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by snazz 4y ago
I was actually pleasantly surprised with the performance of a $100 x86 HP tablet (running Windows 8.1 of all things) I got back in 2014 or so. It booted and launched apps really fast thanks to the SSD, faster than my regular computer that h
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by snazz 4y ago
Out of curiosity, how do European banks avoid this issue? If my debit card or ACH info is compromised and someone drains my checking account, is there a way to use the stolen funds before the bank/court finishes their investigation?
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by snazz 4y ago
You’re thinking of Apple Cash, which is a Green Dot Bank debit card that used to use Discover and now uses Visa Debit. Apple Pay in general works with all four major networks and nearly any credit or debit card.
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by snazz 4y ago
Exactly. In the case of the CSR, there’s a big general travel credit (maybe $200 or $300 off the top of my head), so that makes the net price less ridiculous. The target market with that kind of travel rewards card spends enough on travel f
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by snazz 4y ago
You should compare the X1 against other cards with no annual fee, not against the CSR with its $550 annual fee.
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by snazz 4y ago
Doesn’t Google (Cloud and Ads) discriminate against “privacy” and “virtual” card numbers? I feel like I’ve heard of that being an issue with Apple Card and Privacy.com on here in the past.
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by snazz 4y ago
As long as Amazon has their fulfillment and delivery network, I don't think they'll ever be replaced by AliExpress (in the US, at least). I've never seen anyone delivering packages in an AliExpress van :)
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by snazz 5y ago
I think you can prevent network access for an app over Wi-Fi on iPhones sold in China, but for some reason this feature hasn’t been made available globally. For now the only option is to disable cellular for an app and disconnect from Wi-Fi
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by snazz 5y ago
An on-device service could upload executable hashes to Apple like on macOS, in addition to XProtect/MRT.
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by snazz 5y ago
Right clicking on a process in the list does not bring up a context menu in Activity Monitor on my Mac.
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by snazz 5y ago
Settings>Accessibility>Display & Text Size>Increase Contrast takes care of that across all Apple apps and most third-party ones.
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by snazz 5y ago
MnDOT offers similar services (plow and fixed cameras, along with lots of other traffic information) for Minnesota as well: https://511mn.org . If you're really bored, it can be fun to track incoming snowstorms across all of
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by snazz 5y ago
The blurriness and "oil painting effect" likely has more to do with aggressive noise reduction and the fact that small lenses usually aren't super sharp to begin with.
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by snazz 5y ago
There are plenty of people outside of "the most neckbearded of FOSS developers" who could use an x86 laptop with a beefy GPU—perhaps you need CAD software or fully supported bare-metal Linux for your job? I'm typing this on a
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by snazz 5y ago
I didn't realize how much I click at the top without thinking about it until I helped my parents with their older Air. The haptic feel is maybe a touch less realistic but not having to move my finger down or apply half my body weight t
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by snazz 5y ago
Calling it an OS is a bit generous—although XNU is open-source, actually getting it running on hardware from just the publicly released parts is not particularly feasible. PureDarwin exists, but it's mostly just a curiosity to run in Q
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by snazz 5y ago
Super cool scans and captions! I wonder if there were any substantial internal changes between the first and second generation AirPods (besides changing the chip). The article unfortunately does not include a scan of the 2nd generation.
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Teapot: Type-Safe 3D Spreadsheet(syntax-k.de)
79 points by snazz 5y ago|15 comments
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by snazz 5y ago
I've also used Server 2019 on a desktop and it's pretty solid. A couple of pointers: - If you're considered a "student" by any means, you probably have access to an institutional email address that gives you access
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by snazz 5y ago
I'm running 12.0.1 and Control Center is using ~65 MB, with an uptime of 12 days. This is on an M1 MBA. What type of machine do you have? I wonder if there's some specific software that causes/exacerbates the issue.
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by snazz 5y ago
Does https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en not work?
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by snazz 5y ago
> even when we were there one had a landing mishap where it started to land on the earth strip but then aborted the landing and took off again. I was in a Delta-operated B767 in the US that did a touch-and-go landing like this because we
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by snazz 5y ago
Didn't Wickard v. Filburn set this precedent? Growing feed for animals on your own farm shouldn't affect interstate commerce significantly either, but it became the precedent.
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by snazz 5y ago
In theory it's 15W and 15W, but both chips can use more than that amount under certain circumstances and the AMD chip can even be configured by OEMs with different TDPs. Plus they heat up differently under the same workloads due to dif
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by snazz 5y ago
I've even plugged my M1 Air into the 20W USB-C iPad charger with no ill effects (somewhat slower charging while it's in use). It's possible that the battery would stop charging or deplete if I had the brightness cranked all t
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by snazz 5y ago
Shortcuts has really taken off in the last year or two on iOS and I think it provides the most user-friendly way of creating a button that automates something tedious. Certainly a lot of its popularity is owed to the ability to create custo
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by snazz 5y ago
In theory that would be fine if devices continued using the same amount of energy. Instead of charging my phone every night, if I charged it every six nights, it doesn’t need to last for as many charge cycles either.
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by snazz 5y ago
Emacs doesn't appear to be preinstalled in macOS anymore (I think the ancient version they were shipping was removed with Catalina).
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by snazz 5y ago
They do officially support the Permissive security policy, and it is intended to allow you to boot custom kernels. Running a fully-untrusted operating system kernel is an intended feature, even if they aren't going to give you support
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by snazz 5y ago
Are the photos in iCloud actually encrypted, though? As far as I’m aware, a government agency can subpoena them already. I’m not sure I agree with the slippery-slope argument, but I’m still failing to see how Apple’s current security model

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