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They do! It's called the M1 MacBook Air.

It's crazy that we could now build a Wii that's self-contained within the sensor bar...

> I really wish more companies would go back to the old-style model where users can buy the current version of a software tool but would need to pay a discounted price to upgrade to a newer version of that tool

We can thank Apple for this! They refused to adopt upgrade pricing on the App Store (which developers have been asking for since the App Store launched!) and instead introduced Subscriptions.

I like Apple, overall, but they absolutely decimated their software market by forcing apps to either be free with ads or paid subscriptions.

It seems to me that Mastodon, tumblr, Wordpress, Threads, and any future platform's support of ActivityPub could theoretically make the entire internet "old Facebook".

Facebook is/was two things:

1) a microblog (your personal page)

2) an interface for following other's microblog posts

This sounds an awful lot like a following, say, a bunch of WordPress blogs in your Mastodon feed. We just need the interface over it all.

Heck, if Threads does what they say it will, Threads very well may become that interface for many folks.

I still don't understand the pro-Beeper argument here. They have absolutely no right to unauthorized access to Apple's servers or network, this seems fairly cut-and-dry, despite whatever "moral" argument people seem to want to make.

> I require the ability to install apps from arbitrary sources, including piracy.

No one "requires" access to theft.

My version of this involved a Wii remote: freshmen-level CompSci class, and the group had to build a simple game in Python to be displayed at a showcase among the class. We wrote a space invaders clone. I found a Bluetooth driver that allowed your Wiimote to connect to your Mac as a game controller, so I set up a basic left/right tilt control using a Wiimote for our space invaders clone.

The Wiimote connection was the star of the show by a long shot :P

> This should have been a MacBook Air.

Great, let's compare it to the MacBook Air, then. Compared to the 8GB/512GB M2 MacBook Air, at $1399, the M3 MacBook Pro has:

- M3 chip

- Slightly larger display with higher brightness, HDR, and ProMotion support

- SD Card and HDMI ports

For only $200 more!

Sounds like an amazing "Pro" MacBook Air.

iPhone 13 mini owner here. I love this phone. I've used large phones in the past, was a happy iPhone 7 Plus owner, and owned and used the 5.8-inch iPhones X and 11 Pro, but I'm just so much happier with a smaller phone that I can more easily hold. Part of this is due to my smaller hands, and a large part is the reduction in weight. I don't even care if I drain the battery scrolling TikTok, because the battery is so small I can fast charge back to 80% in no time.

It's weird. I spent my teenage years and early twenties as a yearly/bi-yearly iPhone upgrader, but it turns out that form factor, more so than display, cameras, or gimmicks is what wins me over today.

I proclaim in my everyday life that the phone that will replace my blue iPhone 1 mini will -- as of right now -- be a used/refurbished green iPhone 13 mini. :)

Hi -- just want to clarify -- I am NOT the OP, not trying to claim this as my project, simply relating a similar example from my personal life.

I did this back in 2016, with an iOS app I built/hacked away at while learning/self-teaching Swift and UIKit.

Easily over 1,000 hours (~2 hours ~5x day per week for ~2 years) invested in to the app. I learned so, so much, and fell in love with the Swift language, but that app never saw the light of day.

Instead, I developed skills that have made me a much better programmer. And, fast-forward to the current day, I could effectively re-write the entire app - from scratch - in a weekend, due to the evolution of Apple's platform dev tools and APIs over the last ~7 years + the mountains of Swift code and packages I've hacked and honed away at over the years.

This type of project should be celebrated. Programming is (can be) art. Art can be made just for you, as a creative outlet.

> It's for people who want to point and click, can't do a bash for/while loop, don't understand pipe chaining commands, and don't like using vim.

This sounds like the dream.

Gonna be a bit awkward reaching out to new potential employers... using LinkedIn.

Any insight on how Whisper works on older Intel Macs? I have a 2012 Mac mini with 16GB of RAM doing nothing; if I could use it to (slowly) transcribe media in the background, this becomes a must-buy.

Claude's UI is so tastefully done, and the website works excellently as a PWA when installed to my iPhone home screen. :)

So we'll spend our tax dollars in order for the government to tell us how many more tax dollars we owe?

This all sucks, and I hate that CEOs can continue to lie about layoffs, hire uncontrollably, then completely 180 and lay tons of folks off.

That said: where do I sign up for 16 weeks of severance pay?

> Google is bringing in $160 Billion a year with their clean search result pages.

No, Google brings in $X billion a year with all the ads and garbage they stuff in between those clean search results.

The same is true for Microsoft. There's no money to be made to run the service (let alone justify an American company's lust for growth and profit) without stuffing it full of ads to hopefully sell you something.

(Mac user here) This is exactly why I use and love Safari.

Sure, put PWAs in some online "app" store, but personally, if I am going to an App Store (be it iOS or Android), I want actual real platform apps, not cross-platform web apps.

For no reason other than it seemed fun, I used this new knowledge to implement my own version of said key-gen, in my choice of dev environment: Swift and Xcode playgrounds. Fun little exercise.

https://gist.github.com/Bonney/5cc85f41cdeb80146c7d5169ded8a...

My anecdata: M1 MacBook Air, and I haven't noticed such a drastic difference in battery life in a day in Xcode vs. a day in Visual Studio Code. However, I run a very lean install of VS Code, plugin-wise, which certainly helps.

Overall I've found myself impressed with VS Code's efficiency and performance as an Electron app, especially versus Discord (gross) or Teams (awful).

> So, an app you write in Joystick today will look the same 10 years from now (features will be added/improved over time, but core APIs will not be deprecated unless there is a major security or performance issue). We like to refer to Joystick as "The Honda Civic of JavaScript Frameworks."

"Trust me, this thing -- which is very new -- will be around forever".

I love Qi, and I really love MagSafe, so I'm happy that magnetically-aligned-Qi is becoming the standard.

Although, sadly, I suspect that Apple will continue to incorporate their own NFC identification into their Qi2 devices, and that alone will be what differentiates "MagSafe" from Qi2 -- almost certainly including limiting faster wireless charging to MagSafe.

I've been running my M1 MacBook Air (and all retina Mac laptops before it) at the "more space" 1680x1050@2x resolution for years, but my eyes are finally getting worse. Text is a bit too small.

So, I think 2023's resolution is going to be 1440x900@2x.

> But if you tried to connect it to your computer, it would be USB 2.

And I believe this is because all Lightning to USB cables (be it USB-A or USB-C) only support USB 2.0.

The Camera Connection Kit supports/supported USB 3.0.

Corporations are evil. Do worse for the consumer to cover their own butts.

What happens when you divide Infinity by 2?

> Write a press release for Apple's AR glasses, including it's name, two standout features, and price.

"Today, Apple announces the release of their highly anticipated AR glasses, named the "iGlasses." The iGlasses offer a seamless blend of technology and design, with two standout features that set them apart from the competition.

First, the iGlasses offer a revolutionary new display system that projects a high-resolution image directly onto the user's retina. This allows for a clear and immersive augmented reality experience, without the need for a bulky headset or cumbersome display.

Second, the iGlasses feature advanced AI technology that allows for real-time object recognition and interaction. Users can simply look at an object and the iGlasses will provide relevant information and capabilities, such as the ability to make a purchase or access additional content.

Priced at $499, the iGlasses are available for pre-order today and will be shipped to customers in early 2022. With their sleek design and cutting-edge technology, the iGlasses are sure to be a must-have for tech enthusiasts and early adopters."

Sounds good, sign me up!

This is nuts. I asked it to create a simple form-style SwiftUI app, and it.... did it. Perfectly. Then I told it to implement a class to persist the data to disk using CoreData, and it.... did it. And explained why. And then showed how to implement that new class within the first class.

Unreal.