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   USBefuddled: Untangling the Rat’s Nest of USB-C Standards and Cables(tidbits.com)

   5 points by alin23 5y ago|2 comments
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   by alin23 5y ago

   This is worth it even just for removing the so annoying play on scroll behaviour! I have YouTube Premium and still feel the need for it. Also, $2 feels just right for these medium effort apps. Unfortunately people still complain about it no
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   by alin23 5y ago

   Well then I guess this app isn’t for you. This app speeds up my workflow and if it helps others too then I’m happy I could share it with them.
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   by alin23 5y ago

   When you know your apps and have few of them opened, of course, Command Tab is enough. I did my work with Command Tab only, for about 4 years. But I reached a point where I have so many different apps open that I have to spam the Tab key mo
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   by alin23 5y ago

   Developer of rcmd here. I like Contexts too! I've used it heavily for about a year. But it still felt it needed too many key presses. And it also required me to visually assess if the selected app is what I want. rcmd is a better appro
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   by alin23 5y ago

   Developer of rcmd here, thanks dmoro for sharing this! If you used Windows before, you'll be familiar with Win+Number to switch to the apps you see in the taskbar. rcmd is kind of like that but better. You don't have to count apps
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   by alin23 5y ago

   Just happened again [0] and no amount of app killing helps. I ran heap(1) on WindowServer [1] but there's nothing in there standing out so maybe this is a red herring. [0] https://cln.sh/A7YPLN [1] https://g
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   by alin23 5y ago

   The choice becomes available if you select M1 Max as the CPU: https://cln.sh/A3TcaP
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   by alin23 5y ago

   Thank you for the kind words! I’m always happy to see that the hard work that goes into this app is appreciated and useful.
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    by alin23 5y ago

    Nope, never used that setting. I just opened Accessibility and hit reset on the pointer colors again just to be sure.
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    by alin23 5y ago

    It is virtual memory, the real memory size is usually sub 1GB. But I just can’t find any other culprit, and killing WindowServer is the only thing that helps. I have no idea how to troubleshoot this and don’t really have time for it when wo
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    by alin23 5y ago

    I just ordered the M1 Max with 64GB RAM because I'm constantly getting the "Your system has run out of application memory." popup while working on Lunar[1] in Xcode. Every time this happens, Xcode uses about 4GB of RAM (proba
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    by alin23 5y ago

    Thanks for doing and sharing this! It has been really helpful to finally have virtual displays that respond to CGDisplay methods when developing Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi ) It also helped in unearthing some bugs apparently. [0] [0
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    by alin23 5y ago

    I did some programming around light sensors calibrated to match human eye sensitivity, so I’m very much aware that outside sunlight (>50k lux) is much brighter than a monitor backlight (<1k lux measured at a distance of 30cm). But I c
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    by alin23 5y ago

    This video finally made me understand the “why” of hydrogen fuel cell cars: https://youtu.be/hghIckc7nrY Like a lot of other people I didn’t know they are actually full electric and that they convert hydrogen to water to cr
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    by alin23 5y ago

    I always thought that staring at monitors with blinding brightness is what causes retinal damage, not just blue light specifically. That's one of the reasons I created Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi ): because having to lower the
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    by alin23 5y ago

    It’s very nice that you do that! I find apps that don’t trim the whitespace for the email field so annoying in terms of UX. I usually use a Text Replacement shortcut to fill in my emails (e.g. “gml” fills in my GMail address, “cld” my iClou
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    by alin23 5y ago

    Yes, you won’t see that happening when buying on Apple app store because they don’t share your email. I was mostly talking about avoiding Paddle as a payment processor, the app store isn’t a payment processor so we can’t really compare them
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    by alin23 5y ago

    I’d say that’s just a bad seller who would have spammed you no matter what payment processor you would have gone through. Until now, I’ve used Stripe, Paypal, Paddle and some local Romanian company and all of them provided me the email of t
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    by alin23 5y ago

    I’m using Paddle for my MacOS app, Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi ) and in my opinion they are serious enough about privacy. For example when you buy a license you are by default opted-out of marketing or update emails [0] And the upse
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    by alin23 5y ago

    I think it took me about 30 minutes of trial and error. I had a lot of experience with DispatchQueue already from developing Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi ). So after reading this blog post [0] I just thought someone should make this
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    by alin23 5y ago

    I’ll keep a close eye on your work then! I don’t have an M1 Mac Mini to do more thorough tests, but one Lunar user reported that the DDC set brightness command worked for a short second on the initial connection of the monitor. So from that
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    Show HN: Run any command on the M1 efficiency cores(gist.github.com)

    26 points by alin23 5y ago|4 comments
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    by alin23 5y ago

    I thought it must be something related to the DisplayPort transport. I noticed in ioreg that the HDMI AppleCLCD2 had downstream=HDMI upstream=DP as its transport params. So its possible that it isn’t DCP related after all, the mcdp29xx chip
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    by alin23 5y ago

    I wonder if Alyssa (or other devs that took a deeper look at the DCP) have any idea why the builtin HDMI port of the Mac Mini would not send DDC messages to the connected monitor. I’ve been struggling with this in Lunar ( https://
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    by alin23 5y ago

    Thanks for the info! I'll keep that in mind for future projects. Since then I also found Open Meteo ( https://open-meteo.com/en/docs ) to be a nice alternative for smaller projects.
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    by alin23 5y ago

    This happened to me so many times. Like when multiple users asked me to add monitor brightness dimming when the sky is covered with clouds in the Location Mode of my app for controlling monitors: Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi ) Turns
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    What the heck am I supposed to do now Cloudflare?(twitter.com)

    3 points by alin23 5y ago|0 comments
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    by alin23 5y ago

    Yes, the browser-based clients is something I don’t like either. I loved when Slack used to provide an IRC interface so you can use whatever simple client you want. But the syntax highlighting is so good on Discord, that it makes it really
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    by alin23 5y ago

    I love using Discord for my open source app [0] because instant messaging and low entrance friction makes it easy for me to find out what's wrong with the app when an user comes with a problem. Previously I only did email when users ha