🆕📝 You know, I think Apple won its bet on those gold watches
What if the gold Edition watches were about mindshare and not marketshare?
I just watched the new Taylor Swift movie and don’t get the hype. The thing was riddled with plot holes!
🆕📝 ‘Speak Screen’ was the final piece to my ideal read-it-later setup
Turns out™ there was a much easier way than ‘Speak Selection’ to get articles read out loud using accessibility features. And then there was ANOTHER even easier way to kick off the narration. But now it all works super well. 😁
Hey @danielpunkass, say I was thinking about moving my Tweets onto my main microblog to live as equal microposts, but wanted to tag them all as “Tweets”. Is there a way to bulk-add tags to posts?
Here comes another Netflix price hike - The Verge
Netflix is getting another price increase. As part of the streamer’s third quarter earnings results, Netflix announced that starting today, users on its $9.99 per month Basic plan will now have to pay $11.99, and those paying $19.99 per month for Premium will have to pay $22.99. Netflix’s $6.99 ad-supported plan and $15.49 Standard tier will stay the same price.
Damn. $20 was pushing it. $23 feels over the edge just to get 4K quality out of the TV we own. But that’s easy for me to say as the relatively light TV watcher of my wife and me.
Weirdly enough, I think I’d be more likely to move my whole blogging experience to Micro.blog from Blot if @danielpunkass@mastodon.social’s MarsEdit came to iOS. Text files synced with Dropbox are my whole blogging UI with Blot, but that basically means 1Writer & iA Writer are my blogging apps. MarsEdit lets me have that same list of local text files on a Mac, but I’m less keen about having to dive through the web UI of Micro.blog to edit pages and old posts.
Flipped coins found not to be as fair as thought
The researchers found that Diaconis was right—there was a slight bias. They found the coin landed with the same side up as when it was launched 50.8% of the time. […]
The team concludes that while the bias they found is slight, it could be meaningful if multiple coin tosses are used to determine an outcome—for example, flipping a quarter 1,000 times and betting $1 each time (with winnings of 0 or 2$ each round) should result in an average overall win of $19.
Perhaps a (ahem) chance for @jamesthomson@mastodon.social’s unbiased(?) Dice by PCalc.
Teaching tax in school | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman’s blog
Misunderstanding tax also leads to mistrust in government. And a healthy amount of mistrust is necessary in a functioning democracy, but when the system is too opaque, problems become harder to address. Most people have a vague notion that tax is used to pay for things like roads and other infrastructure. However, I think if people fully understood the purpose of taxation and the way that money is regulated and spent, they would be slightly less bitter about it. Maybe.
🆕📝 The Spiciest of New Apple Pencil Hot Takes
Let’s all thank @parkerortolani for the laughs today.
After the FineWoven charging port snafu, now I’m wondering how many USB-C cables are not going to fit in that sliding cap-revealed channel of the new Apple Pencil. Or how many people will try a charging-only, no data cable and have issues with pairing. Going all USB-C will have its own pains.
The will-they, won’t-they iPad mystery appears solved. We got a more sane USB-C Apple Pencil for the 10th-gen iPad that offers a slightly reduced feature set at a slightly reduced price, also good for the rest of the USB-C iPad lineup. MacStories has a good summary of the (lengthy) press release.
🆕📝 Letters with Robert, October 2023 [#1]
In which you meet the fantastic @rsilvernail and hear a few stories of our early escapades.
🆕📝 Letters with Jason, Belated [#3]
This one got a bit moody and abstract. But it was cathartic to finally stitch the thoughts together enough to get them out of my head. Sorry it took so long, @jsonbecker! You sent me a real thinker.
🆕📝 Has Google Safeguarded Its New AI Photo Features or Not?
With ease of use, the waters around AI photo edits have become murky. But I’d argue that Google hasn’t just tossed us in without floaties.
🆕📝 Panzarino on what happens if you cancel iTunes Match when you have Apple Music
TL;DR: You can cancel iTunes Match and not lose anything. Mostly. Kinda. You should probably read it. 😜
🆕📝 Retail iPhone Updater Could Be Awesome — and an Awesome Pain for Employees
Minutes saved for many customers might mean hours added for few employees.
Yes, thank you @manton! I much prefer when your RSS feed always points back to your own domain. Make the external link to whatever you’re highlighting obvious, but I subscribed to you. I want to be taken to your site first. It’s more clear, and clear is better.
The diagonal iPhone camera lenses look waaaaay better than the stacked ones. And better than the 3-lens array on the Pro models. Fight me.
“Not sleeping together is complicated.” I just saw this line from the trailer for ‘Still Up’, an Apple TV+ show about a couple of friendly insomniacs. It produced a chuckle. 😆 I love British comedies.