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I know what you’re thinking: Not very tedious. But sometimes we need to speak honestly about real things. tedium.co/2025/03/11/g...

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

Looking back at Gamergate, a flash point in internet history, and what it has to tell us about our current moment. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16981378/gamergate-lessons-internet-culture

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Apple Intelligence is getting a lot of bad press right now. I think the reason comes down to this simple fact: Big tech companies feel they must have a response to every single trend, even when it’s not a fit. Apple and AI are like oil and water. tedium.co/2025/03/08/a... new @tedium.co

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Apple needs a response to AI about as much as Amazon needs a response to Steam. tedium.co/2025/03/08/a...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Companies like Amazon and Apple are attempting to do business in so many spaces that, when the cracks show, they really show. Hence why Apple Intelligence looks like a hot mess right now. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16979569/apple-amazon-businesses-unfocused

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

We are probably the only people on your feed talking about fonts in phone books. Unless you share and reply to this, which will make us feel less lonely. tedium.co/2025/03/05/p...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Why AT&T had to redesign its primary phone-book font in the late 1970s to keep with the times, and the clever typographical trick it used. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16977395/phone-book-typography-bell-centennial-ink-trap

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

The guy who made a big chunk of our web-safe fonts also made the font for the phone book. And no, his name is not “default font guy.” tedium.co/2025/03/05/p...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Considering the long history of phone books, particularly the Yellow Pages, where local businesses learned all the marketing tricks they eventually brought to the internet. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16976353/phone-book-yellow-pages-history

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Admit it. You miss the Yellow Pages. tedium.co/2025/03/04/p...

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

A bad experience with a messenger bag got me thinking about how companies change over time—and how it affects their products. I’ll be the only dude comparing Chrome Industries to Skype today. tedium.co/2025/03/01/c... new @tedium.co

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

As a company matures, it doesn’t generally make the same product you like forever. There’s a chance it might be a little worse. tedium.co/2025/03/01/c...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

If a company or service you rely on changes owners, you can’t be guaranteed that its mission will match what you’ve come to expect—even if, at least initially, it seems like everything’s on track. Henc... https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16973645/chrome-messenger-bag-corporate-mission-drift

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The really exciting part of Framework’s latest product release cycle is the cheap 12-inch laptop—not the beefy desktop machine. That tiny laptop seems to have nailed its target audience. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16971925/framebook-12-laptop-impressions

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The cheap-but-good laptop is a rare beast, but it seems to have made a fresh appearance, thanks to @frame.work. tedium.co/2025/02/26/f...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

How Velcro became one of the most important inventions of the 20th century, despite simultaneously gaining an unfashionable reputation. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16970308/velcro-history

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Over at Tedium, we consider ourselves hook-and-loop enthusiasts. tedium.co/2025/02/24/v...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

How I got the latest version of Photoshop, verified in Creative Cloud, working on Linux with relatively few hiccups (and a lot of config-file editing): tedium.co/2025/02/23/w... new @tedium.co

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

The nerdiest thing we’ve done this week: tedium.co/2025/02/23/w...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Forget WINE; a weirdly fascinating technique to make Photoshop work on Linux involves chopping up a remote access client into a windowing interface. It’s wild, but it kinda works. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16969159/winapps-windows-linux-rdp-explanation

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The nerdiest thing we’ve done this week: tedium.co/2025/02/23/w...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

A quick note to @tedium.co supporters on Ko-Fi. ko-fi.com/post/An-Ad-F...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

So, we’re going to offer an ad-free solution for the first time. It’s like that ad-blocking tool you like, except we had a say in the decision.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine a world in which your average USB port looked more like an Ethernet jack and plugged into your monitor. We almost got that. It was called ACCESS.bus, and your monitor ate it. Here’s what happened: tedium.co/2025/02/17/a... new @tedium.co

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

A few years before the Universal Serial Bus took over the world of peripherals, another upstart standard aimed to do the same thing. And I’m not talking about FireWire. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16964631/access-bus-i2c-usb-competitor-history

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

You may be focused on trying to fit your USB connector in the right way, but we’re focused on forgotten wannabe USB ports that look kinda like Ethernet jacks. tedium.co/2025/02/17/a...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

The periodic Rust-induced conflicts happening with the Linux kernel hint at underlying generational problems facing the project. And it’s already led a prominent maintainer to quit. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16962800/asahi-linux-kernel-rust-drama

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

My thoughts on the recent blowup with Rust programming language and the Linux Kernel: Simply put, I think Rust is a stand-in for the underlying issue, which is that there is a generation gap that is emerging among developers that needs to be worked out. tedium.co/2025/02/14/a... new @tedium.co

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

The periodic Rust-induced conflicts happening with the Linux kernel hint at underlying generational problems facing the project. And it’s already led a prominent maintainer to quit. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16962800/asahi-linux-kernel-rust-drama

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Let’s talk about our favorite kind of drama: Linux drama. tedium.co/2025/02/14/a...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

OK, more seriously: Thoughts on BuzzFeed, SNARF, and BuzzFeed Island. What Peretti’s talking about honestly reminds me a little of cohost. Will it be good? We’ll see. tedium.co/2025/02/11/b... new @tedium.co

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

BuzzFeed, the ultimate social media team player, decides that it needs a social media platform of its own. In the process, it gave us a crazy new buzzword. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16960802/buzzfeed-snarf-snarf-snarf-snarf-snarf

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Is he trying to be funny or something?

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

The narrative that one person invented a common thing is often a false narrative. Here's some evidence of that point. tedium.co/2025/02/10/e...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

You will be thinking about egg cartons 24/7

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Just in time for the eggs to completely fall out of the affordability range of the middle class, let’s talk about egg cartons. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16960044/egg-carton-history

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Just in time for you to not be able to buy eggs, we wrote about egg cartons. tedium.co/2025/02/10/e...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

reminder that you can self-host your own url shortener for less than a bitly subscription feed

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

Bitly tried sneaking one past us. tedium.co/2025/02/07/b...

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

Bitly, the link-shortening service used by millions, decides it’s going to drop an ad between you and your link. Don’t like it? It’ll cost ya. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16958500/bitly-terms-of-service-change

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Nice to see Warner Brothers is catching up with me by putting their full movies on YouTube. Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x88z... Movie: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vn0...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

A major studio is apparently treating YouTube as a place to drop some of its archive films that have lost their cinematic luster. My mind is admittedly blown. https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/16956532/warner-bros-youtube-full-movie-releases

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

In case you want to see some random junk a major film studio doesn’t care about, they just put up a playlist on YouTube. tedium.co/2025/02/05/w...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

If there wasn’t so much news happening right now I would tell you this is the only piece of content you need to read today. Unfortunately, I can’t say that. But I hope that when you’re sick of being gaslit by everyone else, you find some respite in us.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments