I’m less bothered about the App Store than I am just allowing these devices with these very powerful chips to stretch their wings.
And it’s just simple things, too. iPadOS should allow you to have two different audio tracks going at once. It can handle that. But it’s too skewed to being a “bigger iPhone” than it is a “smaller MacBook.”
And I honestly love my iPad. Using it right this moment with a wireless KB and trackpad. And I’m happy I can extend the display relatively easily to a monitor now, too.
But it could definitely be so much more if the handcuffs were taken off.
Get ready for in about ten years we’ll see — even more than right now — how much methane pulled from the earth is screwing us. By then I feel like national news sources will finally start talking about how wasteful methane is and how much is leaking (and not used just wasted) from pipes all day every day that isn’t accounted for. I,mean, I guess that’s exactly what this article is about. But we need more talk about this all the time.
Climate Town had a great video about this that came out last week.
The $20-30 cheap garbage is exactly what it is: cheap garbage.
Apple charges a premium for their streaming box, but guess what: the 4K AppleTV they released in 2017 is still going strong. I’ve had this thing for seven years, it shows no ads on the main screen, and still gets updates. And it’s still fast as hell.
Maybe the enshittification is just on all these Android streamers? I have a Chromecast with GoogleTV in my bedroom, and it’s fine. But it’s just about two years old and already sluggish (especially compared to the AppleTV), and every time I turn it on it takes longer than it should to update the Home Screen with trash I don’t care about.
"Our results do not indicate that occasional consumption should pose a risk to most consumers," said Dr. Francesco Branca, director of the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety at the WHO, during a press conference in Geneva. He said the problem is for "high consumers" of diet soda or other foods that contain aspartame. "We have, in a sense, raised a flag here," Branca said, and he called for more research.
But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it disagrees with this new classification, pointing to evidence of safety. In a written statement, an FDA official told NPR that aspartame being labeled by the WHO "as 'possibly carcinogenic to humans' does not mean that aspartame is actually linked to cancer."
The WHO has long set the acceptable daily intake, or ADI, of aspartame at a maximum of 40 milligrams per kilogram of body weight per day. So, a person who weighs 60 kilograms (about 130 pounds), could consume up to 2,400 milligrams per day, which is roughly equivalent to 12 cans of Diet Coke — much higher than most people consume.
The Hulu app runs so much faster on my appleTV than the Disney app, so while the idea of having them bunched together isn’t a terrible one from a user’s perspective, I’ll still just jump to Hulu when I want to watch that content because everything is snappier.
I’m less bothered about the App Store than I am just allowing these devices with these very powerful chips to stretch their wings.
And it’s just simple things, too. iPadOS should allow you to have two different audio tracks going at once. It can handle that. But it’s too skewed to being a “bigger iPhone” than it is a “smaller MacBook.”
And I honestly love my iPad. Using it right this moment with a wireless KB and trackpad. And I’m happy I can extend the display relatively easily to a monitor now, too.
But it could definitely be so much more if the handcuffs were taken off.