A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not.

1️⃣ iWeb lives! Sort of. If you have an old Mac. But Corbin Davenport made an iWeb website just a few months ago and, honestly, it looks pretty awesome. [🔗 iweb.corbin.io]

2️⃣ Manton Reece shared a letter that his mother wrote to her mother many years ago while she (and Manton) lived in Greece. A lovely snapshot in time. [🔗 manton.org]

3️⃣ Alpinesavvy shared a story about drinking water that has me thinking about the counterproductive choices I make. [🔗 alpinesavvy.com]

4️⃣ The first use of “Wendy” as a first name was in Peter Pan. We still don’t know what it was short for! [🔗 wikipedia.org]

5️⃣ Rands did the work and made incredible data tables with all the good charging/charger brick information for modern Apple devices. [🔗 randsinrepose.com]

6️⃣ Todd Vaziri shows why having only two dots instead of three to represent outs in a baseball score graphic is just wrong. Looking at you, Netflix. [🦣 mastodon.social]

7️⃣ The Midleton Mule was a featured drink at our St. Patrick’s Day meal and I can’t stop thinking about it. It was so fresh and delightful. Gonna have to make it at home! [🔗 gelsons.com]

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Sooo… I did a thing. I couldn’t help but be slightly dissatisfied by the clarity of my Studio Display XDR’s nano-texture display. It just made everything look a little less than Retina-quality. And for this price, I don’t want to have lingering regrets each time I use it.

So, I ordered a second non-nano-texture version, banking on Apple’s generous return policy.

It came in today. I set it up about 30 minutes ago. I put the two displays side by side and… it’s no question. The nano-texture is going back.

Showing the same content on each display, at the same brightness level, I can absolutely see the fuzziness introduced by the “matte” display.

It’s not that nano-texture is all bad. I love how it looks when the display is dark — there are zero reflections.¹ But the point is to enjoy it while the display is on. Without nano-texture, everything is as crisp as I had hoped. I tend to lean toward the display when I’m concentrating, and even close up, the display is razor sharp.

I technically have until April 9th to send back the nano-texture XDR, but, honestly, I think I’m going to package it up tonight.

Well… maybe tomorrow. I might as well enjoy having 10k pixels of display at my disposal while I can.

A note on Apple’s return period

If I hold onto the original display until the last day that I can send it back, I will have had it for 24 days. That’s a full 10 extra days beyond the stated 14-day return period. It’s possible that I could have squeezed in even a few more days by initiating the return today, the 14th day after it was delivered, instead of the 11th.

With that in mind, one could get nearly a month of use for testing and comparison of Apple’s products, with the ability to return it (free shipping both ways) for a full refund. That’s serious commitment to customer satisfaction, and one area where Apple’s standards haven’t slipped.

To boot, by paying with Apple Card’s Monthly Installments (which allow you to pay for an item over 12 months with 0% interest), I’ve only been charged $287.92 for the nano-texture display, and $263.92 for the regular one. I think that was just the taxes for each one.

To be sure, it’s a privileged position I’m in to be able to do these shenanigans, but there’s a lot to be said for how easy Apple has made it to purchase even it’s most expensive products with very little risk.

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