It’s been almost exactly a year since my last wallpaper pack. I’m not really in the wallpaper game anymore, largely because I’m just not as talented a graphical artist as many others out there, and I just find myself using other people’s walls more often. But
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
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
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
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
I've said before that wearing a headset is fundamentally annoying, and headsets need to deliver experiences that are so compelling that they make that annoyance worth it. Playing Half Life Alyx was absolutely, unquestionably the most compelling experience I've ever had with a headset, and it
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
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.
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
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
No intro, let’s just get into it! More icons It’s not the most important thing in the world, but I’d love to see iOS 18 bring with it the ability to create a tighter grid of icons on my iPhone’s home screen. Currently every iPhone from
You probably got to this post because you Googled some question about what exactly “the fediverse” is, what “ActivityPub” actually means, or what would happen if you turned on federation on your Threads account today. I’m not going to get into the technical weeds or make this a comprehensive
They say you don't know what you have until it's gone, and I gotta be honest, that's how I'm feeling about the iPad right now. I sold my iPad Pro to help pay for my Vision Pro. Part of my rationale was
Jason Snell on Six Colors: Apple’s Immersive Video Problem Now, having seen the video, I have a few more observations. The first is that I don’t think the new video is very good. Oh, sure, the individual shots can be impressive. […] The problem is that, based on how
Benj Edwards writing for ArsTechnica: “The King Is Dead”—Claude 3 Surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the First Time On Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus large language model (LLM) surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 (which powers ChatGPT) for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a popular crowdsourced