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sdw, to random
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this is some bullshit

freediverx,
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@sdw
NYT is the new Fox News.

daringfireball, to random
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★ Face the Critic: Ian Betteridge Edition
https://daringfireball.net/2024/04/face_the_critic_ian_betteridge_edition

freediverx,
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@daringfireball
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film_girl, to random
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Apparently Apple Music for Mac has rabid fanbois (they are all men. All of them) and they are on Threads?! Of all the truly shitty products to stan, you want to defend Apple Music on the Mac?! I’ll defend Apple Music on iOS, even tho sync is a shit show, but on the desktop?! Man normies are weird.

freediverx,
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@film_girl
Apple Music is trash on every platform (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS), and I say that as a subscriber. Infuriatingly bad user interface, seemingly designed by people who don't actually listen to music. In fact it seems designed by people who long for the days of listening to music on commercial radio. Almost as bad as the Apple TV UI.

freediverx,
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@film_girl @waltman
Putting aside your own music library, consider for a moment discovering new music from artists you follow. Sure, AM can show notifications for each new release. But amazingly there's no way to see a list of latest releases from artists you follow in reverse chronological order. And then there's the convoluted, disorienting, and illogical navigation throughout the app.

daringfireball, to random
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Google Fires 28 Employees Who Disrupted Workplaces to Protest Israel Cloud Contract
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/18/google-fires-28

freediverx,
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@daringfireball
Holy shit, you really seem to be on a mission to outdo every bad take with an even worse one… all while demonstrating a shocking lack of self-awareness for overpaid blogger who hasn’t held a real job in over a decade.

christianselig, to random
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I think I've narrowed down my small backpack search to the Aer Go Pack 2, Aer Pro Pack Slim, and the Fjallraven Ulvo. Any opinions, particularly around how small they pack and how well they protect your laptop, gimme 😛

freediverx,
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@christianselig
I'd recommend ordering them all to check them out in person, then return the others.

freediverx,
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@christianselig
High shipping costs?

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Anyone I know have the Aer Go Pack 2? How is the laptop protection? I figure it's minimal but is it passable?

freediverx,
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@christianselig
I have two Aer sling bags. Though I can't speak for the laptop protection on their larger bags, I highly recommend them in general for their excellent materials, design, and quality.

rmondello, to random
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big. egg.
https://glitterkitten.co.uk/@babe/112291962688460811

freediverx,
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@rmondello @babe

arstechnica, to random
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All the pieces are in place for the first crew flight of Boeing’s Starliner

“This is a test flight, and a complicated one at that."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/all-the-pieces-are-in-place-for-the-first-crew-flight-of-boeings-starliner/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

freediverx,
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@arstechnica
Boeing + space travel. What could possibly go wrong?

I assume they're adding a stock ticker to the pre-flight checklist.

daringfireball, to random
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★ European Data Protection Board Goes There, Rules Against Meta’s ‘Pay or OK’ Model
https://daringfireball.net/2024/04/edpb_meta_pay_or_ok

freediverx,
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@daringfireball
> Then, poof goes Meta as an industry colossus.

Yes, please.

freediverx,
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@gruber @leoncowle
I think the world has had its fill of unbridled capitalism and measures like this are long overdue.

mattwilcox, to random
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Why are cycling shorts?

I mean, yes, you need padding or your arse bones are going to scream at you with any real riding.

So. Why aren’t the saddles properly padded for that? Why do cyclists instead have a saddle that would ruin an arse faster than a session at the local bdsm emporium, and instead choose to wear shorts and trousers that look like you’ve previously had your arse destroyed at the local bdsm emporium and now wear diapers.

There has to be an actual reason?

freediverx,
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@mattwilcox
Lots of bikes come with saddles that are optimized for weight, on mountain and road bikes mainly. But there are lots of alternatives that have softer gel padding.

Aside from weight savings, I think the idea is you shouldn't put all your weight on your butt all the time, but balance some of it on your feet/pedals.

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mattwilcox, to random
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So, after a lot of faffing around yesterday evening I did finally get the bike cleaned up and onto the new trainer. I did 26min riding before 10pm came and I decided that was that. I havent ridden a bike in (literally) years.

  1. Oh, you need a fan.
  2. It's fun!
  3. Oh god my legs, my legs
  4. The bike wants a service, it's noisy on this "silent" trainer.
  5. Oh god my legs.
  6. Zwift is going to take some learning
  7. My. Legs. Hurt.
freediverx,
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@mattwilcox
“No pain, no gain.”

freediverx,
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@mattwilcox
The nice thing is after a short while, you’ll feel much better if you keep at it.

freediverx,
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@mattwilcox
LOL. I was about to suggest the outdoors but that depends on the scenery.

marcoarment, to random
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It's absolutely possible. But millions of people had strong reasons to use iPhones even before there were any apps, and then also before the apps were plentiful or compelling.

The customers were already there.

The challenge Apple faces with AVP is getting enough people to buy (and keep using) a device type that they weren't already buying (headsets), which is VERY expensive and limited, to accumulate enough customers for the content and software ecosystem to develop.
https://mas.to/@DrewTheLoud/112276696057829298

freediverx, (edited )
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@marcoarment @DrewTheLoud
The first iPhone was awesome despite its many limitations. First usable mobile web browser. First usable AND free mobile street maps and directions (including wifi-based approximate location while indoors.) Visual voicemail. Not to mention the eagerly anticipated “wide screen iPod” and the delightful touch UI. Even the fact that you didn't have to pay for ringtones was revolutionary.

freediverx,
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@film_girl @stooovie @brianhough
Even then, it will mainly appeal to the subset of the market that enjoys consuming content while isolated from others. This largely makes it a non-starter for couples, families, etc for that purpose. Also a bad time for media consumption when the quality of content is going downhill.

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@stooovie @film_girl @brianhough
I like the idea of simulating a theater movie-viewing experience even for non-3D content. But the cost, size, weight, and difficulty in sharing with others makes it unappealing for that purpose.

verge, to random
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Microsoft is trying to convince Windows 10 users to upgrade with full-screen prompts https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/11/24127497/microsoft-windows-10-upgrade-prompt-windows-11

freediverx,
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@verge
I haven’t owned a Windows PC in over twenty years and every time Microsoft pops up in a news story I pat myself on the back.

jamesthomson, to random
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Time to retire I guess!

(Apple's sales reporting is currently telling developers they have made millions of dollars in sales over the last 24 hours)

freediverx,
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@jamesthomson
Congratulations.

dangillmor, to random
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Bitterly hilarious to read that NPR -- which relentlessly normalized Trump and his corrupt, extremist apparatchiks -- has somehow gone all liberal.

freediverx,
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@dangillmor
I sense there are some ethical and progressive folks at NPR but your reporting will always be tainted when you get your funding from the Koch’s and Gates’s.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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It's all well and good that Safari is doing faster on synthetic benchmarks, but the fact that it still locks up multiple times a day on little-known websites such as /TikTok/ kinda tempers my excitement, you know?

freediverx,
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@stroughtonsmith
I blame the websites more than the browser.

danielpunkass, to random
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As discussed on the latest Core Intuition (https://coreint.org/2024/04/episode-594-dreams-and-hopes/), my big hope for Apple's "Absolutely Incredible" WWDC is they lean hard into local, "smaller large language models." It's their wheelhouse. Imagine a Spotlight that could reflect the contents of your Mac as if it were all ChatGPT cared about.

freediverx,
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@danielpunkass
I’m not optimistic.

aral, (edited ) to random
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“This sort of move—rewriting history to suggest she has always been critical of various firms or trends in Silicon Valley—is employed consistently throughout the book as part of a desperate effort to catch up with the critical consensus.”

https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-miseducation-of-kara-swisher-ongweso (1/3)

freediverx,
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@aral
Dead link.

https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-miseducation-of-kara-swisher-ongweso

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