I decided to take the plunge recently get a new pocket retro gaming device. For the past several years, I’ve been using a Pocket Go S30. I’ve had it for probably six years or so, and while it wasn’t…

Julian Chokkattu • Wired “It’s proof that it can be done—if companies wanted to make eminently fixable modular products, they could,” Proctor says. “There’s no technological reason…

Audio compression was always a giant mystery to me, so let's fix that.

I wanted ⌘P to open Chrome’s Tab Search to leverage my muscle memory from VS Code. Chrome doesn’t let you rebind its built-in shortcuts — ⌘P is wired to Print, Tab Search is wired to ⌘⇧A, and neither…

This post goes over some boring details of making the virtual console more comfortable to work with. There is some systemd-related stuff.

The government sent a noisy alert to every mobile phone in Britain on Friday to tell us not to light a barbecue. I have written about it for Spiked ... The nauseating thing about the national alert…

Smart glasses blur the line between looking and recording. What does that mean for consent, privacy, shared spaces, and the silence of Quaker worship?

In this article, I will go through some of the basics of Copilot Connectors in Microsoft Search, and how to get started with them. Background In 2021, Microsoft took the first steps in making…

Here's a leaked video of Apple's AirPods with embedded cameras. Told you so! Related post: The Case for AirPods with Cameras The more I think about it, the more AirPods with cameras in the stems…

My 2017 Touch Bar MacBook Pro, BetterTouchTool, Theine, iTerm2, OnyX, and three exclusive interviews with the people who kept these Mac apps alive.

Joël Barrière explains how OnyX grew from four checkboxes into a free Mac utility that he has maintained for more than twenty years.

Android phones can be better than the iPhone. Nobody cares, and I think I understand why.

This post is a response to My perfect laptop by Michael Harley. In short, the Framework 13 is essentially my perfect laptop, or damn near close to it. And I'm lucky enough to actually use it as my…

This post was inspired by Ruben’s SailfishOS journey , I recommend that one as well. He’s already covered a lot of this, so I’ll try to list what I do in a different way. I’ve been a SailfishOS user…

A much-improved Kobo setup. I should have installed KOReader a long time ago. I’ve been reading on a Kobo for about two years, after an Amazon-shedding replacement of my Kindle Paperwhite with a Kobo…

Four ways to surface AI Mode and AI Overview queries hiding in Search Console, from a custom regex to a free classifier that labels 100,000 queries per run.

Charles Poynton has repeatedly stated that Dr. Kenichiro Masaoka – the developer of BT.2020 – intended the wide color gamut standard solely as a container, not as a mastering color space.…

I am a fan of what Google does on Android. And Android Messages are MUCH better than iMessage. Or not better, just... more fun?

Summary Every keynote, panel discussion, and research study now agrees: digital transformation is no longer optional for enterprises — it will permanently alter how consumers interact with products…

Let me just say I love Photoshop, and it wasn’t easy to come up with this list. I could easily come up with a “50 things Mojave Paint does better than Affinity Photo” but Photoshop is so rich and so…

Like many Emacs users, I’m a heavy Org mode user. Some time ago I decided that I need a way to access at least some of my Org files on my (Android) phone.

I picked up The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything when it came out in 2022, though I haven't gotten around to reading it until now. The author, Matthew Ball, was a venture…

U.S. efforts to ban Chinese tech are driven by corruption, crafted by incompetent zealots, and normalized by a shitty corporate press.

I was reading Apple’s August 13 court filing in the Epic trial, helpfully hosted by 9to5Mac , and I was surprised by a statement Apple made about its developer program: Unlike cost-only based…

There have never been more ways to bid adieu to manual processes and save yourself time, money, and energy.

Slowness is the equilibrium state, not a disease. Six ratchet mechanisms, the principles that counter each one, and why your AI summariser is middle management.

Nobody has ever bought a mobile phone because it has a battery in it and yet nobody would buy one without. When categorizing new features, the Kano model is a way to organize them by how well they…

If you use an iPhone with dual-SIMs enabled and prefer email for iMessage conversations instead of phone number, you’ll want to update to iOS 26.6. Since iPhones introduced dual SIM support,…

A personal update on what’s kept me away from Note Apps, including a new coffee-roaster project, the surprising rise of AI-assisted “vibe coding,” and Microsoft’s new Markdown support in OneDrive and…

Quick update on my VinFast VF3 charger saga : it's resolved. Ten days after the charger failed, I have a working replacement unit and my VF3 is back on the road. Credit where credit is due. Mazda…

You are not immune to advertising. It’s through no fault of your own, either. Advertisers figured out quite some time ago that natural sounding promotion from people that viewers are familiar…

An ARM64 (aarch64) machine which sat idle on the workbench amidst other inert items has finally returned to service. Many years ago I purchased a HoneyComb LX2 ARM workstation with the hopes that it…

A year ago I sent this video to John Siracusa trying to convince him to use Nozbe for his feedback gathering for the ATP.FM show. I love the ATP (Accidental Tech Podcast) show and I’m a paying member…

Another vintage watch from one of my favourite brands, Certina,

This post is the type of posts I write for myself so I can find it again easily the next time I set up a Mac computer from scratch. Today was one of these days and I figured I'd take the time to…

A free Chrome extension that brings Slack-style :shortcode: emoji to every text field on the web, plus a searchable picker in the toolbar.

Hate copying the URL from a website? Chrome makes it fast. The post Copy the Link in Chrome appeared first on Teacher Tech with Alice Keeler.

another epic experiment from a social media company that went nowhere

A year ago, almost to the week, I was looking into what smartphone to get. My Samsung Galaxy A52s 5G was reaching end of software updates. At that point I've had it for 3.5 years and it was a ~400…

✨ In This Edition ✨ 📟 Short-Form Content: On many, many leaks - of credentials, unpublished games, and entire passports; being ""opted in"" to chatbot activities; and on having the robot create a…

This take by M.G. Siegler on the Google event is dead on. They’re so weird and awkward! It’s a fucking weird strategy for a product unveiling! I would like to give Google credit for…

DPE and author Jason Blair breaks down what MOSAIC actually means for your flight school, not the hype version. He has been an examiner for nearly 20 years, was one of the first sport pilot…

I've been running GrapheneOS for a little over a year now and didn't realize much Smart Notifications have changed phone usage. I'm happy I had the chance to opt out of them.

681 SpaceX missions and $725B in AI capex show how cadence compounds, and why Europe's gap with the US and China may be widening past recovery.

Apple UI used to be a North Star for all the products I’ve been working on, but lately it has degraded so much that I consider Windows and Android to...

Probably the most obscure corner of carrier aviation is COD, Carrier Onboard Delivery. This is exactly what it sounds like, the practice of delivering high-priority cargo, mail and personnel from…

A Linux newbie's thoughts, one week after breaking up with Windows

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Wanted to respond to one of the top blog posts in the Bear Blog Discover feed recently. The author says it would be nice to be able to limit a phone's ability to access only one app and to hide…