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  • Apple is still working on smart glasses, but it's going to be a long wait

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    I don't just want AR glasses, I want prescription enabled AR glasses. 😎
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • iOS 18 changes just about everything about lock screen controls

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    mongobongo said:
    But why o why is it still limited to only 2 shortcuts at a time???

    Because you don't need more than two.  BECAUSE YOU DO NOT NEED MORE THAN TWO!

    Besides, people would add so many to the lock screen that it would destroy the aesthetic Apple has carefully engineered into the phone.

    /s
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  • How to perfect your home screen with iPadOS 18 customization options

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    Here's hoping they figure out how to let me load a new app to the screen I want, instead of somewhere in the hinterlands, forcing me to move it across shifting screens to the place I want.
    roundaboutnowwilliamlondon

  • What happened to Safari Web Eraser -- the controversy, and what it looked like

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    MrBunside said:
    Ironically, the most egregious and disruptive advertising (IMO) is in Apple News - a service I pay a monthly fee to use, yet still have full-page ads breaking up the text flow. 

    I wouldn't say it's the most egregious I've ever seen. but it's definitely up there.  Number 1 reason why I cancelled it.
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  • Tim Cook may have met with Trump during WWDC to discuss second term priorities

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    ilarynx said:
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    welshdog said:
    Trump is the unsurprising result of concepts and rhetoric that were started by Reagan. He used his phony, homespun speaking style to convince people that it was okay to dislike your government. It was okay to disassemble your government because "big" was bad. It was okay to think that helping people in need was an intolerable expense. While Reagan is not so popular with young extremist conservatives now, he and his goals were worshipped by Republicans for a couple decades. During that time you can see how each wave of conservative victories at the national level led to incrementally more extreme positions. Newt Gingrich, Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, GW Bush, neo cons, the Tea Party and now the most extreme - MAGA. Reagan started the ball rolling and Trump is the result anyone paying even slight attention should have expected was coming.

    “The biggest threat to America today is not communism, it’s moving America toward a fascist theocracy, and everything that’s happened in the Reagan administration is steering us right down that pipe.” 

    - Frank Zappa, 1986


    To be fair, FDR is the one who really kick-started the trend towards fascism in the U.S., though there were arguably hints of it even before then.
    Only when you replace "fair" with "stupid" in that sentence does it become accurate. 

    However, it does provide lots of laughs when you run across someone whose lessons in "history" have come from sources such as the Daily Caller and Info Wars. On even numbered days the wing-nuts declare FDR the biggest socialist on the planet, and on odd numbered days apparently he's declared the biggest fascist on the planet. Such ahistorical declarations can be quite hilarious, and equally pathetic. 

    To paraphrase an old adage, "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to be laughed at."

    https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/four-freedoms

    Imprisoning an entire race of people based on their heritage, without any kind of due process, seems pretty fascist to me.

    Transferring all the monetary gold in the country to the government, without any kind of due process, seems pretty fascist to me.
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