Saturday, October 31, 2026
Apple Built a $299 Kitchen Screen. It Can’t Run YouTube or My Recipe App.
Everyone Loves the Apple TV. Then a Kid Picks Up the Remote.
I Can Tell Siri to Send a Facebook Messenger Message in CarPlay. It Just Won’t Read Me the Reply.
ChargePoint Has a Great Notification System. It Just Won’t Tell You About Your Money.

Snarky.Tech

Tech by technical people.

Random News
Apple Built a $299 Kitchen Screen. It Can’t Run YouTube or My Recipe App.
Everyone Loves the Apple TV. Then a Kid Picks Up the Remote.
I Can Tell Siri to Send a Facebook Messenger Message in CarPlay. It Just Won’t Read Me the Reply.
ChargePoint Has a Great Notification System. It Just Won’t Tell You About Your Money.

Snarky.Tech

Tech by technical people.

Random News
Headlines
A small square-screened smart home display on a kitchen counter showing a cramped web page with a video and a recipe, next to chopped vegetables and a smartphone

Apple Built a $299 Kitchen Screen. It Can’t Run YouTube or My Recipe App.

A smudged, crumb-covered silver touchpad remote next to a simple black button remote on a living room coffee table, with two generic streaming boxes and a TV full of app tiles behind them.

Everyone Loves the Apple TV. Then a Kid Picks Up the Remote.

A car dashboard screen in a parking garage at dusk sends a voice message, while incoming chat bubbles with muted-speaker icons float above it, unheard.

I Can Tell Siri to Send a Facebook Messenger Message in CarPlay. It Just Won’t Read Me the Reply.

Illustration: a plug-in hybrid at a public EV charger at dusk, with a phone showing a Charging Complete alert and a $50.00 pending charge

ChargePoint Has a Great Notification System. It Just Won’t Tell You About Your Money.

A friendly glowing robot assistant arranging floating web page cards above a laptop, with a brain scan motif and a soccer ball on the desk

My Website Was a Fossil. Grok Bot Made It Fun Again.

A parked car dashboard screen showing a greyed-out video play button among app tiles, rain on the windshield

Apple Finally Lets You Watch Video in CarPlay. Too Bad No Car Will Let You.

A blocky voxel world spanning an iPhone and iPad, stopping at the edge of a Mac laptop whose screen shows a padlock

Minecraft Bedrock Runs Great on My iPhone and iPad. My Mac? Apple Lets Microsoft Say No.

Why YouTube TV Won’t Autoplay on Some of My Roku Devices (and Works Everywhere Else)

CarPlay Doesn’t Care About Your Call Screening Settings — and Apple Knows It

When Algorithms Pack Your Groceries: Amazon, Target, and the Great Packaging Disconnect

ChargePoint