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by jwells89 3y ago
Arguably the original iPod fits in alongside the original iPhone and Watch. It was significantly less of a finished, polished product than the commercially successful 3/4th gen models onward that people tend to think of when iPods are
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by jwells89 3y ago
That’s true, but external runs can be challenging to do in a way that doesn’t look bad (e.g. cable runners not matching paint well) and could have a negative impact on resale value later on.
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by jwells89 3y ago
PoE cameras (and doorbell) is something I’ve been looking at, but from the looks of it running ethernet in my house, which is a newer build (~2005) and wasn’t designed with things like that in mind isn’t going to be fun. Might as well go th
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by jwells89 3y ago
Quantity can give a better grasp on the average user though, which is important in its own way, at least for projects with larger or more general audiences. For instance if I were the head of browser or desktop environment project I’d want
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by jwells89 3y ago
Additionally, only Google’s is capable of encrypted RCS as far as I’m aware (as the standard does not include that), so using other clients means giving up encryption.
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by jwells89 3y ago
Yes, installed PWAs can run fullscreen. This limitation exists only inside of Safari proper. The intent here is likely to avoid the messes that could be caused by arbitrary sites being able to fullscreen and confuse or trick the user. Requi
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by jwells89 3y ago
The lack of native HTML includes is a big reason why I picked up just enough PHP to write functional pages back in the early-mid 00s. Not having to manually propagate changes to e.g. navbars across a whole site was mind blowing.
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by jwells89 3y ago
If I were to do this I think I’d try to find a BFGD (big format gaming display), which is a type of screen that’s sized like a TV but behaves more like a monitor and usually has a DisplayPort.
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by jwells89 3y ago
It’s niche I’ll admit, but a while back the lack of support for DisplayPort in home theater equipment bit me because I had an Oculus Rift (original) hooked up to the same machine, using the only HDMI output on the computer’s GPU which meant
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by jwells89 3y ago
Integrated numpads and navkeys end up gathering dust most of the time for my usage. I like the macOS global text nav shortcuts[0][1] better than the typical dedicated keys, and I rarely enter numbers in great enough quantity that speed matt
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by jwells89 3y ago
Split keyboards are a much better way to accomplish that, though. Standard keyboards end up pushing the home row way off-center no matter what, which for me at least is uncomfortable for anything but short bursts of typing.
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by jwells89 3y ago
A couple of other similar low profile keyboard projects some may be interested in: https://monokei.co/systems https://electronicmaterialsoffice.com/
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by jwells89 3y ago
I would say a significant portion of the burden, perhaps the majority, lies on food companies for using so many different types of packaging. Sorting discarded packaging into N bins is exactly the kind of overhead in day-to-day life that a
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by jwells89 3y ago
Yep, GNOME’s closest proprietary analogue is iPadOS, not macOS. GNOME omits all sorts of little power user features in comparison and takes the whole minimalism thing much further than macOS ever did (often too far IMHO). This applies to Pa
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by jwells89 3y ago
Very cool, love to see new widgets added to HTML (even if this is technically a variation on checkbox). Hope to see more — this is the sort of thing that eventually helps slip down frameworks and libraries and lets web authors do more with
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by jwells89 3y ago
The thing that killed FirefoxOS, in my opinion, was trying to break into the industry with low-end devices. The mission of providing privacy-respecting, user-empowering phones at low prices is a noble one, but starting at the low end with a
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by jwells89 3y ago
On the tree style tabs part, I wish Firefox had better hooks for vertical tab extensions (like TST) to use than the multipurpose sidebar. I’ve not once used the sidebar for anything but vertical tabs and it’s a nuisance to have to hide the
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by jwells89 3y ago
I use Firefox as a secondary browser on my Macs and primary browser on Windows and Linux, but I agree. It lacks polish, and its UI feels “off” in ways that are difficult to articulate. It’s probably fixable, though. One of these days when I
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by jwells89 3y ago
> Nothing makes me feel dumber than trying to figure out where the heck anything is or gets placed in my Ubuntu machine. And this is made somewhat worse by Linux file managers trying to hide any part of the filesystem that’s not your hom
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by jwells89 3y ago
Ouch yeah, that’s rough. I’m not as sensitive to FPS as some but I think I’d be bothered by 15-25 as well.
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by jwells89 3y ago
I’ve seen this sentiment echoed by many. Seems like it’d be more productive to reduce attrition of this sort by releasing a Switch with less-anemic hardware. There’s clearly a market for a “Switch Pro” or similar that can run TotK, etc at 6
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by jwells89 3y ago
In my mind the potential for profitable industry beyond earth orbit depends almost entirely on how low we can manage to bring cost of kg to orbit. It doesn’t have to be cheap enough to make e.g. asteroid mining profitable on its own (which
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by jwells89 3y ago
Even if all it did was improve Siri’s capability to understand requests and add the ability to ask clarifying questions with no other functional improvements, it’d make Siri vastly more useful.
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It’s so exciting to keep track of. Feels like everything I hoped to see happening in spaceflight back in the 90s and 00s is finally (maybe) becoming reality and absolutely shattering the stagnancy that had overcome the field, hopefully this
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by jwells89 3y ago
deepseek-coder 6.7b is seriously impressive for how quickly it runs on an M1 Max. There’s a few spots where it still doesn’t fare quite as well as ChatGPT but it’s a small tradeoff considering that it’s fully local and doesn’t even spin up
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by jwells89 3y ago
This is because people with greater means expect to be able to provide more/better for their children, which entails much higher costs and puts parents in a considerably more perilous position financially despite aforementioned greater
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by jwells89 3y ago
I can see the appeal. My daily driver is an M1 Max MBP which I’m happy with, but if I were to build a Linux productivity box (no gaming, that’s handled by a different machine), something like a 7840U on an ITX board with a cooler just big e
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by jwells89 3y ago
I’ve wondered this too. I would imagine that there’s a significant market for PCs with iGPUs roughly on par with those of consoles… that’s enough horsepower to play all esports titles extremely well as well as most other types of games on m
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by jwells89 3y ago
I have a circa-2008 Dell Precision M4400 with a similar 15.4” 1920x1200 display. Still looks pretty solid by modern standards! 16:10 was pretty common in laptops until the HD marketing craze kicked in, which plagued us with those infernal 1
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by jwells89 3y ago
That extreme dependency on a supporting framework (Obj-C doesn’t even have its own allocator) was a massive weakness though, as has been proven by GNUStep’s stagnation and MS’ abandonment of WinObjC. Swift has no such issues. It’s weaker wi

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