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Amazing AI product information bot you’ve got there Amazon – what could go wrong.
Note that it suggested the question it incorrectly answered.

27 December 2024 @ 8:53 pm

I like the idea of a 3D printer but given the efforts to move away from plastic everywhere it feels kind of weird to buy a plastic maker that lets you make doo-dads of questionable utility out of plastic? If you’re extending the lifespan of things I suppose it’s a net positive for the environment but has anyone done the science?

22 December 2024 @ 8:42 pm

Paper is what Apple should have bought back in the day to give the iPad a killer app. Instead we’ve got Freeform and Notes – which are both decent but not compelling enough to make me need an iPad.
The attention to detail shown in this post was apparent in every part of the product:
https://bsky.app/profile/andy.works/post/3lbgbhko6ec22

1 December 2024 @ 12:17 pm

The fact that Outlook is getting AI-powered themes before the ability to switch an in-progress draft message from “Reply" to "Reply all” (at least on the macOS desktop version) says a lot about the state of product management at Microsoft in 2024.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/7/24290273/microsoft-outlook-ai-themes-copilot

10 November 2024 @ 10:38 am

Apple News remains an utterly broken experience if you happen to be in a country it hasn’t launched in yet and are using an iPhone. Links regularly just don’t work and they don’t fall back to the original website either.

21 September 2024 @ 7:14 am

The sense of urgency described in this article on buying Oasis tickets will be very familiar to anyone who’s tried to buy an iPhone on the first day of pre-orders: https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/sep/01/oasis-ticketmaster-in-demand-standing-tickets?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

1 September 2024 @ 1:06 pm

#SilentSunday #bavaria

26 August 2024 @ 7:23 am

UniFi’s modular setup of a separate controller and router / gateway software has always struck me as a bit weird.
But after our UniFi USG died this evening, everything basically just kept working after plugging theAPss and controller into another router.
Now the architecture suddenly makes a lot more sense. 😅

21 August 2024 @ 9:08 pm

Sad to see Apple retailer Gravis being shuttered: if it wasn’t for my college job selling Macs & iPods there while studying political science, I’m not sure I would have switched degrees and ended up working in the software industry. https://chaos.social/@obrhoff/112104761807774327

16 March 2024 @ 11:17 am

Thanks to all the #marchintosh reminders I finally got around to taking the pram battery out of the iMac G4. Hopefully it’ll last a few more decades now…

3 March 2024 @ 9:33 am