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HP's Horrible Printer Ink Subscription is Worse Than I Realized
Charlie Warzel: My Printer Is Extorting Me
The trouble started with a label for a package. My printer was unresponsive. Then I discovered an error message on my computer indicating that my HP OfficeJet Pro had been remotely disabled by the company. When I logged on to HP’s website, I learned why: The credit
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Burn Down the Exclusive Podcasts, Burn Them All Down
Tyler Aquilina: Podcast Exclusivity Is Quickly Becoming an Outdated Strategy
Contrary to film and TV streaming, it seems, content is not king in the podcasting space. If large numbers of listeners will not follow even popular shows to an exclusive platform, such deals will look less and less attractive in a declining market, and the
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Good UX Needs More Than Data, It Needs Some Taste
Chris Welch: Instagram Showed People Too Many Videos Last Year, Admits Adam Mosseri
Even Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, now believes that the platform put a lopsided emphasis on videos and Reels last year — and traditional photo posts were worse off because of it. In one of the answers from his weekly Q&
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The Constant Anger Brigade is Angry Again
Gizmodo: Republicans Are Outraged Over a 'Green' Xbox Update
Some Republican pundits and politicians did not like the announcement one bit and are using it as the latest front in the culture war. “Now the woke brigade is after video games all in the name of climate change,” conservative group Young America’s
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The Shocking State of Enthusiast Apps on Android
I recently commented on Mastodon that I thought when it comes to third party apps, iOS is remarkably far ahead
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Benchmarks, Good When I Win, Bad When I Lose
Derek Wise: 2023 MacBook Pro SSD Has Performance Drop Similar to M2 MacBook Air
A quick look inside the base-level M2 Pro MacBook Pro revealed something I hadn’t expected to see – or, rather, something I HAD expected to see that was missing. Like the base level M2 MacBook Air, the base level of
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Thinking Too Hard About Starting
Lex Friedman: How to Prioritize Important Tasks
Of course you can and should weigh what’s truly the most important thing, if there’s any advantage to specific sequencing, if one thing is truly more important than another. But the cold hard reality is that sometimes there are multiple things of equal importance, and they
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Owning Your Favorite Media Forever
Torie Bosch: My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along
I like to rewatch my favorite shows and movies, often as background noise while I do something else. And the idea that platforms are now removing even their original programming—which I had assumed was sacred—makes me worry about the future of other digital
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In Elon's Twitter, the Cruelty is the Point
Ben Schoon: Twitter Officially Bans Third-Party Clients in New Developer Agreement
This comes a week after Twitter clients unexpectedly shut down across Android, iOS, and other platforms without notice. Twitter and its new owner, Elon Musk, were silent on the issue for several days until reports came out to show that the company had
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Not Exactly Role Models
Charles McGrath: Good Art, Bad People
Can bad people create good art? If that question pops up on an exam or at a dinner party, you might want to be wary. The obvious answer — so obvious that it practically goes without saying, and ought to make the examinee suspicious — is that bad people, or at
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A Real Bunch of Jokers
Parker Molloy: This Fox News Segment Perfectly Illustrates How Off-the-Rails the Right-Wing Anti-Trans Attacks Have Become
TODD PIRO, Co-Host: Joe, I wanna get your thoughts on this. There is a bizarre new Batman storyline that has the Joker becoming pregnant and giving birth. This is a statement you literally could
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The Crypto House Is a Time Capsule of the Worst Aesthetic in Decades
Luke Plunkett: Nobody Wants to Buy the Ugly Crypto House
Originally listed in October 2022 for $1.2 million, a complete lack of interest in the property has seen its asking price plummet to just $949,000 in just a matter of weeks. It’s not just buyers who are shunning the house, either; it’
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I'll Stop Talking About Twitter When it Stops Sucking
Iconfactory Blog: State of the Twitterverse
Last night at about 7:30pm PST, Twitterrific customers started reporting problems accessing Twitter via the iOS app.
As of writing, it's now almost 48 hours since most of the popular Twitter apps stopped working and there has been no communication at all from Twitter on what&
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The Accessibility Angle on Movies I'd Never Considered
Kathi Wolfe: A Smirk, a Smile, a Clenched Fist: What the Movies Taught Me to See
At the movies, for the first time, close to the giant silver screen, I could see clenched fists, grimaces, smiles, nods and other expressions and gestures. Back in the day, I would have had no idea of what a
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Heartlessly Blogging as a Top to Your Sales Funnel
It's super short, so no quote here, but this post, No, I’m Not Selling You a Course, will surely resonate with lots of people. Too much of blogging has turned into a way to get people onto your site so you can show them a "I know you were trying to
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Not Everything Related to Twitter is a Controversy
Ryan Mac and Kate Conger: Twitter Said to Consider Selling User Names to Boost Revenue
It’s unclear if the project will move forward and if the plan affects all user names or only a subset, the people said. But Mr. Musk said last month that he wanted to start eliminating inactive accounts on Twitter
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I'm Once Again Defending Like Buttons
Jeannie McGeehan: The Problem With the Favorite Button
I now understand the problem with the favorite button and the path of least resistence. It removes genuine interaction and replaces it with a convenient click. It also creates an inappropriate response situation with regard to certain post topics.
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