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by alin23 5y ago
Oh no, not at all! Sure, dealing with the problems of less knowledgeable users is sometimes annoying, because 99% of the problems stem from non-compliant monitors/hubs/docks etc. But nowadays I get weeks at a time where I can do 0
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by alin23 5y ago
Thank you for the kind words! I haven’t updated my resume for a while because I don’t have a job anymore and I’m serious about not having to get hired ever again. I’ve written about how I quit my job in March last year and started turning L
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by alin23 5y ago
1. Yes, I’ve been working on generalizing the Lunar specific code for open sourcing it next month. Still WIP because I’m still getting busy with new monitor edge cases. Last month I’ve also found out about Keygen ( https://keygen.
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by alin23 5y ago
I didn’t know Ruby, and yes, some things had to be figured out through old Ruby knowledge. But that wasn’t as much of a barrier. Every language that gets a little creative will have these features that you probably never saw, have no idea w
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by alin23 5y ago
I did the licensing server for Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi/ ) in Crystal. It’s been a joy to work with it! The standard library for working with strings, JSON, YAML and XML is top notch. Type safe and extremely fast, very impor
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by alin23 5y ago
NextDNS is for blocking the site when you access it. It won’t hide it from the search engine results. You still need a browser extension adblocker (uBlock, AdGuard) that can modify the contents of any webpage for this to be effective.
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by alin23 5y ago
Wait.. how are you going to read those ebooks in a post-EMP scenario?
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by alin23 5y ago
Last year when I was working as a contractor for a US company, I mentioned to my team leader that I’m sick of tech and I really want to close my laptop for the last time ever, go outside and start making wood flutes or something. Instead of
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by alin23 5y ago
ESPHome (an easy to use firmware for ESP32 chips) uses SSE to send sensor data to subscribers. I made use of that in Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi/#sensor ) to be able to adjust monitor brightness based on ambient light readings
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by alin23 5y ago
$100 per year. I pay that to be able to release signed and notarized binaries for Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi/ ) You’re kinda forced to do that if you have a large enough user base as an app developer. Otherwise people will get
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by alin23 5y ago
Yes, the system monitors the display temperature and caps the brightness accordingly. Here are some interesting functions I found related to this inside the system frameworks: SkyLight.framework: SLSDisplayIsThermallyLimited
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by alin23 5y ago
Yes, that’s another way of putting it. But people usually look at this, relative to previous displays, not relative to peak brightness (since the peak brightness is not achievable for prolonged periods of time because of overheating)
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by alin23 5y ago
They’re not dimming the SDR content. It is an optical illusion. The HDR white is actually a lot brighter than the SDR white (which means the LEDs behind those pixels are allowed to go to full brightness). You can see that effect if you watc
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by alin23 5y ago
Well most likely because HDR content doesn’t mean full bright white for extended periods of time. Even if you watch 8 hours of HDR content, only some of the LEDs will get to peak brightness for small periods of time. That will allow the LED
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by alin23 5y ago
Yes, I noticed that sunglasses help, but they still darken the screen a bit because of their tint. This is a video I took last summer on this: https://files.alinpanaitiu.com/ff-polarized-macbook.mp4
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by alin23 5y ago
Yes, since the beginning of 2020 I’ve used the MacBook Pro in parks and botanical gardens where there are a lot of particles flying around (after an hour I usually had to wipe the screen to be able to see something). The keyboard worked per
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by alin23 5y ago
Unfortunately that doesn’t work. The pixels of the SDR content will still be capped at 500 nits as you can see in the article: https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/over-500nits-failed/#sdr-cap-i...
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by alin23 5y ago
The butterfly keyboard mechanism responsible for breaking on dust particles is gone on newer laptops. The current MacBook keyboards are quite nice, they have the same mechanism as the external Magic Keyboard sold by Apple, and they seem qui
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by alin23 5y ago
Well yes, even that would be useful if working with text. (although I’m sure some will also be doing some graphic work) But this can’t be done either. That website has the whiter-than-white text because it chose to do that. It’s known that
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by alin23 5y ago
I think that long time might not be higher than an hour or two given how much heat the LEDs need to dissipate. A lot of non-technical users might get used to that brightness and then start complaining about their display dimming by itself
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by alin23 5y ago
ioreg usually reports the nits value in some property. On an M1 you can run the following: ioreg -r -c AppleCLCD2 | grep -i nits
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by alin23 5y ago
Isn’t this highly dependent on the ambient light around you?
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by alin23 5y ago
I’m not trying to draw HDR content. I want to increase to overall UI brightness (basically, make the brightness of where backlight LEDs go past the software defined limit) I’m testing Apple’s claim of 1000 nits sustained brightness which
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by alin23 5y ago
Oh right, I knew the k prefix seemed familiar. It is a constant. Can you elaborate more on the Objective-C methods? Are you talking about the “not exported” ones?
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Trying to get past the 500 nits limit of the MacBook Pro (and failing)(alinpanaitiu.com)
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Ytcast: Cast YouTube URL to Fire TV from the Command Line(github.com)
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by alin23 5y ago
I love this tool! I use it every day to insert monitor data from Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi ) into The Monitor Database ( https://db.lunar.fyi ) I also use it occasionaly to insert data from my Meilisearch instances into
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by alin23 5y ago
I'm guessing it's for showing a syntax highlighted preview of multi line commands. That's what I use it for. The UI would be similar to this: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/700826/113683873-a..
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by alin23 5y ago
This is no longer the case since cache partitioning was released: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2020/10/http-cache... Cache keys are now tuples of (host, resource) so if you download and cach
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by alin23 5y ago
I've done that with Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi ) Lunar 3 was free and open source, then a very high effort upgrade had to happen because the M1 CPU needed different low level logic for controlling monitors, so I made Lunar 4 p

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