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schmidt

@schmidt@xoxo.zone

UX writing at @figma. Screenwriting at odd hours. He/him/here we go.

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daringfireball, to random
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Apple Watch Ultra’s Best Feature: Battery Life
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/06/apple-watch-ultra

schmidt,
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@daringfireball @gruber I’m actually curious whether an Apple Watch or a Humane AI Pin has better battery life on cellular.

I haven’t tested that on a Watch since… the Series 3, probably. But remember it being pretty bad. I think piggybacking on the phone’s cellular connection might be doing a lot of the lifting.

(No idea what the R1’s excuse is.)

schmidt,
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@gruber I think the cellular is not actually connected until the phone disconnects, though — and my understanding is that’s a big power draw. (I have the same Watch. Might just test this!)

schmidt, to random
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I said this months ago, but: there’s no world where I would vote for Biden again. My personal sense of morality doesn’t allow it — and that’s true for many, many Americans.

Dems have plenty of time to nominate a candidate who can win. If they don’t, that’s on them, not me.

schmidt,
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@annika I disagree with much of that post you linked — but, FWIW, I’ve voted tactically my entire life. We’ve just found an evil that I can’t bring myself to support.

schmidt, to random
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I dunno, y’all. Every now and then I try to have a normal day on here. Post the normal things. Be fine.

Then Israel kills a poet and teacher — along with his wife and children — intentionally, in my read, targeting the home they were in.

And I can’t keep being fine.

daringfireball, to random
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Monica Chin on the Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 3: ‘Why Does This Exist?’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/11/06/chin-microsoft-surface-why-does-it-exist

schmidt,
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@daringfireball @gruber I’m not sure which way the snark goes on this one.

Is it “Panay left because Microsoft’s OK with shipping this and he’s no fool”? Or “Panay was shown the door because he was shipping stuff like this”?

schmidt, to LAGalaxy
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settle for 3-3, and that just about puts a bow on the season — they’d need a ton of results to go their way to even sniff the playoff line.

schmidt,
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@qlp I mean, Timbers have been on a tear lately! But, yeah, we really needed the outright win. A draw is almost as bad as losing.

mcc, to random
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Everyone's talking about a slack redesign and I'm really worried because I exclusively use slack in contexts where everything being discussed is to a greater or smaller extent NDAed and so any attempt to intermix Slacks will be like accelerant for accidentally violating one of those NDAs

schmidt,
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@mcc I don’t think you’re going to have any problem with that — switching accounts is an extra click, now.

(I’m into it! The IA makes more sense to me, and I’ll take that over an extra click anytime. But I can see the frustration.)

schmidt,
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@mcc Oh, I can’t even remember what the browser experience is like! Ignore this then; I’ve got no idea what changed outside the desktop app.

schmidt, to MLS
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This article makes the Bruce Arena situation sound more complex than I imagined. Very curious how this shakes out.

I interviewed Arena many times during the 2013-2014 seasons, and always found him a hilariously blunt but fair person. I’d hate to see his career end like this. https://theathletic.com/4848292/2023/09/09/bruce-arena-richie-williams-revolution-investigation/

schmidt,
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End of an era. I like Arena’s statement, at least in the absence of any sense of what this was all about.

Wonder what he does next.

https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/bruce-arena-resigns-from-new-england-revolution

schmidt,
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@mathowie They’re not telling us.

gruber, (edited ) to random
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Will Apple release a new MagSafe Battery Pack with a USB-C port?

schmidt,
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@gruber I absolutely adore this thing for travel — they’d better make a USB-C version!

mathowie, to random
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after weeks of watching women’s FIFA soccer in perfect 4K its gonna be tough going back to Paramount+ and a shitty 720p feed that sporadically buffers

schmidt,
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@mathowie What’s that rights situation like? I’d kill for Apple to lock those up for a decade and broadcast them just as well as MLS.

schmidt, to random
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It continues to be a bummer that search is so useless on this platform.

Hashtags are an interesting workaround — a way to find some of the posts about a topic I’m interested in — but obviously lots of people don’t use them.

schmidt,
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@annika Oh, wow! That’s very cool, I had no idea — thanks for the link :)

chipx86, to random
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Remember the Tiger 2-XL?

Introduced in the 90s, it was a trivia robot with personality. Pop in a multiple-choice cassette, hit play, and answer a series of fun and educational questions.

Let’s talk about how this works, and how I’m modding this (or trying to!) to digitally play any tape archived to the Internet.

schmidt,
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@chipx86 I do remember that! I had one of these guys and thought he was cool as heck.

schmidt,
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@chipx86 I feel like we had two cassettes, but I can’t for the life of me remember the topics 🤔

stroughtonsmith, to random
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The new visionOS Simulator in beta 5 finally has controls to change the Immersion level (i.e. rotating the Digital Crown), so you can properly test your immersive experiences and transitioning in/out of full-scene contexts

video/mp4

schmidt,
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@stroughtonsmith Is that a little “zoom out to the real world” effect as you exit the immersive experience?

Feels like it’d be unnerving if it were my IRL living room zooming and shifting like that.

schmidt, to random
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Yikes, RSL’s stadium is empty. What went wrong?

schmidt, to random
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Remember when Pep refused to shake Caleb Porter’s hand? All-time top-10 MLS moment IMO.

schmidt,
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@qlp YES this is a classic.

mariyadelano, to threads
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and published an update including more explanation of and what that would mean for users.

This isn’t a roadmap and the explanation is geared at those who don’t know what the heck we’re doing here on and the but it’s very interesting: https://creators.instagram.com/blog/introducing-threads

schmidt,
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@mariyadelano Are you sure this is new? It’s dated July 5th.

glassbottommeg, to random
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Ok, FF7 Remake. Just got to aerith, rooftops.

I've been hating this game more and more for the last few hours.

Does it just keep getting worse? The dialog is increasingly annoying, and they keep shoving me in mazes that look like the junior designer sneezed pieces at random, because they gotta pad for all this increasingly shit dialog.

I just. What the hell. Did they only let the A team work on the opening hours?

schmidt,
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@glassbottommeg So, I loved a lot of the dialogue — especially the incidental, does-nothing-for-the-plot, chit chat while wandering.

But even so, I really agree with you! That game should’ve been 10 hours long! There are entire chapters you could cut!

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