owenwil

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   by owenwil 8y ago

   I have not met any designers outside of Adobe that are enthusastic about XD, except those who have been given free (or endorsed) subscriptions. It's odd.
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   by owenwil 8y ago

   It isn't a media campaign, it's that the company did countless shitty things, and they're coming to light over time. It's important, not a campaign.
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   by owenwil 8y ago

   There's coherence? Try sending a message with an effect to a Mac user. (Sent with Fireworks)
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   by owenwil 8y ago

   I use it every day. It really is perfectly fine!
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   by owenwil 8y ago

   I use it daily with zero issues. I don't know why people keep perpetuating this, but it works great, as if it were native.
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   by owenwil 8y ago

   Yeah, growing up in New Zealand I fixed many of my own and others' MacBooks/iMacs with aftermarket parts for this reason. We had no official channel, outside of shipping to Australia or further which required a 3-4 week wait, a po
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   Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry(char.gd)

   133 points by owenwil 8y ago|227 comments
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   by owenwil 8y ago

   Throw on developer mode and you can change these to anything you want, it's built into the launcher.
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   by owenwil 8y ago

   This actually increased my Pixel 2's battery life from 1.5 days to a solid 2. Did you actually try it?
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    by owenwil 8y ago

    It's actually _all_ done on device.
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    Microsoft made a better MacBook Pro(char.gd)

    3 points by owenwil 8y ago|2 comments
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    by owenwil 8y ago

    Hey! Writer here. I discuss the software at length in here, but as I point out in the piece I've already covered why WSL and Bash work very well at length, so didn't want to muddy the water too much: 1. How to use Bash on Windows
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    by owenwil 8y ago

    All of those things were fine, as far as I can tell. What did you run into specifically? I could run npm stuff, compile with Gulp or webpack..
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    by owenwil 8y ago

    Back now, sorry.
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    by owenwil 8y ago

    We're up! It was a weird PHP bug... sorry :)
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    by owenwil 8y ago

    Well one runs Windows and the other macOS, for a start. Otherwise, most apps already work on Windows that you're familiar with, thanks to the prominence of Electron. If you need Sketch, which is not on Windows, thankfully there's
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    Why Microsoft acquiring GitHub is a good thing(medium.com)

    1 points by owenwil 8y ago|1 comments
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    by owenwil 8y ago

    Unlikely on many of these counts.
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    by owenwil 8y ago

    Wow - got a screenshot of that one?
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    by owenwil 8y ago

    Hey! I made this, mostly just to poke fun at my inbox being here in Europe and experiencing it first hand. Feel free to fire me a reply with any good ones you've spotted; I'll be actively adding through tomorrow and beyond.
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    by owenwil 8y ago

    Sorry, had to go up a few sizes on DigitalOcean
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    Google is using machine learning to redefine Android(char.gd)

    2 points by owenwil 8y ago|0 comments
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    by owenwil 9y ago

    "Electron is horrible to deal with as an end-user" - this is not reflective of your average user at all. Most people are just happy to have an app that looks, acts and feels native.
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    by owenwil 9y ago

    Yes.
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    by owenwil 9y ago

    So 1440p is fine, but once you end up in 4K territory it's nigh unusable. They've barely started on fractional scaling, so your choices are big or even bigger.
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    by owenwil 9y ago

    This is awesome, thanks! The biggest problem I had with even considering Linux on any of these machines is that the High DPI support is... non-existent, which just kills it for me :(
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    by owenwil 9y ago

    Apparently I can't edit comments, but here's my review of the XPS 15: https://char.gd/blog/2018/ive-finally-found-a-macbook-replac...
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    by owenwil 9y ago

    Hey! Web dev/writer here that can relate — I've been writing about this after having gone through the same experience. In the last year, I've written about the Razer Blade, Eve V and about to ship a review of the Dell XPS 15
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    by owenwil 9y ago

    This is super cool! To be honest, I think the easier way to do this is using the Hue Hub, which can connect to Tradfi AND integrates directly with Google Home
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    by owenwil 9y ago

    Hey! Great questions, thanks! Well, so far: 1) Focus on the community, then the content. I thought the content would be some sort of mish-mash of opinion and really more long form stuff, but people prefer compact, quick takes, in 3-4 paragr