Apple has decided to eliminate the crease at all costs, regardless of price

Apple Vision Pro V2

The display crease has been one of the biggest challenges in foldable technology

My understanding is that the crease is basically a non issue. You can only see it if you look at your phone in a specific way. And for most applications, you’re not running your finger over it.

Shame that the new dark mode didn’t make it into 6.3. I really don’t like that blue tint.

This was already posted: https://lemmy.world/post/23663169

What I want is very simple: I want software that doesn’t send anything to the Internet without some explicit intent first. All of that work to try to make this feature plausibly private is cool engineering work, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with implementing a feature like this, but it should absolutely be opt-in.

Top comment of HN sums me up best.

Another HN comment warns about other breach of privacy option. By default, Apple collects your searches in Safari, Siri, and Spotlight. You can disable it in Settings>Search>Help Apple Improve Search.

He’ll be Cooking if iPads have better software.

Google products work on pretty much every platform, whereas with Apple you’re out of luck if you use any non-Apple platforms.

Well, that’s annoying. I just turned them all off, but I hope all that data is stored and operated on locally.

I was greeted by the image playground icon on my home screen and the icon was… not great.

Things did not get any better as I tried making images in it.

I also find it a bit alarming that Apple links user content to you. Seems like they’re either tracking the pictures you upload and/or images created.

Brand new Mac Mini, just came out today. It has a full year of warranty left.

My HDMI tops out at 144hz, issue still present.

1440p at 170Hz with the DisplayPort. But I also tried going down to 60hz, but in that brief time I did that, that made the flickering issue even more apparent.

Nope, both on the same Wifi network. Can’t think of why it would be showing differently. Not even force refreshing the page did anything. But I just checked again and now it’s showing the right prices.

Huh

It shows up as $599 on my iPhone, but not desktop.

Lowest I’m seeing from the preorder screen is $799.

$200 base price increase, ouch.

Edit: apparently it starts at $599, but for some reason Apple is showing me $799 for the base model.

Thankfully, the base model now has 16GB of RAM.

After this and the few hiccups I’ve had with Bitwarden on Linux (official snap in part still relies on Ubuntu 18.04 libraries and still defaults to X11, not great for security focused app), I’ve decided to give Proton a shot. Went for 2 year unlimited plan, so I hope they don’t do anything stupid in that time.

That being said, I’m not hating on Bitwarden. Based on what one of the developers said, this seems to be an oversight from their side that they should hopefully address. This is just my excuse to try out the Proton suite based on their strong focus on privacy and security, albeit with a hefty cost (and somewhat scummy strategy of listing prices as monthly but are actually paid annually, and choosing the actually monthly options are much more expensive).

I’m still wondering how they are going to get the price down to reasonable levels. I’m mostly happy with my Quest 3 I got for $400. The only thing it’s missing is the eye tracking. For navigating using just your hands, it relies on you pointing at what you want to select, but natural hand shaking and jittery tracking makes selecting things difficult sometimes.

I like Newsflash. It’s a libadwaita app and is pretty seamless to use. The only problem I have with it is that trying to categorize feeds into categories can be really buggy.

Maybe it’s worth creating a feature request asking for that. Is is possible for Kindles to display downloaded html files? If so, that would probably be much easier to implement.

If I recall correctly, GTK was initially against cursor-shape (because GTK prefers doing things client side), but is now opening to merging it. But not a high priority. The last discussion I found about it was from 5-6 months ago.