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by jwells89 3y ago
I believe it’s often not so much that old technology is bad or shouldn’t be maintained, but rather that in some circumstances, supporting old tech can be disproportionately burdensome considering the percentage of users served and can prove
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> The main downside I have with it though, is I just can't seem to remember how to use it. Every time I need HTMX I have to look at code I've written or go to the docs. There's just too many options with names that are con
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Yep. If it were possible to buy a car with no native infotainment and just a dock slot for a phone and dumb screen for CarPlay/Android Auto, I would. Car infotainment turns outdated, unsupported, and near-useless at breakneck speed and
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Additionally, weak Android devices are not necessarily old Android devices. New underpowered Android stuff is sold every day. Cheap tablets are particularly bad about this — I have a Lenovo tablet that I bought maybe a year ago which uses
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> its not Angular or PrimeNG specifically that make the tables slow/hogs, but the amount of DOM elements inside Yep, this happens even with nothing but a 10-line vanilla JS file that adds N more items every time the user scrolls to
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In these situations what’s eating up your resources usually isn’t the data being represented but instead the representation. This is why native apps use recycler views for not just infinite scroll, but anything that can display more rows&#x
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The first hackintosh I built back around 2008 I was able to get working actually perfectly. Somehow the hardware and software bits all aligned and everything worked great. It’d run for months on end without issue. Nothing since that one wer
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Value was the driving factor for some of my early hackintoshing (Core 2 Duo era), but what pushed me to do it from 2015-2020 was the abysmal state of higher powered Mac hardware. The Mac Pro was still the un-updated 2012 trash can, the 15”
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In addition to Shortcuts, being an Apple thing, Siri naturally has native HomeKit integration which is powerful when combined with HomeAssistant.
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Many users of Siri would be thrilled if all this did was made it decent at understanding what’s being asked of it and gave it the ability to ask clarifying questions, especially if it does so staying fully local.
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Whenever I pull out old machines I’m a little shocked at how responsive they are running a modern OS (Win10 or Linux), so long as the modern web is avoided. Anything with a Core 2 Duo or better is adequate for a wide range of tasks if you c
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I’ve got a machine pretty similar to what you’re describing in my closet (6700k, mobo reasonably well known in the community, 5700XT GPU) which used to be a hackintosh. Might be worth reviving and trying to find a use for.
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I used both 2k and XP. 2k is pretty great, but fully patched XP is too. It’s totally subjective but as much as I loved 2k I’d give an edge to end-state XP mainly for its ability to be customized with third party .msstyle themes, of which th
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To nitpick a bit, IIRC Windows itself doesn’t support Vulkan, that’s left to GPU vendors.
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I don’t know how Windows users deal with file copying being as bad as it is and has been there for so long. Linux can have issues here too though, depending on the file manager being used. Some file managers there still have weirdly bad cop
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Apple’s always done some unique things with WiFi/Bluetooth. Macs have long been able to keep Apple-branded bluetooth keyboards and mice usable even before the OS initializes for example, and if you use one of a few Broadcom chipset BT&
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There can be if you’ve got a spare PCI-E slot to plug a supported AMD GPU into and pass through to the VM.
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One thing to consider is that a lot of what some consider “bad” about macOS is purely subjective and varies depending on the user’s background and mental models. It’s not uncommon for people who grew up on Macs to find operating systems wit
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It can still be useful for those looking to run older versions of macOS for some reason or another. If there’s PPC applications that one wants to run for example, you can piece together a Snow Leopard hackintosh from used parts that will ru
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It’s something I’ve considered, but the modifications I have in mind are extensive and would likely outstrip what’s practically achievable with userchrome.
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Ask HN: What's your experience with forking Firefox?
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This is part of why I think it’s a good idea to pursue an OS design where for the majority of user-facing software, installation does not require administrator privileges. This would enable the addition of a system where in order to get adm
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As far as I know, that’s correct. macOS never sees any of the fingerprint data, and thus it can’t be read or intercepted easily. The Secure Enclave can also store various keys, which apps like Secretive[0] can use to store and gate access t
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It feels like marketing running the show, which has been a trend at software companies for several years now, but it’s hard to tell.
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This is a bit of how I feel about Beat Saber modded with community maps. It’s engaging and challenging in a way little else I can do at home is, and it’s pretty good for getting some movement and cardio in to boot. The days I play it’s almo
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The quality of the frame makes a big difference. About 3 years ago after moving into a new house, I needed a new couch and wanted something that would wear reasonably well without getting into the higher end ($3k+). I found one on Apt2B whi
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Haven’t tried Marker so I don’t know how it works, but at least in Obsidian “projects” are just folders. At least for my usage, this isn’t really an issue because most of the Markdown files I create are going to be in one of a few locations
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Proficiency in emulating x86 is just one piece of the puzzle, though. It helped drive M1 adoption to be sure, but users also had a lot of confidence that developers would pull through and provide native binaries in a timely manner, catapult
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This is maybe true for software that can never conceivably interact with the outside world (can’t open files, isn’t scriptable, etc) but at least on Windows and macOS where shipping static binaries or necessary libraries with the software i
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Mac devs are good about updating their apps, but it’s much more hit or miss in the Windows world. If there’s no impetus to regularly update for security reasons (e.g. browsers) or to keep people subscribed (e.g. Spotify), it’s probably not

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