It’s the best day of 2023, the day I received my Apple History Calendar for 2024! Just look at those cute-as-can-be stickers that @ismh@eworld.social included. 🥹
🎙️ Holy smokes, great tip @viticci@macstories.net! Our PS5 has been plugged into Ethernet for…3+ years and I never knew it was falling back to Wi-Fi. 60 seconds to go through the settings and set up the wired connection and now it’s getting 6x the download speed! Sony should revisit that default.
This is exactly the out-of-the-box thinking I like to see from big companies. I’d totally sign up for those services and I wouldn’t pay for Netflix in my car. This CEO knows they should own the car experience, and it’s a different goal than owning everything people do in their car. Great interview.
Does anyone know of an ‘Open in Apple News’ extension or something? Or a URL scheme to open a link in News? I have News+ so there are articles like @joannastern@mastodon.world’s columns that are paywalled on the web but I could read in full in the app. Right now I search for the title in the app.
Some existing products I’m keenly interested in that I probably would have already bought if Apple made them:
- Pixel Fold
- Ray Ban Meta Smart Glasses
- Humane Ai Pin
I know I’m behind on this Apple Event Quiz from The Verge, but ya boy’s still got it! 💪
For the rest of the Hannah Waddingham/Ted Lasso fans out there: youtu.be/C4LlimNcl…
A throwback to this Jason Sudeikis gem.
Why is it often so alluring to write about the tools we use to write instead of, you know, anything else?
It is for me too, but it makes me wonder how much time I’d reclaim if I just accepted the tool as it is. If I didn’t feel compelled to tinker and make workarounds. But then what would I write?
Could we make a sensor that determines what temperature a specific person is feeling, not the ambient air temperature around them? For example, let’s say it’s 72 degrees but one person is hot and one is cold. Imagine if a heating/cooling system could automatically account for that.
🎙️ Legacy Series: Yvon Chouinard, Founder of Patagonia, Muses About His Early Days of Climbing
You probably know Yvon Chouinard as the founder of the Patagonia clothing company. But that man sure has lived a full life outside of selling outdoor sportswear, and done a lot of good. 🧗
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A new report from ET News today offers more details on the future of the iPad. One of the most notable tidbits to me: an iPad mini with a larger 8.7-inch OLED display is in the works.
Pair it up with a Magic Keyboard and I’m all in. I generally find the 11-inch iPad Pro a little too big, but the Mini a lttle too small to pair with a comfortable keyboard cover. I’d try an in-betweener to replace them both.
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Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.
I didn’t have ‘OpenAI mutiny’ on my Bingo card for this Friday, particularly after all the success they’ve been enjoying. But a “deliberative review process” makes it sound like he really fucked something up. I’m curious to learn more.
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On Wednesday, Replicate developer Charlie Holtz combined GPT-4 Vision (commonly called GPT-4V) and ElevenLabs voice cloning technology to create an unauthorized AI version of the famous naturalist David Attenborough narrating Holtz’s every move on camera. As of Thursday afternoon, the X post describing the stunt had garnered over 21,000 likes.
This video is amazing. I so want David Attenborough to narrate my life.
🔗 Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year - 9to5Mac
Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS […] messaging standard. The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users.
Heyo! Good timing on the part of Clockwise. I got my thoughts down on this topic just last week when I crashed their show. I’m surprised but glad to see Apple jump aboard. Hopefully they can influence the global standard to be more secure for iOS and Android users alike.
In the interest of testing herself one more time, in late August she traveled to France to run the UTMB again. She won that race too, becoming the first person in history to win all three races in a single summer. “She’s one of those humans who defy even the concept of an outlier,” says Clare Gallagher, a former Western States winner who has raced against Dauwalter in the past. “I look at her summer and I have no words. It’s truly hard to conceptualize.”
These race distances and the times that Courtney Dauwalter is putting up on them boggles the mind. 🤯🏃♀️
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There are a number of infections we can pick up throughout the year, some worse than others. While we’ve always been told to avoid working out while sick, it’s tempting to ask how sick is sick, and what counts as “working out”? Is a light walk OK, or should you avoid any activity altogether? Can you do weights at home? Here’s the real question: When (if ever) is it OK to exercise while you’re sick?
I overdid it recently and have been facing the consequences for a couple of weeks now. It’ll make me think twice next time.
🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #529: ‘Dear Tim Apple, You Fix It’
If you’re not on the recording, but you still answer all the questions afterward…are you considered part of the podcast?
I just released version 1.0 of my ‘Make Spoken Audio of Text’ shortcut.
This shortcut creates an .m4a audio file from any text that you pass into it. By default, it’ll generate an audio clip with one of the default Siri voices, but you can change the voice to any one loaded on your device. It will ask you for a filename, and then will save the audio file to your Downloads folder.
Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
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Yaccarino is proud that Twitter extends its permissiveness to the limit of local laws, which means it would rather censor users in Turkey than withdraw its services in protest. Also, it is only to happy to censor posts worldwide critical of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. Also, its owner threatens lawsuits in the U.S. against legal speech. That is the kind of free expression Yaccarino is proud of for Twitter.
Nick Heer, as usual, cuts through the bullshit with a honed knife.
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Why do some people insist on sucking so bad? Also, I’m quite disappointed that this headline doesn’t read “IMB and Apple pull X ads…” Come on, Apple.
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Starting next year, you’ll be able to buy a car on Amazon for the first time. The company announced a deal with Hyundai that will allow dealerships to sell cars through the site.
Okay, but does it arrive with free Prime shipping?
Someone should probably mention to Apple’s gift guide team that they haven’t sold an iMac with an Apple logo on the chin for over two years now. Not even on the Refurbished store.
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Microsoft has created a Windows App for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, Windows, and web browsers. The app essentially takes the previous Windows 365 app and turns it into a central hub for streaming a copy of Windows from a remote PC, Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365, Microsoft Dev Box, and Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Services.
I kind of think this is going to be Microsoft’s preferred solution instead of Windows for ARM via Boot Camp on Apple-silicon Macs.
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But now, the skip button has been joined by a new ‘Add’ button. Pressing Add directly adds the title to the user’s Up Next queue, allowing them to keep track of it and get notified when new episodes drop.
A small logotype of the show is also displayed above the buttons, which helps contextualize the action.
Better would be an option to turn off those trailers, but if they’re sticking around then they might as well be more useful.
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Google is testing new generative AI features for YouTube that’ll let people create music tracks using just a text prompt or a simple hummed tune. The first, Dream Track, already seeded to a few creators on the platform, is designed to auto-generate short 30-second music tracks in the style of famous artists. The feature can imitate nine different artists, who’ve chosen to collaborate with YouTube on its development.
Oh boy, here we go!