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Fascinating. Also, wow, this website is awesome, thank you.

Medium, Substack, Reddit and even X, are all evolutions of personal blogging. How do we over come the issue of promotion of independent blog pages?

I am very grateful how the title of the actual article linked saved 40 minutes reading the whole thing.

Apple has already cross a red line, it stepped over to one that has little interest in user experience. Recent releases of MacOS and iOS and iPadOS have given rise to Windowsesque complexity and ugliness. I have used Macs since the Classic, and am sad to say I no longer ascribe to the cult of Apple.

Ok, this is a great idea for an App. Thank you. Amazing!!! Well done for solving this problem! And to preempt any sceptics.. doing the cleaning whilst the mac if off is futile. The Mac will restart/power on.

Let's be clear. It is not the actual smartphones that do this; machines are designed and programmed by humans. Companies can choose to use technology to manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes, and many do choose just that, often for financial gain.

The Hunger Games, The Handmaid's Tale, and Squid Games were just desensitisation PsyOps. Who could have imagined that the dystopian future was now?

I believe that the more populist layer of the www became social media apps. Hosted LLMs (claude, chatGPT etc) are going to become the popular source of information and therefore narrative. What we must remember is that we should retain control of our thoughts, and be aware of how we can share them without financially interested parties claiming rights to their use or abuse. I am trying to solve some of these problems with NoteSub App - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/notesub/id6742334239 - but have yet to overcome the real issue of how we can stop the middleman keeping the loop closed with him in between.

Does any one else remember when they remotely deleted 1984 from people's devices due to... 'copyright issues'

Also, would love to hear any tips you have for eeking out use...Sounds like you may have some...

Depends if you use xcode or not...I still have my macbook 12inch, for work use, it is amazing, but I can't run the latest xcode, making it defunct for some of my uses. It would be fine running xcode weak as it is; i am sure. Liquid glass might have killed it tho.

Obsolescence for Macs comes when Apple decides not to allow your mac update the OS to the latest one.

I really like the blue colour. What is not great... It defaulted to google search, so I can't agree that it is very private.

Most millionaires and billionaires and World leaders did not need laptops to attain positions of power, success and influence.

An impression being created here that laptops are the best creation tools, and that users have the right to greater control on them. MacOS, iOS, Windows and Android are just extensions of each other. In a continually connected device ecosystem, there is a false perception of power and control in the writer's mind about using a Laptop.

I certainly think that laptops have better software and interfaces for some types of work. But, Capcut mobile is earier to use and more powerful in the hands of the 99.9% than any desktop editing tool.

What we must remember, is that where once the limitation to productivity was typing, or clicking, LLMs and AI assisted tasks are going to afford mobile users the power that was once only available to computer users. For example, who needs to edit chunks of code when bitrig or cursor mobile (early in their stages of company development) do the laborious work for you. The limitation of mobile devices is now only one of perception.

Whatapp and other chatapps are popular because they are instant and have overcome the initial adaption issues that arrise with new messaging platforms. The interface of email its backend is too dated for instant chat messaging. Why were the MSN and yahoo messenger apps so popular in the early days of the internet? They were an evolution of written communication methods. Unfortunately, email is just a legacy product that no one wants to improve. So we all have to end up working around its limitations.

As much as I want to create a non-meta alternative to Whatsapp or a better email infrastructure, there is no compelling enough differentiator for most users. Just look at the privacy benefits of Signal, yet, people don't care. Just look at the aesthetic benefits of iMessage, yet people don't care. They just want an easy to use and responsive cross platform method of communication.

A good solution is a unified messaging app, able to combine all platform's messaging, but these often become defunct because of API issues or T&C breeched.

or rather...trusted

If you need a laptop, a computer to get work done in a conventional sense, it is of more practical value than any iPad or Windows machine.

I have had raw files on an CF card that were corrupted by an import attempt. I never used iOS import again unless the card was backed up to a computer first.

Recently, importing via image capture has resulted in recurrent crashes. Files appear on Image Capture that do not appear on the iPhone, nor can they be downloaded via image capture, or deleted. I wish I knew wtfudge was going on.

Kudos! I needed a break from no.24 and am looking forward to reading the remaining uses. Awesome article and resource. Thank you.

Dear Moderators Please could you reconsider the designation of this post as being flagged? I will happily trust your judgement and conclusions. Live feeds from this region are very rare. This insight is not covered on most outlets. It is a subject seemingly of interest to this forum as illustrated by the engagement and upvotes; greater than most of my posts. Thank you so much.

Forced Displacement.

I thought the hardware race was over? Tbh, i wish they'd just invest it in a true iOS contender and ditched reliance on Android.

The curious tale of an aquatic themed Operating System

It is hard to imagine vast numbers of people. Scroll down this page to try and contextualise. Why do people get so worked up on technical definitions and legality? What happened to just, plain, wrong.

Also, why does Altman want an Air?

I loved these.

I can't access this article. But, the sanitisation of what is going on is prevalent. From the headline however, really, I think they are facing worse than anything that has happened to them in the past. Instagram hides from most feeds the reality, but, some may find the raw reality on there...For example.. Graphic Warning: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOR1AMhiFA0/?igsh=d2ZmbGczNTF...

Connected thermostats are great in theory! But they should not have to rely on a cloud connection. A local network with the option of internet connectivity would be awesome; but, it seems, no company is going to become uber successful if there isn't the option of forced upgrades and cloud subscriptions. Look at Ring...

Oh Dear.

If only it were that easy. We are dependent on tech, and also reliant on trust. Opting out is not always that intuitive.