usability fails abound

The NLS Bard audiobook reader hardware is... at least for some use cases, completely terrible. Tragic, given how much content there could be made available. Fundamentally it needs to be updated to be an AI voice interactive chat bot, in this day and age.

aaaand OMFG google home speaker couce even with Gemini is dog shyte UX. 

fudging ux heck

how much of Apple services, web sites, do not work if iOS Lockdown is enabled, do ya think?

El Ultimo

Blame! is the most bestest sci fi manga evar by far. Gantz! is a close second. Biomega was also not bad. But KoS was very meh for me. 

death of culture

riddle: what am i?

"f*ck. f*ck. f*cking f*ck. f*cker. motherf*ck." etc.

a: apple tv!

a: netflix!

a: f*cking everything!

strooth

> The first hour of play hits you with so much tedious factional politics it makes the opening crawl of The Phantom Menace look like Serious Sam. Most of the dialogue is people moaning about their bosses or their charges. Everything is broken. People are starving and miserable, bereft of doctors and medical supplies. It’s basically 2025 but in space.

failure is job one

funny how even when you mostly cede the car console to carplay, it is all still kind of terrible. like, lag. and, like, you certainly didn't learn anything about ux from (the better, bygone, days of) apple when it comes to your own-brand parts of the infotainment head unit. again, just basic stuff like oh i dunno the entire radio ux being a train wreck, eg any restriction on the number of favorited radio stations less than something like MAX_INT_32 is highway robbery. 

omfg

some toyota cars have a glossy, reflective finish on the flat horizontal area around the shifter. 

just so i can be randomly blinded by sunshine every time i drive during daylight hours? (norcal! always sun! no clouds!)