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by mrkpdl 11mo ago
I’ve always felt the decline in Mac OS started on the day of the ‘Back To The Mac’ event in 2010. And has continued since. Symbolically this event made clear the iOS first focus of the company. And since then Mac OS updates have continued t
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by mrkpdl 11mo ago
> The YouTube app is easily the worst app on Apple TV. The YouTube app is a walk in the park compared to the app for Hayu which is like torture sometimes it’s so buggy.
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by mrkpdl 11mo ago
I laughed out loud at this part, perfect Aussie humour: “Chilean Australian artist Juan Davila painted a work titled Picasso Theft and offered to donate it to the National Gallery of Victoria in place of the stolen painting. Davila wrote th
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by mrkpdl 11mo ago
This is not representative of all unions, and the union fees are generally small compared to the higher wages that wouldn’t exist were there not a union in place. Mathematically you give a little to get a lot.
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by mrkpdl 11mo ago
I work for a sector with a strong union and feel the benefits of collective bargaining every day. Higher wages, better job security, and many basic accomodations that are codified in an EBA that one might have to otherwise fight for (eg wor
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by mrkpdl 11mo ago
The crunch culture in the film industry is legendary, particularly in visual effects, where many studios go out of business. There has recently been mass layoffs in the industry and much of the employment is temporary from film to film.
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by mrkpdl 1y ago
Do EMR pens generally support barrel rotation? No barrel rotation would rule them out for my use case (painting and illustration/being able to rotate the brush head)…
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by mrkpdl 1y ago
I don’t think that use case is worth designing a computer for in 2025
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by mrkpdl 1y ago
What did you do to it? I I just let it keep sleeping when I play
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by mrkpdl 1y ago
I’m a big fan of limited palettes as a prompt for easier creative choices. These patterns are a great example of that. Back in 2014 I made a phoney minigolf game using these patterns as a first step into making interactive work: https:&#x2
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by mrkpdl 1y ago
The aqua interface first shipped in Mac OS X Developer Preview 3. So they could be referring to DP2 which had a platinum like interface but was released after Apple had moved on from the rhapsody concept.
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by mrkpdl 1y ago
Rosetta 2 is being ‘phased out’ over multiple years, some coverage here: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/apple-details-the-en...
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by mrkpdl 1y ago
This developer is also responsible for Parking Garage Rally Circuit, the most fun game I’ve played in years!
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by mrkpdl 1y ago
This is a misconception. For most Apple users it isn’t about status, it’s just the brand they use because they like the products and the way they work together. That doesn’t mean they don’t wish they were better in many ways (including this
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by mrkpdl 2y ago
It should be enforced by the schools: put the phones in a tub in home group and hand them back out at the end of the day. If there’s an emergency call the office or the office calls you. Use exercise books for note taking, etc.
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by mrkpdl 2y ago
Just a note to say that I have the exact same issue as the author in Freeform on my 13 inch iPad Air. It heats up to the point that the screen dims, and then dims again and the iPad is uncomfortable to hold. It doesn’t take long for this to
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by mrkpdl 2y ago
This is a pet peeve of mine: the whole first half of the sentence is unnecessary. If something doesn’t come as a surprise then it was predicted. That said this is satire, and saying it twice does make the joke better.
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by mrkpdl 2y ago
Seeing panels of this size is making me want eink whiteboards for planning meetings.
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by mrkpdl 2y ago
I feel the same, especially given how significant Carbon was to the revitalisation of Apple. Without carbon they likely would have lost several key developers in the Mac OS X transition, which all of their later success stems from.
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by mrkpdl 2y ago
On the first point I agree - it is possible that I overreacted to Tim Cook partially paying for and attending the inauguration. Perhaps he is doing everything he can behind the scenes to help the people that the new administration are hurti
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by mrkpdl 2y ago
Thanks, Fairphone looks promising!
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by mrkpdl 2y ago
Nope, it’s a genuine question. Maybe the answer is that we are stuck with these providers. But the question is asked with the sincere hope that someone has a Linux laptop that meets the above criteria.
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by mrkpdl 2y ago
ASUS is an interesting thought thanks. I agree that China would be hypocritical, which is why I skewed toward the EU in the question, though I understand that may be unrealistic. I also understand that almost everything is likely to be manu
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Ask HN: Ethical Laptop and Smartphone Replacements
5 points by mrkpdl 2y ago|9 comments
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by mrkpdl 2y ago
The cat is out of the bag. This is the landscape now, r1 was made in a post-o1 world. Now other models can distill r1 and so on. I don’t buy the argument that distilling from o1 undermines deep seek’s claims around expense at all. Just as o
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by mrkpdl 2y ago
At the end of the video they announced a direct for the start of April. This video is just a teaser. I’m sure they will cover everything you mention in the direct.
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by mrkpdl 2y ago
The word classic has a bevy of meanings in the Mac world. There’s the “classic Mac” era, the “Macintosh Classic” which bears the name, and of course “Classic” mode in early OS X. But some things are just… classics. Like the g3 and g4 era, w
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by mrkpdl 2y ago
Which version of Mac OS are you running? Early versions of OS X were quite slow, but OS 9 should run like lightning on these.
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by mrkpdl 2y ago
OpenAI is the highest profile.
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by mrkpdl 2y ago
> Apple users have a fixed belief that everything Apple does is brilliant and fashionable so they do use them which has a deadly effect on the market for third-party software. (No good music players for MacOS for instance) Many of the lo

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