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Mac : "The Power to Be Your Best" (ed. Apple's slogan at the time) Anti-Mac : “You won't always have to work that hard” AI (Apple Intelligence) is the Anti-Mac: https://mjtsai.com/…

I had a Surface Book 2 WITHOUT the base i.e. just the screen. Best tablet I've ever had. 15" and yet thinner (then) and lighter than an iPad Pro which still doesn't come bigger tha…

Which bone conduction headset do you have?

What brands still make bone conduction headphones?

It’s catchy in the same way “Mexicans will pay for the wall”, “China will eat the tariffs”, “Lock her up” is catchy; all catchy slogans but also nonsense. And, to bring it back to …

>> Complaining about the name of the bill "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" is just dumb. Senators and Reps name bills all sorts of funny things aiming to be catchy or what have you, it…

https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/apple-lied-breaks-... https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/07/fortnite-coming-back-to-t... >> Remember when Apple tried to tell the judge that …

Apple themselves said during that the initial trial that they would reinstate Fortnite. Turns out Apple lied

Apple’s malicious compliance then pretending to ask for permission. Apple was trying to get the EU to rubber stamp the scare tactics. Instead the EU said let’s see that works out f…

>> https://futurism.com/tim-cook-obsession-ar-glasses Red Flags! >> "Tim cares about nothing else," an insider with knowledge of the matter told Gurman. "It’s the only thing he’s r…

Watergate Iran-Contragate Iraq yellow cake So many examples.

Bigscreen made their name as VR video viewing solution before pivoting to PCVR hardware. I’m surprised they haven’t shown off any simple video solution with Beyond 2 especially con…

Flyover states versus costal states is too simplistic and inaccurate. A more accurate reduction is rural+suburban (isolated insular) communities versus urban (integrated diverse) c…

Immersed and PFD are smaller companies releasing their first hardware; yes they've missed their initial estimated ship dates but they have actual working prototypes that have been …

Short answer: no Long answer: Vision Pro (if you are comfortable with the weight/price). Immersed Visor and Play for Dream Mr headsets are likely the first available coding VR head…

It’s also true that age 18-29 bracket is less likely to have historically been registered to vote and that they are typically working in precarious positions with less ability to t…

It’s bigger; that might be the fix in and of itself

I gave reasons why it's poor UI: > Imagine having a jittery cursor in the center of your vision at all times? If I had a mouse/trackpad working like that it would immediately be re…

I literally started and ended with caveats: > Eye tracking is very impressive technology, and foveated rendering is an excellent application... > useful as an accessibility feature…

It’s not the quality of the the tracking I’m referring to. The eye tracking on Vision Pro is great for foveated rending for example. But as UI control it really doesn’t matter how …

> Vision Pro is different. It has a finger gesture to "tap". That doesn't rescue it from being a poor control scheme.

Again, I understand the accessibility benefits of the feature and I'm not critiquing that. I responding to a hacker news audience mostly who want to hack this feature and I'm telli…

Hey I did not say otherwise. It's a good accessibility feature. It becomes frustrating when Apple makes it the main control as for the Vision Pro

> For a lot of folks with tremors or other mobility issues, their eyes may be much more stable than their fingers. It might be helpful to weigh the tradeoffs you're presenting with…

Eye tracking is very impressive technology, and foveated rendering is an excellent application, but eye control is poor UX. Yes, I'm saying the emperor has no clothes. Imagine havi…