Las Vegas Casino Logos
Fantastic collection of logos for the various hotels that have been part of the Las Vegas strip and beyond.
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Posted 4th May 2023 @ 09:21
Vintage and retro Game Boy refurbs
Despite fixing my Game Boy, I've not played it much because the screen is awful. Genuinely awful.
Came across this site and now very tempted to look at putting an IPS display into mine so it's usable in normal light.
Posted 2nd May 2023 @ 10:45
★ Drivers are demanding real buttons and knobs
Via Nick Heer again.
Just yesterday, I was looking around the cabin of my car and longed for some buttons that would make it easier and surely faster to do some actions like changing radio stations or picking the next track on my playlist. It's not awful at the moment but some of the review videos I watch for new cars all have the same complaints: fewer buttons means more time spent looking away from the road.
Posted 29th Apr 2023 @ 13:00
General Motors kills another electric car
Admittedly I don't drive a tiny car, but it's not what I would call large. Anyway, Nick Heer is right:
we end up with a sea of samey SUVs, crossovers, and trucks, all of which are too big and many to the extent a separate license should be required to drive them. They make the roads more dangerous for others, which drives some people to buy a similar-sized vehicle for their own safety perception. It is madness.
Posted 28th Apr 2023 @ 09:46
GM, CarPlay and iPhones
A bit of a follow up on a previous post regarding GM's decision to drop CarPlay.
I talked about when the 3rd generation of CarPlay was announced at last year's WWDC and John Gruber nailed it:
I wonder how much of a factor it is that Apple has spent the last decade not-so-secretly working on creating its own line of cars? There's no way GM would ever integrate a software system from, say, Ford or Honda. But so why integrate CarPlay, which comes from a company that seemingly wants to compete with existing automakers? Apple's own car ambitions make CarPlay integration, to some extent, seem like a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Posted 19th Apr 2023 @ 12:05