In an article, a colleague made passing reference to a company called Xanadu, which made me think of this video.

I was trying to think of a snarky comment to make to demonstrate that I am too cool for this kind of campiness. But you know what? I am not too cool. I like this video.

The FCC’s new restrictions on foreign-produced consumer routers could gut the home Wi-Fi market, as most routers — even American-branded equipment — are manufactured overseas. By my colleague Monica Alleven on Fierce Network.

There’s no law requiring you to drink at the Nazi bar: A judge dismissed Elon Musk’s X Corp’s lawsuitclaiming an illegal boycott against X by the World Federation of Advertisers and companies including Mars, CVS Health and Colgate-Palmolive.

Rediscovering the iPad

A few days ago, in an online conversation with a friend, I said:

I was a heavy, heavy iPad user through the 2010s to about three years ago. Now I barely use it. My MacBook Air is my desk computer, my travel computer and my secondary couch computer. My phone is my main couch computer. Indeed, the iPad lives right next to my couch, and usually I don’t bother picking it up — I just get out my phone instead.

I’ve made this point multiple times over the past few months, maybe years. I’ve gone from using the iPad daily, to rarely, to never. I’ve thought about donating it. I’m a little surprised people are buying them.

This week I said to the same friend:

My iPad lives in a keyboard case. Tonight I glanced at it while sitting on the couch and reaching for my phone, and I said to myself, “Maybe if I took it out of the keyboard case I might like using it?” And I did and I do.

Car dashboards of the 1980s