Notices by Matt Birchler (matt@isfeeling.social), page 2

I’ve defended Goolge search for years, but their AI answers suck so hard https://birchtree.me/blog/ive-defended-goolge-search-for-years-but-their-ai-answers-suck-so-hard/

Currently imagining the chaos that would ensue in this community if the new iPad Pro is the same as the last 3 models but with OLED 🙈

#Threads reminds you after 30 days of sharing to the fediverse that you’re doing it and gives the option to go turn it off if you don’t want it anymore.

I miss having an iPad https://birchtree.me/blog/i-miss-having-an-ipad/

Links prominently at the top is an improvement.

I’m not against using generative AI tools to help, I am opposed to them being used to pretend the rest of the web doesn’t exist.
https://www.threads.net/@parkerortolani/post/C5EOX35uoPt

Although I will say this generated pros and cons overview is supremely unhelpful. Generic and broad as horoscopes 😂 Apply this to basically any big budget movie based on existing material and those general things would be said.

There are people in this world who meticulously rename their browser bookmarks and those who just use whatever the page title was and don't care.

These groups will never understand each other.

Like buying an iPhone in 2007 https://birchtree.me/blog/like-buying-an-iphone-in-2007/

@thomasfuchs Interesting, those all seem to be people selling before it came out, but the ones since then have gone for much higher.

Anyway, just thought the blanket statement that their value on eBay was below market was incomplete ✌️

@thomasfuchs Filtering for which ones have sold shows them going for upwards of $1,000 over retail price, though, so that one listing isn't really telling the full story right now. Maybe it'll drop across the board, but I don't see that yet.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=apple%20vision%20pro&_sacat=0&_fsrp=1&_udlo=2000&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc

“Mom, can we get a Vision Pro?!”

“No honey, we have Vision Pro at home.”

Vision Pro at home…

Shot in the dark, but does anyone have a Shortcut that converts a file to .mp3?

I do this quite often with .m4a files, but my workflow is:

- open m4a in Fission for Mac
- export file as mp3

It's not terrible, but it really feels like this should be automated, and I'm kinda surprised Fission doesn't support shortcuts at all.

PS when on iOS, I do basically the same thing with Ferrite, although it's numerous more steps in the app in that case.

Am I crazy or are Apple’s changes based on the DMA actually quite good? Their press release is as sassy as I’ve ever seen from them, but the changes seem to be positive to me on first read.

"Concept: a new Mastodon UX for asking questions https://birchtree.me/blog/concept-a-new-mastodon-ux-for-asking-questions/"

#GoPackGo 👀 🎉

My wife: do you know anything about this NameDrop thing? I keep seeing posts online about it just giving my info to random people on the street? This sounds crazy.

The FUD around NameDrop this past week has been wild. My wife is a teacher and there’s apparently a far that this will give students their teachers’ home address just by being in the same room. Truly embarrassing coverage on this one.

I'm still so pleased with the Mastodon 4.2 update that bumped hashtags at the end of post below the rest of the content. Great job, @Gargron and team 🙌

Bonus shout out to @nileane's custom CSS which makes them look even better https://github.com/nileane/TangerineUI-for-Mastodon

Mastodon working on nicer hashtags https://birchtree.me/blog/mastodon-working-on-nicer-hashtags/

Lots of comments recently on my channel from people immediately NOPEing on an app with a subscription.

I'm starting to feel like the App Store wrecked people's expectations for what software they can use with basically zero cost. When everything was like $1-5, you could buy every single cool app that people talked about, and not really feel the pain.

Downside is most companies could not sustain themselves on that little revenue, so many didn't make it.

Google now lets you sign into your account with a #passkey. Go here to set it up on your account today! https://g.co/passkeys

And yes, you can use your iPhone to set up the passkey, which will sync to all your personal Apple devices nicely. #security