Galaxy Watch 6 can measure temperature of surroundings and objects
Earlier today, Samsung announced that three new apps are coming to its Wear OS-based smartwatches. One of those apps, Thermo Check, is coming to the Galaxy Watch 6 and the Galaxy Watch 6 Classic first and then to the Galaxy Watch 5 series.
Sunset Over North Harbour, Manly, Sydney NSW
Duranbah Beach, NSW Australia
Calling out a hero in this subscription dystopia
Last year I got an iPad pro as a gift. I’ve been meaning to do more with it especially photo editing and I finally got around to looking into it. But…every damn photo app seems to be a subscription. The ones that aren’t are very basic. Until I found Affinity Photo 2. Holy hell, an extremely full featured photo app with no sub?! It’s like Lightroom and Photoshop rolled into one for a one-time payment of $A30. I took a few days to learn it and once you do it’s very good. For the cost of buying Affinity forever I could get Adobe’s photo plan for just 2 months! For someone like me who will use this stuff lightly, going some months without using it at all, subscription software sucks. Well done to Affinity for providing a high quality alternative. Give them a look - they also have windows and Mac versions. This sounds like ad but it’s not, I’m just so tired of having subs pushed in my face - especially on the app store - that when I find a good alternative I feel like shouting about it!
Pay with your palm?
New age technology has enabled consumers to pay for groceries with one wave of their hand, a development that has been deemed “kind of scary”. The technology was highlighted in a video of a woman checking out of US retailer Whole Foods with Amazon One – a system allowing shoppers to pay with a mere flash of their palm. Hmm, interesting. Not sure what I think about this. Anyone in the US using it already? I mean it’s convenient. You can’t forget your palm at home. Your palm can’t run out of battery. It’s pretty hard to replicate based on the article which suggests it is_ "impossible for a person’s palm to be replicated because its scan captured the hand’s ‘underlying vein structure to create a unique numerical, vector representation’”_. I’m guessing this is for small transactions, not buying a car, so I doubt people are going to be chopping off people’s hands and using them to buy groceries (hopefully!). Could be a useful tech?
This might help explain the spectacular launch of Threads
Best Gamepass Games on a Phone
I’m stuck with my phone only for a couple of weeks. No controller. I have Gamepass Ultimate. Can anyone recommend a good cloud gaming game that is good on a small screen using touch only? I’ve got an S23 Ultra, so it’s a big phone but still pretty small for gaming. So nothing with a tiny interface! Thanks
How should we be using Lemmy?
I’m one of the people who has very recently tried Lemmy and decided to drop Reddit. Initially because I will no longer be able to use SyncForReddit, but now also because I just like the vibe a lot more here than Reddit. I’m not a massively technical person, but I understood the broad concept of federation - different instances/servers that sync to form a big conversation/forum of sorts. I heard a lot of people joining and saying positive things about lemmy.world, so I signed up there…and that’s it. But, am I using it right? Is the idea to sign up in one place and use it to participate across the LemmyVerse/FediVerse? Or should I be seeking out lots of niche instances of interest? I hear lemmy.world is the biggest instance. What if most people end up here, does that defeat the purpose? Is this inevitable? You need a critical mass of users, so a quiet instance with few posts is not attractive. If I search for Xbox, there are lots of empty places or places with 3 posts. If there’s one big one (often ends up being in lemmy.world) that’s where I’m subscribing. How are you using Lemmy, are you participating in a bunch of instances or just one?
