone, something that was impossible for a consumer or independent shop to do
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It was 23 years from Macintosh to iPhone. It’s been 17 years since the iPhone.
Jason Snell for MacWorld: Call Apple Vision Pro a flop at your own risk
Today, we are so tech-savvy
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Incomplete thought: the problem with the Humane AI Pin (members post)
In this new series, I’m working out thoughts before I’ve figured out what I really think. Today is about the fundamental issue holding back the Humane Pin (despite the AI silliness).
Being the wallet is isn't cool. You know what's cool? Being the card people use in a ton of wallets.
Forgive the lengthy quotes in this post. These are from a podcast, and people are more verbose when speaking than when writing. I've chosen not to edit them down to make sure you get the full answer.
I was listening to The Vergecast this week and a caller sent in this question in
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A trifecta of Elon Musk garbage
What a day! We’ve got 3 links I’m pushing through as an omnibus post.
Benj Edwards for ArsTechnica: Elon Musk: AI will be smarter than any human around the end of next year
On Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted the imminent rise in AI superintelligence during a live interview streamed on the
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How to effectively design a user modal (members post)
Today we're diving into how to design an effective modal interface, why button text really matters, and a few cool links with data that might surprise you.
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Athletic Minimal Wallpapers
It’s been almost exactly a year since my last wallpaper pack. I’m not really in the wallpaper game
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The only search engine I think goes toe-to-toe with Google
Jason Koebler writing for 404Media: Friendship Ended With GOOGLE Now KAGI Is My Best Friend
In all of these cases except for a blissful few years where Opera was easily better than Chrome, using a Google alternative felt like I was making a personal sacrifice by using an inferior product simply to avoid using the
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I don’t actually want Apple to make everything
I was reading the most recent Club MacSrories and this paragraph got me thinking…
The reasons why Apple is so hesitant to compete more directly with a broader segment of the videogame industry are as much a mystery today as ever. However, the rise of handheld gaming on Linux- and Windows-based hardware presents new
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Apple just allowed emulators on iOS! Or did they? Not everyone agrees.
Apple updated their App Store guidelines this week to allow game emulators for “retro games”. Great news! Right?
Samuel Axon of ArsTechnica isn’t so sure:
It's a little fuzzy how this will play out, but it may not allow the kind of emulators you see on Android and desktop, which let you
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The many faces of…Godzilla
Samantha Nelson writing for Polygon: America Made Godzilla a Superhero. In Japan, He’s Still a Monster.
Godzilla has evolved considerably from his 1954 Japanese debut to the latest franchise installment, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. And in his most recent incarnations, clear national lines have been drawn between Toho’s version and Legendary’
The best experience BY FAR I've had on a headset
I've said before that wearing a headset is fundamentally annoying, and headsets need to deliver experiences that are
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The social network Substack wants to own more and more of the relationship
Home With The Armadillo: Substack Is Setting Writers Up For A Twitter-Style Implosion
Essentially, the “follow” feature allows Substack to hold writers (and readers) hostage on their platform, forcing them to operate in a closed-content ecosystem that predominantly benefits Substack. Readers must use the Substack app or the Substack site to see content
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Let's dive into my A.I. search history! (members post)
What do I use chatbots to actually do day to day? People are always so vague about this stuff, so let's go into my real search history and find out what I find them useful for.
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Another Matrix movie, huh?
Warner Bros has announced they’re making a fifth Matrix film, not with either of the Wachowskis, but with Drew Goddard writing and directing. He’s best known for writing The Martian’s adaptation and writing/directing Cabin in the Woods.
Here’s my top 4 featured movies on my Letterboxd account:
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Some notable Threads users you can follow on Mastodon
Meta rolled out federation to users in the US, Canada, and Japan recently, and it's opt in, which I think is the right way to do it, even if it means it's going to take a while for most accounts to enable it. I have tried to do my part to
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5 ways I’d like iOS 18 to improve the iPhone home screen
No intro, let’s just get into it!
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It’s not the most important thing in the world,
A simple explainer on federation, and what it means for Threads users
You probably got to this post because you Googled some question about what exactly “the fediverse” is, what “ActivityPub” actually
