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Tangential, sort of: in the early days of mobile phones for the masses, when there was no WiFi/3G in the underground, I will often enable Bluetooth in my phone, look for nearby devices and try to match names and looks.

That was before everyone had their "John's IPhone" or "Samsung A55" boring names everywhere and some of us cared to personalise our device's name.

Anyone else played this game?

Yes, and I do the same. However, Kids Corner was a curated list of apps that you chose to share freely without password/FaceID.

I don't want to lock my browser, photos, maps, etc. behind FaceID. I want to hand my phone knowing they will only use one or two apps and the fun stops when they hand me over the device.

Slightly off-topic, but as this will require kids to have access to an unlocked phone...

I remember Windows Phone had the feature of "unlocked apps", which you could run without having to unlock the phone: think calculator, browser, games. It was called Kids Corner[1].

Have any other OS (iOS/Androind) copied anything similar to that? This app will (or at least in my case) live in a place like that, where they do not have access to the whole platform.

[1] https://www.windowscentral.com/kids-corner-windows-phone-8

All but the last example look better (to me) on Krea than ChatGPT-4.1.

The problem with AI images, in my opinion, is not the generated image (that can be better or worse) but the prompt and instructions given to the AI and their "defaults".

So many blog posts and social media updates have that horrible (again, to me) feel and look of overly plastic vibe, like a cartoon that has been burn... just like "needs more JPEG" but "needs more AI-vibe".

I have been using the version published in Testflight for quite a while now and I must say I haven't seen much difference from my previous setup (Firefox Focus configured as the ad blocking provider in Safari settings)

But, given their record on providing excellent software and features, I am so happy to switch to them and to see what they are capable of in the future!

But never boring! What was boring were the 10 seconds it was getting me to stop a docker container... that prompted me to check the source of these names.

I am going to derail the conversation from the pen and into the refills.

As a left-handed that refuses to twist their hand to avoid smudging everything: what refills brands offer the best dry time to avoid black or blue smudges?