Podcasts were great when they shared Web 2.0 ethos "Broadcast yourself". But today's conveyor belt of Spotify and other grifty podcast enterprises turned iPod casts into a lame adjunct to MSM/talk radio.
This is a very positive trend. I'm glad we are moving away from "2,5 years of updates" e-waste. I might even pick Samsung as my next smartphone (curious about DeX).
cpp was a poor choice for the system but Haiku is cute. The dev team should figure out 2D/3D acceleration and this thing will fly. 64 bit edition has finally abandoned BeOS compatibility and looks really promising as a quick tiny hobbyist OS.
Desktop Mode on the Steam Deck is like a DVD playback on PS2 for me; an excuse to buy a portable gaming console. Pretty good one. You can actually do grown up things on it.
Twitter had a brilliant brand (which is now tainted). Chirping birds, positive visual. BlueSky shortens to BS and mastodon is an extinct animal. Lemmy, on the other hand, is kinda cool.
80s nostalgia never ends. Usenet was cool back then, now it's dead. Not lindy. I prefer online forums. Web forums allow rich and structured content. There is an app, Tapatalk, if you crave reddit-like experience. The UX of some old-school engines is not the best but online forums are way more approachable and manageable than Usenet ever was.
I like Thunderbird and use it all the time (it is ideal for my workflow with a couple of add-ons installed) but the developers should focus more on the application's performance. It loves to bog down my system.
It's time for MLM schemes and woo supplements to fully move in. Also, Anya Taylor-Joy verified account has pushed laptops recently. I doubt that she is really in need of that. Also, Elon can make a mint on political advertising in the coming cycle.
The only recent movie which duped me and looked very film-like was "Dark Waters". But Edward Lachman designed it to be as close to 70s film look as possible. It is pointless otherwise.
I am not surprised by cassette comeback. It is portable and analog format. Metal tapes can reproduce Hi-Fi sound and record lots of audio. If you want to keep your music listening experience entirely in analog, vinyl+a decent tape totally make sense. Also saves your records. Vinyl records are often less compressed and mixed differently than digital releases. I prefer that, when music actually has some dynamic range.