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by hughrr 5y ago
If it was like the mainsoft leak, I learned a hell of a lot about what not to do reading that.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Well it depends if it's a snapshot or clone or the repositories themselves. It could be a whole load of nothing that changes a lot.
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by hughrr 5y ago
They specified a price and it was built to that price point. All corners cut as requested.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I’ve been in a lot of major data centres in the UK and OVH is definitely a complete joke compared to the worst of them. Apart from Host Europe in Nottingham who no longer exist there AFAIK. That was worse than OVH.
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by hughrr 5y ago
No question, just a thank you and appreciation for your excellent articles.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Philips used CCD shift registers in their very early digital oscilloscopes (PM3310/PM3311) as well. This was then shifted into an 8085 based computer which rendered it out to the display. Absolutely horrible scopes to use and repair ho
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by hughrr 5y ago
Yes aware of that. The optics aren’t quite there yet. They seem to suffer from internal reflections and aberrations you don’t get on much larger better engineered lenses. The iPhone 13 pro has a couple of annoying things already in that spa
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by hughrr 5y ago
Problem with smartphones is the lack of glass up front. I have an iPhone 13 Pro which is about as good as it gets but there’s no linear optical zoom on it. That means you have to spend half of the time getting closer and further away from t
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by hughrr 5y ago
Worth it.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I'm reflecting on my own pain and suffering. Sorry :)
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by hughrr 5y ago
Give it a month and it'll start hurting. It always does.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Interesting. Mine only works if I'm within 1m or so of the desk. Agree with your points about keyboard. I am fine with the basic Magic Keyboard though. I actually quite like that. I don't need Touch ID on it.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I had one and abandoned it the moment I got a Retina MBP because I couldn't bare to stare at 1440p screens any more. I paid £899 for it when it came out. That's £1165 now with inflation. Applying that to the Studio Display now, I
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by hughrr 5y ago
Also the defacto auto-login on macOS is with Apple Watch. That just works and most people I know with Macs have Apple watches already. Sudo / security approvals appear on your watch too so you double press the side button to approve.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Agree with you. But in my case I use a MBP as a desktop 80% of the time so wanted a zero hassle monitor that will charge my MBP and take over some of the ancillary functions built into the laptop. It does that perfectly so I bought one and
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by hughrr 5y ago
Interesting. Will wait for report before further speculation but this was the first question that popped into my head.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I service far more dangerous and complicated things regularly. Some from an era before safety was even a thing. This Mac is fairly easy to service. Not that I’d bother to service it as I’d rather apple handled it these days so I can go and
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by hughrr 5y ago
Windows 11 is the first windows release I haven’t used. It’s also the first windows release I will never use going back to windows 3. I am completely done with it now. The last release which wasn’t a complete punch in the balls was nearly 2
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by hughrr 5y ago
But I can't speak to my arm and add something to the list. Nor will a text file remind me to do something at a specific time.
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by hughrr 5y ago
My gains are sync across all my devices instantly including the one strapped to my wrist, voice control, location awareness, context awareness, prompting, scripted automation, attachments and full tagging and categorisation system and I can
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by hughrr 5y ago
Plain text sucks. It’s so hard to represent context, time, location and state. I have got to the point I just use the reminders app in apple ecosystem. Notes go in the notes app. Things get deleted when done or disinterest kicks in. Shortcu
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by hughrr 5y ago
Mostly paying for some expensive software which says it protects us from this sort of crap but all it does is allow us to tick the compliance box while the engineers on the project flip between bouts of paranoia and insomnia. I wish I was e
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by hughrr 5y ago
Some of the OSS projects originated from and are entirely maintained by commercial entities.
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by hughrr 5y ago
It is. Just you have stick the modules on the outside. Hmm. TBF at least it’s not another iMac. I see so many of them stacked up for recycling where the logic board or power supply is duff. They still have perfectly good 5k 27” screens atta
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by hughrr 5y ago
That’s what I pay them for. I don’t want to be experimented on like the bleeding edge companies are doing constantly. I want something solid that works. Of course it’s not perfect but the whole ecosystem integration and solidness is far fa
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by hughrr 5y ago
With practice yes. I still manage to write decent code while being hammered on slack constantly.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I usually do my email and messaging on the iPad now with my Mac’s keyboard and mouse. I can do that while I’m watching something full screen on the mac. Also it’s really useful when you’re writing up documentation. I draw up draft diagrams
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by hughrr 5y ago
The new apple keyboards are nearly entirely flat so no problems there.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Been down this one: spent a large amount of money, annoyed my family with clicky keys, ended up with sore wrists, left it. Now using an Apple magic keyboard. It’s quiet, doesn’t make me hurt, actually has all the keys I need and doesn’t pis
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by hughrr 5y ago
My aunt is one of that lot. She basically lives a completely normal, boring and uninteresting life (lucky woman!). The old idiom "The devil finds work for idle hands" may apply.

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