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by alin23 5y ago
If used for long periods of time, the LEDs will definitely heat up and decrease the lifespan of the display. By how much, it is impossible to know. But 2 things should be considered: 1. If most of the screen is not full bright white, (e.g.
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Show HN: Lunar XDR Brightness control(lunar.fyi)
124 points by alin23 5y ago|108 comments
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by alin23 5y ago
It works better than f.lux for me, because it works at a lower level than Gamma table manipulation. I’ve been using Night Shift ever since it was released and I like its color rendering more than f.lux. But it’s subjective, some people like
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by alin23 5y ago
The macOS equivalent is actually Night Shift, not True Tone. And f.lux was among the first apps to do this cross-platform. Night Shift was developed much later.
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by alin23 5y ago
Lunar developer here. Thanks for mentioning it! Just a note to avoid confusion: Lunar serves a completely different purpose than f.lux. f.lux changes the colour temperature by altering the Gamma tables. Lunar's main function is control
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by alin23 5y ago
The anti piracy measures I use are completely transparent for the end user. They are just checks for the integrity of the app. If a cracker tampered in any way (e.g. added their own dylib at RPATH) I can detect it. The crack isn’t easier to
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by alin23 5y ago
Thanks for the explanation! But the thing is, it's not a subscription. If Lunar keeps working for you, you can avoid updating after the free period of updates ends. No need to pay again. If you don't upgrade your Mac hardware to s
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by alin23 5y ago
About 700 people received a free Pro license for Lunar for donating in the past (a much smaller amount than the current price, usually $3). After their free update period ended, some of those people began using the cracked version. I know t
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by alin23 5y ago
Indeed, google.com/en doesn’t show this. google.ro does. It may be just in Romania ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ weird if it is
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by alin23 5y ago
Ok maybe not a bike. Maybe a jar of strawberry jam filled from a large pot :) You won’t care as much about the theft since you still have an almost full pot of strawberry jam, but you care a little since that pot will eventually end. Analog
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by alin23 5y ago
Not sure if you knew this, but you’re already appearing in Google search predictions: https://f.alinpanaitiu.com/jKbRqM/vmception.png
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by alin23 5y ago
wtf edit: Oh I see, you're that guy that comments on everything [0]. Sorry for responding in the first place. [0] https://whaly.io/posts/top-10k-commenters-of-hacker-news-in-...
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by alin23 5y ago
The license is unlimited. You can pay the next year only if you need the updates. If the app keeps working as expected and you don’t need any update, the Pro features will be available forever on that license.
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by alin23 5y ago
I couldn't have said it better myself :) In the first 4 years, Lunar was actually completely free and supported by donations on BuyMeACoffee. I made a total of $5k in those 4 years from donations, probably even less after PayPal took t
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by alin23 5y ago
I completely agree. I am Romanian, and in our country, €20 for software was seen as an impossible amount of money. Nobody would pay that amount for software, even companies I worked at used pirated software. I sometimes get the “I come from
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by alin23 5y ago
Indeed, the problem in the analogy seems to be that software is infinitely able to duplicate. But what’s overlooked is that software also needs maintenance, lots of it. Tomorrow will be an Apple Event and I’m already expecting some new hard
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by alin23 5y ago
Thanks! Well I guess that's just the current state of selling software. People are reluctant to pay for the work. Open-source solutions are everywhere, and like someone said recently, open-source is seen as free support unfortunately
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by alin23 5y ago
The screen brightness changing is free forever. The license is unlimited (not yearly subscription) and only for the Pro features (automatic adaptive brightness, sensor integration etc.)
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by alin23 5y ago
It’s not screen dimming . It is an app to fully control the monitor without using its physical buttons. Lunar can change the hardware brightness, the same one that you can change using the monitor OSD. That in itself required a lot of reve
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by alin23 5y ago
I'm tired of the TnT Russian team cracking my macOS apps. Both Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi ) and rcmd ( https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd ) are now available for free on macOS piracy websites. I made many attempts at
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by alin23 5y ago
Interesting that posting the translation link directly gets more traction than the link to the original source. I posted this first with the link to the Twitter post saying that the source has been verified with two other FSB contacts: htt
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by alin23 5y ago
I posted this first with the link to the Twitter post saying that the source has been verified with two other FSB contacts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30574210 https://twitter.com/christogrozev&#x2
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by alin23 5y ago
Translation to English from someone on Project Owl: https://noteplan.co/n/3D073DDB-CB0F-4ABC-BC93-01A94141445B
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FSB whistleblower exposing why the Ukraine war went so bad for Russia(twitter.com)
44 points by alin23 5y ago|3 comments
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by alin23 5y ago
I think they serve different purposes. Catalyst is mostly used when you’ve already written your iPad app (either in UIKit or iOS specific SwiftUI) and now you want to make that app available on Mac without rewriting parts of the code. You
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by alin23 5y ago
All the new apps I use and create are utility apps. • rcmd for faster app switching ( https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd ) • Lunar for adaptive brightness on monitors so I can stop fussing with monitor buttons ( https://l
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by alin23 5y ago
Kiev is the Romanian for Kyiv Edit: read about it some more and Kiev appears to be the old name from the Soviet era which is not well accepted by Ukraine people. It's odd that we in Romania still use this old form given that Kyiv was p
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Show HN: DIY ambient light sensor server for adapting monitors with Lunar(github.com)
3 points by alin23 5y ago|0 comments
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by alin23 5y ago
Nice to meet you! I’m already looking into using Keygen for my next non-AppStore app. I’ll definitely reach out if I have any concern. Although from what I saw, your site explains everything well, and the dev tier will be helpful in testing
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by alin23 5y ago
Yes, the language is definitely much more complex than I expected. I’m still getting the hang of some syntax choices like the `with … yield` and the myriad ways of using closures: https://crystal-lang.org/reference/1.3&

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