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by minimaul 5y ago
> Sometimes, we have vendors like Mikrotik who love the old QCA MIPS lineup and shove those ancient SoCs into everything they can. Mikrotik don't really shove MIPS in anything new! Practically everything they've launched in the
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by minimaul 5y ago
> I have emails from the CEO personally thanking me for my commitment in going way over what was expected when basically saving the institution during lockdown, so now I also feel kind of personally insulted and victim of ham-handed coll
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by minimaul 5y ago
1Password's current comms style makes me genuinely angry - they almost never directly answer questions, and they always work in a way to call whatever they do now a positive, no matter what they're replying to. It utterly infuri
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by minimaul 5y ago
Honestly I find one of the biggest missteps for me is that they started injecting UI into the web page itself. I'm sure it reqires less work from the locally installed app (and lets them do away with it altogether, even), but it create
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by minimaul 5y ago
This is 1Password 8 dependent, so unfortunately I doubt I'll ever use it. The 1Password 7 app on macOS is a beautiful native app. It "fits" in macOS, it follows macOS design paradigms. 1Password 8 does not. It is a weird self
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by minimaul 5y ago
The new MBPs do come with a SD reader though - maybe that was the source of the confusion?
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by minimaul 5y ago
iina is a really nice player, but unfortunately maintenance of it seems to have slowed quite a lot. There's a lot of piled up issues and pull requests. You'll also find that even on the most powerful of Macs that it will struggle
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by minimaul 5y ago
While it's annoying, the reason communities activate this is to reduce spam/bot accounts. It's a big problem on Discord and requiring a phone number linked to the account helps quite a bit :(
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by minimaul 5y ago
Display distance is between 3ft and 4ft away for me depending on exact seating posture - so somewhere around 1m.
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by minimaul 5y ago
The one that sticks in my memory the most was a bunch of issues with Qt-based apps in particular where UI would scale in 1x, 2x, 3x steps, but font size would scale with the fractional size specified. Led to some pretty broken looking UI.
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by minimaul 5y ago
Ditto this. My home monitors are: 27" Ultrafine 5K - bought in 2018, so 3+ years old, $1000+. 27" LG 4K - bought in 2019, so 2+ years old, $600+. 27" Dell Ultrasharp 1440p - bought in 2016, $800+. 24" Dell Ultrasharp 192
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by minimaul 5y ago
There's actually a solution for that: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204915 > What if I use two-factor authentication on a device running older software? > If you use two-factor authentication with device
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by minimaul 5y ago
Depends. If it was stolen from the original owner then you don't really own the device legally and this is the anti-theft part of activation lock functioning as designed. If you're an innocent third party to the original theft, yo
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by minimaul 5y ago
Target Display Mode doesn't work on any of the 5K iMacs, from what I understand.
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by minimaul 5y ago
Curious as to what people think of https://consumer.huawei.com/en/monitors/mateview/specs/ - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09C6JZPZG It's 28.2" and 3840x2560 - it's a
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by minimaul 5y ago
Exactly - 27" 1080p is too large, 27" 1440p is nice for UI size for me, and then it's about extra pixels for sharpness & clarity. Unfortunately the OSes I want to use don't do fractional scaling well - macOS or Linux
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by minimaul 5y ago
It's cheap enough that I've been tempted to pick up one of these to try, but I think going back to 24" would be a little frustrating for side-by-side editing in an IDE. I think it could make a great secondary though.
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by minimaul 5y ago
This is a good comment in general, but: > I think it can still make sense, but very often when people buy the premium in computers or displays they are getting the same thing everyone else gets 30-50% cheaper 1 year later. I'd norma
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by minimaul 5y ago
I find it's just too much to justify. A bit more than $1k on the Ultrafine 5K was justifiable for me, and I've seriously considered buying another. If it was $2k or so for the Apple Pro Display XDR, or if they did a middle-man opt
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by minimaul 5y ago
This specific issue is definitely a macOS problem - instead of doing proper resolution independent rendering, macOS just renders at 2x the 'looks like' resolution, and then scales the result to fit the panel. But even on Windows,
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by minimaul 5y ago
Is it actually HDR, or is it 'HDR'? I have another LG monitor that claims HDR support but really it just squishes the SDR content to make space for HDR - so it makes everything look awful .
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by minimaul 5y ago
OLED isn't that great in the monitor space because you are going to get burn in, it's only a matter of 'how long?'.
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by minimaul 5y ago
That's a 27" 4K, so it's already low PPI compared to the monitors in the article.
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by minimaul 5y ago
You can't. These are thunderbolt 3 displays. edit: and they use too much bandwidth to daisy chain with anything else, too.
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by minimaul 5y ago
I find that bigger than 32" at desktop distances is uncomfortable at best, unfortunately. 27" is definitely the sweet spot for me.
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by minimaul 5y ago
I have one of the LG Ultrafine 5K on my 14" M1 Max Macbook Pro - it is far more reliable with that Mac than with the 2018 15" I was using it with before. It's also worth swapping the TB3 cable if you still have issues. After
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by minimaul 5y ago
I spent about £3k on a 14" with 1TB and 32G and I'm very very happy with it - the experience is just ridiculously better than the older 15" MBP I had - or any of the x86 laptops I've used recently too - it has a good s
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by minimaul 5y ago
Hey! I built the initial kernel on an AMD 5800X running Debian - there are cross-compiling instructions on the Asahi Linux wiki. For bootloader, I'm currently just appending the kernel & device tree to m1n1 (which is the first stag
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by minimaul 5y ago
It's still not really ready for prime-time, but I've got a M1 mac mini running debian as an arm64 build bot (and a few other small things) now, and I can say that the bits that work, work really well. Storage is fast, CPU performa
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by minimaul 5y ago
I find that Winbox is much more usable than the WebUI - it runs well under wine (and even on m1, you can run it under wine64 under rosetta).

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