I have owned two high end OLED TVs both got horrible burn-in within a year. I'll never get another. This will only be worse on a computer screen with permanent areas like menu bars and docks to ruin the OLEDs. I've heard all the "we have fixed this..." and most of these are demonstrably marketers spouting, well dare I say, lies.
Far to little effort and attention has been devoted to creating beautiful text online. The web set text back centuries. In some ways it was never this bad except for the monospaced typewriters. This is welcome indeed.
This made me think of one person who cares for it - Matthew Butterick's Practical Typography appears to have spent quite a bit on bringing typeset-like text to his website.
Notice how the open quotation marks hang into the left margin. There’s been some recent work with CSS to make this automatic, but that’s newer than this book and support is spotty. MB made it happen with a (iirc) custom filter inside the Pollen setup he made for this book. Wild. And beautiful.
Ironically (or not) this section (on mobile anyway) seems to hyphenate way too much, with three lines in a row and two lines in a row ending in a hyphen (5/8 total lines in the paragraph).
Is there any evidence for that claim aside from it being an oft-repeated tale on the internet? Mathematically it can't possibly work, because you're spending $80k (or whatever) on an employee that might spend $30k on a car every 5 years, so paying $80k/year to get $6k/year in revenue. It's actually worse than that, because Ford only makes around 15% gross margin, so at best that's $900 of money you get back for spending $80k on an employee. That's so low that Even if you account for money multiplier effects, it's unlikely you'll get anywhere near break even.
"Apps" suck. Use a web ui and tell Apple and Google to shove it. If anti-trust and/or our consumer protestors in various US legislatures won't fix the app stores by breaking them up, the app devs can just drop making apps. I've done many apps and would estimate that 90% have no real need for the API toolkits that Apple and Google give you, they can just as easily be done as "web apps" -- if, that is, everyone dropped the apps and used web apis so cooperation of apps would be based on them, not the toolkits. Exceptions do apply but they are in the minority IMHO.
Today I drifted in AI generated dread feeling that half of what I read (including this article) was AI generated -- maybe more since it included AI generated music. Was it due to my recent return from some number of days in the Oregon outback off the grid with no interweb pipes? I knew it was too short a time. I feel a great panicky need to run from an impending Matrix moment.
Haha, followed the link in Firefox but it was blocked because of my ad-blocker.
Who has the time to track all the stuff Google collects about you? At least spread out the tracking by NOT using every Google app. They've become the single largest surveillance organization in history, dwarfing even China's government.
Besides Firefox and Duckduckgo work so well I don't notice the difference.
This. FF and DDG work so well together that I hardly notice any downsides moving to it. DDG is my default search engine now and I rarely use google for sports updates. That's it.
The consensus seems to be:
- Cmd-v should paste to match formatting everywhere. No one wants that formatting or if they do they are in a tiny minority that can be served with some new shortcut.
- there are several more or less cheesy ways to fix this in more or less places
So Apple, retire it with the silly touch bar, push really hard click, and the lightning connector. Maybe these devs would be happer making touch text editing more than awful.
The “push really hard click” is one of the things that makes the apple track pad feel so great. It is a tactile feeling that is not easy to do by accident.
The touchbar would have been cool if it was a rock solid implementation that never bugged out.
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