This is just something Apple does once in a while. Remember when the new Mac Pro model came out a few years back and they sold optional wheels for the tower that were just wildly overengineered and cost hundreds of dollars? These “Apple is selling something SO EXPENSIVE” stories just sell the idea of Apple as a lifestyle luxury brand. You’ll never see anyone with one of these in real life, but you can bet they’re included in swag bags at celeb events.

What I really want is this Cadillac electric concept vehicle that is like the car of a rich Shadowrun villain who has a sexy, mute personal assistant who is also a cyborg ninja assassin.

Agreed. I like the concept of the design, because I dig a cyberpunk aesthetic and I just appreciate a big, bold swing at something new on principle.

But wow do they ever look like ass in reality.

Is that not how it still works? When I download a file, it either goes straight to the Downloads folder, or to an app-specific subfolder within Downloads. And there’s a Files app that lets you go through the file system (although I’m sure there are some system folders that aren’t accessible without rooting). I don’t think I’ve ever been confused about where a file is saved.

Yeah, that just never seems to work for long. I currently have it set to 35-45, and it’s showing me 20-somethings. And I live in a huge city, so it’s not like it’s running out of people in my age range to show me.

In my experience, it doesn’t matter what you set your age or distance range to in Tinder, because you’re going to get people 10 years older or younger and a hundred miles farther away than you specify anyway.

I use the Control D private DNS, which performs similar functions to a pi-hole, but I think is easier to set up.

Only $500 if billed annually (16% savings)

Only $500 if billed annually (16% savings)

When I had a Pixel 6, there was a bug that caused awful battery drain when on 5G, so I changed the preferred network setting to LTE for like a month while waiting for them to fix the issue.

It had NO effect on my regular use at all. Running speed tests showed that my max download speed was significantly slower while using LTE, but that’s obviously not indicative of real world usage. If there was any difference between LTE and 5G in terms of page loading, media streaming, etc during regular daily activities, it wasn’t perceptible.

I’m in the same boat. I make drives that require refueling even if I leave home with a full tank once every other year (Philly to Indianapolis). Even with a very high range EV, that would probably require multiple recharges each way, so that’s not a great use case for EVs, but you know what? That’s what rental cars are for. I’ll happily get an EV for the 99% of driving that I do within three hours of the Philly metro area and rent an ICE car for the at worst annual trip I take that isn’t convenient in an EV.

Of course, this is all theoretical for me because I drive a company car and so don’t have much choice in my vehicle, and I probably won’t have to buy my own car until that job perk goes away.

It’s wild that in the few instances where the generative AI feature would actually work quite well (summarizing lists of distinct instructions), it often pushes long-form video instead.

Holy shit, $170 a year for pro? Who on Earth thinks it’s worth that? SAAS is generally an infuriating model, but I definitely think I get $100 worth of use out of Office 365 over the course of a year. Evernote is just not that useful.

Mainstream media definitely won’t cover this.

Whoa, crazy to hear that.

Vaxxed?

A real shame. The first generation product was such a piece of crap and the product name itself was so incredibly bad that by the time the Zune HD, which was better than any competing product in just every every way, came out, the damage to the brand was irreparable.