How will you stay up to date with the manufacturer‘s latest updates without the app?

I want to. The apps want the opposite. Apple is unfortunately on the side of the apps.

By app store guidelines, it’s officially disallowed to use notifications for marketing. Of course the apps find their ways, at different levels of honesty. This has led to me turning off all notifications for some apps, but the problem is the mixing of channels. I don’t want my bank to send me ads, but I do want it to notify me about transactions.

Looks like you found the root of the problem already.

What a beautifully presented article. It rings true.

Growing up I’ve been feeling overwhelmed with the bureaucracy of life - maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t already have to manage an entire ecosystem of shit that I need to care about.

I find that it adds a lot.

I’m not willing to settle for less than the Pebble Time Steel’s week that it holds a charge for nowadays. I think that is about fine for me.

Yeah, I mean, the Instinct Crossover has been my favorite smartwatch that I've used, and two weeks is a decent lifespan for these things, but I do kind of miss never having to worry about charging it.

I have the exactly opposite view, possibly with the same amount of conviction. It feels very necessary to communicate hierarchy and where things are coming from and going. It communicates a lot of important information and continuity. In real life, you don’t have things suddenly appearing and disappearing all the time. That’s not how our brains are conditioned.

I have great respect for people pursuing their special interests with such perseverance - you clearly care about zooming UIs.

And so do I (just to a lesser extent)! It’s a great way to express hierarchy.

One thing I encountered is that it becomes all buggy after using the slide-back navigation gesture in iOS Safari. Yet this being natively handles would be a really cool thing to me, like those iOS “close back to thumbnail” gestures you sometimes see when scrolling up/down that I haven’t really seen replicated anywhere else.

That means a lot, thanks. The iOS back gesture thing is tricky but would be really sweet to pull off.

I liked the idea of Massdrop. I’m still not much into fountain pens, but the idea of fairly high quality/luxurious “enthusiast” items at relatively low prices still appeals to me.

Where does one find that nowadays?

Forums. Budgetlightforum, geekhack, backpackinglight, fountainpennetwork for flashlights, keyboards hiking gear and fountain pens, for example. The first two even organise group buys like massdrop, and have done so for a long time.

> This new Copilot is an interesting app, and that might also explain why it feels faster than typical web apps or PWAs. It’s because Microsoft ships a private copy of Edge inside the Copilot app, includes a custom launcher (mscopilot.exe), and the Copilot UI itself is a web app rendered via WebView2.

I’m having trouble understanding the causality here. Why does shipping an entire version of Edge improve speed?

edge is based on chromium, so is electron....

And so is the Webview2 built into Windows

Interesting! I ended up just putting all the setup steps into a text file. I figure I don’t do it that often.

Can Nix meaningfully change “defaults” configuration and such? That seems like it would be useful.

Yes it totally can. I started with a plain bash script myself :) But as complexity grew it just became harder and harder to make it work consistently under different conditions. Nix solved it beautifully.