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by giobox 7mo ago
Europeans and the Japanese were able to buy the Honda e for a few years - this article wrongly states another unreleased model as Honda's first ground up EV. There's a few other EVs Honda produced in 90s as well, but e probably in
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by giobox 7mo ago
In all seriousness, given component price increases etc, the Quest 3 remains an incredible deal for PC VR use. Aside from the foveated rendering, the lens/display specifications are very close to Valve's still to ship Steam Frame,
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by giobox 7mo ago
The other major incentive for hacking the console Microsoft removed was for the first time on a modern mainstream home console to allow side loading of homebrew code/emulators etc. The console supported a developer mode that allowed si
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by giobox 7mo ago
Agree 100% with the sibling responses here. This almost never works in my experience. Kids want to play what their friends are playing - I remember feeling this way a long time ago too.
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by giobox 7mo ago
Given you only have 8gb of RAM to share between MacOS and the Windows VM, running a Windows 11 VM in Parallels is not a great usecase for this machine.
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by giobox 7mo ago
It's basically a litmus test for whether you have kids or not at this point. The age at which kids become aware of Roblox from their peers is getting younger and younger in my experiences anyway. Before I had kids, I had very little id
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by giobox 7mo ago
The real test is whether the site believes you to be unique, which is listed separately. It reports me as "Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking.", but I'm still uniquely identifiable.
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by giobox 7mo ago
The EFF's fingerprint test is nice in that it breaks down a lot of the bits of data used, and lets you know how you compare etc: > https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ You quickly discover how difficult it really is to
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by giobox 7mo ago
Honestly I stopped caring once I saw the max output is 4k/60 regardless of what you connect - the output is going to look bad with scaling on anything with 5k or 6k resolution, which is all of the recent standalone displays from Apple.
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by giobox 7mo ago
> No Thunderbolt support means the Neo cannot drive either of Apple’s new Studio Displays Apple appear to have reached out to 9to5Mac and confirmed it sort of works with the new displays... You can connect the new displays, but it can on
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by giobox 7mo ago
My only real issue with this design is as far as I can tell there is no markings on exterior explaining which USB-C port is "the good one" - an important point given one port is dramatically slower than the other. I suspect many u
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by giobox 7mo ago
> The likelihood of any legal restriction was probably close to zero - it’s only from today’s era of hyper-regulation that we might even imagine something like that. While it's demonstrated to be likely incorrect here, it's no
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by giobox 7mo ago
The Apple Silicon fanless MBAs are great until you end up in a workload that causes the machine to thermal throttle. I tried to use an M4 MBA as primary development machine for a few months. A lot of software dev workflows often require run
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by giobox 7mo ago
All through the 2000s Apple developed non-integer scaling support in various versions of MacOS X under the banner of “resolution independence” - the idea was to use vectors where possible rather than bitmaps so OS UI would look good at any
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by giobox 7mo ago
The depracation of AFP (first announced in 2013) has no real impact on subsequent studies. Here's a more recent one from Cisco with a 130k Mac deployment: > https://www.ciodive.com/news/Cisco-tests-Apple-MacBook
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by giobox 7mo ago
Meta have a minority stake in Ray Ban and Oakley's parent company, EssilorLuxottica. The investment was largely to support development of future AI glasses. It does make me a little sad to see Wayfarers end up this way too. > https
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by giobox 7mo ago
Given one can only run Apple's software on their own machines, whether we talk about OS sales or hardware sales, we are talking about the same thing. Are you really prepared to argue 25 percent of the corporate computer market userbase
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by giobox 7mo ago
Of course I mean IBM - my point is the sheer volume of hardware Apple have sold to enterprise markets in the last 10 years. If things were as close to as bad as you describe this simply wouldn't be the case. IDC and others have Apple&#
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by giobox 7mo ago
The cynic in me thinks Apple more or less gave up on Time Machine while ramping up on selling iCloud storage as a backup solution for macOS as well as iOS/ipadOS devices.
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by giobox 7mo ago
This would ring slightly true to me if it was say 20-30 years ago, but Apple are in many ways the IBM of end user business machines now and vast numbers of corporate drones have MacBooks - the rough edges are long ago sanded off. An IT team
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by giobox 7mo ago
The Wayfarer style was always bulky, they have been a fashion staple for decades at this point. The Meta gen2 ones aren't really that noticeably larger than "normal" Wayfarers - probably why they latched on this style as it g
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by giobox 7mo ago
I genuinely view Time Machine as abandonware at this stage, Apple haven't really invested in it for many years and I would recommend a lot of other third party backup solutions first.
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by giobox 7mo ago
I also ended up doing this. With HDMI-CEC powering up the TV and the receiver automatically, then switching to the correct input on any AppleTV remote button press, this is actually a really friction free option if you can stomach buying tw
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by giobox 7mo ago
There are some drawbacks, not everything is supported: https://support.apple.com/guide/apple-business-manager-m/sha... There are other potential issues as well not listed on that page. Apple could address all of t
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by giobox 7mo ago
"Shared iPad" in Apple marketing speak: https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/shared-ipad-overv... And yes, it's existed for years now. That ordinary consumers can't have it is a business
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by giobox 7mo ago
I find this especially galling on the high-price configs, which essentially cost the same as well specified MacBooks. I am in the situation right now where I have 4 iPads in my home which could easily be replaced by 1 to 2 with support for
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by giobox 8mo ago
I’m not sure it matters in Anthropic’s case that much - even people who use Anthropic models rarely think of the company as “Anthropic”. Their Claude brand is very strong, so much so the website is https://claude.ai etc, and yo
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by giobox 8mo ago
Right? People worry about the amount of LLM slop comments appearing on hn, we humans often do an even better job of writing nonsense. Would be fascinating to see what percentage of hn users only ever read the post title and never the conten
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by giobox 8mo ago
People often make the mistake of treating .io like a gTLD, when it's actually a ccTLD for the "British Indian Ocean Territory" etc. ccTLDs have always had risks, especially when they are for a really tiny region. Similar issu
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by giobox 8mo ago
We already know exactly what the deal is, no need to speculate. Apple got large tariff exemptions in exchange for supporting Trump's "Made in America" agenda: > https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-invest-am

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