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A tech ghost story told around the campfire on a cold dark night 👻
“And when he unboxed his laptop… IT DIDN’T HAVE A PHYSICAL ESCAPE KEY” 🎃😜
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iPhone 15 Pro Max Finewoven Cases 1st look
Apple announced at their Wanderlust conference that they were ditching leather accessories due to the environmental impact of the materials at the scales the must produce them. Instead, the official premium cases will be made from a material they refer to as “Finewoven”. Mine arrived the other day, so lets take a look.
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🔗 The Internet Archive just put 565 Palm Pilot apps in your web browser
Via the Verge
you can reach out and touch a 1996 pocket computer with your 2022 pocket computer and it works like a charm. It’s a tiny interactive window into the pre-iPhone era, and what lived in the proto-App Store.
I have a lot of nostalgia for the PDA era. Psions, Palm, Pocket PC, before phones became computers and computers became phones. Anyway, if you need me I’ll be playing Space Trader
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It’s a Playdate! 🎮
After joining the update list on 30/10/2020 and putting in my order on 29/07/2021 my Playdate finally arrived 08/05/2022 🎉👏
The playstation 5 would arrive in peoples hands roughly a month after Playdate pre-ordering opened, and whilst I’m still waiting on finding one of those 1 I’m happy to say Panic have delivered what they promised, even after some bumps in the road.
Playdate has obviously been a labour of love for Panic, and is being made just for fun.
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It arrived!
Thinking I will probably write up a review of the hardware, then the season 1 games in real-time as they unlock to me.
My god it’s a cute little tchotchke though 🥰 🎮
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The pleasure and the pain of getting a new Macbook
Got a new M1 Macbook Pro now apparently a ton have hit the refurb store (Thanks Youtubers everywhere 😜!) First impressions were I immediately love the build quality, the screen is amazing (HDR + ProMotion = Lush)
However, I Instantly run into what is apparently quite a well known problem with absolutely terrible WiFi performance that would drop out at 5Mbps, corrupt downloads and generally be absolutely unbearable.
Initially I was worried I had got a lemon but did some googling online.
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Short Thoughts on the M1 iPad Pro
I will leave the long form reviews to those who do it as a living but thought I’d post some of my notes after a weekend with the new device.
The Device Itself The new screen is fantastic for HDR content and is ridiculously crisp. Bladerunner 2049 is stunningly good. I do notice shadowing around the edge of the screen as the screen does appear to be deeper set due to the Micro LED in the screen.