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My understanding is that the serials represent information, including model and date/location of manufacture. It’s therefore possible to create correctly formed but impossible serials, for example one that represents a pre-touchbar 201
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> The reason they’re not doing that is because it could have unintended consequences as some are using someone else’s actual device serial number and those people would be inconvenienced. One is supposed to try to find a plausible (fol
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It would be interesting to see how Mozilla approaches implementing Gecko on iOS, with how the engine stripped support for embedding years ago (prior to which they could’ve used an approach similar to that seen in Camino[0]). I guess they co
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by jwells89 3y ago
The thing about game launchers like the Epic Game Store is that they tend to be ungainly, clunky built-by-lowest-bidder beasts that aren’t pleasant to interact with. Somehow they’re never high quality, polished products despite being profit
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IME “doesn’t work well on X device” means “the app’s controls are spilling out of the safe area into notches, etc causing usability issues”. Here’s documentation on FIDO keys with Apple IDs. Association requires at least a Mac, after which
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I’ve had no trouble with Simulator, but the run down battery bit is indeed a problem. It’d be nice if one could get ahold of versions of phones/tablets that have a dummy battery that presents itself as fully charged when plugged in. No
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The only reason App Review will ever mention testing against specific devices is when there’s been a screen resolution or form factor change, but simulators work fine for that. I’ve worked with multiple apps with many different reviewers ac
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Point 2 is not remotely true. I’ve been doing iOS development for almost a decade and have only ever tested against my phone (which is usually not the latest model) and an iOS device that represents the oldest thing the app supports. For te
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The official Telegram client is Qt on Windows and Linux and AppKit on macOS, not Electron.
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Less tab clutter, enhanced ability to use OS app/window management facilities, no space eating browser chrome, works without a browser being open (yes that does happen on occasion). It doesn’t apply to Proton’s desktop app specifically
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The thing about dependencies (regardless of ecosystem) is that it’s easy for them to spiral out of control, making it difficult to have a solid grip on all the things going on under the hood. Over time this can be a real problem because it
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Visuals for navigation, a bigger screen that can be more easily viewed while sitting upright in the driver’s seat, and UI that’s designed for use while driving.
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I certainly would insist on it. CarPlay and its Android counterpart are a far sight better than the infotainment systems the majority of cars ship with to begin with, plus they won’t have problems like their navigation data becoming outdate
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On Mac I wish more apps used the standard toolbar. The customizability is nice and rarely found in bespoke implementations.
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That’s the difference between an app that optimizes for being a good app and an app that optimizes for engagement and selling you things. It’s similar to how supermarkets periodically shuffle around their shelving. Consistency in navigation
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“Business interference” and “harming a competitor” are awfully vague, though. Who’s considered a competitor? Is it “business interference” for example to protect one’s character designs with Nightshade, with the tool serving as a sort of co
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Surprising and somewhat depressing. I wouldn’t be surprised if this leads to many artists in Japan who had been posting their works on Twitter, Instagram, and Japanese SNS sites deleting their posts and ceasing sharing. There’s no incentive
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The number of iterations Raptor has seen is kind of insane. V3 seems like it’s a substantially different beast compared to the original. I suppose that’s par for the course when bringing a previously lab-bound type of engine into practical
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To me cats are a lot like introvert-leaning ambivert people. They enjoy being social, but context and consent are important, and energy for socialization is not boundless.
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The way that the stock apps in AOSP are barebones and have been practically abandoned in favor of nicer closed Google-branded counterparts is also suggestive of them trying to have their cake and eat it too.
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The way I’m reading it is that your platform needs to be totally open, desktop-OS-style, or manufactured as a single piece iOS/console style. Anything between those two is where the trouble comes in.
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WebKit went multiprocess with the release of WebKit2 around 14 years ago, with the difference being that the multiprocess architecture is part of WebKit itself and thus easily reusable — just embed a WebView in your app and you have it. Thi
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Chrome’s quality is what’s usually cited as being the primary driver behind its rise to its current position of most popular browser, but the reality is that Google’s intense marketing is at least as responsible. In-app prompts, prompts in
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I would hope that this “best case outcome” also comes with regulations to keep other giants (mostly Google) from marketing and cross-promoting their way into dominance on iOS, creating monopolies in the process. For instance, Google apps sh
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Yep, have been aware of it for a long time. It’s great in concept but as far as I’m aware a good deal behind current macOS — last I knew it was compatible with OS X 10.6 (released 2009) with no support for Swift or for any of the advancemen
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Same as you, most of the people using iPhones and Macs that I know. Additionally, the official Telegram site points to the Swift client for its Mac download (the Qt client is marked as “Telegram for PC/Linux”) and the Swift client is t
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While the Qt Telegram app runs fine on macOS, most Apple users opt the Swift/Cocoa client for macOS and iOS[0]. [0]: https://github.com/overtake/TelegramSwift
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Similarly, it’s possible to compile a Mac app that targets PowerPC, x86, and ARM supporting all of the versions of macOS implied by that spread of CPUs. X Lossless Decoder[0] is one such app, supporting all three archs and Mac OS X 10.4 up
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In the past they’ve not hesitated to reduce customizability when doing so was perceived to bring some benefit to ease of development. Aside from that I just think it’s a good idea to push for implementation of basic functionality like hidin
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I’m not sure I follow? The clear improvement here is to add a checkbox representing a supported option to hide that header. Hiding it in usercss isn’t supported and is liable to disappear at any point (say, the developers decide they’re tir

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