knotthatone

@knotthatone@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Apple designers launch $700 Humane AI Pin as smartphone replacement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I really don’t know what to think of this thing. It’s a bit like a combadge from Star Trek with a camera and small monochrome projector. I like the idea behind it, handling most of the utilitarian features smartphones bring without the games and social media distractions. The AI stuff is neat, but I don’t know how well baked any of it is and that’s really going to be what makes or breaks something like this.

  Price is a bit high, and I don’t know how I feel about the subscription–I guess it’s not bad if you think of this as a full cellphone replacement, but that’s a tall order with something this new and dorky. There’s probably a 90%+ chance this becomes short-lived vaporware/abandonware, but who knows. I’d love to see something succeed that gets people’s faces out of their cellphones and back to interacting in person more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple will be able to update iPhones while they're still in the box, report claims⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If they design the process efficiently it shouldn’t burn too much battery to update the system image. The phone just needs to power up, connect to store wifi, apply the image and shut down. Doesn’t even need to power up the screen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity CEO John Riccitiello is retiring, effective immediately⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  He didn’t fail. He did what the board asked of him which proved to be more unpopular than they all had expected. So they gave him an obscenely generous severance package and sent him on his merry way.

  He’s been rewarded and they’re just trying to position it so it looks like the company leadership gives a shit and won’t try the exact same thing at a later date.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple deliberately makes it appear that way so the competition looks bad.

  They don’t really advertise the fact that they’re quietly intercepting all of their customers messages to other customers and routing them through a proprietary network.

  And if you dare leave, messages from your old iPhone friends mysteriously won’t arrive unless you proactively deregister your number from iMessage or it eventually expires out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Part of why internet search sucks is that many gave up trying in the face of Google.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  At the time, they gave better results and the clean and simple design got right to it without all of the BANNER! BANNER! HONK!HONK! of the competitors.

  They had ads, but they were just text links that said they were ads and weren’t playing games with rankings based on who bribed them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it still has potential but it needs more time to grow

  There were lots of interesting online communities with great information and conversations before Reddit but they mostly died out as people moved on to other platforms. It’s a tale as old as time.

  Lemmy’s just a platform and communities take a while to grow and there’s no guarantee they even will

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Both two AMAZING space shows from the 90s with wars and politics and good ol' shenanigans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. I loved both, but I think B5 hit harder and is more relevant.

  The effects were what they were. B5 had like half of DS9’s budget. DS9 still used mostly practical effects and models until season 6 which hold up better too, especially vs. early TV CGI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm still disappointed that SNW Klingons sound like a boy band.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But it had to be something that the Klingons found very upsetting. If it was opera, they’d just keep rolling with it and having a great time