I think we already established "eff anyone sharing the planet with us that's not us" the moment we made acoustic underwater sonars that make life hell for any whale or dolphin in 100 km range, so this is keeping that approach ...

Finally, we are making the smart surveillance dust from the famous "Don't Make Smart Surveillance Dust" novel!

"Well, they turned the entire OS into a tracking, sales and ad/propaganda delivery service, but they managed to make a single feature non-dumb, so guess we're even."

(propaganda - Windows 11 default widgets are "offering" a lot of russian-biased media, because Microsoft is too dumb to recognize that and they take any news source - and russian connected outlets are happy to use this delivery vector that most gullible people leave turned on)

I don't think that any of the news-oriented default Windows application since W8 had an option to provide a custom RSS channel. It was always a default pool of sources they were bringing.

I thinkk it's about time Ladybird got some official prebuilt binaries - I'd love to try it, but I'm not going to install its whole dev environment and build it from source.

If you are interested in new browsers / web runtimes, Servo publishes binaries monthly: https://servo.org/download/

They planned an alpha build in june :) so, just a bit longer!

That might be right - Garmin is doing the best they can with vector maps, but in Apple land, 3 fps rendering wouldn't fly.

I think it is long overdue for rebrand, as right now the marketing is "it's a simple utility to show the daily step counts Apple is already collecting anyway, oh and by the way it has awesome offline maps almost no other apps offer", which is a bit of a weird sell.

This is Apple's work - they show all enabled purchases/subscriptions author have enabled for price testing. And once you add one, removing it would mean the user's subscriptions auto-renew would get canceled, so they stay and accumulate.

And there is no way for the app to mark "this is the current pricing".

Does that mean if I subscribed for 22.99€ it would stay that way year after year?

What could be the reason that Apple designed it this way? The only reason I can think of is customer protection (say 1€ a month changes to 100€ a month and you user does not pay attention).

Your question implies someone "designs" things and given the state of the apple app store I'm not sure any form of conscious life is in charge of it

Generally it means that yes, the price will stay as-is. When the developer increases the price (versus introducing a different payment tier), they have two options: either keep all existing subscribers at the current price, or offer them to agree with the price bump (users can decline though). Reducing the price affects all existing users automatically.

My app launcher loads fine as well, but sometimes (a few times a week) it just doesn't find any apps at all. Or only some of them.

Apple hardware team looking at Apple software team: You guys, everything OK over there?

I just did the work of the software team for them:

I got Samba 4 working on Apple Time Capsules: https://github.com/jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB

If you have a legacy Time Capsule you'd rather not e-waste, you can try this out. Note that this is very much beta quality software, so don't expect it to work on all configurations.

Well, the free launch for somebody else's money is over.