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by Cockbrand 5mo ago
This was very common in the early days of the automobile, at least for luxury cars. Bentley or Rolls-Royce would deliver a chassis with the entire drivetrain, and a coachbuilder like Mulliner would add a body to the customer's liking.
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by Cockbrand 5mo ago
I don't see the issue here. Some filesystems store data in several streams, and have been doing so for decades. GNU tar gives warnings about stuff it doesn't know, and which can be ignored without a problem. If you haven't ev
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by Cockbrand 5mo ago
Interesting, I hadn't know that! Thanks!
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by Cockbrand 5mo ago
This is so neat! There was a list entry for a Xenix HD image, I'd love to see that in action.
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by Cockbrand 5mo ago
An important aspect of this is that MS was under heavy scrutiny at that time for anti-competitive behavior, as the US v Microsoft case [0] was being prepared. If Apple had gone bust, MS would effectively have had a desktop OS monopoly, whic
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by Cockbrand 5mo ago
I'm sure it was much easier to implement than what you're describing. So it's a hack indeed.
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by Cockbrand 5mo ago
In addition, Amigas had three types of RAM to begin with - Chip Mem (shared between custom chips and CPU), Slow Mem (exclusive to the CPU, still IIRC as slow as Chip Mem) and Fast Mem (exclusive to the CPU and significantly faster). And j
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by Cockbrand 5mo ago
Too late to edit - I just saw that the Vaio in fact had the 430TX chipset, not the 430FX. Both were artificially capped at 64MB of fast RAM, as they were late Pentium chipsets, and Intel rather wanted to sell the then-new Pentium II chips a
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by Cockbrand 5mo ago
Around the turn of the millennium I had a Sony Vaio 505TX, which had the same chipset. My machine was running Linux, and I maxed it out to 128MB RAM. There was a kernel patch for this chipset back then, which treated all memory above the lo
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by Cockbrand 6mo ago
Apart from the obvious whataboutism: > [...] they often have a massively higher rate of fatalities Higher than what?
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by Cockbrand 6mo ago
Full-featured eyes have developed a few times independently [0], so it could be that mammals and squids have evolved on different branches that split before the common ancestors had eyes as a feature. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org
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by Cockbrand 6mo ago
Another thing was that not all Mac notebooks had a touch bar, so developers couldn't put any vital features onto it.
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by Cockbrand 6mo ago
And it's for me an absolutely indispensable app which I'd happily pay more for. The UI is a bit weird, but it's fantastic how many little tweaks it enables. A Mac without it feels clunky to me.
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by Cockbrand 6mo ago
Full circle - thank you :)
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by Cockbrand 7mo ago
Each time I get super anal about a piece nerd knowledge, I make some mistake myself - all the Apple PPC laptops were in fact called PowerBook. The MacBook name started with the Intel based devices.
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by Cockbrand 7mo ago
I can't believe nobody had nitpicked the obvious mistake yet: there never was an iBook Duo. The 68k Apple notebooks and the early PPC ones were called PowerBooks, so the correct naming is "PowerBook Duo 230".
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by Cockbrand 7mo ago
The clamshell iBook had one very distinctive disadvantage: when the laptop world had finally arrived at a default display resolution of at least 1024x768, the iBook had an 800x600 display. This forced web designers (in a time before widely
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by Cockbrand 7mo ago
This is an architectural problem. These companies share their documents with externals, and the documents must behave normally to these externals. So it doesn't just have to look as intended, the external person also needs to be able t
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by Cockbrand 7mo ago
Google guarantees ChromeOS Flex support for each supported model for a certain amount of time, see https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11513094
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by Cockbrand 7mo ago
It's been so long I had almost forgotten about this... there was also at some point a 3rd party camera app which had a secret setting (activated by entering some URL into iOS Safari), enabling the use of the volume buttons to trigger t
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by Cockbrand 8mo ago
Google Docs is in fact a text editor with Markdown support, see https://support.google.com/docs/answer/12014036
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by Cockbrand 9mo ago
Been there, done that. After a bit of back and forth, Telekom basically recommended that I go and use one of the big SMTP servers and stop bothering them. While I hated myself for doing it, I eventually switched to Gmail for peace of mind.
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by Cockbrand 9mo ago
TinkerTool is a nice GUI app for this setting and a few others, see https://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html
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by Cockbrand 9mo ago
Ah yes, thank you for reminding me - of course, it was Path Finder! You could even have it respond to "Reveal". Not sure any more if it was by renaming Path Finder to /Applications/Finder, or by changing its Bundle id to
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by Cockbrand 9mo ago
This used to be possible, I remember that I replaced Finder with some other app many years ago. I strongly assume that this doesn't work any more, though.
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by Cockbrand 9mo ago
Let me get back to you on this, but it'll take me a few days EDIT: Here you go, it's very barebones, but it's better than nothing (I hope): https://github.com/cockbrand/siri-gemini-shortcut As you'd
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by Cockbrand 9mo ago
Further reading on this, very worthwhile IMHO: Paper Girl by Beth Macy, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Girl
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by Cockbrand 9mo ago
Not sure if that's too much of a crutch for you, but it's quite easy to create an "Ask Gemini" shortcut that calls a Cloud Function and returns a spoken response. I use this on my HomePods all the time, and it's wor
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by Cockbrand 9mo ago
I wouldn't expect this to happen, as Apple's resistance against this would be too strong. The data of Google's paying [enterprise] customers stays private as well, so the safeguards are in place already.
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by Cockbrand 9mo ago
Not a Braun product, but also timeless European design: I have a De'Longhi KG79 which I've bought in 2019, and it doesn't show any signs of wearing out yet. The only maintenamce so far was that I gave it a thorough cleaning l

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