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by jwells89 2y ago
The iMac Pro, while very noticeably slower than my M1 series machines, is still respectable. Reasonably snappy, quiet, and of course the display is great. It still runs the current macOS, but I'm sure that's changing soon. When th
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With the addition of the new display the main things holding me back are battery life and fan noise, which are reportedly still issues with the 13”. Both need to a decent step up from my current Linux/Windows laptop before buying one m
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Which is why standalone digital clocks generally still use them instead of LCDs, and why I'd like to build a 7-segment clock at some point. That condition-agnostic readability is hard to beat.
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It's not something I've personally verified but I read a while back that a lot of EV batteries specifically before being recycled get upcycled in storage products for homes and power grids, where raw capacity isn't as impor
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I believe that this applies to Photoshop for a lot of people and is what makes the Adobe CC subscription such bad value if PS is all you want/need. CS2 is perfectly adequate for my needs and it wouldn't be that bad to have to get
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Not just new language to learn, but also new toolchain to become familiar with and library ecosystem to get a grip on. Longtime devs of any language have a grab bag of go-to tools and libraries for a variety of situations and it’s not fun t
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I’ve spoken about it in other threads, but I believe that a significant factor in the the weakening of neighborhood community is the need for people to move frequently (relative to the past) to have access to opportunity (whether it be educ
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I understand the limitations resulting from differences in form factor between different smartphone models that make the idea impractical, but it's too bad these docks aren't designed for the phone to slot into them, Duo Dock[0] s
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I've mostly been using mine to watch TV/movies, though when I get some extra time I've been meaning to try the AVLR port that makes it work with SteamVR as a VR headset with joycons serving as controllers.
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I have similar feelings about the Finder and also don't quite get the love for Windows Explorer. It's just ok and if it were practical to replace it with just about any common Linux file manager on my Windows boxes I'd do so
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> That it's OK to use the user's filesystem (particularly directories owned by the user as opposed to the OS) as their dumping ground for all this metadata. There are more of this type of offender than I can possibly count that
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The Mac version of the original Descent was like this too, with a great redbook audio soundtrack. The game wasn't locked to the original disc though, you could pop out the CD in the middle of the game and replace it with any other audi
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I can see the appeal for removable media, at least. It’s pretty common for those to have only a single user toting them around between home/work/school and for that case it makes a lot of sense to store that info on the media so s
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I credit ResEdit hacking partially for steering my path towards becoming a programmer. I had my Classic Mac OS installs throughly customized, as well as the other various programs and games that stored their assets in resource forks. It was
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This is great to see either way, but does anybody know if Ladybird's engine is being designed with embedded use in mind? One of the big missteps that led to Blink/Chromium and to a lesser extent WebKit overtaking Gecko was Mozilla
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Yeah for now I keep most of my usage of SwiftUI restricted to non-Mac platforms. On macOS it’s fine for smaller bits like collectionview cells but has a number of rough edges for more major use cases.
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Yep, among other things both Apple-unique and emacs-esque text navigation shortcuts are in every native textfield across all apps and anything that's a menu item in any app can have its shortcut key rebound in System Settings without a
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While Apple could stand to improve some aspects of their UI toolkits (and you're right that private widgets have long been a frustration), I'd say they're in an entirely different plane in existence relative to Microsoft in t
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Dongles can also be handy for peripherals that are frequently used on different machines, particularly if they don't have built-in multi-pairing and quick host switching. One exception to the "no BT/LE stack" case is the
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I don't know if Dell continued this in newer models, but I was pleasantly surprised by the versatility of the WWAN slot in my circa-2008 Precision workstation laptop. No BIOS whitelist, antenna connectors that run up into the screen wh
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Not too long ago I had to write a short paper in the current version of Word for Mac for a class I was taking and was surprised at how frustrating the experience was, in several ways feeling like stepping back in time a couple decades. Than
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Even well into the PPC era Classic Mac OS carried that culture of fun third party software. Can't remember its name, but for example in the late 90s/early 00s I ran across an extension that gave dragged icons gravity and momentum,
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It’s the natural result when software (and sometimes hardware) is treated as a line item to be contracted out to the lowest bidder. Infotainment is a core feature that shouldn’t be cheaped out on, but many automakers haven’t realized that.
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The thing about car infotainment is that on average, it’s not good, and even when it is, it is until it’s not. Support timelines for dash systems have traditionally been awful, which leads to them becoming outdated and progressively more us
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Yeah I subscribe to everything from major tech news sites (Ars Technica, The Verge for example) to tiny blogs. RSS is very widely adopted, even if nobody is making noise about it or trying to hype it up. Anything but dead.
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Contiguous computer usage can sometimes be a nice benefit of long battery life, but I believe that for most people the bigger factor is no need to tote chargers or batteries when going out. Another thing is when combined with good standby t
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This is a highly intriguing device, but if it's to replace a MacBook or especially an iPad, battery life is going to have to be a great deal better. I'd be willing to sacrifice some raw muscle if that's what it takes to achie
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Conversely, I find the lack of per-app grouping on Windows (outside of the taskbar) irritating, particularly on multi-monitor setups. I understand that it’s not everybody’s preference but it should at least be an option.
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I only ever got to play with BeOS 5 PE in Be's twilight years, but it was incredibly zippy on the 800Mhz PIII Dimension 4100 tower that was the family computer at that point in time. It handily beat Windows 98SE (what the Dimension shi
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> It's completely stupid HTML, by default, doesn't have basic controls found in EVERY UI toolkit since circa 1980. The standard examples being ListView and TreeView. This is one of my greatest frustrations with the web as a pla

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