#Writer for hire. Mostly #tech, #Apple, #games, design. Smashes out words for #Wired, #Stuff, TapSmart and #Wireframe. He/him. GF/DF. Likes #Lego and Mini #Schnauzers. Email: hello at craiggrannell dot com
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Last Notes npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Well, I guess there’s a first time for everything. :( npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1xj8…egqe if only there was a way to work with the EU to have “movement” that had “freedom”. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub16u7…uend Have any of their movies even been any good? I’ve not watched any. Some of the shows have been though. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub16u7…uend I wonder if it’ll do an Apple Arcade, then. Shift from quality to stickiness. More old stuff than new. And in doing so, eradicate what made it good in the first place. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1qw5…037m I love the Dreamzzz line. Terrible cartoon, but so much imagination in the sets. This one is properly bonkers. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell The 10yo recently had her birthday, and was fortunate enough to get some money from various folks. We’d recently been into Game and saw a flagship Lego set knocked down from £120 to £80. I said we could go today and see if it was still there, and I warned it may well not be – that was a really good bargain after all. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Weeknote: lights out edition! npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Apple somehow considers this a threat. I mean, come on. #iDOS #retrogaming npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Column! How Apple’s iPadOS 18 killed pro-user hopes for the M4 iPad Pro • https://www.stuff.tv/features/how-apples-ipados-18-killed-pro-users-hopes-for-the-m4-ipad-pro/ npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Note the total omission in this keynote of anything to do with the environment. #WWDC24 npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1utv…87lr Although ChatGPT is… yeah. I’m concerned people will take all this stuff as-is, without checking accuracy of basically anything. I’ve found GPT laughable for summaries. (Otter is v bad too.) npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1utv…87lr No mention of Voice Memos transcripts, which is wild. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1utv…87lr Dunno. That Mac Notes shot was a bit ARGH though for Souvler npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell YouTube increasingly feels deranged. I’m trying to watch a video and there’s an ad about every few minutes. I get YouTube is urging people to the paid tier, but honestly this is just starting to wean me off of YouTube entirely. (And the war on blockers means on mobile I can’t turn on something for this video. Nothing I have installed works. Videos now just pinwheel when they hit an ad. If anyone has any advice, I’ll happily receive it. Or I might just download this vid and watch elsewhere.) npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Column! Google’s AI disasters are a warning shot for Apple’s iOS 18 AI plans • https://www.stuff.tv/features/googles-ai-disasters-are-a-warning-shot-for-apples-ios-18-ai-plans/ npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub14cj…gy5e I totally want to see you do this now, but with an iPad. https://www.reddit.com/r/EmulationOniOS/s/ZNR1p503Bb npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell This Reddit thread does not inspire confidence about the future of Bartender. And that sucks, because Bartender is a great app. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1qw5…037m Now I don't know what to think. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1qw5…037m Turns out my internal US > UK English translator is running behind my double-take-o-meter, given that it’s late on a Friday. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell I bet there are still idiots yelling “but her emails”. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub19x0…9ve7 That face is very much: “*Someone* did something terrible to my toy. Look!” npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub15zu…s7lx our local ones do the same. Many of their comms resemble those from the Greens. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Judging by what I’m seeing, Apple is using a lot of automation of late in app review. And it’s not going well. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub15zu…s7lx No, but it will be rampantly hypocritical. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell And, yes, I’m updating a massive apps round-up with a dozen new apps. And, no, I’m not having much fun with everything, because almost no-one has suitable imagery for use online, let alone in print. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell So who else in the UK is currently watching a live stream of a door? npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1hqx…944s Yep. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Older me is currently wondering how younger me ever dealt with that tiny Game Boy Micro display. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Wondering how big a Game Boy can get before things start getting a wee bit silly. #retrogaming npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub15zu…s7lx It’s astonishing how poor a grasp every single version of this party has had on soft power since at least 2017. And it just gets worse and worse. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Cheery column time! Why Google AI will help you – but kill the web as we know it • https://www.stuff.tv/features/why-google-ai-will-help-you-but-kill-the-web-as-we-know-it/ npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell I see with ReteoArch on iOS, the “#emulation is illegal” rubbish has clawed its way back into the daylight. Emulators are legal. Yes, many files people load into them may not be legit but that doesn’t make the tech itself illegal any more than it makes e-readers, music players and video players illegal. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1nr9…xmdh No JIT allowed on iOS. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Current limitations of iOS emulation rather stark when mucking around with PPSSPP, which with an iPhone 15 Pro Max is giving me less clout than my Retroid Pocket 3+. Still: early days. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Update on the weird payment issue, from the publisher that said I’d been paid and the payment totally definitely went through and this is clearly all your bank’s fault and please stop bothering us: npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Good review, but: “I don’t think anyone was asking for a lighter iPad Pro” npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell UK folks: npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell This. When I’m in a car, my map app will instantly reroute and give me a time to destination. When I fire it up on a train, it has no idea what’s going on and routes me as if I at that second just got catapulted out of the window. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Lots of arguments still raging about that Apple ad. Some claiming things have changed. Apple is too big now. It would have got away with it if it wasn’t for those pesky kids*. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1hqx…944s I pitty the foo’ who uses iCloud, etc? npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Me: I’d like to share this ZIP archive. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell No-mow May not the world’s biggest success so far. But nice to see a few of these doddering about. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Interesting to see how furiously angry people are with the new Apple iPad Pro ad. So many have responded to it as an ad that’s destroying creativity and replacing it with digital. My take is that it’s about how Apple has crammed possibilities into an ‘impossibly thin’ device. But the execution of said ad leaves a lot to be desired. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Looks like the UK weather has finally found the heating dial. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1sdu…w074 For initial compositions and sketches on the sofa, yes. It’s fine for melodies, rhythms and crafting basic sounds/patches. I move to the Mac with my Ruarks and/or proper headphones when mixing properly. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1sdu…w074 I very often use Gadget (a DAW) in portrait. So losing the stereo image would impact one of my biggest use cases. But I dunno. I’m torn. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1sdu…w074 iPad: a mirror npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1sdu…w074 I hadn’t even thought about the always-on display. That’s a big miss. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Apple: The M4 is fantastic! npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Writing about the C64 now. Opening line: “The best 8-bit micro of all time.” I’m sure that’s a statement that will cause no arguments or problems whatsoever. :D npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1yyx…qa5g Pigeons putting two or three sticks down randomly, stepping back and going “Look at my masterpiece!” npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1qw5…037m likewise. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1vgg…pm2j one step away from that Black Mirror episode. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell “without an insect-rich ecosystem, there would be no gardens at all” npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1sdu…w074 I mean, you got a free polybag, so that makes it all worthwhile, right? npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1hvd…9sq9 I can’t imagine a world in which I earned $200/hr. A couple of half days per week and you’d be sorted. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Finished my day of corporate work. Needed to do something from a mag. Went to grab a drink. Got a great line in my head to kick off an entirely different article. Procrastinated from the thing I was supposed to be doing by writing the frame for the other piece, which I’ve just done a count on and discovered it’s ~50% of what I’m supposed to file, and it all came out in about ten minutes. And it all works. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1sdu…w074 There’s a Lightroom app that has a camera built in. It’s… adequate. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1yyx…qa5g Oh man. I’ve not listened to that in far too long. Higher Than The Sun (dub symphony) always lifts me up too. Really good connections to parts of my life. A couple of Banco tracks manage the same trick. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Adobe just sent Photoshop Camera to a farm upstate. A pity. I really liked that app. https://helpx.adobe.com/mobile-apps/help/photoshop-camera-end-of-support.html npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1sdu…w074 Indeed. I’m all for innovation. I like the notion of dedicated devices. But these things lack any reason to exist, beyond making people feel good about AI. Well, until they use them. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Facebook’s current thing of whacking posts from groups I’m not a member of in my feed, in a cunning attempt to have been reply to someone and sign up for them is obnoxious in the extreme. Not a fan. Rating: STOP IT RIGHT NOW out of ten. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Yikes. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145838/rabbit-r1-android-app-pixel-6a npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Feeling a bit frog/lilypad with spring right now. Every time I open my weather app, reasonable temperatures always seem just out of reach. Would be quite nice if that high pressure system that’s been gleefully hurling Arctic air across the UK for ages now would quietly naff off. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell iPad now under the DMA, then: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-29/apple-s-ipad-hit-by-eu-s-digital-dominance-crackdown npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Column! Just say no: not every piece of tech needs subscriptions and AI • https://www.stuff.tv/features/just-say-no-not-every-piece-of-tech-needs-subscriptions-and-ai/ npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Still quite something to think that at some point, Wally ‘Hagar’ Beben was asked to sort a bit of music for the C64 version of Tetris. OK, he said, and composed a *26-minute* masterpiece on a 3-channel sound chip (that you could also ‘hack’ an extra sample channel into). npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell A great advert here for Logitech… … …’s rivals. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1vgg…pm2j Lots of Brits looking at that and thinking: WOULD. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1g0t…tvm4 npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1yyx…qa5g Someone recently suggested retrogaming meant the PS3. And then I had to have a little sit down. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1utv…87lr I use Music on macOS every day. It’s my main player. That it has rabid fanbois… I mean, it shouldn’t surprise me, but it still somehow does. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1yyx…qa5g I’m quite excited that Mini-G just – finally – got hooked on iPlayer. Which means we can probably bin our Netflix sub soon. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell People defending owners of old gaming IP all day long. Look, I get it. And #emulation is often iffy. But imagine if other mediums were like gaming. 99% of music and film inaccessible unless you owned original hardware and original media, slowly degrading and liable to die at any moment. It’s insane that gaming is in the place it is. I’d long hoped for an ‘iTunes for MAME’ years ago, but no. The closest we’ve got to something remotely sensible is ‘Netflix for #retrogaming’ Antstream Arcade. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell My first piece this week on Delta and iPhone emulation: Why an iPhone Game Boy emulator is a bigger deal than you think • https://www.tapsmart.com/features/why-emulation-matters/ #retrogaming npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1hqx…944s I’ve no idea. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Just read on MacStories that Delta is #1 in the US App Store. Last I looked, it’s #1 in the UK App Store. But, sure, no-one cares about emulators on iPhone. (Something certain commentators have been claiming for a long time now, presumably because Apple didn’t want emulators on iPhone.) npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Weather apps: “possible light rain” npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell It almost feels like Apple is trolling Riley at this point. I was unaware things were quite this bad. None of this is OK. But I can’t imagine Apple will make things right. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub15zu…s7lx Although probably not mine. (Fish allergy.) :D npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1hqx…944s honestly, I bet my 9yo would bloody love that. (Loves playing games. Dislikes competition. Well, bar MarioKart, where she kicks arse.) npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Any Amstrad CPC fans on here? What would be the five games you would HAVE to put on a list of the very best for the system? (I have my own ideas, but would love input from other people.) npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub16u7…uend Krasy times! npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1sdu…w074 That… is perfect. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Earlier, I posted on Threads about Apple allowing emulators. Someone apparently interpreted that as the EU encouraging copyright infringement and pointedly asking me if that’s a good thing. And I’m all… what? npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1hqx…944s As in, this? https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/duet-game/id634235735 npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell The latest entry in my classic #iPhone #app series is Ferrite, a superb and ambitious podcast creation suite. Have a read to find out from its creator how and why the app was made: https://www.tapsmart.com/features/classics-ferrite/ npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Deep into another classic #iPhone #app interview, from a developer who was very generous with their time, and hoping they won’t be upset with me cutting the output back to something that is manageable for our readers. Always a delicate balancing act. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Would quite like to file an article before, I dunno, midnight, but iCloud Drive has other ideas. Currently uploading at something like 100kb/sec. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1qw5…037m I assume with RTD being back, it’ll all be VERY LOUD MUSIC and ALL THE BOMBAST ALL THE TIME again. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Enjoying the new Doctor Who trailers, but really hoping the sound mix isn’t going to carry through and revert back to the RTD says of LOUD MUSIC drowning out all the dialogue. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1xj8…egqe try not to panic but someone appears to have installed lasers in your cat. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell You know Apple has a tech problem when your 9yo is complaining about the HomePod you bought to replace a *first gen* Echo. (She’s unhappy how Siri “isn’t fun”, “doesn’t give you good answers” and that it is triggered far too often when you’re just talking. I’m also deeply unimpressed with it from a playback standpoint. Takes far too long to respond to devices. Mind you, I’ve also of late found my two Apple TVs are also less responsive than they used to be. Not sure what’s going on there. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub15zu…s7lx surge back like, I dunno, vinyl. Sharp growth over what exists today but to a point waaaaay below what existed before. And even that is far from a given. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1sdu…w074 here’s mine: npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Quite something that some people hand-waved away straight-up oppression in China and didn’t suggest Apple should pull out of the region, but the second the EU rocks up with some regulation, folks are screaming that Apple should just pull out of the entire EU. npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell Canva needs to tread carefully. A ton of goodwill related to Serif is based around its relatively small and caring nature combined with it NOT having a subscription. Kinda the opposite of Canva really. If it messes up what Serif built, quite a few folks may well just switch back to Adobe (unless they’re using iPads because Adobe still isn’t exactly winning on that platform). npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub15zu…s7lx Yeah, but what if they changed twice? Or three times? Or five? Plenty of time yet before January! ;) npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub1qw5…037m Or, you know, an entirely different weekend. BUT! I did dig out the 353M earlier. It has Wi-Finsi can run Splore, and it’ll run p8 files too. Not sure what OS I’m running. I’d have to check that. My unit is a bit noisy on network as well (a known issue with some 353Ms). npub17v4y7g66wyw2h34j57tzgj2y3aqu5awq0s8t35vmt77u80gyyp9q9zcrf6 Craig Grannell @npub16u7…uend If it wasn’t for the EU, the US wouldn’t have felt compelled to do this, or something.
