A whole bunch of them. Because they all seem “useful” and I’m not “done” with them yet.

As someone who's immigrated into the United States around 2010s, I have experienced a life in Central Texas that was much better than it was expensive before COVID, and much more expensive than it's good after COVID.

It’s a wonderful device and I own one but lack of screen backlight makes it practically unusable, and at its price point almost vulgarly expensive.

God knows how much I wanted to use and love it but it just started gathering dust in a closet after a week because of this.

If it had a backlight, I would have bought one by now.

Unfortunately, that type of screen cannot be backlit. There are frontlit versions, but they are thicker and would consume a bit more power.

Sometimes I concede on this point with certain devices, but the screen on the playdate basically requires light at a specific angle for it to be at all discernible, so I don't blame you and can't recommend it as a result

A kind of tintype display.

Do not buy one. You will regret it. Without backlight, it's a gimmick.

> If they were smart they would do a Netflix of news where you subscribe to one service and it gives you access to a ton of different subscription news sites

Isn’t this exactly what Apple News[1] is?

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[1] https://www.apple.com/apple-news/

It serves ads even if you pay, so for me, no.

The ads are less intrusive than paid subscriptions from the providers IMO. Not a fan of the double-dip either though.

…which makes it no different practically every other form of periodical news media that’s ever existed.

Apparently they can be blocked (mitigated?) with PiHole. But your point stands.

Isn’t this true for Netflix as well?

Except it doesn't work with links, which is usually how I find news stories. I have Apple One (which includes News), but If I click on a link to the WSJ, I get the paywall. To read the article, I have to copy the article title or headline (if I can find it!), and paste it into the News app to read it.

Use the share menu and select the News app and it’ll open the story in it. Not as easy as those app banners but still not too difficult.

Thanks. I never would have thought to do that - the News app wasn't even one of the default targets for me.

TIL, thanks for the tip!

Interesting, I wonder if it would be possible to visualize the most dramatic parts of every flight -- takeoffs and landings.

> Not because they are retro.

> Because they still work.

I find this writing style so viscerally infuriating.

“Run” is doing a lot of heavy lifting at this point.

I remember the pregnancy test Doom. Wasn't it "running" on the display only?

Yes, I think it was, but that was also b/c, IIRC, the pregnancy tester had a CPU, too. A CPU can actually run things.

DNS … cannot, and that's why the person upthread is criticizing the use of the word "run" here. DNS ran nothing.

No it wasn't, it just was the display. My commented example in this thread states that in every device your are running Zork I-III or any z-machine v3 compatible game it's actually hosting the interpreter and the game itself, from the Game Boy to an smartphone, a PC, an old PDA...

It wasn’t even the test’s original display, IIRC; they just re-used the housing and inserted a fancier display.

They replaced both the display and the microcontroller with something like an Adafruir Trinket.

Such delightful UI.

One small thought: as I scroll down on a particular airport page, it would be useful for that page to always display the airport's name in a fixed position. I've opened up a few airports and scrolled down to look at the data, and then was unable to tell which page was which airport without scrolling the pages back to the top (I later realized I could just look at the URL, which is cool).

did u see the TV mode link? i wish more visualization sites had that.

> Is it common now to have solo operators running control towers?

At Class D airports it’s always been the norm. But KLGA is Class B.