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i'm also guessing they didn't test different temperament tunings either, which is a shame given that the whole argument for 432Hz has to do with mathematical symmetry

If you ask me, honestly a good quality DAC sounds better playing a 320kbps MP3 than a bad DAC sounds playing a 96/24 WAV of the same recording.

> Imagine if you didnt actually have monitors, you just had a 3d space being projected into your eyes and everywhere you looked could be a space you could put something that would have otherwise been on a monitor.

Great point. I'll buy this, as well as mixed-reality being the future, instead of all-encompassing VR. But there's quite a way to go from here, and some very interesting challenges when you face the problem of communal viewing (co-worker taking a glance at your monitor, watching tv, etc.).

I'm very curious to see what thought (if any) Apple has given this, if they're not just rolling out another pair of goggles with a LCD display inside.

The slow but steady success of the Apple Watch proves that they don't have to knock it out of the park on the first attempt anymore. It's going to be interesting to watch play out.

I don't know if I'm too detached from reality at this point, but I have such a hard time believing VR headsets and the "metaverse" is going to be the future.

This seems like a solution looking for a problem. But who knows, maybe in ten years I'll be selling this comment as an NFT and cashing in my sweet sweet AppleCoin.

Exactly, the Cambridge Analytica scandal really did irreversible damage to Facebook's brand amongst non-techie people.

From my experience most people in the EU absolutely do hate Facebook and Instagram, but keep using them because that's what their friends are using for messaging and social media. Quite a catch-22.

Absolutely agree with you 100% on the mouse situation, they are, and have always been, horrible. But my favourite keyboard of all time is actually the aluminium chicklet Apple keyboard. It’s just so satisfying to type on to me. Mechanical keys have always had too much travel for my tastes.

All valid annoyances, but I really think OP should try using another brand of Bluetooth headphones for a week just to get some perspective of how well AirPods "just work" compared to the competition.

Manually having to re-pair once in every blue moon, one earbud playing while the other isn't, no automatic device switching without having to go through the Settings app everytime, A/V desync, dodgy mic quality, earbuds not waking up correctly when removing them from the case, etc are all part of the non-AirPods Bluetooth experience.

I recently switched to a pair of Sony Bluetooth headphones as I don't like the too-neutral AirPods Pro EQ curve, and while they sound excellent, the UX really leaves a bit to be desired.

I wouldn't necessarily call it terrible, as all the big 3 cloud storage services just wrap Web UIs in a window instead of doing a fully native app. The file syncing functionality works just fine for me every time, compared to iCloud, which regularly will stop syncing silently, despite it being better integrated into the Finder.

I'd rather have reliable syncing with an Electron wrapper than a fully native UI with broken sync.

Agreed. The recent Google Drive update which completely broke file metadata on Mac OS, along with it often times mounting twice, requiring a reboot to fix it, prompted me to test out all the different cloud storage solutions.

As stated in the OP Dropbox has become far too bloated, and just feels wrong. iCloud Drive only works 90% of the time, and doesn't play nice with apps that use absolute paths (even many Cocoa MacOS apps, which do this under the hood).

OneDrive is the only client that gets out of my way, just works, and even can automatically move unused files to the cloud without them disappearing from the filesystem entirely. It's crazy to think that Microsoft are making better Mac OS software than Apple.

I haven't considered going the self-hosted route yet, but Syncthing looks promising if you don't need folder sharing or robust iOS support.

I’ve noticed some sort of image post-processing on the newer iPhones that removes noise and graininess, and instead adds this fake smoothness to all pictures. Haven’t found a way to disable it, save for shooting in RAW, which is impractical due to file size.

Really disappointed that this seems to be a forced setting.

Thought the exact same thing. Karma's a bitch...

You can rebind the shortcut in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> All Applications -> Move Focus to Next Window

The main point that voids the entire “dislike brigading is toxic/bad for creators’ mental health” argument is that the comment section is still open. Who’s to say brigading won’t just move there instead? I’m betting people get hurt more by negative comments compared to plain dislikes.

Seems like a strawman argument they’re using to cater better to brands/advertisers...

There's a big difference between native-looking and native-feeling.

Good point, but I just checked and DoH has been disabled this whole time. The difference isn't that dramatic, but shaving off around 100ms on every page load really adds up in the end.

My daily driver is a 2014 MacBook Pro and I just recently switched to Firefox from Safari. It's so much faster it's not even a fair comparison – I feel like I've gotten a whole new computer. Even compared to Chrome it loads pages so much faster on old hardware. Props to Mozilla!!!

Just tried all the big major cloud drive apps, and OneDrive was surprisingly much better than both Google Drive, Dropbox and even iCloud Drive on MacOS and iOS. Thoroughly impressed - thanks, I had not considered Microsoft.

While I absolutely agree these inconsistencies are completely against the Mac OS philosophy, it's hard to not acknowledge how old the codebase must be starting to be, 20 years down the road.

Windows has the same issues, where you'll see stuff dating back to the NT days in the Control Panel.

I can't even begin to imagine how many different internal UI frameworks the Mac OS developers need to juggle now, compared to when Aqua looked as fresh as iOS 7 did at launch.

Apparently, Apple had planned to completely scrap their computers before the 180° decision to move to M1 and cater to pro users again, so one isn't left wondering as to why Mac OS is this way when iOS is much more consistent. It's likely we won't ever see a new computer OS ever again, similarly to why the web seems to have settled on being a Blink/WebKit platform.

Is it a shame? Absolutely. But it's going to be impossible to convince an entire sales team to get their developers to fix UI inconsistencies and rewrite every nook and cranny in the system to use AppKit, instead of working on marketable features that move parts of Mac OS to parity with iOS.

After the horrendous recent Google Drive update I decided to give Dropbox a try for the first time in 8+ years, and the software quality has truly taken a decline.

I’m considering switching to iCloud Drive at this point but I’m not a huge fan of how it works either. Any alternatives I should be aware of?

and neither is OpenGL

the problem here is that it wasn't reverse-engineered, in the cleanroom sense of the term. there were multiple references in the codebase to "not simply copy and paste the code from the IDA decompiler", so the legality gets a bit more dubious.

as for why take2 wants to waste their time on this 15+ year old game, i have absolutely no idea. i highly doubt they can sell it any more to their target demographic of retro gamers, who've likely already bought it for ps2, steam and mobile...

agreed, as a english-as-second-language speaker both the idiom and acronym was completely lost on me. concept has potential as long as it's not just another clone of snapchat stories.

they can, they just haven't since the native Music app in iOS 6. but in the streaming era, yeah, you might be right.

This is going to work out just as well as when the EU banned tracking cookies!

Looks cool. I'm honestly curious as to why a lot of new web languages/frameworks are mixing logic and content in the same file again though. The distinction between HTML, JS and CSS always made perfect sense to me. Anyone care to enlighten me?

another possible reason might be due to iMessage being de facto messaging platform in the US, amplified by the societal pressure to not have "green bubbles".

add to this the fact that video recording on Android has a horrible rep for being blurry and blocky, staining the reputation further.

the time has come for legal action against Apple. this is textbook early-2000s MS behavior.

looks very cool, might switch back to spotify just for this. the speed and feeling of pre-bloated iTunes is still the benchmark to which i hold any music app, and this might be the next best thing.

appreciate the work here.