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| | excited-pixels.com
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| | The start of a week and a half off begins with the delivery of my new iPad Pro (2024). The screen is just phenomenal and I can't believe how much faster and lighter it is compared to my 2018 iPad Pro. Waiting this many generations means I can really tell how much nicer this one...
| | greypatterson.me
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| | [AI summary] The blog post discusses a music playlist from April 2025, highlighting a track by Majik that is no longer available and suggesting an alternative song.
| | drfrancisyoung.com
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| | My review of The Brothers Grimm: A Biography by Ann Schmiesing appears in the February 2025 edition of History Today.
| | blog.jak-linux.org
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| In the '90s, you had a large machine and several thin clients accessing it by using X11 via network. In 2010, you will have large datacenters providing applications to and storing the data of millions of users. As you might have guessed, I am talking about Google Chrome OS. It seems that the PC era is slowly coming to an end, with devices being increasingly connected 'to the cloud' and people being always online; and storing their data on Google's servers. We do emails online using Google Mail, we do navigation online using Google Maps, we edit and view our documents using Google Docs, our newspaper is Google News; and when we want entertainment we open the browser and type youtube.com into the URL bar. Even if we were formatting the hard disk and reinstalli...