Why should I be using mobile data to stream music to a $1000 phone when I can get an MP3 player for $26 that can hold 7000 songs on a micro SD card and has 80 hour battery life? The ethical and ecological impact of cheaply made products isn't so great, but I think it's at least worth being somewhat aware of the tradeoffs we're making.

So true. And the headphone can have a jack too, if that's what you want.

If you care about anything apart from the audio of the podcasts you subscribe to, you may want to check that the app you use gets a good rating for how it displays show notes.

All the old questions about representative democracy remain.

Like so many other standard tools in macOS, TextEdit is another festering sore on the rump of Apple’s engineering indolence.

Yikes. (Not that I ever actually use TextEdit to do anything.)

TFW when you realise you are not alone.

As a side note, I think the $100 million in venture capital that Luminary raised is going to be $100 million flushed down a toilet.

The sooner the better, AFAIAC

Very interesting and thoughtful read.  How one sanctimonious ex-MP  turned "a stereotypically diffident Englishman who hates getting in other people’s way and making an exhibition of myself" into a potentional eco-anarchist, although he also very sensibly denies that label, it being utter tosh.

Because an article on Medium is obviously a lot more long-lived and citable than a Twitter thread, right?

Luckily, someone else is taking care of keeping it available. https://web.archive.org/web/20190125102937/https://medium.com/@davidbowles/mexican-x-plainer-balls-n...

Which is why I support The Internet Archive and not Medium.