craiggrannell.bsky.social
Writer for hire. Mostly tech, Apple, games, retrogaming, design. Smashes out words for Stuff, Wired, TapSmart and others. He/him. GF/DF. Likes Lego and Mini Schnauzers. Email: hello at craiggrannell dot com // https://linktr.ee/craiggrannell
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Sentry duck says hello.
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It’s especially bonkers when I’m on the bank’s own website or app, transferring money between my accounts, and it still throws up SCARY WARNINGS. Just… what? Why?
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I get with banks that all of this is about ditching responsibility. If your bank throws up warnings all the time, for every single payment, it can say “we did warn you” when something bad does happen. Problem is, people tune this stuff out. You can’t tell actual warnings from bullshit.
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Another item for my personal IPA folder.
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Some of their majorities are very solid. Others, like where I live, are almost comically fragile. But impossible to tell how things will be four years down the line. It just seems a stretch to think they’d keep them all. (And there aren’t that many obvious targets either.)
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Yeah. That could be a twitchy kind of Tory. I suspect there’s no way in hell the Libs will keep all the seats they won in 2024, but some they didn’t get will be under threat (such as Farnham, which was a voting clusterfuck). Tories surrounded by Lab/Lib might be thinking yellow is a nice colour…
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The lack of For You by default flummoxes some people. But also, your feed is what you make it. While there are some relative shortcomings compared to Twitter (or even X), such as sports results, some news, etc, I certainly never feel like I have a lack of things to read/people to chat with.
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1. People lack patience. Want instant gratification and results.
2. Many are quick to angrily respond rather than to stop and think.
3. The world right now *is* for many an objectively worse and grimmer place than it was a decade ago.
I doubt ‘classic Twitter’ would be much cheerier in 2025.
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I suspect the actual number who will defect or quit is zero. But it would be funny if 30 did, and Davey became LOTO. However, Libs should be wary. Even the supposed progressive wing of the current Conservatives is some way from the right of the Lib Dems.
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I still consume on digital as well, but in focused fashion. I will use digital as a cheap way to ‘audition’ comics. It’s useful for some books and mags. And then for news, I favour newsletters and RSS, so I can explore headlines and posts from sources I care about, rather than ‘the entire internet’.
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No the worst thing. Our road has had potholes big enough for pigeons to have baths in. The main road is all lovely now though. (In the event, we were allowed out for short windows at the start/end of the day. Loads of local parking restrictions nearby though, which was… not ideal.)
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They tried something similar locally, redoing the main road and saying it would be closed for a week. When people from our street of >30 houses asked how we’d get to school and work, it was clear no one had actually considered that. And no parking provision elsewhere had been provided.
Good luck!
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Catching up on the podcast and listening to the teenage ep. You both hint at a why Wagner is great one. That surely has to be done when he next returns to Dredd. (Obviously, Wagner himself will be too humble to take part in that kind of thing. I do hope he knows how much he’s loved by the fans tho.)
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4. Embrace openness (LOL): indeed a LOL so far – not even any pinning, which is *insane*
5. Recommend good games: no better than App Store, alas
6. Not get bored after 11 seconds: we shall see…
Not the worst start. I feared it would be dire. But issues need to be addressed. And won’t be.
2/2
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iPadOS 26 beta + 13in iPad + SCREAMS OF ANGUISH
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Yeah, although not as advanced, what with all the face-scanning stuff. (They’re also making screens that don’t make people dizzy, which is something Apple doesn’t appear too concerned about. I’m real glad I spent over two grand on a pair of iPhone 16 Pros… Harrumph.)
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I don’t mind Dynamic Island. It does have some reasonable use cases for me, in tracking/monitoring tasks. In landscape, it’s a bit shit though. Still, I suspect within a generation or two of iPhone, it’ll be irrelevant anyway, because most of the camera stuff will be underneath the display.
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Progress is progress. Any improvement is good to hear about. Hopefully there will be much more of that for you over the coming years.
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Indeed. Things to be grateful for. But I do really hope one day I get to read about how much your situation has improved, however that may happen. In the meantime, I think I’m going to fire up your album in Apple Music.
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Heh. My take is… not dissimilar. The press release that made me snap was the art one (given my background in art). ‘Samsung wants your fridge to be a generative AI art piece. I want mine to keep food cold’ www.stuff.tv/features/sam...
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I hate that this is your situation. We need much more research into this, but so many people and governments appear to think covid was vanquished and has gone away.
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There’s a lot of ‘bubble’ coming from Apple of late. Feels like the company is believing its own press a bit too much. Not that the company has ever been humble – it’s often been arrogant. But right now, it feels… blinkered?
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On Mac in particular, the massive rounded corners on window are making my teeth itch. What is that trying to achieve? What benefit does it give the user?
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It’s quite odd. Material Design feels modern, solid and practical. What Apple has created feels dated, fragile and like a tech demo. The general messiness of Android (many apps doing their own thing) holds it back. But Apple imposing this new look on everything could be even worse.
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Yeah, they’re not going back on this. But they may tone down some elements to make things actually legible.
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What is it with this account? This is the second data slop fake Lego kit you’ve posted. I thought you were better than this. Will you start posting AI-gen graphs as well, or are you happy with fakery as long as it’s Lego? Please do better. Strike two.