CTD

lowqualityfacts, 10 months ago to random

I wonder what movie it was.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Edent, 10 months ago to maps

Google Maps is hallucinating again!

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=london%20%22ancient%20metal%20vault%22

Apparently there's an ancient metal vault in Central London. No other maps seem to know about it.

Perhaps the start of a new game?

#maps #mapping #London

viticci, 10 months ago to random

My personal crusade against the "minimized keyboard accessory" control for iPadOS continues.

Today's example: I wanted to create a new folder in the Notes app, but I couldn't because that thing was covering the button. 😡

( friends: FB12451439)

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Edent, 10 months ago to random

Anyone got a recommendation for a good USB-C dock / hub?

I'm looking for something which has multiple USB-C ports.

Found stuff like this for £40 on eBay - but no reviews anywhere to be found.

Edent, 10 months ago to random

New headshot time!
Which one should I go for?

Photos courtesy of the amazing Tiana Lea - https://tnlphotos.com/
🄯 CC BY-SA

Some cool dude wearing a pair of sunglasses. His head tilted down. He looks intrigued.
A thoughtful man stroking his lush beard with his hand. He is thinking deep thoughts. Possibly about how to take over the world.
Terence Eden stares deep into your soul. His kind eyes bestow his benevolence upon you.

craiggrannell, 10 months ago to random

Apple Arcade PR in. Some nice additions coming. Ridiculous Fishing EX is a ground-up rewrite from Vlambeer of the indie’s wonderful arcade game. And Stardew Valley is getting the ‘+’ treatment, which is sure to please RPG fans.

(Quite why some people are so cool on Apple Arcade, I don’t know. It isn’t packed with AAA titles, but it doesn’t need to be Xbox Game Pass. We… already have Xbox Game Pass. As its own thing, aimed at a wider market, it has a lot of great titles to explore.)

CTD, 10 months ago to random

Cloud mountains

craiggrannell, 10 months ago to random

What have Streaks for iPhone by @qzervaas and Eugene Jarvis’s 1980s arcade classic Defender got in common? They both understand the concept of recovery – something Apple and others should learn themselves, to stop folks becoming demoralised due to robotic and inflexible streaks systems.

I dig into this in this week’s column for Stuff: https://www.stuff.tv/features/i-lost-my-streak-and-now-want-apple-watch-to-find-some-humanity/

snazzyq, 11 months ago to random

i hate shopping at kroger because their self-checkout stations never have scales that work and so it thinks you’re stealing and in order to scare you it plays back a video of you from above so you’ll stop stealing but i am not so i just get sad because it shows that on the top of your head you are balding and you’re self-conscious and you’re not a thief you are just 30 and you shouldn’t be balding this soon oh why oh why must it be so

jon, 11 months ago to random

I admit the last time I went to the UK was pre-pandemic

But I today looked at London-Paris Eurostar prices for Friday 8 September

OMG

€250 per person, single, second class. This far ahead. On any train in the morning. And Interrail reservations (€30) on just a handful of services available that day, one of which I bought

I don't know what Interrail pass I will have then, but I can decide that later…

#CrossBorderRail

viticci, 11 months ago to random

I found an excuse to write about Tears of the Kingdom on @macstories 😄

If you're playing the game and taking notes, you have to try the TotK Travel Guide app by @jeffreykuiken. Great UI inspired by Apple Maps with a built-in note-taking system for locations in the game. Syncs with iCloud, has a single $4 In-App Purchase, and it supports the 3 different maps of the game. I love this.

My review: https://www.macstories.net/reviews/totk-travel-guide/

Edent, 11 months ago to random

The UK's Digital Driving Licence
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/06/the-uks-digital-driving-licence/

>I am an idiot. I am a Grade A+, certified, undeniable plonker. The man in the hire car office looked at me with barely concealed contempt. Fair, really. He'd asked for my Driver's Licence and I'd collapsed to my knees at the sudden realisation that the slim plastic card was 1,700 miles away from the [...]

louie, 11 months ago to random

Tell me about something nice that happened recently.

Sardonicus, 11 months ago to random

Sure you can fit a lot in there, but its no fucking good when the side of it is missing is it...

glennf, 11 months ago to random

At US Embassy in London getting an emergency passport for one of our kids (they were taking great care, and we're baffled at what point it disappeared) and the staff has all been incredibly helpful and the process absolutely straightforward. We will likely be in and out in an hour total. Tip! They have two self-service passport photo booths here! Tip! Get the earliest appointment you can because they get backed up as the day goes along.

thomasfuchs, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

If modern games came on 360k floppy disks, Diablo IV would be about 220,000 disks, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 close to 900,000.

Edent, 11 months ago to random

Saw this gorgeous urban fox last night in London.

Think it might be part coyote!

sarajw, 11 months ago to random

Do I want an e-bike?

I don't think I neeeed an e-bike.

But I think a low powered one might be helpful for when I'd actually like to ride a bike somewhere a little further away but not get super sweaty on the way. Or, for comfortably taking the kids in the trailer to the less local playgrounds, that are just that bit too far for them to ride to on their own bikes.

My office has a shower, but planning the extra time for that into my day is just a bit much, and I feel hot and bothered for ages.

davemark, 11 months ago to apple

On the cost of custom Zeiss prescription lenses for Apple Vision Pro: @markgurman speculates $300-$600 a pair.

My hope is that Apple opens the door for 3rd party lenses, since I can get custom lenses on-line for under $50/pair. Not as optically pure? Not the right shape? 🤔

https://twitter.com/markgurman/status/1666226082368897027?s=61&t=egnBeGrGP0XBzSrOl3I4aw

#Apple #VR #VisionPro

llamasoft_ox, 11 months ago to random

Things you won't have to worry about in Apple AR: sitting at your PC on a summer night and having a moth trying to blunder into your screen. Unless you install the virtual moth plugin of course.

retrospecs, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

Version 3.5 of Retrospecs should be wending its way into the App Store over the next few hours.

In addition to some new app icons, this version removes the “source media or system proportions” option from settings. Instead you can now choose the aspect ratio to use within the crop tool. (It’ll use your selection as the default until you change it.)

Hope you all enjoy!

Edent, 2 years ago to gaming

Game Review: Day of the Tentacle - Remastered

The past is another country to which you can never return.

It is a million years ago, and my brother and I have just spent all of our pocket money (and a good deal of next year's) on a state-of-the-art PENTIUM 75 desktop. With 200MB of hard drive space, and more RAM than we'd ever seen (8MB), it was a beast. We chose it because it came w

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/06/game-review-day-of-the-tentacle-remastered/

#/etc/ #gaming #review