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by dont__panic 4y ago
Perhaps the difference lies in impact: Apple's innovation is tangible. I can feel the cold M1 Max laptop and appreciate the fact that it doesn't heat up or annoy me with fan noise. I notice my phone's speed when it executes j
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by dont__panic 4y ago
For anyone in macOS, I highly recommend MonitorControl ( https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl#readme ). No affiliation, just a happy user for nearly 2 years now.
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by dont__panic 4y ago
You go to the subscriptions page? I've been subscribed to channel RSS feeds for a year or so now, never even go to YouTube to "browse" because the interface is so awful. I'd like to figure out how to filter Shorts from m
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Apple's CPUs are worth noting here. Software/hardware integration as well. Hardware design is surely top notch. Supply chain management. They've pushed smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, and wireless earbuds to the masses, a
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by dont__panic 4y ago
During whatever time humanity has left, that is. I'm not sure I want to live in a world where everyone is stuck in virtual reality for 90% of their waking hours. I guess all those people tethered to their phones 24/7 won't ex
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Where I live, I wonder how they'd interact with heavy wind, ice, and snow. I imagine during the winter months you'd have to de-ice them, and potentially clear away wet, heavy snow. Whenever a Noreaster or similar strong wind comes
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by dont__panic 4y ago
It's also good for buyers with low net worth, but high yearly income. I got into the tech world 5 years ago, fresh out of college. Many of my peers can afford monthly payments of $2-3k... but getting your hands on $100k cash for a 20%
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by dont__panic 4y ago
And dropping prices mean that someone who's been holding out over the last few years of insane price growth might finally find a home elsewhere that they can afford. As someone who was too young to climb aboard the price bubble of the
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Or the awful quality of the Studio Display webcam!
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by dont__panic 4y ago
> if it doesn’t leak your Wi-Fi connection information. I don't think I understand. I run my VPN at home on a raspberry pi. So all of my network traffic, at the end of the day, goes through my home ISP. I've considered shelling
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Would you mind sharing the company name? That sounds like a lovely model of employment. After getting used to my own espresso setup at home, I don't think I could work at an office without at least a decent machine (about as first-worl
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by dont__panic 4y ago
FYI, I used to use openVPN but eventually switched to Wireguard (via pivpn) for two reasons: - Wireguard is allegedly more efficient... I'm not 100% sure about that, but it does seem to connect faster, and my battery metrics report
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Well said. I agree that big screens and aux jack removal are both anti-consumer moves where mature companies are ignoring a solid chunk of consumer needs to drive metrics. I'd add SD card slot removal to that list as well (makes it eas
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by dont__panic 4y ago
When I've visited Boston, I found it to be a pretty car-dependent city, both in Cambridge and in the city center. To the point where crossing the street at corners in Cambridge was uncomfortable because cars are parked way way too clos
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by dont__panic 4y ago
I've tried living in NYC. Wasn't a fan. Too many cars, too much trash all over the place, too hard & expensive to get out of the city on the weekend. Right now I live in a small New England town, which suits my hobbies and wal
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by dont__panic 4y ago
I know double-commenting is frowned upon, but this quote also stood out to me as a bike nerd: The least important, perhaps, and yet to some of us the saddest thing about the decay of New England country life has been the disappearan
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by dont__panic 4y ago
As someone who frequently blames car-dependence for many of the USA's social problems, this passage really stood out: The large size of the townships and the long distances between dwellings have had much to do with making social
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by dont__panic 4y ago
On the other hand, allowing those who can WFH to do so clears up road space so that people who must WFO don't have as much traffic to deal with. When you live in a society like the USA that has already created a car-dominated dysto
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Most of my distaste for WFO comes from two places: - the USA's failure to provide even a single city that's pleasant to live in and travel around without a car - tech company insistence on open office layouts that are not conduc
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by dont__panic 4y ago
oof, sorry -- I meant to say "not fun colors" and somehow chopped off the "not".
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by dont__panic 4y ago
I already update my browser at least once a week when I update all of my homebrew packages; sometimes more. If a vulnerability shows up that's so dangerous I need to immediately patch, I'll hear about it on HN etc. Of course it is
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Agreed that Mozilla is big, data hungry, and hypocritical. That's why I use LibreWolf: it respects my privacy and autonomy, and I help fight against Google's growing web engine monopoly. I specifically don't use UnGoogled Chr
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by dont__panic 4y ago
One of: - we don't have the dev resources to keep SMS/MMS working - with RCS becoming more common and no Google API for RCS, we don't have the ability to fully replace Google Messages any more - since we can't support SM
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Apple seems to maintain iMessage and SMS in one app just fine. Granted, they're a bigger company, but it's hard to say just how large the Messages development team is. It could conceivably be even smaller than Signal's workfo
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Still using my SE 2016 here for these reasons (it has the same body as the 5 and 5S). After using this phone for 5+ years, I've gotten so good at texting on it that I don't even use autocorrect! And it has a headphone jack. Someth
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by dont__panic 4y ago
This might be true, but I suspect it's a knock-on effect of a known way to make writing more engaging: using active sentences (with an actual verb denoting action) instead of a passive sentences, which use a form of "to be" (
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by dont__panic 4y ago
How do you know "his people" like him, when anyone who criticizes the Chinese government either disappears or shuts up when the government threatens their family?
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by dont__panic 4y ago
You feel like Firefox doesn't respect your privacy, so you use Google's phone-home software instead? Sounds kinda like "Biggest reason I refuse to use weed no matter how bad methamphetamine is" to me. Unless you're
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Even better, you can manage LibreWolf updates via homebrew on Mac, and it doesn't harass you about new versions. If you browse HN routinely, you end up seeing the Firefox updates anyway, which is a good reminder to update LibreWolf. I&
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by dont__panic 4y ago
Hilarious. SD card support in phones and tablets is another requirement for me, and yet another reason why I won't buy Apple products in those categories. Built-in storage is expensive and anemic. SD cards are especially appropriate fo

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