Having recently owned a Garmin smartwatch, I’d like to offer a counterpoint: YOU CANNOT CHANGE THE FONT SIZE ON GARMIN WATCHES.

Having recently owned a Garmin smartwatch, I’d like to offer a counterpoint: YOU CANNOT CHANGE THE FONT SIZE ON…

Cheap is sometimes fine. There are plenty of perfectly competent tablets, smart watches and bluetooth speakers out there. Some people just want a basic TV, find that they can get away with a $200 Chromebook and don’t care that their phone doesn’t have NFC, wireless charging or half a terabyte of internal storage.

Or abandon it completely and use one of the things that already interoperates across all platforms. There’s no reason to talk about or look at the Apple-exclusive thing, because it’s deliberately exclusive. 

Involve decent lighting. Even a shitty $30 Selfie Ring can be the difference between a camera shooting at ISO 2400 and ISO 400. Natural light is the best light, but your pet will seldom be in the best possible lighting conditions naturally. I get that most people aren’t going to break out $2k in studio lights but a che…

The wipes work a lot better and I like being clean. I’m never going back to just TP. 

In addition to using an ad blocker on desktop versions of Youtube, I’ll also put in a good word for the third-party Android app Smart Youtube TV, which is a client that has limited functionality (no ability to Like videos or read comments, for example) and is made for set top boxes, but which completely omits ads. It…

I mean, the sound ISN’T good. Yes , it sounds better than ear buds, a basic tv or laptop speakers, but a single Sonos:1 isn’t even stereo. It’s not noticeably better than an Amazon Echo or a $50 JBL portable speaker, really. I know a lot of people don’t look for that, but it’s so easy to do better, even with just an…

I mean, the sound ISN’T good. Yes , it sounds better than ear buds, a basic tv or laptop speakers, but a single…

Don’t buy these things. They don’t interoperate with other audio components. You’re buying lock in to Sonos hardware. And no, Sonos, speakers don’t sound all that great. If you’re willing to spend $250 on a set of amplified speakers, I absolutely guarantee you can find something that will sound better that you can use…

Don’t buy these things. They don’t interoperate with other audio components. You’re buying lock in to Sonos…

Can we talk about Thinkpad support for a minute? Because it’s amazing. Thinkpads have a warranty that’s valid worldwide. You can have your notebook fixed in Cairo or Prague if need be. In the US, I’ve gotten 12 hour turn around on DEPOT service (literally packing a notebook off at the end of a work day and having it…

Can we talk about Thinkpad support for a minute? Because it’s amazing. Thinkpads have a warranty that’s valid…

RCS uses internet transit with SMS (cell tower control channel signalling) as a fallback. Vastly larger character limits eliminate out of order delivery and larger binary attachments. Not being tied to a hardware ID means I can receive messages on any client device and have a standard set of options for sending and…

SMS is a thing that needs to die. It’s tied to a handset or phone number. There’s no standard way of using or directing it to some other device. It has a crap character limit, regularly delivers messages out of order or not at all, barely supports binary attachments, can be difficult or impossible to search depending…