Part 2 of Karl Guttag’s series of articles on his thoughts on the Apple Vision Pro is now up on his site.

He discusses the possible issues with the AVP this time around from a hardware perspective. If you’d like to get a thoughtful perspective on all the various factors that you might want to consider when trying to decide if AVP is for you or not, you might want to give the articles a read and so that you can make your own mind up instead of relying purely on hype, or how excited others are about it 😛

https://kguttag.com/2023/06/16/apple-vision-pro-part-2-hardware-issues/

#Apple #VIsionPro #Dissection #Analysis #Hardware

https://medium.com/rediscover-steam/50-black-women-in-stem-you-should-know-about-f74bd23503fd

For anyone interested- guppe group created for people who work FT and also live the #RVLife / #VanLife / #DigitalNomaD— @techtravelers

The #poppy field was too beautiful!!!

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” - Carl Sagan on The Great Bamboozle

Un peu de soleil et beaucoup d'herbe verte au lever ce matin.

#isere #myisere #grenoble #igersgrenoble #frenchalps #alpes #iseretourisme #photography #Vercors

If you take a social media sabbatical, don’t announce it. Just make your last post something fun like “I wonder if there’s a bear in this cave?”

Four mossy photos from my archives. Babeny clapper bridge, Wistman’s wood in 2012, Shaugh Prior #Dartmoor #Devon #mosstodon #photography

New Tropical Palm Tree Artography just posted on my website. I love how the sun glows behind the the tree as the viewer looks skyward, so relaxing!

ART: https://3-pamela-williams.pixels.com/featured/palm-tree-reaching-to-the-sky-pamela-williams.html

#palmtree #tropical #paradise #digitalart #beachlovers #beach #nature #naturephotography #art #mastoart #AYearForArt #buyintoart #TheArtDistrict

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@hexnovo Welcome to .art!

Hashtags are important here for discoverability:

https://mastodon.art/@Curator/108220154510678618

And we place strong emphasis on accessibility here, so adding image descriptions (alt text) to media is very much encouraged and will actually get you more interactions because more people will be inclined to share your work:

https://mastodon.art/@Curator/109279035107793247

Have fun, and yell if you need help!

Something with an Autumn flavor from several years ago.
Prints here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/grow-old-along-with-me-mark-tisdale.html

#Autumn #Fall #DigitalArt #Painting #woods #FediGiftShop #MastoArt #ArtMatters #MarkOnArt

One my fellow #DoctorWho fans will hopefully enjoy.
Prints here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/tardis-in-the-rain-london-mark-tisdale.html

#DigitalArt #Painting #London #BigBen #Tardis #FediGiftShop #MastoArt #MarkOnArt

When Apple first introduced SharePlay a couple of years ago, I was certain that this was to support their to-be released AR headset 🙂

But then time passed and nothing much appeared to happen with SharePlay. In fact, I had almost forgotten about it since adoption of SharePlay seemed to be mostly limited to streaming service apps or music apps, and that was about it ... Even amongst streaming apps, the ones I used like Neflix or Amazon Prime did not have SharePlay.

But this year, it appears that SharePlay is back with a vengeance 😛 Check out the following WWDC session to find all the new functionality being added to SharePlay:

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10239/

My Favourite? SharePlay over AirDrop so that you can start shared activities with people in the same room by just bringing your phones together — no need to start a FaceTime call!

The thing I don’t know at this point is, will SharePlay work if there is no network (or at least, no Internet)? I’m guessing not, but I’m curious to find out.

#Apple #WWDC #WWDC2023 #SharePlay #SharedActivities #VisionPro

Pickled Ginger!

I have so missed having picked ginger. I should not have waited this long to make it.

No, it's not pink. I didn't have young ginger. Yes, we prefer my homemade pickled ginger. It tastes better.

#food #cooking #pickling #ginger #gari
Slices of ginger sitting in a j…

@xvf17 I need to get ahold of bonito flakes, and that's really expensive where I am. But yeah, it's on my list. :)

@DaNanner yeah, I'm a magnet. I seem to catch it about every three months. I'm due any time as it happens.

The things that excite me.

In other news, anyone have recipes or dishes other than sushi that use wasabi or seaweed sheets?

#food #cooking #wasabi #nori
A photo of a package of seaweed…

@DaNanner I will likely mask until the end of time. I'm high risk and have had Covid 5 or six times in the last year and a half, despite vaccines, boosters, masking, not being within 6 feet of people, and hand washing a ridiculous number of times.

It’s interesting to me how some people see Apple as not being capable of any wrong, and others see it as not capable of doing anything right 😛

Why get so worked up (one way or the other) over a corporation? They are not there to make friends, they are just trying to sell products and make money. Sure, if you love their products, by all means talk about it and how good they are. But don’t get so fanatical that you think that everything they do has to be right. Look at everything critically …

And the same thing applies to fans of Google or Meta too … It’s just that I run across Apple fans way more than I do the others 🙂

#Fans #Fanatics #Antics #Reflections