They didn’t do this for safety. They did it because there’s now a 3 minute segment in any car review video that complains about things like heating controls, indicators, windscreen wipers etc not having proper buttons.

Touch screens aren’t going away for things like music and maps though.

Very true. I have unfortunately found that video is the slowest to succumb to this because I guess the barriers to entry are higher and monetisation is easier. I get most of my reviews from YouTube and TikTok now. Still miss the multitude of anandtech style sites we used to have so many of though.

Yeah true. They seem to be very easy to get _something_ out of and very hard to get something consistently good out of as a result. Which goes a long way to explaining all the extremely half baked AI integrations we now have.

The best bit is I read some pretty middling reviews for the lower models and convinced myself not that the whole design sucked but that clearly it was worth going for the top of the line models because surely they didn’t have the same issues.

On the plus side their text in text out nature makes them so much easier to swap between than you might expect. I’m sure they’re working very hard to fix that though.

Oh my god same. How is there so much of a cult around such a shit product

I think the UL already meets that description!

Yes. We need to stop commissioning so much infrastructure as big bang projects and move to more “X miles per year” style delivery pipelines. Boom and bust inefficiencies built into every step of the process right now.

This one made me a bit sad! I don’t know if I’ll keep reading. But I appreciate the candour on the reasoning, and the thought put into it.

I absolutely thought that was another @theonion.com ad page

I’m afraid I don’t wonder whether any thought was involved

I’m not super clued up on the M4 vs M5 distinction but for me personally it’s always been worth going for a previous generation and more memory on the M chips, if you can work it that way. I’m on a 64GB M1 Max and it is not even beginning to creak, great machine.

Missed opportunity to bring back the old InterCity design language in my opinion.

Terrible, but also quite funny that whoever approved this thought one set of barriers wasn’t enough

Would highly recommend Pocketcasts for podcasts. Although I still wish more podcasts would just let me pay for an ad free feed.

Unfortunately I’m a bit locked to Spotify for music by my Sonos speakers which don’t play as well with any other service really 🙄

Do these numbers include employer NIC? If not, the effect will be a fair bit bigger (but the extra effect will be pretty evenly spread) for those where the employer passes on the savings.

I had my first Twizzler the other day. Blew my mind how much nothing it tasted of. Literally like eating plastic. Mild hint of airfix glue. Didn’t even taste of sugar??? Marvel of modern food chemistry to take something that’s more than half sugar and turn it into something I can’t even taste. 0/10.