Rich Stroffolino


What is the motivation for OEMs to make 3rd party Windows Link hardware? Even more than a Chromebook, this is designed to just connect to Windows cloud services. Where can you differentiate on hardware? www.theverge.com/2024/11/1…

Anyone I know using a Copilot+ PC? Just curious about the experience and what specific AI features you’re using

I had a pretty typical stress dream of being a DJ at WRUW and not being able to find any music to play. Then suddenly Tim Cook came down and I had to interview him on the fly while also trying to find music to play. Well done subconscious, I appreciate keeping it fresh.

When I was 11 I read the book Dragonwings and it took me half way until I realized this was definitely about the Chinese American experience and not a slow rolling fantasy novel

Whatever AI app can automatically organize the 15-25 TextEdit documents I have open at any given time will be the winner

The Teenage Engineering OP XY might get the hype, but way more excited for the Bastl Wizard. Looks like a super fun effect companion to a Pocket Operator setup. Getting patchable stereo effects at this price is so nice bastl-instruments.com/instrumen…

Openvibe seems like a good cross posting solution, but happy to keep paying for Microblog. After abandoning a platform, I like having something that’s “mine” to host my posts.

Found my vibe in the kindergarten art room

Apple’s default Mail is fine as a client, but the animations are extremely bad

Making nail dryer #cyanotypes

It’s the 18th of Brumaire in the French Republican calendar, so it’s the best time to revisit The eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte archive.org/details/t…

Revisiting “Turning Back the Clock” by Umberto Eco. Reflections on Italy experiencing the return of a populist leader seems timely.

Lunch break jam setup

Very minor Apple Intelligence fail but this info is so far from what I’d want in an email notification. I know less about this message than just showing the subject line.

Been using Anthropic’s Claude a lot more and generally liking the output, but on the free tier access to it seems so tenuous. It constantly shifts which version you have access to based on capacity, and just now, it’s unavailable under load. Is the free ChatGPT the same? Use a paid account for work

For as small as the new Mac Mini is, Intel and Asus have been making significantly smaller NUCs for years. There’s even one that looks a little like a Mac Mini now! Will it be louder and less powerful than the new Mac Mini? Assuredly! But the power button is easier to reach?

Forget OpenAI, we live in the Monster energy drink bubble

Is there a way to use the Apple Intelligence writing features in Google Docs? Google’s menu takes over the native macOS menus, so I don’t see how I can launch it. There’s no keyboard shortcut in their documentation so I have to do a right-click every time…

The whole Apple Intelligence rollout is infuriating. I keep seeing ads on Apple’s website about features I can’t use. I do not understand why you rollout the new Siri UI with virtually no new capabilities

Picked up a Bell Labs classic. Does your book have a display technology flow chart? #design

So does macOS Sequoia 15.1 come with Apple Intelligence features or do I still need to join the waitlist? Did the update but not seeing the proofreading tools. I kind of hate what Grammarly does to my system and would like another option.

Still living in the future

Very weird that the base M4 iMac has less core count than the iPad Pro. Maybe runs at a faster clock speeds, but it is weird that the desktop gets the most binned version of the chip.

“Consistency beats intensity every time.” Heard this quote from Shawn Bowen and it is a perfect distillation.

Perhaps the album I’ve enjoyed the most from 2004. Low-fi pop perfection from Mario Hernandez eeniemeenie.bandcamp.com/album/not…