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by fainpul 7mo ago
I also believe that was intentional. But the reason was the typical Apple / Jobs hubris of knowing better than the users. The desktop looks cleaner with fewer cables, so they wanted to enforce use without the cable plugged in. I don&
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by fainpul 8mo ago
> Six months later, an architectural change required modifying those features. No one on the team could explain why certain components existed or how they interacted. I thought when you vibe it, you're supposed to keep doing that fo
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by fainpul 8mo ago
> with EShell, you don’t need to bother with a pager, since if you received too much information, hit C-c C-p which jumps you to the top of the last command, and then C-v your way down. Or better yet, just search for what you want. Cmd+U
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by fainpul 8mo ago
Gemini 3.1 – I don't remember that verse. Is that from the old testament?
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by fainpul 8mo ago
If one's goal was to force companies to implement better security for their products, it would probably be more efficient to cause maximum reputational damage to the companies, instead of just "responsibly disclosing" vulne
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by fainpul 8mo ago
https://www.photopea.com/
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by fainpul 8mo ago
I sometimes use an old laptop with Fedora, with full disk encryption. When booting up, there is a text input box for the password to unlock the disk. When I hit enter, the screen content "immediately" changes (continues booting).
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by fainpul 8mo ago
But it makes a big difference if some CCTV camera captures my face and comes up with "unknown person" or if it finds my associated passport and other information. By the way, ever since facebook was a thing I always asked my frien
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by fainpul 8mo ago
Blender is a great piece of software, but it's a mesh editor (and many other things). It will never be a CAD tool and no add-on will change that. Plasticity looks great, but it focuses on visual modeling instead of constraint based m
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by fainpul 8mo ago
> So a more productive specific thing would perhaps be indeed to strike up a "It seems to work nicely now, why isn't it default?" That may be. It's just not what I'm interested in. I don't have the energy to
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by fainpul 8mo ago
But I mean it. In my opinion, all the criticism of my post also applies to FreeCAD, not just other projects. Look what brought this up: a hidden feature someone wanted but wasn't aware of. I'm not trying to blame anyone. I think t
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by fainpul 8mo ago
It seems like you've only read this half-sentence before replying. What you say is part of the problem. It leads to "patchwork software" without a clear vision.
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by fainpul 8mo ago
Well said. It seems to me, many FOSS projects suffer from long time contributors which are extremely conservative and don't like any kind of change. Hence every new or improved feature becomes merely a setting (which barely anybody wil
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by fainpul 8mo ago
> extrude a pad from two intersecting shapes in a sketch You can do that in FreeCAD 1.1. Select the sketch, enable "Make Internals" in the data tab. You can also enable it permanently in settings.
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by fainpul 8mo ago
Thanks, I will look into that.
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by fainpul 8mo ago
I have a 3rd generation iPad from 2012 [1]. The battery is still very decent after 14 years. It has a retina display and a remarkably good speaker, so I use it for e-books / audiobooks, podcasts, music (on device) and sometimes playing
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by fainpul 8mo ago
Thanks
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by fainpul 8mo ago
How about b/w laser printers? Since black toner is made of carbon black and plastic, I imagine it has an extremely long lifespan.
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by fainpul 8mo ago
Richard Nixon: "I'm not a crook." [1] Bill Clinton: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky." [2] Donald Trump: let's not even start. I find it weird that institutions still insist the pe
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by fainpul 8mo ago
People who got "enabled" by AI to produce stuff, just need to learn to keep their "target audience of one"-projects to themselves. Right now it feels like those fresh parents who show every person they meet the latest ph
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by fainpul 8mo ago
Is there something that will read books to me? I.e I have some books in epub format and want audiobook versions for them, with a nice voice.
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by fainpul 8mo ago
> we wouldn't have to adjust our HTML when we change the layout. You don't have to: https://csszengarden.com/
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by fainpul 8mo ago
I tried to call Tim Apple to complain about the shitty keyboard on my phone — here's what happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjpcLplkMUs&t=2s
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by fainpul 8mo ago
> the best developers at the company “have not written a single line of code since December.” Those are the best. The suckers still write code.
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by fainpul 8mo ago
And where is the "drive" in an SSD? Trying to explain arbitrary words with logic always fails.
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by fainpul 8mo ago
$ grep '^re' /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l 5374 rewind, revive, refill, retrieve, retouch and a thousand more... Let's just call it re*
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by fainpul 8mo ago
Every "democracy" I know, has become a plutocracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy
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by fainpul 8mo ago
If that's true, that would be new: https://daringfireball.net/2025/11/software_update_tahoe_con...
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by fainpul 8mo ago
Why would the machines want to work with you or any other human?
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by fainpul 8mo ago
"And because Sega is working with Swatch, we wanted to encourage the use of the BEAT system." This was also marketing driven, it seems. Kinda telling, that they had timezone troubles, even when using Beat :) "The BEAT system

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