I dunno, I’d say the new Siri is the biggest feature - it certainly accounts for the majority of the advertised changes.

Personally I’m more interested in the across-the-board performance improvements. Sometimes updates are boring but necessary.

You can turn it off. In fact it says right in the article that it’s off by default.

You close the lid to avoid a plume of fecal particles. I close the lid because otherwise my dumb cat jumps directly into the bowl. We are not the same.

Where does it say that? I checked the linked article and the product site and can’t see any mention of a subscription.

A blatant disregard for the rules of nature.

Doesn’t ESPN have exclusive broadcast rights for the next Super Bowl for the first time ever? How convenient that they’d raise their prices…

Honestly, some are better than others depending on priorities, but literally anything is a better option than Spotify on most fronts these days.

The first link I posted is for Guided Access.

I also mentioned hidden albums because that was the second thing the author requested in the blog post.

Literally both of these things already exist.

Android example already posted, but for iOS:

• Lock device to one app
• Hidden album in Photos

What’s with the editorialised title? How do these changes make it harder for new creators?

quietly informing players

Why is everything done ‘quietly’ these days? What were they supposed to do, release a trailer?

Was £1,235/mo in 2016, now a similar flat in the same block is around £2,000/mo.

Honestly, I’m surprised it’s not higher.

If it’s for iOS, is there any reason you’re not just using Notes and Reminders? Either one of them could easily handle the use cases listed, including sync between users/devices.

But it’s July…?

There’s a detailed wiki article about it here.

TLDR: it’s specific to the US and UK, has been in use for over a century, and is largely metaphorical.

I worked on a game where we added the ability for the player to react to messages from other characters, but was told we had to remove 👍 as a reaction because it’s offensive in some places.

Yeah a two-finger salute (back of hand facing them) is equivalent to giving the middle finger in the UK.

DLSS 5 looks horrendous but let’s not pretend gamers haven’t been able to reshade and mod the everloving shit out of games for decades. Saying it’s not a real game because someone decided they wanted to slap on a cel-shade filter or turn the art director’s carefully crafted dragon into Thomas the Tank Engine isn’t really a defensible position.

The problem I have with most of these services is that every channel is too hyper-specific, often literally just playing a single show or, at best, 2-3 shows but in multi-hour blocks. Incredibly lazy IMO.

To me, the appeal of linear terrestrial TV is having channels that show a wide variety of things throughout the day. If I wanted to see 24 hours of non-stop Mr. Bean I’d download them and shuffle the folder.