kalleboo

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by kalleboo 1y ago
And even though networking was envisioned from the start of the Mac, Apple basically had to rush to finish AppleTalk networking in time for the release of the LaserWriter since it was so expensive it was assumed the only way anyone could ju
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by kalleboo 1y ago
For many people what they want in a "small phone" is being able to reach the whole screen with their thumb without contorting their hand, in that case thickness doesn't matter as much.
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by kalleboo 1y ago
People keep saying they need Electron because keeping up with the system's native web view is impossible yet a bunch of these apps have web versions that work perfectly fine (or as you say, even better) in Safari
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Sweden had a similar system in the late 90's-early 00's called the "cash card", also developed by Proton. It was a huge failure with basically zero uptake, there was no benefit over just using your debit card https:&#x2
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by kalleboo 1y ago
You can buy a rice cooker that claims it uses "AI", it's too much of a marketing buzzword to be useful.
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by kalleboo 1y ago
> price went negative (or null) for the entire month during the solar hours Sounds like a great investment opportunity for storage providers? Isn't this how it's going to work itself out just due to pure economics? Solar pane
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by kalleboo 1y ago
What's mad is that you would have thought that Microsoft would use the Surface devices to show hardware manufacturers what could be done if you put some effort in, but I've heard so many horror stories from Surface owners about dr
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Creation Date and Modification Date are separate
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by kalleboo 1y ago
I copy files all the time? I have files in my documents folder with creation dates in the 90's that have been copied forward between many computers.
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by kalleboo 1y ago
If I want to sort by date, I sort by the "Date" column, not the file name
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Maybe when activists stop pretending to be scientists the scientists can stop being activists.
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by kalleboo 1y ago
The original ePrivacy Directive that created the cookie banners is from 2003, and EU users have been seeing cookie banners since then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Directive#Cookies The GDPR is what really gav
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Excel has already added a =COPILOT() function. Imagine the waste of all those formulas that probably amount to some basic mathematical formula that could be run on a 386.
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by kalleboo 1y ago
The App Store does not have any kind of native support for selling app upgrades which leads to all kinds of problems: * Links on the web to your app die since the links go to the old version, people who see your app recommended click the li
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by kalleboo 1y ago
From a quick look, these are still being sold new on Amazon (by third-party sellers)
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by kalleboo 1y ago
As someone who lives in Japan and has a lot of experience with earthquakes, the magnitude tells you not a lot, the depth and location/geology can easily change it from something you don't even feel to something quite big. This is
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by kalleboo 1y ago
> When I program, my application may sometimes allocate a lot of memory due to some silly bug I had one of those cases a few years ago when a program I was working on was leaking 12 MP raw image buffers in a drawing routine. I set it o
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by kalleboo 1y ago
The only thing that really bothers me with the macOS 26 design update is the complete lack of contrast. Everything is white-on-white with super subtle shadows. You can't see what tab is selected in Safari, you can't see what is a
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Where I lived in Europe, by the time the iPhone came out, a lot of people (me included) were already using Sony Ericsson Walkman phones instead for music listening
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by kalleboo 1y ago
They also kind of did it with the Mac. For 4 years after the Mac was introduced, it was still the Apple II that was paying the bills, the Mac was flopping. It took stubborn management to keep investing in the Mac and not give up on it and t
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by kalleboo 1y ago
The IBM PC did not include a serial or parallel port. Just a keyboard port and a cassette port (the latter of which approximately nobody used)
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by kalleboo 1y ago
I was referring to your latter example - when YouTube decides a video is inconvenient, it means they're afraid advertisers don't like it. Those videos still get paid from Premium views.
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by kalleboo 1y ago
That's the tradeoff with a smaller phone. You can't fit as many features. And despite cutting out so much, there still wasn't enough space for an acceptable amount of battery.
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Wireless chipsets have just always been notoriously unreliable. It will be interesting to see Apple can improve reliability here.
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by kalleboo 1y ago
> where does it go for a demonetized video A "demonetized" video is technically called a "limited or no ads" video in YouTube Studio - it means YouTube has determined that advertisers do not want their ads seen on t
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Premium pays out to creators by minutes viewed (vs AdSense which pays out by ads viewed) I've heard some creators say that in total, they make more money from all their Premium viewers than they make from all their AdSense viewers, eve
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by kalleboo 1y ago
I'm a huge fan of OpenWrt. When I got 10 Gbit internet at home I had to replace my old Ubiquiti USG3 on the cheap so I built a router out of a $80 Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny. I tried OPNsense and pfSense on advice but they could never cra
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Octal uses the OS Safari view for its in-app browser which uses whatever ad blocker you have installed
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Exactly, some of us remember thinking using reiserfs was a great idea...
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by kalleboo 1y ago
I live somewhere where the minimum wage is below $7 and every fast food place has still introduced kiosks, I think the timing is just a coincidence.

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