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by alin23 4y ago
Curiously, users of my Lunar app ( https://lunar.fyi/ ) always lament about how Windows handled monitors so much better than macOS for them. Are some monitors that bad on macOS but better in Windows, or viceversa?
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AMD Continues Working Toward HDR Display Support for the Linux Desktop(phoronix.com)
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by alin23 4y ago
On building iOS, iPadOS and macOS apps using the latest version of SwiftUI: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9VJ9OpT-IPSM6dFSwQCI... Helped me a lot in building the apps I have published on https://lowtech
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by alin23 4y ago
Looks like the XKCD way of generating passwords is not as secure. After all, it decreases entropy by a whole lot if 30 characters can be dumbed down to 5 English words with dashes/spaces/periods between. So it’s kind of like using
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by alin23 4y ago
In 5 years of getting support emails for Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi/ ), LG monitors were the least mentioned of all. They seem to have the best DDC compatibility of all monitors. I also keep a public monitor database here wher
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by alin23 4y ago
> SAVE YOUR RELATIONSHIP AND GET YOUR BOYFRIEND/GIRLFRIEND BACK > HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS GONE FOREVER... My name is Angela foden from Canada, I Can't believe that I got cured > I still can’t thank you enough for DR UWA
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by alin23 4y ago
I received the same diagnostic in 2017, which coincided with the year I got my first external monitor for my MacBook. Headaches and eye pain became a more common occurence in the first weeks, until I stumbled upon ddcctl [0] and the fact th
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by alin23 4y ago
The monitor is not the active device in this situation, the host (Mac/PC/SBC) is. The negotiation is done when the host initiates it, usually when the cable is connected to a port or when coming back from deeper sleep/standby
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by alin23 4y ago
I believe that is already being done. As I said in my comment here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34049171 ) switching between two active inputs takes about 1 second for me. The problem that OP is facing is switching
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by alin23 4y ago
See my answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34050157 TLDR: because it is done over a slow protocol (I²C) and because of artificial delays in code to account for slower devices
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by alin23 4y ago
EDID is important because it is the only way for the host to know which resolution, color depth, frame rate the monitor supports. Even if you remove the DDC wires, the OS will still try to communicate, and it might delay this even more beca
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by alin23 4y ago
Most of the delay is I/O bound. Handshaking happens over the Display Data Channel (DDC) which is a protocol over I²C (a two-wire comunication bus). HDMI/DP/DVI have 2 dedicated wires inside the cable for this, USB-C has to sw
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by alin23 4y ago
My old LG 27UD88 switches in about 1 second when pressing the relevant hotkey in Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi/ ) It’s not instant but input switching through DDC is the fastest possible method. That’s because the input that will
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by alin23 4y ago
When lowering the hardware brightness (either through the monitor OSD or through DDC), the voltage of the LED backlight gets lowered and thus the LEDs get dimmer and less light passes through the crystals. Polarization doesn't come int
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Swift Quit – Automatic App Quitting on Mac(swiftquit.com)
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by alin23 4y ago
There's even software that can adapt that DDC brightness automatically using the ambient light around you. I develop Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi ) that can do that for macOS. For me, the screens I use are always at the brightne
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by alin23 4y ago
Thank you ^_^
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by alin23 4y ago
After building SPAs in next.js and blogs in Hugo, I finally settled on the simplest stack: Caddy+Markdown/HTML templates I’ve talked about it more here: https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/How%20I%20write%20this%20blog... B
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Alfred Workflow Gallery Is in Early Access(alfred.app)
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by alin23 4y ago
Running Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS right now. I have the `unattended-upgrades` service running for automated security patches, and I just run `apt-get upgrade` from time to time. I'll be upgrading to 22.04 LTS tomorrow, last time I did that it
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by alin23 4y ago
I went through Heroku, then DigitalOcean, then GCP, AWS, Hetzner Cloud, and finally landed on a dedicated Hetzner server at €45/month My use case is app websites ( https://lunar.fyi , https://lowtechguys.com ), pu
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by alin23 4y ago
Now I feel that sharing the revenue over and over looks a bit by bragging, but I'm pretty sure it's just because I've already seen too many #buildinpublic tweets. I'm always reminded by the fact that I myself started s
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by alin23 4y ago
Man these people are driving me nuts. When you bootstrap a small business, most likely nobody knows about you. Everyone boasts about how awful ads are so you try to please them and get your product in the eyes of users by doing something us
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by alin23 4y ago
How Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi/ ) became a necessity: New job, more stuff to do, so I got myself a 4K LG Monitor to extend my small Macbook screen. I had set up my home office right on an interior balcony where I had lots of n
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by alin23 4y ago
Their company "Sensor Station LLC" is mentioned multiple times in the Terms: https://slimvoice.co/terms Data on that company can be found here: https://opengovus.com/virginia-business/S8451587
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by alin23 4y ago
Saagar, thank you so much! This is priceless! I was in the process of trying to get I²C working through the built-in HDMI port of the Apple Silicon Macs (the one containing the MCDP29xx HDMI-to-DP converter chip) and been hitting a lot of
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by alin23 4y ago
That's.. wow, ok. How exactly did you end up in that source code at that specific line? I know you're well versed in reverse engineering Darwin, and I'm reading your posts and trying to improve my skills in this daily, but th
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by alin23 4y ago
macOS apps which I share at https://lowtechguys.com/ bring me $7k/month on average at the moment, and it keeps growing. It started in 2017 when I shared the first free and open source version of Lunar ( https:/&#x
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by alin23 4y ago
Sure, added here: https://github.com/alin23/m1-panic#panic-crash-report-after-...
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by alin23 4y ago
I have no idea how I could find that, given that the system freezes completely. Maybe tracing the CPU instructions using LLDB might be possible, but the bug is most likely in the kernel code so this would not help much.

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