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by shantara 11mo ago
Organic Maps is very close to be that gorgeous OSM app. Unfortunately, it still lacks a lot of functionality that’s missing from OSM dataset, and is present in most commercial mapping apps, like the opening hours for businesses, public tran
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by shantara 11mo ago
One huge downside of iBooks is that it would happily deauthorize access to the (DRM free) epub files you’ve added to the app manually after a couple of days without internet connection. I made a mistake of going on a long distance hiking tr
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by shantara 1y ago
Apple removed the apps used by Hong Kong protesters on Chinese government’s request. It’s way past the point of pretending that this situation is somehow unforeseen. Two private companies have inexcusable control over what the entire popula
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by shantara 1y ago
They received a lot of bug reports and negative feedback from developer and public betas. Guess what, they’ve still released the glass almost unchanged. “We know better than you” is a fundamental part of Apple’s mentality
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by shantara 1y ago
The standard advice is to keep your distance and contact the authorities. The debris can easily have low enough level of hypergolics to be unnoticeable, but high enough to cause health problems
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by shantara 1y ago
It’s not only economically advantageous, but also increases the grid resilience. In times of war and conflict large power plants and their accompanying high voltage transmission lines and banks of transformers become an easy target. Adding
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by shantara 1y ago
The aircraft looked sleek in Scott Manley’s video, but knowing it has only 20 mile range with the top speed of 60 mph makes it a little more than a toy.
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by shantara 1y ago
The main roadblock for porting the games to Mac has never been the hardware, but Apple themselves. Their entire attitude is that they can do whatever they please with their platforms, and expect the developers to adjust to the changes, no m
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by shantara 1y ago
So what stops the developers from iterating on a raytraced version of the game during development, and then executing a shadow precalcualtion step once the game is ready to be shipped? Make it an option to download, like the high resolution
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by shantara 1y ago
The quoted number was in the range of 70-100 GB if I recall correctly, which is not that significant for modern game sizes. I’m sure a lot of people would opt to use it as an option as a trade off for having 2-3x higher framerate. I don’t t
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by shantara 1y ago
These extra proprietary features are the main reason to pick AirPods over some non-Apple headphones.
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by shantara 1y ago
Our large commercial apps were certified to pass the WCAG accessibility requirements, which we need to comply with for legal reasons. If we did’t enable the compatibility flag and opt out of the glass altogether, this would have meant massi
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by shantara 1y ago
Thanks, that’s very good to know. I was actually eyeing the new AirPods, and it didn’t even occur to me that their functionality is tied to the iOS version. Now they’ve become just another thing to skip.
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by shantara 1y ago
I decided to postpone an iPhone upgrade for another year rather than be forced to use iOS 26 without a downgrade option. This is the only way to send a signal.
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by shantara 1y ago
I'm an iOS developer and for the last decade and a half I've been updating most of my Apple devices to the new version of iOS on day 1. I knew it meant bugs, but the excitement of trying shiny new features has greatly overshadowed
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by shantara 1y ago
Unfortunately some devs have added anti-cheat solutions that check and enable game launch for Deck’s hardware specifically, while blocking desktop Linux. Which is arguably even worse
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by shantara 1y ago
I usually deal with the mods and fan patches by using Protontricks, which allows running executables within a game’s existing Proton prefix.
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by shantara 1y ago
I’m with you. My elderly parents always ask me to book a ticket for them every time they need to fly because the airline websites are so full of dark patterns, it drives them anxious that they’ve missed something or spent money on something
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by shantara 1y ago
A year ago, I would have easily claimed the same thing about Denmark.
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by shantara 1y ago
>But Apple has made it clear that unsigned software is going away, so Homebrew is following the requirements macOS sets on macOS software. I’m running LibreWolf installed via Homebrew with --no-quarantine flag. It was news to me that the
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Homebrew: Apps like LibreWolf and FreeTube are to be deprecated in 2026-09-01(github.com)
16 points by shantara 1y ago|5 comments
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by shantara 1y ago
For me, this picture is more of China Miéville than Pratchett.
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by shantara 1y ago
I’m another Premium user in the same position. I use uBlock Origin and Sponsorblock on desktop and SmartTube on my TV. I pay for Premium to be able to share ad-free experience with my less technical family members, and to use their native i
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by shantara 1y ago
The rumor mill speculates that Apple needed to ship something big and flashy to distract people from calling them out on their failure to deliver on the AI features promised (and previewed!) more than a year ago.
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by shantara 1y ago
I currently have a 14 Pro, and I use 3x zoom a lot. It is usually enough for my regular daily pictures, but when taking the shots during hiking trips I often find myself wishing for a greater zoom. When taking a picture of a distant mountai
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by shantara 1y ago
The specs page on Apple website just lists zoom factors of 1x, 2x, 4x and 8x without specifying the difference, which is misleading
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by shantara 1y ago
Looks like “8x” zoom on the new Pro model is actually 4x optical plus extra 2x by pixel binning on the 48MP sensor, compared with 5x optical on the last year’s model.
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by shantara 1y ago
>#5 is an enormous use case that when well implemented will permanently replace prescribed character arcs I mostly disagree. Every gaming AI character demo I've seen so far is just adds more irrelevant filler dialogue between the pl
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by shantara 1y ago
Steam Deck's APU is power limited to 15W
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by shantara 1y ago
Apple used to care about accessibility by default. Even their cherrypicked and ultrapolished Keynote demo had issues with readability on almost every single screen they’ve shown. Windows 7 designers were smart enough to blur the glassy back

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