Seeing Super Mario Land on my OLED really shows how much TV console games were designed for CRTs. This game still looks right on the large pixel-based display because it was designed for the Gameboy’s small pixel-based display. Games made for TV consoles look off by comparison.
It just now occurred to me that AI chatbots were predicted by Douglas Adams when he wrote of a fantastic machine that could produce any number of beverages, but when Arthur Dent asks it for tea, the resulting drink is “almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea”.
It was never a question of whether I should write parody lyrics for Cake’s cover of Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps all about the iPad debate. It was a question of whether I could. Turns out yes.
I have this new iPad
Pro, but for a better workflow
You only tell me
A Mac, a Mac, a Mac
I ask for multitasking
again with some UX cohesion
Your only answer
A Mac, a Mac, a Mac
If you can’t take this OS
and make it much smarter
Then doing work is useless
flow is harder, a non-starter.
So if they’re really for pros
Say yes
But if they’re big phones
Confess
And please don't tell me
A Mac, a Mac, a Mac
If you can’t take this OS
and make it much smarter
Then doing work is useless
flow is harder, a non-starter.
So if they’re really for pros
Say yes
But if they’re big phones
Confess
And please don't tell me
A Mac, a Mac, a Mac
A Mac, a Mac, a Mac
A Mac, a Mac, a Mac
A Mac
I did not order a Vision Pro because I don’t really have a use for it yet, and I try to only spend a premium on things I regularly use. This doesn’t mean I am down on the Vision Pro though. I think it sets the bar for spatial interfaces the same way the original Mac set the bar graphical interfaces. The Mac did not popularize the graphical user interface. Windows did, but it took until PC hardware reached the bar set by the Mac.
I feel like headline writers are really missing out on the rare opportunity to use the word “sham” on these “Biden impeachment inquiry” stories.
Loved the discussion of @atpfm about fitness and exercise. As someone who has had a routine for decades, my advice to anyone starting out is to prioritize building the routine over maximizing gains. Exercise takes time and energy. Finding that time and mustering that energy is by far the hardest part initially. Going to get up early and run? Start by walking or do a couch to 5K. The difficulty of the run will pale in comparison to the difficulty of consistently getting up that much earlier.
Inspired by the folks over at @MacStories, here is my current workspace setup.
To the ten other Apple TV users with multiple profiles out there, I just learned that it will automatically switch to a profile if someone with that profile turns on the Apple TV from the Control Center remote on their iPhone.
A crowd of people lay in clouds bathed in light. One by one, they wake up to notice the shining gates that lay just ahead. Each one makes their way over to find an ethereal figure standing between them and the lone entry way to the beyond. The figure peers down at them for a moment before opening a massive golden ledger. After vigorously paging through its contents, the figure looks disappointed.
“Maybe it’s not our time,” someone mutters.
The figure looks down at them again, clearly annoyed, and with a heavy sigh bellows “it appears you have yet to fill out your self evaluation!”
Silences permeates through the crowd as each soul gradually comes to the exact same realization.
This isn’t heaven.
