It has been [ 6 ] years since anyone has mass-produced a good watch, apparently.
(In this context "good", of course, means :
* always-on transflective display (for telling time)
* buttons (for navigation)
* bluetooth (for notifications)
* microphone (for speech-to-text)
* weeklong battery (for travel)
* end-user programmable (obvs))
Luckily, there are still plenty on ebay, so I guess I'd better stock up, in case nobody figures out how to do it again...
#FediTips and not a subtoot: if you are streaming a thread of toots from brain to keyboard, you can set your first reply as "Unlisted", and then reply to each successive toot. It'll keep the replies from overwhelming people (incl. your local timeline), but interested parties can still follow the thread.
Past Julie having abandonment issues over Future Julie is the most relatable thing I've seen on the internet in years.
Just wait 'til you see the comments section of this video.
Heard on the radio this morning that the Senate is questioning President Biden's nominee for Chief Antitrust Enforcer. If a business is found to be a monopoly, does Cantor plan to remove just the middle third of the business? And then examine the two remaining businesses in turn, removing each of their middle thirds? Does the process ever end? Does it leave us with any business at all? Does--
*holds earpice* Oh, apparently it's Kanter, not Cantor. Nevermind.
Dang, I was so close!
https://nitter.dark.fail/elonmusk/status/1377567762919292938
"SpaceX is going to put a literal Dogecoin on the literal moon"
I love it when people way more educated than me go deep into color theory. https://raphlinus.github.io/color/2021/01/18/oklab-critique.html
"There is no cloud. It's just someone else's computer"
Amazon AWS decides to boot Parler off its backend.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/technology/apple-google-parler.html