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craiggrannell

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#Writer for hire. Mostly #tech, #Apple, #games, #retrogaming, design. Smashes out words for #Wired, #Stuff, TapSmart and others. Writes #DailyRetroGame here on Mastodon. He/him. GF/DF. Likes #Lego and Mini #Schnauzers. Email: hello at craiggrannell dot com // https://linktr.ee/craiggrannell

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9yo bursts into the room as I’m playing a loop I made last night.

“WHAT’S THAT TUNE?”

It’s just something I made last night.

“Sounds like something where you add some lyrics and then you’re famous!”

… Thanks kid. I kind of needed that! :D

craiggrannell, to random
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Devs! Reminder: some of my app round-ups are being resurrected from a long sleep. If you have created a new and fab iPhone or iPad app during the past year, or massively updated one, email me. I’m also on the lookout for new and interesting Android apps.

craiggrannell, to random
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This Reddit thread does not inspire confidence about the future of Bartender. And that sucks, because Bartender is a great app.

From: @lapcatsoftware
https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/112559634359309136

craiggrannell,
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@iRodknocker @lapcatsoftware I mean, they’re being shady as. I’ not saying it’s time to panic, but this is a dreadful start for a new owner.

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@rowan_johnson @lapcatsoftware That’s what gets me. For all the SKY IS FALLING posts about Serif, at least the companies involved were totally upfront about it, and then further clarified key points when lots of people started asking. Of course, Bartender isn’t on the same scale, but what’s happened so far is dodgy.

craiggrannell, to random
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Given that Meta responded to my AI opt-out request instantly, that’s gotta be automated. Probably, ironically, by some kind of ‘AI’.

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@CTD Most people will delete that email without a second thought.

craiggrannell, (edited ) to Netflix
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I mean, if ever I needed more persuading that my #Netflix sub can go away, this is it. (We still have two pre-4K Apple TVs. One is used on my tiny office TV. It works perfectly well with every other service, and so Netflix can go do one.)

Edit: to clarify, HD onwards will work with Netflix. Pre-HD (and pre-tvOS) will not. It’ll be interesting to see how rapidly everyone else does the same. (IIRC, Prime still worked on those old boxes.)

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@kkolakowski You’d hope so, for sure. But who knows these days? Netflix is weird.

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@DJDarren No idea, TBH.

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@kkolakowski It’s quite possible. I mean, these things don’t last forever. But who knows?

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@DJDarren I do recall atV Fire (sp?), the precursor to Infuse was all about those boxes. I guess ultimately these things are now just more fodder for ‘recycling’. Or at best units for AirPlay from a phone.

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@kkolakowski @alexjsp Yeah, I have one new Apple TV and one HD, and older units, which I guess are now basically scrap.

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@baldur While away, I read your thoughtful piece on social media and reply guys. Almost never happens to me here. Not sure why. But on Threads today now that Apple TV post went vital: OH MY GOD.

RIP my mentions. :/

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I love my daughter to bits and, yes, it’s “not all boys”. But that she’s having to navigate this kind of shite in primary school just makes me so angry and sad all at once. Fortunately, she’s not put off school and has merrily called the boy an “idiot she’d like to yeet into the sea”. But this kind of thing seems all too common even at this age. “Boys will be boys!” (And I bet if she’d have fought back, she’d have been in way more trouble than the boy.)

craiggrannell, to random
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Full-on sexism shit for Mini-G at school today. She’s chatting with friends in PE. A boy marches over, demanding attention. Mini-G says her friend was talking and they should let her finish. So he calls her a bitch and hits her. I don’t even. This kid is 10 (and waaay bigger than her). She’s 9. Where the hell is this behaviour learned at that age? Natch, I’ve written to the deputy head and my daughter will be seeing her tomorrow. (This is not the first incident with this boy.)

craiggrannell, to random
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Me: man, it’d be really good if Ice Cubes let you customise your tabs, so you could have a list readily accessible.

Ice Cubes: …

Me: what?

Ice Cubes: have you even looked in my settings?

Me: oh.

craiggrannell, to random
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Photoshop: Hey, you’re OK with me randomly saving zero-byte files, right?

Me: Hang on a seco—

Photoshop: GREAT!

craiggrannell, to random
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Went to Spain for a few days. It was very nice. But also, even their cheapest GF bread from a local supermarket was leagues ahead of what we have in the UK. Nice GF muffins and LF yoghurt too. Just need a teleporter now so I can order this stuff to the UK. (Or, you know, move to Spain…)

craiggrannell, to retrogaming
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PPSSPP has returned to the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/ppsspp-psp-emulator/id6496972903

craiggrannell, to random
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@viticci I totally want to see you do this now, but with an iPad. https://www.reddit.com/r/EmulationOniOS/s/ZNR1p503Bb

craiggrannell, to random
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Catching up with Doctor Who and just watched 73 Yards. I really liked that. But it looks like a lot of people have a real problem with fairy tale logic. For me, it was kind of like something Mignola would write for Hellboy. Not every detail needs explaining. Sometimes it’s better to leave mystery, especially in such a horror-themed episode.

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@shaythompson For me, there’s a distinction for his pulling a deus ex machina out of his arse and his broad lack of concern for plot logic, and the kind of episode that was 73 Yards, which worked well within its own set-up and reality. I think had it tried to explain more, it would have failed. But within the framing we got, it worked for me.

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One of my posts just went semi-viral on Threads and that is slightly terrifying.

craiggrannell,
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@MuseumShuffle That post is spreading like crazy. My mentions are a bin fire.

Hopefully it’ll calm down soon and I get get back to posting and being resolutely ignored by 99.99999% of the Threads audience! :D

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@MuseumShuffle I mean, it could be worse. I once mentioned on Twitter that it’d be nice if cyclists wouldn’t recklessly zoom along without giving a shit on the path near our train station, given that I’d just got home after one nearly ran over my dog. I got WEEKS of shit from that.

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