today's leftover
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One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
The blue Apple picked for the iMessage bubbles provides a better color contrast against the white text on it compared to the green Apple picked for the Android bubbles. In other words, since text is white, Apple picked a darker blue but a lighter green to purposefully make the iMessage text more readable.
To be clear, it is not that green is gross. It is the low color contrast of the green Apple picked and used against white text is gross.
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Google Keeps Making Android's Driving-Focused Modes Worse
For those who appreciate a simpler experience, it’s good that Google Maps’ version is sticking around. Having choice is always better than not, though. Maps’ implementation has been more popular if you ask Google, but I’d hazard a guess that’s probably less an indictment of the Assistant Driving Mode’s quality and more of Google’s habitual disorganization with these features, hiding them away in voice commands and menus — in separate apps no less — and ditching them when engagement unsurprisingly never takes.
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Valve Briefly (Accidentally?) Shows Off Steam Deck’s Useful Ability To Use Emulators
Buckle in, because there are essentially two ways to write this post but both of them start off the same way. Regular readers here will be familiar with Nintendo’s now years-long war on emulation. The whole thing is ultimately quite stupid, because there is no indication that emulator and ROM sites ever really had a negative impact on Nintendo’s business. Despite that, first with the release of Nintendo retro-consoles and then back catalog games on modern platforms like the Switch, Nintendo went on a legal and DMCA spree trying to end Nintendo emulation on the internet so it could, in some cases, release its own far shittier product. The point here is that, no matter the context, Nintendo hates the idea of having its games emulated.
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What is a Rc2040
The RC2040 is an emulated RC2014 (a build your self Z80 computer). But this one is entirely contained within a RP2040 (Raspberry Pi PI Pico) processor.
On the RC2040 you can Run any RC2014 Stock ROM image. including Basic and various Z80 monitors and CPM monitor. (except RomWBW there isn’t enough RAM) RC2014 Rom Image details are here
Details on running the various RC2014 ROM based programs are here
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10 logical fallacies to avoid in UX & product design