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    What do YOU use Siri for?

    Om Malik did some interesting math on Siri usage:

    I looked up the number of active Apple devices. That number is estimated to be 2.2 billion devices... So 1.5 billion requests a day is actually far less than one daily request per active device.

    Malik says he hardly ever uses Siri on purpose. And now I’m thinking about my own Siri usage, which is definitely more than once a day but basically only for alarms and reminders. So I want to know: do you use your phone’s assistant consistently? If so, what for?

    Apple iPad Mini 2024 review: missing pieces

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    Apple’s smallest tablet got an upgrade — but it won’t feel like much of one unless Apple Intelligence is better than it seems.

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    “RSS basically works like social media should work.”

    Cory Doctorow makes a strong case for replacing pretty much your entire internet feeds experience with an RSS reader, and spoiler alert he’s right and you should:

    Using RSS is a chance to visit a utopian future in which the platforms have no power, and all power is vested in publishers, who get to decide what to publish, and in readers, who have total control over what they read and how, without leaking any personal information through the simple act of reading.

    Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader (16 Oct 2024)

    [Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow]