basskitten @ basskitten @lemmy.world

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The most money I ever made in the music industry was being part of a class action lawsuit against MTV. Record sales and live shows are nothing.

You should watch the film, it’s great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_M_uvDChJQ

Homer: "Reverse Psychology? Oh that sounds too complicated."
Homer's Brain: "Fine. DON'T use reverse psychology."
Homer: "OK I WILL!!"

Since it was completely server-hosted it was incredibly fast. You'd open it up and boom, everything all up to date. The search was fantastic. (Say what you will about Google but they've always been great at search. Very fast and very good results.) The site layout was clean and minimal. It was just a really good implementation. Of course they murdered it.

If you used Gmail in the early days, and ever used something before it, you probably had a moment where you said "wow, this is what email should have been all along". Reader was the same.

That's what I did! Over time I stopped looking at Feedly though. I replaced it with Reddit and Twitter mainly. Now that those sites have become Pure Evil I switched over to Apple News. I already pay for the Plus thing as part of the family bundle so might as well use it. The "Following" tab works like a personally-curated RSS feed list. If you want an algorithmic approach, you can use the "Today" tab.

The one main feature it's still lacking that I really want is a pure chronological list of everything from my Following sources/topics. I sent them feedback so I'm sure it will show up any time in the next 5-15 years.

Photos will automatically categorize pictures by person, place, thing, etc... I never bother making folders or albums because I can just search by date or place or "black cat" or whatever. If the system can't figure it out on its own you can easily multi-select a bunch of pictures and add keywords, which can then be searched. If you really don't want to see the whole unfiltered camera roll ever you can just stay away from the library entry. If you are in "My Albums", for instance, and quit the app, when you come back you'll still be there.

I guess I don't really understand what you're looking for.

My daughter wrote a report on video game development when she was in 5th or 6th grade. Through some connections we got an invite to go to Double Fine studios and have a sit down with Tim Schaefer. He is exactly what you would hope. Nicest guy in the world, absolutely loves what he does and loves talking about it. He gave my daughter a tour of the place, showed her how they thought about designing games, talked her ear off for more than an hour, gave her some keepsakes (design documents from some games they had shipped).

For Psychonauts 1, to really get inside the characters heads, they created their own fake internal Facebook-type site and play acted how all the characters would interact on social media.

You can download lossless with Apple Music and listen to it with no data connection.

He technically didn’t. It was originally owned by George Lucas! But it was mostly just the cgi arm of his special effects. Jobs bought it off Lucas and turned it into the Pixar movie studio we think of today. (Jobs is credited as executive producer on the original Toy Story)

Unfortunately the communities that I'm interested in didn't really move. I tried very hard to just quit Reddit cold turkey, but instead I've dialed it back to only 4-5 core topics that I'm interested in. For general doomscrolling I mostly use Apple News now. I check Lemmy every day or two but it's hard to get stuck in when the discussions I'm interested in aren't really flourishing here. Hopefully it grows over time.

Cyberpunk 2077. I waited a year for the bugs to be sorted out, got it for half price, and it was just a very blah game. The Ascent is a way better game both in terms of being cyberpunk-y and also just being a fun game.

Just keep it on Catalina and use that until it dies. I gave my dad a 2011 MacBook Air a while ago and that hasn't been updated since High Sierra. It still works fine.

The fact that the login UI has username, password, and 2FA code all on one screen means this immediately wins. I hate this new trend of "put in your email, now go to another screen, put in your password, now go to another screen...." Ugh. My password manager can autofill more than one box at a time, you know!

You can get a ps5 now for the price of a decent video card.

Pandora wasn’t only focused on stuff you haven’t heard though. It was a mix. It’s actually closer to the Apple Music “personal station”.

When I worked at Beats Music the office Wi-Fi was “Bits by Dre”.

Sadly, it's just an ancient tower PC that I put together to be a NAS before Synology existed.

I'm as deep in the ecosystem as you can be. I have multiple everything: phone, iPad, Watch, TV, HomePod, many Macs (I'm an Apple developer, it's all business-related!). Subscribe to Apple One Premier for the family. Apple Pay, Apple Card, etc., etc... I'll be first in line for Vision Pro next year.

Basically, if there's an Apple version of something, I will use it over the competition, regardless of any other consideration.

I've been a tech nerd for 40+ years, and honestly, I love it. I built my own PCs for years. I can program assembly language if need be. I've got a Linux box in the closet acting as my home server. It used to do a lot of the internet router stuff, but I moved that to an Airport Extreme many years ago.

I just don't want to mess around with that stuff anymore. For the most part, "it just works" is true. Yes, there are bugs and glitches and frustrating limitations, but show me a hardware/software system that doesn't have them.