I’ll cut to the chase: it’s a nice resolution upgrade from an Apple or LG 5k display. But that’s about it – in every other visual respect (brightness, contrast, etc) it’s basically the same or marginally worse (see Matte-ugly). Though the built-in KVM is a nice addition. Resolution The extra resolution is significant – it… Read more
Ugh, this one caused me days of head-scratching. If you run that command sequence, you’ll find that it makes the SSH connection and then exits immediately – and it kills the background job (sleep 15) as it exits. Which I find intuitive if only because that’s obviously how it’s always worked. But now run it… Read more
From the department of “how did I not realise this sooner?!”: Yes, Swift treats the two bytes “\r\n” as a single character. This is actually super convenient a lot of the time, because it means algorithms that look for line breaks with isNewline just work, even on “Windows”-style text. Otherwise, you’d have to explicitly look… Read more
It’s very clear that Apple were going for peak brightness above all else. Nobody else has even tried to make a bright 6k display – in fact, every non-Apple 6k display is outright dim by modern display standards – they’re barely brighter than the original 5k display in the 2015 iMac! For the price of… Read more
Studio Display XDR Pro Display XDR Screen diagonal 69 cm 81 cm (+17%) Resolution 5,120 ⨉ 2,880 6,016 ⨉ 3,384 Pixel count 14,745,600 20,358,144 (+38%) Backlight zones 2,304 (+300%) 576 Pixel density 218 218 Contrast ratio 1,000,000 : 1 1,000,000 : 1 Peak sustained brightness 2,000 (≤25℃) (+25%) 1,600 (≤ 25℃) Display P3 coverage ?… Read more
It’s been a while since I’ve seen such a pithy and accurate representation of what it’s like being an Apple Mac & iPhone user these days (well done Nick Hodulik!). The externalities cost estimates might be a little tongue-in-cheek, but honestly, are they all that wrong? One small irritation at the wrong moment can ricochet… Read more
I’m not using macOS 26 Tahoe yet – hopefully I’ll never have to; 🤞 the next version of macOS is less of a dumpster fire, and I’ll just skip Tahoe entirely. But, looking over other people’s shoulders, and listening to the groans and cries, I’m struck by something. We’ve been here before. Icon jail, I… Read more