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by kirb 5y ago
Your own habits aren’t everyone’s habits. Not everyone is on a two-year upgrade cycle, especially when the iPhones are worth near or above $1000 now. Many people who own a smartphone only have it at all thanks to the affordable prices of re
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by kirb 5y ago
Adding onto your point, I’m reminded of the video “Chain of Fools”, where a machine is upgraded from Windows 1.0 all the way through to Windows 8. Once he reaches XP, the theme he configured back in one of the first Windows versions just di
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by kirb 6y ago
That document is definitely very out of date, I don’t think any of it is even relevant any more. The unsupported features listed were implemented a long time ago. Safari does handle mouse events (e.g. hover) as best as those concepts transl
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by kirb 6y ago
It’ll work, may have to disable secure boot/enable legacy BIOS mode though. Of course you’ll be limited to 4GB RAM and there may be software you use that’s gone 64 bit-exclusive in the past few years.
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by kirb 6y ago
0.5% of 2.5 billion is 125 million. Is sideload malware irrelevant because “only” 125 million phones have flicked the sideloading switch? I think there’s good reason for the sideload feature to be there, but your argument seems to be about
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by kirb 7y ago
Fusion has been amazing in my experience. Never had issues with my VMs being sluggish like with VirtualBox. Plus 100% compatibility with Workstation for transferring VMs between Windows/Linux and Mac hosts. Annoying that they have a pa
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by kirb 7y ago
It seems like the rules aren’t so strict when it’s regarding Wi-Fi/Bluetooth device discovery, since you definitely could derive a location from nearby Wi-Fi access points and Bluetooth devices (that’s why this permission behavior chan
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by kirb 7y ago
Yep, the prerequisite for AirDrop, Handoff, SMS/voice call relay to your iPhone, etc. was a Bluetooth 4.0-capable wireless chipset. You could actually purchase an upgraded wireless module from 3rd-party sellers on Aliexpress/Amazo
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by kirb 7y ago
Yep - instead, Windows is dragged down by 20-40 years of bug-for-bug API compatibility, even in the things that were never documented as public API and pretty clearly look like internal solutions that the author at Microsoft never designed
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by kirb 7y ago
If I recall correctly Atom was originally developed on top of node-webkit before they decided to fork and create Atom Shell based on Chromium. The catalyst that pushed Atom Shell to become the Electron project we know and love was Slack inv
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by kirb 7y ago
I’d even call it intentionally designed to be bad, because they don’t want you to use it. Which is the opposite of what the parent comment is implying. They have the ability to port over the full Magic Mouse/Trackpad drivers from macOS
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by kirb 7y ago
Related to this, Apple just began production of iPhone 6s in India, allowing them to sell them for cheaper in India than units they would usually import from China. That’s 2015’s flagship iPhone being produced brand new. So don’t expect old
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by kirb 7y ago
Apple actually used to do this on MacBooks - one of the USB ports has mux circuitry that can be switched to an SMC programming mode that merely uses USB as the physical connection for their SMC programmer tool, bypassing the USB host contro
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by kirb 7y ago
This is true, so long as you accept that you need to use a PC to re-run the bootrom exploit every time you boot up the phone. The signature checks remain intact and the system will refuse to boot (goes to recovery mode with a “restore with
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by kirb 7y ago
We hear this “Apple has done everything you could only get with a jailbreak so jailbreaking is now obsolete” every year, yet we still see neat new system-level functionality ideas show up all the time. Plenty of new ideas came about from ja
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by kirb 7y ago
The code is there but the readme wasn’t updated. See: https://twitter.com/axi0mX/status/1177542201670168576
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by kirb 7y ago
I’m pretty sad that it took a long time to solve this. I know there was a lot of work put into bringing Firefox back up to snuff, but this single issue seems to have caused a lot of trouble. This Bugzilla link is light grey for me, so I’ve
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by kirb 7y ago
I may be completely off-base since Microsoft surely has some numbers we don’t that justify their choice of licensing model, but from my perspective, and from a few real experiences helping family and friends, people figure their PCs were at
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by kirb 7y ago
Unfortunately Microsoft are the ones who decided to make Windows 10 a free upgrade for Windows 7/8 users, so we all bear the awfulness of them needing to sell sponsored spots in the OS to compensate for that loss of revenue. At least i
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by kirb 7y ago
Worth noting the hfsplus driver in Linux can only mount as read-only, unless you manually mount it with the flag to force it to ignore the journal... which is a silly idea when journaling is what makes modern filesystems so resilient. apfs-
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by kirb 7y ago
This happens on every device I have Firefox Android installed on, since I started using Firefox on Android maybe 2 years ago, up until the current beta release today. As another commenter pointed out, it seems to work fine if you use a UA s
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by kirb 7y ago
I’ve somewhat researched iMessage handling on iOS for a jailbreak tweak called TypeStatus, and I find this bug odd. In iOS 7, SpringBoard was restricted at the sandbox (kernel) level from any access to the Messages database. I had to adapt
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by kirb 8y ago
A few months ago I found that if I played music on YouTube and let it go on autoplay, it would eventually play a specific song. It’ll play something else next as per usual, but the Up Next for this video would almost always be that same spe
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by kirb 8y ago
In fact the current AdBlock has no relation to the original AdBlock: >AdBlock's efforts are not related to Adblock Plus. The developer of AdBlock, Michael Gundlach, claims to have been inspired by the Adblock Plus extension for Fire
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by kirb 8y ago
Firefox has severe performance issues on high dpi displays on macOS. It’s gotten better in the latest nightlies but still an issue. As an unfortunate (for your eyes) workaround you can do Get Info on Firefox.app and enable low resolution co
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by kirb 8y ago
I’m certain the community would be very surprised if Nadella’s “OSS is good” Microsoft tried to go after an independent research post citing that clause. It’s there so they have some legally valid substance to roll with if they want to go a
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by kirb 8y ago
There's already plenty. I'm sure Pale Moon will keep RSS intact just as they're choosing to stay with the XUL-based extensions platform.
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by kirb 8y ago
The new design removed them. You click the line below the vote arrows to collapse. Not exactly the most intuitive, but it’s working as intended.
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by kirb 9y ago
It’s not hard to replace; probably the hardest part is separating the adhesived back rubber cover and then sealing it again after. The battery uses a modular connector. https://en.community.sonos.com/advanced-setups-229000&#
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by kirb 9y ago
This gist misleads in a few ways by being so vague and seems to be more about disabling every somewhat useful feature that sounds bad for tinfoil hat enthusiasts. Still has useful things, like disabling Pocket if you don’t want it and forci

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