Comfort Zone, Episode 20: Get Me a Dr. Pepper Robot
Niléane is fired up about the state of tech, Chris is enjoying the sweet, sweet sounds of a V12 engine, and Matt is really into a new web browser. For the challenge the gang dives into some different accessibility features for iOS and iPadOS
Weekly Topics
Some — https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/12/24268441/meta-ai-generated-northern-lights-images-threads-users-upset general examples — https://doctorow.medium.com/social-quitting-1ce85b67b456 of things sucking — https://www.macstories.net/stories/lgbt-and-marginalized-voices-are-not-welcome-on-threads/.
- Sonos Arc — https://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/arc
- Sonos Sub — https://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/sub
- Zen Browser — https://zen-browser.app/
Other Stuff We Discussed
- Matt’s northern lights over NYC photo —
- Sonos Beam — https://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/beam
- Arc browser — https://arc.net/ -Amazon Astro — https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Amazon-Astro/dp/B078NSDFSB
Follow the Hosts
- Chris on YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisLawley
- Matt on Birchtree — https://birchtree.me/
- Niléane on Mastodon — https://nileane.fr/@nileane
- Comfort Zone on Mastodon — https://mastodon.macstories.net/@comfortzone
0:00 - Welcome and democracy 6:16 - Everything sucks 37:13 - Sonos are great, though 56:57 - And browsers can be cool 1:09:27 - Full keyboard access on iPadOS 1:18:05 - Scheduling text size 1:21:45 - Live captions are amazing ✨ 1:28:17 - New challnge: free games