13” M5 iPad Pro 1 TB storage with nano screen coating, keyboard, Pencil Pro
$2477

14” M5 Macbook Pro, 1 TB storage, nano screen coating (comes with keyboard and pointing device, SDXC slot, 3 USB-C ports)
$2143

With the Magic Keyboard, the iPad Pro would be about a half-pound lighter than the MBP. It has a nicer screen than the MBP, jury still out on longevity of OLED screens. My 3rd gen iPad Pro is now 7 years old and the display is still flawless.

tl;dr iPad Pro is the Louis Vuitton handbag of computing devices.

#Apple #iPadPro #MacbookPro #pricing #WTF

I wore glasses like this as a kid and I wouldn’t be caught dead in these things now.
The Google Glass was dorky but not directly hideous, unlike these things.

#meta #glassholeV2

It's depressing to me that my home town is known for (in order of popular imagination)

- gangsters supposedly killing civilians in the streets every single day
- deep dish pizza
- The 1985 Bears
- the Blues Brothers

All of which get a shrug from actual Chicagoans.

#Chicago

https://www.404media.co/candy-crush-tinder-myfitnesspal-see-the-thousands-of-apps-hijacked-to-spy-on-your-location/

Clickbait headline, but it turns out that digital advertising is even more privacy-invasive than you thought. The companies that run the online real-time bidding auctions also collect all the endpoint information they can and sell it to data brokers.

This tactic is not going to just apply to mobile devices, since the bidding process is for all ads, so it applies to any application that displays ads. I’m not sure if running an ad-blocker prevents this, since most of them just block presentation, the endpoint info will already have been sent.

#privacy #advertising

Since his financial backer went off script and made it clear that the immigration issue is really about making sure only properly indentured servants are to be brought into the US to take American jobs, Trump quickly pivoted away from that by shitting up the news cycle with his usual misdirection.

"Invading Greenland and Panama" is Trump once again getting the media to talk about what he wants them to talk about, and they're delighted to do it since this generates clicks and easy "reporting" by reposting spicy Twitter takes as "journalism." 😑

#journalism #TrumpSays

Boeing may have quality control issues with actually making things, but it still maintains top-tier core government contracting skills.

https://apnews.com/article/boeing-defense-audit-soap-dispenser-parts-a811f332067af097f0bcd2effb111d30