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vanitalo

@vanitalo@mastodon.social

Developer | Automator | Technology & Apple Enthusiast

Currently working in the higher education sector as a Lead Enterprise Software Engineer.

Disclaimer: Your perception is not my reality ;-)

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jsnell, to random
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Just posted on Six Colors: The iPad Pro is no longer the future, so what’s next?

https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/05/the-ipad-pro-is-no-longer-the-future-so-whats-next/

vanitalo,
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@craiggrannell @jsnell This is why I think Apple should make a new touchscreen MacBook form factor instead of just iterating the iPad Pro which despite all the iterations has not really evolved.

The issue I have with the iPad Pro when trying to use it as a laptop is there are too many compromises, too many limitations! (1/2)

vanitalo,
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Despite that I’d like a touchscreen tablet without a keyboard sometimes, when I have to attach an iPad to a bulky/heavy keyboard/trackpad it makes the iPad far less compelling for me and iPadOS is also too limiting for laptop work for me.

I’d like Apple to make a real hybrid device, not something that can become hybridish by attaching a bunch of accessories… maybe we’ll need to wait a few more years for that though. (2/2)

verge, to random
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Samsung announces new entry-level OLED TVs — likely with LG panels inside https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/6/24150270/samsung-s85d-entry-level-oled-pricing-specs

vanitalo,
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@verge SamsuLG 👀

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Final Cut Pro, Logic and Xcode were the ‘pro apps’ of the Mac era, but the pro apps of the iPad are tools like Procreate. Though iPad has moved towards the Mac over time, it's unlikely to replace it. Traditionally, Apple hasn’t really provided a whole lot of dedicated APIs a high-end illustration app could take advantage of; perhaps that is one of the axes of progression Apple could double down on, and maybe a new first-party AI-enhanced, layered, pro drawing app would make sense for dogfooding?

Procreate marketing photo

vanitalo,
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@stroughtonsmith If Apple won’t enable virtualisation on the iPad Pro, they should make real touchscreen MacBooks.

I wouldn’t buy any version of the iPad (other than the mini) if Apple made touchscreen MacBooks that also support Apple Pencil.

I don’t think iPadOS will ever meet my computing needs unless Apple adds a lot more macOS style capabilities.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Both computers on my desk each have a 27" 4K Dell display at 1080p@2x and I wouldn't have it any other way.

You will never recover the eyesight you destroy now by pushing usable screen space over comfort
https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112367242770869662

vanitalo,
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@stroughtonsmith
@9to5Mac I have this monitor setup at the moment. All are 4K monitors, but running at scaled resolutions. I’d go blind if I had to read text at native 4K 😜

I prefer a resolution closer to 1600p as the text still looks reasonably sharp and large enough so I don't have to squint, and it provides a little more vertical screen resolution than 1440p.

2 x LG 32UN88A running at 3008x1692
1 x LG 27UP550N running at 1296x2304 (portrait)

verge, to random
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Bumble’s app redesign lets women automate conversation starters https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145199/bumble-opening-move-app-redesign

vanitalo,
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@verge lol, the future of dating is AI, let your AI date someone else’s AI 🤣🤪

film_girl, to random
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Honestly, support ublock origin and you can win back the Mac browser market. But the current extension model in Safari is such a terrible experience for every person involved, developers and users. https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/112360846501810807

vanitalo,
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@film_girl 💯agree on this! The Safari extension model is awful, it’s the main reason I refuse to use Safari for most things.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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the only consumer AI gadget worth making is glasses

There are very few spots on the average human body to put anything else that aren't already occupied. And it's the perfect place for a camera.

That's your niche, and you have a countdown clock until Apple and Google arrive with real ecosystems in tow. That gives you maybe 5 years of runway before you have to ‘compete’

vanitalo,
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@stroughtonsmith I agree that glasses would be ideal, but current technology isn’t really up to the task yet and may not be for another decade. In the interim I’d like AI watches to be take a more prominent place.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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iPad has probably had the most dramatic shift of all of Apple's platforms, since its inception. It began as doing very few things to a very high quality, but now it does almost everything, badly. I hope history finds it to have been more than just an incubator for Apple's Mac silicon during the wayward years

vanitalo,
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@stroughtonsmith Totally agree! iPadOS is the problem. It’s a waste of time putting an M4 processor in an iPad. If Apple doesn’t make iPadOS more capable like macOS the hardware will never live up to its potential.

daringfireball, to random
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Widespread Problem Has Locked Many Out of Their Apple IDs
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/27/apple-id-lockout

vanitalo,
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@daringfireball The stolen device protection feature really shouldn’t use significant locations. It should use specified configured locations that allow the user to also specify the allowed radius from the specified locations. Apple needs to rethink and redesign this feature!

macrumors, to random
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Apple Asks Customers for Vision Pro Feedback https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/26/apple-asks-customers-for-vision-pro-feedback/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

vanitalo,
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@macrumors The more important question is “why haven’t you purchased an  Vision Pro?” 🤪

verge, to random
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A morning with the Rabbit R1: a fun, funky, unfinished AI gadget https://www.theverge.com/24138746/rabbit-r1-hands-on-ai-gadget-chatgpt

vanitalo,
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@verge Junkware!

verge, to random
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A cheaper Tesla is back on the menu https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24138646/tesla-q1-2024-earnings-model-2-affordable-electric-vehicles

vanitalo,
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@verge Bonus product recall to be issued at a later date. 🤪

verge, to random
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Elon Musk is fighting Australia to host a stabbing video on X https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24138062/elon-musk-fighting-australia-stabbing-video-x-twitter-censorship

vanitalo,
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@verge Elon Musk is a disgrace to the human race.

BasicAppleGuy, to random
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Work in Progress... 🚧

But I need your help:
If there are gradients (2-6 colours) that you really love, drop them in the comments. I may include a few in my next wallpaper collection.

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vanitalo,
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@BasicAppleGuy I was wondering what this style might look like in the theme of an horizon sunrise over ocean water…

here are some not so great AI examples… prompt used: “using only gradient bands of colour that are 60 pixels high, create an image that depicts an horizon sun rise over ocean water”

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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.

vanitalo, (edited )
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@film_girl As a paying subscriber to Apple Music I think the Music app sux on every Apple platform 😞 it needs a complete overhaul! The macOS version is probably worse than the iOS version but I don’t use it much anymore except for maintaining smart playlists because there doesn’t appear to be any way to do that on iOS 😡

I just don’t understand how Apple could possibly think that the Apple Music app is of acceptable quality and usability 🤦‍♂️ I guess they just don’t care. 🤑

vanitalo,
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@stroughtonsmith @film_girl I had a similar experience with the macOS Music app, my library got corrupted. I tried restoring it from backup, I tried rebuilding it by hand importing my files and restoring artwork etc. but all the meta-data kept getting screwed up. I gave up and wiped my local library and just added songs and albums from Apple Music online. It makes me think this is what Apple wants people to do which is probably why Music is so terrible for managing local libraries these days 🙁

appleinsider, to random
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Senator Elizabeth Warren has posted a call for Apple's "stranglehold monopoly" on the smartphone market to be broken up, despite the iPhone peaking at only half the US population.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/19/senator-warren-doesnt-have-a-plan-to-break-up-apple-but-still-wants-to-pretty-badly?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

vanitalo,
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@appleinsider Before law makers are allowed to propose laws on technology they should at least be required to graduate from a diploma-level course in technology!

Law makers should have a proper understanding of what they are legislating/regulating; without that you get nonsensical laws that don’t achieve what they’re proposed to do, or worse yet, you get an unworkable mess that negatively impacts consumers.

Also “lobbying” 💰💰 law makers should be illegal!

film_girl, to random
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Spot on. And I'll add: It’s also a dev kit positioned as a consumer product, priced as an enterprise/industrial tool but without any of the features that enterprise/industry can use. The whole thing remains a mess and no amount of “whataboutism” or iPhone comparisons, as if we aren't living in a different time, will change the fact that this thing is DOA in its current form and positioning.

You can overcome that: Apple Watch did. But this isn’t anything like iPhone.
https://mastodon.social/@marcoarment/112276737971654878

vanitalo,
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@film_girl @gruber @matt @marcoarment Apple can’t even make more than 500,000 AVPs per year… difficult to gain momentum when it can’t really be mass produced & sold globally.

Until Apple can affordably make tens of millions per year I don’t see much point in having an aggressive marketing push for AVP.

Given current cost of materials and manufacturing, it could be 5+ years for it to get anywhere near mainstream. Doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have released something now though.🤷‍♂️

daringfireball, to random
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More on the Problem With ‘The Problem With Jon Stewart’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/14/stewart-apple-khan

vanitalo,
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@daringfireball I watched a few of “The Problem With Jon Stewart” episodes but it just didn’t have the vibe of his other material so I gave up on it.

I do wonder if Apple was meddling too much with how the show was produced and what Jon could say and do. I guess Apple wanted to be edgy when it signed Joh Stewart to do that show, but it then didn’t have the guts to let him do what he does best.

Maybe the problem with Jon Stewart was Apple. In any case I’m glad Jon is back on The Daily Show!

gruber, to random
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“Argylle”: 👎
https://boxd.it/6hbiKz

vanitalo,
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@gruber I think it depends of what the viewer wants from the movie going in… if they’re expecting something more mainstream they probably won’t be happy with the experience.

I wouldn’t say the movie was terrible, but there are a number of cringe over-the-top ridiculous moments within it that do bring the rating down somewhat for me.

If a re-edit was done to remove, tone down, or replace some of those scenes I think the movie would fare better with a wider audience. ⭐️⭐️⭐️🎬😬

vanitalo,
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@gruber It’s got a 5.7/10 rating on IMDB and a 72% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, so I think my 3 star rating is in line with the average viewer. I’m just saying the movie could have been better if they had made some changes, but I don’t think it’s all bad.

appleinsider, to random
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Apple is continuing to insist that users can still get a lot of work done with just 8GB of memory in a Mac, while also being bullish about improving the gaming experience and AI development on the platform.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/13/gaming-and-ai-are-in-macs-future-even-with-low-memory-capacities?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

vanitalo,
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@appleinsider Apple Gaslighting Pro makes 8GB memory more useful than ever before!

Apple is changing twice the price for memory and storage - because less is more!

gruber, to random
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Electron.

vanitalo,
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@gruber @caseyliss That’s the second thing I disable in chromium based browsers after setting to resume last session on open.

daringfireball, to random
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Microsoft Preparing New Push for ARM-Powered Windows Laptops
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/09/microsoft-surface-event-arm-chips

vanitalo,
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@daringfireball Good, hopefully Windows 11 on ARM will start getting more mainstream support. I’d like to see more native builds for ARM64 rather than relying on widows’ built in emulation for running x64 apps.

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