mattl

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   by mattl 3y ago

   This sucks, I’ve enjoyed some of their YouTube videos. But why is every link on their website purple like I’ve already read it? Oh because their brand is purple. Really sucks as a reader.
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   by mattl 3y ago

   My Mac keyboard had broken the day I got my iPod. I was able to dock my iPod, sync up my huge collection of music in a few minutes and then head out with my new iPod to buy a cheap replacement keyboard.
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   by mattl 3y ago

   FireWire was very widely available on Macs of the era, which is why it made sense amongst other things. (USB 1.1 is very slow, FireWire could also provide power, Apple invented FireWire)
4. 664.▲
   by mattl 3y ago

   There’s a McIntosh Hi Fi company which may have had some influence there too.
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   by mattl 3y ago

   I see it as the only way Firefox can continue. Mozilla’s mission isn’t to make a browser anymore. “The Mozilla Foundation works to ensure the internet remains a public resource that is open and accessible to us all.” They could spend their
6. 666.▲
   by mattl 3y ago

   Firefox wouldn’t need to go away. Firefox could just be consumer WebKit while also being developer and bleeding edge WebKit for non-Mac users.
7. 667.▲
   by mattl 3y ago

   I feel like a trillion dollar company and a group like Mozilla could fix that very easily.
8. 668.▲
   by mattl 3y ago

   This is mostly iOS issues. I’m talking about the Macintosh version of Safari where browser competition is already a thing.
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   by mattl 3y ago

   I think Safari does a good job of being a snappy browser and not implementing all the user hostile crap that’s being proposed. I would like to see Mozilla work on WebKit instead of trying to keep Gecko. They’ve already shown they know how t
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    by mattl 3y ago

    Bluesky has been refreshing better than Twitter in that respect
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    by mattl 3y ago

    Kept it up and operational and didn't make it immediately unpleasant or impossible to use during that time and allowed them to find a balance for moderation.
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    by mattl 3y ago

    OpenBSD is a huge CVS repo and has been working on got (sic) as a potential alternative. https://gameoftrees.org/
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    by mattl 3y ago

    I’m not sure they do. I think some platforms are eager to onboard as many people as possible quickly. Those that aren’t so keen have very minimal spam.
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    by mattl 3y ago

    And every HomePod, Apple Watch, iPad and Apple Vision Pro. Plus the later Apple TVs. I think even some of their newer displays have the OS in there too.
15. 675.▲
    by mattl 3y ago

    I do wish NeXT had a better naming system in place. The first gen cube is called the NeXT Computer, later faster ones are actually called Cube but they’re all cubes to most people.
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    by mattl 3y ago

    Have you used a fitness tracker of any kind?
17. 677.▲
    by mattl 3y ago

    Everyone I communicate with who has an Android device has WhatsApp or Signal installed. Same is true of 99% of iPhone users.
18. 678.▲
    by mattl 3y ago

    I use mine all day, every day... fantastic device. Have you used one? Which one?
19. 679.▲
    by mattl 3y ago

    Why not use an app like WhatsApp?
20. 680.▲
    by mattl 3y ago

    > by converting Music.app into Apple Music Apple made iTunes (which already supported Apple Music) into a dedicated Music app, and offloaded some of the other stuff iTunes could do into separate apps and the Finder.
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    by mattl 3y ago

    I can’t imagine it’s a popular choice or one that’s even considered by Apple. Isn’t that what a Mac Mini is for?
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    by mattl 3y ago

    You couldn’t reach the keys in clamshell mode. But as for why you can’t turn off the display, I suspect you can somehow.
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    by mattl 3y ago

    If that’s all people are doing why use Linux or even Windows? Seems like ChromeOS is a perfect device for that. I think people do a lot more that just that.
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    by mattl 3y ago

    Newton and Macintosh TV were both when Jobs wasn't around, and he quickly killed off the spin-off "Newton, Inc" company and the Newton line when he returned when Apple and NeXT merged.
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    by mattl 3y ago

    Yeah, I don't think it should be the one that succeeded, but it was and I think that opportunity is over now, sadly. Chromebooks don't seem to last very long. There are ways to make a Chromebook run Linux -- https://vkc
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    by mattl 3y ago

    The year of Linux on the desktop already happened. It was March 2020 to sometime in 2022 when millions of people were given a Chromebook and told to work from home.
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    by mattl 3y ago

    The biggest issue with an e-reader is finding one that can handle PDFs at a reasonable analog to the size of the printed page the PDF is based on. If however you're able to covert the PDFs easily to a format like ePub (using Calibre wh
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    by mattl 3y ago

    A lot of that happened when Steve Jobs was alive and a major shareholder in the Walt Disney Company. I don't think Tim Cook has the same kind of connections, even if Apple is a much bigger company now.
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    by mattl 3y ago

    I was responding to someone with a recent example of a slower Android phone. I know many Linux and Android users who already have Raspberry Pi’s and similar devices they could use to set up a pihole. People who go down the “fully free” Linu
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    by mattl 3y ago

    Really tried to use the OpenMoko and almost every other open source phone that came along for so long and never had any success.