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While I totally back Apple's move away from leather in their products, fine woven seems like a misstep. The leather cases were truly great cases. I had one for my iPhone 8 Plus and it lasted longer than any other case I have ever owned. It aged beautifully and even when it was dirty it looked good.

Maybe they'll refine this material over time, but you'd have thought they would have put the effort in already.

iFixit also pointed out that the fine woven watch bands have marks on them already. They're £149. Not good.

Posted 25th Sep 2023 @ 16:16

This looks awesome. The Boys is a great TV show and this spin off looks like a lot of fun.

Posted 20th Sep 2023 @ 20:00

Of course metrics are useful, but the invasion of our privacy is out of control.

GDPR and cookie consent were a start but we really need more legislation to really reign this kind of thing in.

Posted 19th Sep 2023 @ 08:22

There's an entire keynote you can watch, but this trailer probably covers the key points. An animation app from the people behind Procreate that supports so much of what Procreate can already do. Looks like a lot of fun!

Posted 18th Sep 2023 @ 11:09

Very much looking forward to the StandBy feature, contact posters and improved autocorrect. We don't have visual voicemail here in the UK so I'm not holding my breathe for voicemail transcriptions which I assume is built on top of the former.

The update is actually tonight and I'll be updating as soon as I can!

Posted 18th Sep 2023 @ 09:08

This is more like it. Saloon, hatchback and fastback cars are the most sensible shapes to me and this just looks great.

Posted 12th Sep 2023 @ 15:43

We're subtitle fans in our house. Even my eldest asks for subtitles to be put on sometimes. Especially when it comes to films, despite having a fairly decent 5.1 setup, dialogue isn't always the clearest so it can make the world of difference to following the story.

Why it matters: TikTok helped normalize captions for young media consumers, who are turning regularly to subtitles as part of their streaming habits.

This is so relevant too, unless I'm using headphones I rarely have my phone unmuted so having subtitles has been very useful when viewing content on social media.

I have some stuff in the works for my own YouTube channel so it will be interesting to see how far down a subtitle rabbit hole I go myself!

Posted 7th Sep 2023 @ 08:35

Glad I'm not the only one who struggles with Time Machine. I have a NAS device that can act as a Time Machine server and does so effortlessly the first time. Subsequent backups go from flaky to impossible. I considered replacing it only to find out that the network cable had been unplugged. Rookie mistake on my side but reconnecting, restarting and all the rest of it made no difference, it's basically unreachable.

Like Nick, I will get around to setting it all up again. It's a very useful bit of functionality but the only time it ever really worked for me was when I used an 8GB memory stick around 15 years ago as a micro-Time Machine that snapshot certain folders. Beyond then it's been tough to get on with.

Posted 6th Sep 2023 @ 19:16

This is probably the right thing to do but I will say that Apple's leather iPhone case is the best case I've ever had. Comfortable to hold, weathers uniquely and withstood years of use admirably.

Posted 6th Sep 2023 @ 17:00

I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff, I still have a bit of regret not buying a metal Optimus Prime Transformers toy about 20 years ago. Mainly to display but this many years later it would have been something really nice to pass on to my son.

Posted 5th Sep 2023 @ 08:21