@daringfireball@gruber This is exactly how the "marker plus” on the Remarkable 2 tablet has worked for years and it's wonderful. It's the thing I use at my desk instead of a notebook and even feels like a pencil and pad.
I've wondered for years why Apple calls their stylus a pencil but it doesn't actually function like anyone would expect a pencil to function.
@mjtsai Screen Time, and especially the use case of Screen Time with your kids, is woefully inadequate and buggy to boot. So much light needs to be shined on this spot because I'm convinced that Apple doesn't care enough to fix it.
Simple use case: block an app with a time limit of 0 minutes (so you can unlock it for kid later). Most Apple reps intuitively tell me you can and proceed to try to show me how to do it, only to remove their own foot from their mouth in about 10 minutes.
@mjtsai Table-stakes type parental controls just aren't well thought out nor are they robust. Want to unlock an app? Your choices are:
15 minutes
one hour
all day
deny
You can't even set a schedule for app categories or usage. Again, these are table stakes things when it comes to parental controls.
Sure Apple opened an SDK for this, but the only app I found that uses it is https://grace-app.com which offers a little more, but it's similarly limited by Apple’s SDK.
@daringfireball@gruber Not only is screen time too easy to disable, it’s just woefully bad and too limited as a parental control tool and Apple doesn’t seem interested in fixing it.
Just plain intuitive things it should be able to do (like block an app instead of limiting it to one minute) it can’t do. I’ve even walked into an Apple and asked how to do it, they say it it’s easy let me show you, then realize it’s not possible.
"It's Apple's choice to make distribution through the App Store a single point of failure.” Particularly salient point if you live in a less democratic, less free country.
@gruber@mjtsai A small amount of Googling and it seems like sideloading the default way to get any Google apps in China since Android there isn't offered with the Play Store.
I don't know and don't have a way to confirm this though, but I'd be curious to know the actual answer if one of your readers knows better.
Juno for YouTube 1.1 is now available! 🥳🥽 The update addresses a bunch of the awesome feedback folks provided, like adding quality selection, captions, volume controls, as well as a bunch of handy bug fixes and quality of life improvements!
@daringfireball@gruber how are they allowed to remove a headline feature in a software update for paying customers? What are they expecting to happen here?
I wish Apple would do this everywhere. I've been wanting for years to be able to securely share photo albums with family members on Android and still can't. It makes my experience as an iOS user worse because I either have to make a photo album public or use a different service with different privacy priorities.
Random, but it's a weird time to want to buy a thermal camera. Flir seems like the standard, but their USB-C options don't work with iPhone 15 (???) so you can only buy their most expensive wireless version. Doesn't seem like there's a lot of other options?
@christianselig I don't think FLIR has the best phone-attached options. I bought an Infiray P2 Pro last year that's way nicer/smaller and doesn't need to be separately charged. It also works with the USB-C to lightning adapter.
@christianselig They make the same thing in USB-C as well (originally for the Android side of things), but I don't know yet if it works with the USB-C iPhones.
I’m surprised the setup process for every new iPhone still asks whether you want to use FaceID with a mask when 99+% of people aren’t wearing face masks any more. There are lots of features that a small percentage of people use, but they don’t get asked in the device setup process.
@gruber I think you’ll see it flair up and down with the seasons. On my flights last week, around 30% were wearing masks again, which is up from maybe 1-2 people earlier in the summer.
@christianselig yeah, I was thinking that too. For “smart” phones, it’s kind of dumb that you have no control over how fast they charge. Every electric car lets you select your charging rate, why not your phone?
@daringfireball@gruber there’s a big difference between NACS and lightning though: Tesla isn’t using NACS as a moat to lock devices in/out of an ecosystem. Instead, they’re working with standards bodies to help make this a public standard. This would be more like what happened with Thunderbolt and USB-C.
Will be trading in my R1T for a new R1S. Sad to see my truck go and I may regret it (R1S has some downsides I don’t think are present on the truck), but how often do you have the chance to make money on a car you’ve owned for a year? Couldn’t not do it.
@snazzyq Totally with you on the downsides, it's why we went with the R1T. If you don't carry a spare tire, there’s a ton of room even under the bed where the spare tire well is.
We got our R1T in the same color (but with the dark off-road wheels), then applied an XPEL stealth wrap (with the savings from pre-order pricing we had). You might want to consider it. This color in matte is 🔥.
PSA: nobody can receive those custom new iMessage stickers unless they’re also running the iOS 17 beta so all of your friends that you thought hated you for the past week aren’t ignoring you, they just can’t see them.
