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by jwells89 3y ago
Target disk mode over FireWire was magical back in the day. Nothing like turning someone’s laptop into an oversized external hard drive to rescue data or get a borked OS X installation booting again.
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I’ve been using Anki on and off for years for language learning but have most recently been using it to study for online uni courses. Something that’s become evident, perhaps due to the varied nature of the content (vs. all language) is how
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One doesn’t even need to go as far as C++ or Rust… many best in class Mac apps were written in Objective-C (which is notably slower than either) and were plenty responsive on single core PowerPC G3s, G4s, and G5s. I think a great deal of th
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I think macOS is also just better at actually being idle when the user isn’t doing anything. Windows seemingly always has something shuffling around in the background.
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The OLED Deck in particular is great. On less demanding games or streaming with Moonlight where I can crank down the TDP it’s not hard to squeeze 10+ hours of playtime out of its 50Wh battery. Linux probably helps here, with its greatly red
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I think EVGA’s withdrawal had to do with how impossible it was to compete with Nvidia’s first-party cards with the terms Nvidia was setting for AIBs. Other card makers like Asus have several other flagship product lines to be able to sustai
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by jwells89 3y ago
> Then there's Apple's drama, which involved warranty claims for laptop parts that led to them being AMD only until the Arm move ( https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2021/10/13/apple-vs-nvidia-w
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In addition to better perf per watt, it’d allow them to shrink the console, potentially to something as small as a Mac Mini or NUC. Less need for cooling means a smaller console. This could help them make inroads to people who might not hav
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The current SteamOS (what Decks run) is based on Arch but is not rolling. The original for Steam Boxes was based on Debian. Reasoning for the switch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SteamOS#Development > The decision
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by jwells89 3y ago
The main thing that bugs me about HTML is how it’s so easy to goof up closing tags and attributes. Yeah browsers can deal with malformations to some extent and modern editors help prevent them but it still feels not-great. That’s why I like
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by jwells89 3y ago
At least the Books app on Apple iOS/macOS will manage and read plain old epubs and PDFs without issue, even if you’ve already bought DRM’d books from Apple’s store. It’s really only big name e-ink readers other than Kobo that have this
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by jwells89 3y ago
My Bosch dishwasher has been excellent. It wasn’t cheap but it does a great job and is dead silent (can barely hear it sitting in the open concept living room just a few feet from the kitchen). The only problem is that for whatever reason t
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by jwells89 3y ago
My family had a used Chrysler Town and Country for getting around through the early 2000s. Great car. Its engine was a a notch or two above baseline which gave it plenty of power, plenty of room, drove well. Also if you needed to haul somet
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by jwells89 3y ago
The family vehicle for much of my childhood was a late 80s model Aries K station wagon. Always managed to fit everybody and all our stuff, and always got us there (albeit not always with speed, particularly on mountain roads… that little 4-
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by jwells89 3y ago
Speaking personally it doesn’t seem to be designed with the same principles/patterns of most software out there (regardless of platform or era), making its UI operate in ways that run counter to expectations. It’s an odd duck, which do
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by jwells89 3y ago
This is actually one of the reasons why I bought a Kobo instead of a Kindle or whatever else was available a few years ago. When you plug them in they mount like any other USB mass storage and you copy your stuff to them… no need for specia
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Top end GPUs are too hot and power hungry to be practical for anything more portable than 3 inch thick “luggables”, which these days is a pretty niche category. Nvidia is gonna have to do better in the efficiency department.
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I’ve used the pair of a 16” MBP and 12.9” iPad running Sidecar while traveling to great success. It’s a surprisingly good approximation of my dual 27” desk setup at home.
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To add to this, getting an abandoned mid-00s Mac app project compiling and running usually isn’t too bad, actually. Yeah you’ll have deprecation warnings left and right but it’ll run fine anyway, at which point fixing the deprecations can b
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by jwells89 3y ago
Sublime is certainly the closest, but there’s little bits of TextMate’s UI design that give it a certain mac-ness, if that makes sense. It’s a touch less utilitarian in a good way. Some amount of that could probably be achieved with a Subli
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by jwells89 3y ago
Sublime for the most part. Will occasionally fire up TextMate though just because its UI is kinda comfy for me, being the first editor of its kind that I used back in the heyday of Rails.
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by jwells89 3y ago
A big empty stretch of wall space would be as awkward (or more) than a large black monolith in my opinion, but if the screen could switch off backlighting (but not color) in its pixels and basically turn into an unlit canvas that displays a
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by jwells89 3y ago
It depends on execution, but I could see transparent screens being nice for a desk setup where privacy isn’t a concern. They could make for a cleaner, more open, less cluttered feel than could be had with traditional displays. One could als
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> Is it possible that an existing problem has simply become dramatically more visible to us? I believe that this is a much larger component of the issue than many may realize. Never has it been as easy for young people to discuss what th
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Of course, platforms are going to do everything in their power to exert as strong as a grip as possible on users. The thing is though, with the amounts of money involved even small improvements in engagement and retention justify considerab
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by jwells89 3y ago
Avoiding synthetics in clothing is indeed difficult. I buy 100% natural fibers where I can, but sadly often the best one can do is ~90% natural ~10% synthetic.
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by jwells89 3y ago
IMO "apps" is something of a red herring. I don't think a whole lot would change if somehow everybody switched to web versions of big social media; they'd just be endlessly scrolling in a single browser tab instead of in
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by jwells89 3y ago
My past two AMD cards have been Sapphire. First, an RX 5700 XT Nitro+ and second an RX 6900 XT Nitro+ SE. The first was used on a machine on my desk while the latter is in a living room gaming machine. It’s harder to judge the 6900 because
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I keep my macs up to date and haven't encountered this. Newly downloaded unsigned stuff still works fine. Perhaps there's some sporadic/conditional bug afoot.
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No doubt, but Google probably could've worked with Mozilla and Apple to figure out an approach that addressed their concerns instead of disregarding them and implementing it as-is.

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