Month: January 2020

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The iPad at 10: A New Product Category Defined by Apps

As someone that’s come to rely on tablets heavily, despite avoiding the fruit company for much of the past decade, I kind of like the notion of tablets as a middle category—because that’s where most people’s computing lands.

A long time ago, I preferred laptops to desktops for the portability. Today, I don’t really believe in desktops so much for two main reasons: laptops aren’t as underpowered as they used to be, and rack mounted servers pwn most towers if you’re really going for raw compute power.

Tablets kind of answer the ability to do most of what regular people do with their computer. But aren’t so tied to the concept of a monitor, mouse, keyboard, and tower; laptops both suffer and benefit from rubbing the same software. And tablets would mostly suck for running the same software as desktops, far more than it would from adding a mouse and monitor to today’s tablets.

For better or worse: software often defines are interactions with devices. Think otherwise? Try using Windows 95 without a mouse or keyboard 🤣

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Someone, please tell me this lifestyle is a reincarnation option?

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Think it was time for a new pocket comb?

As far as I can recall, my family hadn’t bought any since the mid 1980s or the late 1970s, or something like that. It’s been too many decades to remember well where hand me down combs come from 8-). But needless to say, it was time.

Over the last year most of the teeth wore out, and it’s been increasingly difficult to clean without expediting the process. For something like $3.25, I can’t complain about the replacement as long as its endurance is measured in months or years, and not at all if it’s measured in decades, lol.

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Somehow I find it just a bit sad there’s no dab of ricotta in the center of this, lol

I usually aim to put the meatballs to one side, and after placing the garlic bread, I kind of went “Hmm”, and then went to go eat, lol.

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Strange an unusual things:

When hostname.domain gets assigned to prefix.someotherip, yet hostname has prefix.manuallyassigned. Or should we say that Cream had its expected address but my router server decided another, unused address was to be resolved to its name.

On the flipside, forcefully renewing the network connection and everybody is happy again. *Shrugs*

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When Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles originally aired, I didn’t even learn of its existence until some years later. So, I pretty much missed the entire thing. Finding that Amazon’s streaming stuff has it on IMDb with ads, I’m finding it well worth the wait.

It’s also a bit refreshing, given how the films have evolved.

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Buggy behavior observed:

  1. Apple keyboard stopped inserting characters into Safari.
  2. Can’t move Apple keyboard in floating mode, had to restart Safari.
  3. For a while, Safari wouldn’t drag from dock in order to go split screen.
  4. Split screened Safari and Google News – G.N. would no longer accept input events until I stopped split screen.
  5. Lockscreen in portrait mode, but iPad in landscape mode, until unlocking.
And that’s just since getting home from work. Notably most of these revolve around operating system components, text input, and multitasking: the keyboard, the browser, and an application that embeds the browser.
I guess it’s time to rebootenze the fruity device, again.
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GOOGLE ANNOUNCES TIMELINE FOR THE END OF CHROME APPS ON CHROMEBOOKS

Personally, I’ve had little care for most Chrome apps other than the SSH client. Browser windows and tabs were the norm for my interaction prior to Android support. Most that I’ve installed on my Chromebooks were more about having a shortcut in the dock or a dedicated window than anything else really app like.
I look at the end of native client stuff with a small amount of sadness, since it was an intriguing idea. But today, you’d probably be screwing with Web Assembly or whoever passes for that since I last looked in on the subject.
But then again in kind of weird. I don’t consider Javascript a good idea unless it’s legible Javascript rather than pimpy faced fad of the month Javascript. And likewise, I prefer application development for platforms like Android and conventional Linux to slamming everything down the browser hole.