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Algorithms trap you in doomscrolling but RSS and the Fediverse can give you back control of your attention.

TiVo’s simple magic changed TV forever—now the iconic DVR is fading into history.

After experiencing the Nintendo Switch 2 firsthand, here’s my take on this exciting yet non-essential upgrade.

That’s not a typo. Windows 96 promised to build on the success of Windows 95, yet it never materialized as originally intended.

I only learned about this a few months ago. To me, this was an incredibly fascinating discovery and wanted to write about & share it. You can read about it here if it interests you too:

"The Windows That Never Was" - https://timemachiner.io/2025/06/18/the-windows-that-never-wa...

Invasive tracking and pay-for-play search engines has broken the internet. It’s time to reclaim our independence with the Small Web.

A deep dive into the WordPress madness and how the singular actions of Matt Mullenweg are endangering nearly half the web.

The tech moat can only be so deep. IMO Netflix has two main issues:

1. Content is expensive to make and they are not the only game in town making quality stuff anymore.

2. Tons of their old back catalog was licenced stuff that the rights-holders have decided to take back & use for their own back catalogs.

Netflix was great when it was the only game in town. But competition is fierce between Disney needing to pay $0 to licence SW, Marvel, Disney stuff and Apple with insanely-deep pockets. Both can take on losses for YEARS before turning a profit on streaming. Let's not forget that Apple didn't even charge for ATV+ in its first 18-months in existence.

Oh for sure. The possibilities are endless. Even with OS2/Warp and BeOS, there was a lot of competition brewing that could've either acquired Apple, Apple acquiring them, or some sort of merger.

I completely forgot about the AIM thing until you mentioned it! Damn those were the wild west days of computing.

It has changed somewhat, but the biggest thing is connectivity. If ubiquitious connections were around then, like they are now, the Newton may have had a very different story.

Graffiti was great to use, but felt like a step down because it required memorizing the input method whereas the Newton's promise was to have full handwriting recognition. Granted I was on as MP 1200 but I don't think the 2000 series improvements were enough.

Apple in the mid-to-late 90s was fascinating. You could see they were trying but had little to no direction. Not that Jobs was the best person ever to run a company, but I believe it was only him who could've saved Apple.

If Apple didn't buy NeXT or if Jobs didn't want to come back, it's an interesting "what if" to determine who would've led them and what they would have done. I could totally see MS _STILL_ investing heavily in them in order to help with their own antitrust issues at the time.

That last sentence sums it up perfectly! Netflix never had real competition. Then Apple and Disney got in the game and put their billions into it. The rest is history.

Netflix still has good shows. ST4 was amazing. But the quality elsewhere is on par, if not better.

I actually installed Graffiti onto mine and it made a huge difference. I have bad handwriting in general so I could never fault it for misinterpreting my chicken scratch.

Come for the rant on RCS.

Stay for the deep cut of Real Networks’ campaign to open up the iPod to other music stores.