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by jwells89 3y ago
Part of this is that a lot of things have become a lot more tightly coupled with Linux in the past couple decades. OS X Snow Leopard, often positioned as the “best” macOS release, also had a number of significant differences from Linux, but
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I’ll echo that. Laptops have been “fast enough” for a long time, which is why I can break out an Core 2 Duo laptop from 2008 and still get a lot done with it, but somehow despite far better process nodes and battery tech, battery life is on
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I love hackery like this that pushes hardware capabilities to their limits. It’s kinda like extreme overclocking, except somehow both more crazy and usually more likely to have an end result that’s practical for day to day usage.
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With the One they also made the mistake of trying to permanently tie discs to consoles in an attempt to destroy the used game market for the console, which got leaked pretty early on and led to Microsoft and the Xbox brand taking a massive
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I wish Apple hadn’t dropped out of the router business. The only good replacements all seem to be considerably more involved, e.g. a full Ubiquiti setup or one of the more mainstream routers with third party firmware. AirPorts were excellen
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Though, circumvention of these things isn’t always even that involved, depending on the competency of IT. At the religious private high school I attended, all it took to make a student a “hacker” was popping open Internet Options on the com
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It’s what I run on my home server. Most of my interaction with a command line is with macOS, which makes BSDs more familiar, and jails are nice for containment that works without external tools. First class built in ZFS is nice too.
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Support for some platforms with C# is also a bit lacking. Getting C# stuff up and running on FreeBSD can be a challenge for example.
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Nah there’s at least a few hundred gigs available at any given time. Usually the breakage has to do with plugins just ceasing to function or Plex somehow forgetting its library exists, which results in only the free-stream-crap channels sho
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It’s remarkable both that the alignment managed fall in a period in which we had the technology to take advantage of it and that someone recognized the opportunity and acted on it. A slightly different course of history could’ve prevented t
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Also the company behind Virtual PC[0], which at the time was the most capable emulator for running DOS, Windows, and other x86 operating systems on PowerPC Macs. They sold Virtual PC to Microsoft and dissolved in 2003. [0]: https:/&#x
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I think they wanted to somewhat replicate what they had on macOS, where the best and most popular apps were those built by indie/boutique dev houses that cared specifically about building great iOS apps . Lowest common denominator app
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I think the main issue is that the monetization efforts have resulted in blunted focus on the core product, resulting in things like long-standing unresolved bugs and technical oddities. For example the Plex installation on my home server w
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Kind of, but as I understand it’s pretty barebones and can’t support an experience like that provided by Plex.
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Well maybe, but smart TV and streaming box browsers are unlikely to implement all the functionality pertinent to a high-grade home theater experience. Apps are better here, so what I had in mind was closer to standardization around existing
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> Most devices that will play video these days are powerful enough to do the decoding themselves and have the bandwidth available. IME this varies a lot between devices. Google TV dongles for example, even the 4K versions, are built with
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It can also direct play a lot of formats too though, because Apple TV boxes since the 2017 4K model have enough muscle for problem free software decoding.
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Couldn’t this be addressed by standardizing around a protocol? That way client and server are decoupled and existing clients can work with new media server projects.
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Looks nice. One thing I’ve noticed is that media server projects seem to have a disposition towards C# specifically, which I find interesting. Is there a technical reason for this or is more of a big project setting norms situation?
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Yes, this is the killer feature. It lets you curate your searches and filter known sources of noise.
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High interest on its own isn’t great but in some ways can be easier to grapple for first-time buyers, because while it does make for larger monthly payments it doesn’t raise the bar to entry the same way that high prices do with down paymen
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I see the logic, but in my opinion fumbles with this shortcut are catastrophic enough (sitting there waiting for N files to open in however many apps so they can all be closed) that the “logical” option shouldn’t necessarily be favored. Tha
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I’m a big fan of Panic too. Been using Transmit for a long time.
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For remote connections Transmit[0] is solid and among the oldest Mac apps still in development. [0]: https://panic.com/transmit/
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Yeah on premises drives are where it’s at for anything data intensive. I don’t regularly handle the volumes of data you do, but have on occasion and based on past experience I wouldn’t use cloud storage for anything remotely heavy duty, reg
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Make that two of us. Enter is too easy to fumble-press while having tens or hundreds of files selected, so it’s better to have that hooked to something inconsequential and easily reversible. By comparison Command-O is much harder to press u
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> There is no "honor in the struggle" anymore. I’m not sure this is true. From my point of view, struggle is valued no less than it ever was, at least when it’s clear there will be a payoff at the end. Struggling to chase a car
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Sounds plausible to me. People need things to look forward to — not just for themselves, but also for the wider circumstances that surround them — in order to be able to get out of bed in the morning and feel good about living. This seems l
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Would technically work, but if I’m keeping physical media around I’d want archival quality (original CD audio or at least FLAC). A Blu-ray would fit a lot of FLACs too though, if not nearly as many as it could MP3s.
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In the past 15 years, what’s kept me from keeping a collection of CDs and blurays is the space they take up. It’s nothing compared to say vinyl records or VHS tapes, but it’s still substantial if you have more than just a handful and makes

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