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by hbn 4mo ago
Ah I couldn't remember if that was only confirmed in Doom Guy. Regardless, it's still worth a read.
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by hbn 4mo ago
The only issue with Apple TV is they still can't figure out a good remote. I feel like I need to hold my breath and be very intentional with my swipes so when I'm e.g. swiping up/down to get to a menu where I can turn on subt
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by hbn 4mo ago
It should be noted that John Romero released his own book, Doom Guy, a few years ago which contradicts some of the accounts in Masters of Doom. MoD is probably the more thrilling read and I enjoyed both books, but some of the stories need t
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by hbn 4mo ago
My buddy runs an independent video production company and bought a specced out Mac Pro for $12,000 in 2019. Probably still quite capable and battery life doesn't matter on that. But I also understand it being deprecated and for Apple i
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by hbn 4mo ago
Well there's very little software being put out these days that's well-designed so Apple is absolutely notable for getting back to its previously held high standards.
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by hbn 4mo ago
If you're visually oriented it's easier to quickly find what you're looking for when there's only occasional icons as visual anchor points rather than everything being a bunch of tiny icons you have to parse
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by hbn 4mo ago
Liquid glass isn't inherently bad, it just needed someone to dial it back when the prettiness is hurting legibility/usability. There are lots of things (well, in iOS) that I think are a big improvement, like menus spawning from th
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by hbn 4mo ago
It's possible dropping the second architecture is what enabled a lot of the enhancements in Golden Gate
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by hbn 4mo ago
The other issue is the few icons that existed before Tahoe generally highlighted import or more frequently used actions. And acted as a visual anchor point so if you frequently used another item you know, "it's 2 items below the s
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by hbn 4mo ago
White on gray is the only dark mode that doesn't hurt my eyes. I use light mode for practically everything except IntelliJ which has a great built-in "Darcula" theme (which is now opt-in in favor of a more standard dark mode
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by hbn 4mo ago
It is being toned down, at least in that they seem to be lightening up on that stupid lie that it helps you "focus on the content" because there were no toolbars. As if you're reading any text behind the buttons that are warp
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by hbn 4mo ago
This has been my favorite WWDC in years. Everything I've seen from the OS 27 releases has been such a breath of fresh air after years of bizarre design/usability decisions. I hope Apple learned a lesson from what happened with Ala
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by hbn 4mo ago
> When a company says “AI made everyone more productive, so we need fewer people”, I want to see the evidence - and I don’t believe it exists today. Because they're bullshitting and using AI as an excuse to correct from their covid
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by hbn 4mo ago
I'd love to buy one cause I love the idea of watching movies in that and I watch stuff alone all the time. I just can't justify the $5000CAD starting price to watch movies. I've considered getting a used M2 model, but I belie
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by hbn 4mo ago
I'm trying to think of a single Amazon-made product I've used that has a good UI/UX. I guess their main shopping website gets the job done (I would argue their messy product categorization would harm my UX rating of them) but
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by hbn 4mo ago
Before Apple Silicon, who was making equivalent laptops? Highly competitive performance, great battery life, instant wake from sleep, pristine build quality, etc. Forget before Apple Silicon, who's making an equivalent laptop now?
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by hbn 4mo ago
Are they really having any issue getting people to upgrade? At least here in Canada, carriers harass everyone to upgrade with deals where you can get a new phone for $0 once your contract is up to keep you renewing your contract. My non-tec
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by hbn 4mo ago
Why would they bring attention to it at all? What company has ever highlighted the crease in their foldable for any reason other than to say it's improved from the previous year?
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by hbn 4mo ago
> I wouldn’t be surprised at all if next year they dissolve the iPhone/iPad distinction on the App Store altogether I hadn't thought about it but it makes sense and it makes me wonder how far this would reach throughout the res
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by hbn 4mo ago
I mean you can see more at once but now your typing experience is worse. I have an iPad and it's by far my least productive device unless it's connected to a physical keyboard. Typing on a giant touchscreen is so much more tedious
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by hbn 4mo ago
I'm sure they're getting a sufficiently big paycheque to white label their models for the biggest consumer computer seller on the planet.
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by hbn 4mo ago
They actually released a pretty good dictation model in the OS 26 updates. Someone made a cli utility to play with it: https://github.com/finnvoor/yap I tried it and was pretty impressed. That said I haven't heard
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by hbn 4mo ago
There's extensive writing about Apple's Private Cloud Compute architecture. It's beyond my expertise, but it's publicly available if you're curious.
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by hbn 4mo ago
Hey if they could turn Apple Maps around, why not Siri?
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by hbn 4mo ago
I don't even know that it's knowing the exact words, it just seems like sometimes the search decides it's just gonna give you no results because the vibes were off. I'm almost sure that sometimes searching the same thing
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by hbn 4mo ago
To be fair, the iPhone 15 line came out before Apple Intelligence was even announced. It's the iPhone 16 line that feels a bit shitty not getting the latest and greatest since it was advertised as "built for Apple Intelligence&quo
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by hbn 4mo ago
> why older devices can't use private cloud compute thats 100% off device is just apple being anti-consumer. I don't know if it's "anti-consumer" to NOT roll out free cloud LLM usage to everyone. The idea with on
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by hbn 4mo ago
I would call those people uninformed. It's completely reasonable for Apple to be hesitant to roll out any new integration features within their own ecosystem in the EU. iPhone mirroring for example. Seems like practically 100% chance t
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by hbn 4mo ago
Didn't purchase through Apple. Oh well, it's probably the better product for now anyway.
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by hbn 4mo ago
> This is incidentally why consumers don't buy small phones even though they say they want them. They feel cheaper even though they cost about the same to manufacture. Actually from what I understood, making a small display with mod

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