24 May 2024 - 1 min read

Guillermo Del Toro convinced Alfonso Cuarón to direct Prisoner of Azkaban (thank you, Guillermo!)

Carly Thomas for The Hollywood Reporter: Alfonso Cuarón Says He Directed ‘Harry Potter’ Movie Only After Guillermo Del Toro Called Him an “Arrogant A**hole” del Toro knew how massive the movie franchise was, especially after Chris Columbus’ first two films, so the Hellboy director gave Cuarón some candid advice.

24 May 2024 - 2 min read

Vibes-based security and Windows Recall

Paul Thurrott: Windows 11 Recall Is Not a Privacy Concern But we all knew this was coming, that privacy advocates would immediately stomp all over this functionality without taking the time to understand how it even works. To be fair, it doesn’t help that we’re still reeling from

24 May 2024 - 1 min read

I’ve defended Google search for years, but their AI answers suck so hard

404 Media: Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue as the prophecy foretold, we are learning exactly what Google is paying Reddit $60 million annually for. And that is to confidently serve its customers ideas like, to make cheese stick on a

24 May 2024 - 1 min read

Independent investigation into Linus Media Group has results

Andy Edser writing for PC Gamer: Alleged Harassment and Bullying at Linus Tech Tips 'Not Substantiated' and 'False' According to Third-Party Investigation Organised by Tech Channel Roper Greyel—the Vancouver-based legal firm specialising in labor and employment law—found the claims of bullying and harassment were

23 May 2024 - 1 min read

Touch Macs and accessibility

Over the last few years I've developed a small case of pain when using a mouse and keyboard. It's not something I feel everyday, but I do have it crop up on a semi-regular basis and it's quite disruptive to my work when it

22 May 2024 - 1 min read

Compelling arguments

You already know this is about Macs with touch, so let’s just jump into a few compelling arguments I found from Googling around for a minute: I'm in the camp where I don't want touch support. It's a laptop, not a tablet. If

22 May 2024 - 3 min read

I disagree with you, but I understand why you feel that way (members post)

Today I explore why I'm frustrated with the opinions of others, and why I need to remind myself that there's gray area basically everywhere in the world.

21 May 2024 - 1 min read

Microsoft claims their laptops’ new chips not only caught, but surpassed Apple silicon

Tim Hardwick for MacRumors: Microsoft Says New Surface Pro Is Faster Than 15" M3 MacBook Air Microsoft is already pitting the Surface Pro against Apple's M3 MacBook Air, and in marketing materials, claims that the Surface Pro has superior processing power and battery life. Compared to the

21 May 2024 - 1 min read

Limitless (previously Rewind) just got Sherlocked by Microsoft

Benj Edwards for ArsTechnica: New Windows AI Feature Records Everything You’ve Done on Your PC At a Build conference event on Monday, Microsoft revealed a new AI-powered feature called "Recall" for Copilot+ PCs that will allow Windows 11 users to search and retrieve their past activities on

19 May 2024 - 2 min read

The three dots that "prove" macOS could never work on a touch screen

Turns out I'm not done with this topic… A couple days ago I saw this post pop up on Threads and it’s the “checkmate” move people like to bring up when dismissing the idea that macOS could ever work on a touch screen device. “How would you

18 May 2024 - 2 min read

N64 Recompiled is what makes me love PC gaming so much

Over the past 4 years I’ve really come around on PC being my favorite gaming platform. Part of that is the ability to play at higher visual fidelity than is possible on any console, part of it is more flexibility with playing older games, and a third critical part

18 May 2024 - 7 min read

I’ve been baited into writing about touch screen Macs once more

Today Ben Lovejoy posted Touchscreen Macs: The idea that will not die on 9to5Mac and as someone who has weighed in here more than a few times, I figured I’ll do it one more time and then let this topic rest for a while. First, we bust out the

17 May 2024 - 3 min read

My wife’s first reactions to buying a Mac for the first time in years

My wife bought a 12” MacBook in 2016. It was her first Mac. She loved how thin it was and that it looked great, but it ran terribly and only got slower with time. In early 2020 she upgraded to a Dell XPS 13 with a 10th gen Core i7,

16 May 2024 - 1 min read

Most people’s phones don’t look like ours

Lou Plummer: The Phones of Normal People They hate updates because they interrupt stuff they'd rather be doing. They don't care about the new features being announced at WWDC because they do not want to learn how to do new things with their already too complicated

16 May 2024 - 3 min read

Let’s change the conversation around macOS on iPads

Ryan Christoffel quoting Apple’s Greg Joswiak on 9to5Mac: The fact is that the majority of Mac customers have an iPad, and they use them both Which lead Ryan to argue: there’s one big reason this will likely never happen. If iPad owners get access to macOS thrown in