Notices by Sean Heber (bigzaphod@mastodon.social), page 5

My feelings about this feature are somewhere between horrified and appalled.

I admit that sometimes it might be useful, but I think at this point I'm willing to live without it because... :yikes:.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

It's an almost perfect encapsulation of how I've been feeling lately about Apple as a company - that they've very much lost touch with "real people" entirely. The people calling the shots are too rich and too spoiled and can't relate.

I'm sure it's easy to argue, "that's way overthinking it" except I didn't come up with this thought to write an article for a blog or whatever - this hit me *immediately* within the moment as I watched the ad. I was cringing before it was even finished. I think I even uttered, "ugh that's really bad optics, Apple" under my breath.

IMO, it's damming that no one in the (likely long) chain of people who had to approve the ad was willing to think different about it and go back to the drawing board.

I didn't like that Apple crushing ad, either. I cringed.

I understand the conceit of the ad - cramming all of this stuff/capability into a single magical iPad - but the execution was in poor taste, IMO.

All I saw was wastefulness. It's one thing to run with the idea that someone can replicate all of those things they probably don't have using just this one device they could buy right now, but it's quite another to imply that all of it needed to be destroyed for the iPad to pop into existence.

I always see people recommend Brother printers, but they seem to have a weird scummy looking subscription thing. Is that new? Or is it just that Brother doesn't require it and doesn't do DRM on the toner replacements?

Pretty dumb that the media keeps saying things like, "this is the trial of the century" when they know for a fact there are more trials coming for the guy.

Tonight's movie night movie will be, "Sneakers (1992)." My voice is my passport. Verify Me.

I was hesitant to start Foundation season 2 because while I didn't hate season 1, it was just... kinda slow and felt like somehow it could have had more substance or something. Now we're close to the end of season 2 and I'm kinda pissed because I want more episodes. 😛

Happy it got renewed for a 3rd season - it feels like there are a million little interesting threads they can keep tugging at.

It looks like we only lost 0.6% of Project Tapestry backers due to credit card failures.

Just realized today is March 0th.

Just think, if Elon had waited a couple of years, he could have bought 11 million Apple Vision Pros instead of Twitter.

OMG less than $500 away! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconfactory/project-tapestry

Wow! The Project Tapestry kickstarter just crossed 50%! 🎉 I hope this means we can make it across the finish line before the end!

I just saw a banner ad that I thought said, "HEALTHY POUTINE" and I'm thinking to myself, "that's impossible and defeats the point of poutine and yet I'm now intrigued..." Then I realized it actually said, "HEALTHY ROUTINE" at which point I immediately lost interest in it.

Petition to rename the "delete" key to "yeet."

Just showed the kids Windows 95 running in a browser (🤯) and the thing they were amazed about is how clean it was. No toolbars everywhere, no junk in the task bar, nothing that looked like ads, etc. It's sad how things have evolved.

@Sonikku haha - classic.

There's a very fine line between a jokey troll reply that's fun and an asshole troll reply that can ruin someone's day. I don't quite know where that line is, but for the first type, I can respect it and might even enjoy it and respond/fav/whatever. The second kind tempts me to use the block button.

I usually assume most people are trying to be lighthearted and so I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt but do and say nothing. Still, though, it gnaws at me that I may never know for sure.

Homemade deep dish pizza!

I spent much of yesterday researching options to send transactional emails from https://indiestorygeek.com (things like "welcome new user" and "here's your password reset link") because Gmail temporarily banned us for a few hours the day before and I didn't want that to happen again.