While USB is now needlessly complicated and poorly labeled for consumer understanding, at least it succeeds in being backwards compatible so long as the physical connectors match (and all you need is a dumb adapter to convert any connector). If you have a 3.0 port on one device, a 2.0 port on the other device, and a 3.1 cable, you get 2.0 transfer speeds.

HDMI has the same kind of “issue”. Whatever the specs on each component, throughput and features drop to the lowest common denominator when in use.

Typically, the side of the plug with the USB logo is “up”. There are exceptions.

Also typically, if a USB port is vertical, up is to the left. Again, there are exceptions.

Disney: “You stepped on a crack, we’re legally allowed to break your mamma’s back.”

Reduce just those sites to Baud speeds.

I like my humor like I like my NASA space vehicles - outsourced to the lowest bidder.

TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog), once a long-standing trusted source for Apple news, recently became an AI clickbait farm owned by an equity firm. The pictures of the columnists that used to work there are now being posted on fake articles against fake names.

Now all CNET links are suspect for the same reason.

Slowly but surely the web I grew up with is becoming zombified garbage.

Bet they all had location metadata, too.

You’re absolutely correct, but you and I both know that normal people are going to only manage to create a dithered JPG that’s almost half a MB in size.

It doesn’t need to be called World of Warcraft 2, but they really do need to rewrite the entire engine from scratch.

They’re just rehashing old expansions now because they became so creatively bankrupt that they begged Chris Metzen to come back and write more stories.

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“Get your ass to Mars.”

Or Dig, which was on an asteroid that became Earth’s second moon.

One step closer to being able to freeze all motor functions social perfection:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYAZIbsmvP0

Well then I hope Apple Watch wearers all secretly covet the giant, round Google watch from ten years ago.

You’re right, especially regarding the iPhone.

But the watch still has a pretty good bezel around the screen. Since you don’t have to hold it with your hand, it makes sense to make that bezel as thin as possible (or disappear entirely). The screen would get marginally bigger, but the watch itself would stay the same size.

At least, I hope that’s the case.

Imagine if it was just the OpenAI app.

The masses want AI, even if they don’t know why. And OpenAI is a big name, even if they make Google look privacy-conscious. The smartest thing for Apple to do is to funnel as many inevitable OpenAI users on their platforms through their own sanitized version of the service.

Now that OpenAI’s technology is integrated all the way across Apple’s flagship software and flagship devices, I guarantee you people will blame Apple if OpenAI fumbles privacy even if just on their end.

I’ve been hearing mixed reactions to Apple choosing OpenAI, because of recent drama and because of Sam Altman specifically. To me, it feels like a “keep your enemies closer” decision on Apple’s part because while the company sucks, they do have a competitive (potentially superior) service at the moment.

And Apple has jack without some kind of partnership.

Why do you think only one of those can be true?

This is why Apple partnered with them. To keep an eye on them.