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by stephenr 2y ago
Most people who use an Apple mouse don't really find it to be "an issue". If by chance you ignore the days or weeks of reminders about charging, plugging in for 1-2 minutes will give you charge to last an entire day. The peop
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by stephenr 2y ago
> He describes making perfectly fluffy and buttery rice If your rice is buttery I think they're doing something wrong.
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by stephenr 2y ago
In a closed source situation people using a pseudonym don't just randomly approach a company and say "hey can I help out with that?" It was caught by sheer luck and chance, at the last minute - the project explicitly didn&#x
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by stephenr 2y ago
SEEKING WORK - Currently Remote from Thailand (UTC+7), with potential for short on-site trips if necessary. Relocating to Australia soon(ish). 20 years experience across a mixture of Ops/Infrastructure/Dev-Tools and web applicatio
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by stephenr 2y ago
You say "lacks comments" like it's a bad thing.
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by stephenr 2y ago
There was discussion about Zed over at Lobste.rs ~9 months ago when it went open source. I tried it then (as it was compared a lot to VSCode or Visual Studio code, which according to comments here are two separate things, to my surprise?) a
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by stephenr 2y ago
> I don't write code as I'm a sysadmin. Mostly just scripts. .... so what do you put in your scripts if not code?
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by stephenr 2y ago
Has it occurred to you that the stronger control of the ecosystem is a feature that supports the convenience and integration that's possible? This is just the "Why not Linux desktop" argument from the past two decades. Sure,
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by stephenr 2y ago
Jia Tan has entered the chat.
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by stephenr 2y ago
Both the M2 and M3 MBP were released in 2023.
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by stephenr 2y ago
Back when Moores las was still working they didn't release three subsequent versions of the same product in 22 months.
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by stephenr 2y ago
> already installed on a large fraction of machines So far you've presented no evidence of this though, just that it's used by a new desktop-focused package. All linux desktops over the last 30 years is not even a "large
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by stephenr 2y ago
This argument doesn't make any sense - those lists don't shy away from including other higher priced options. Said Dell display is $2,479.99 before any discount. The XDR is included on every one of those lists, with the same resol
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by stephenr 2y ago
> Pipewire being the Pulseaudio replacement from Redhat. Right, so it's a desktop package that ultimately will be installed on about 1% of all Linux machines because the vast majority are servers without a desktop environment. Also
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by stephenr 2y ago
> Lua gets onto every other Linux distro Just FYI, there are UNIX-like, POSIX compatible systems that are not a Linux distro. > rpm or pipewire depend on lua. Ubuntu and Debian ship with pipewire per default. Pipewire? Do you mean thi
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by stephenr 2y ago
> the webcam would be a tough one to accept To be honest I don't really notice it much. It just kind of blends in to the speaker bar along the top. What I do notice is the sound of the physical shutter opening if I open something
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by stephenr 2y ago
> I can't even find a half-good real-time "speech to second language text" tool, iOS's built in translate tool? I haven't tried it for other languages but a quick test English <> Thai seemed to handle thing
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by stephenr 2y ago
There's always "better" of course, but my point was more that "can't see the pixels" doesn't usually mean "I can't see the pixels if I sit back from the display a bit". When the iPhone 4 was
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by stephenr 2y ago
Sweet baby jesus. What's it like having a room next to your computer just to store a monitor? I kid, of course. I wouldn't want to use it myself, but you do you.
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by stephenr 2y ago
Don't take every comment so seriously, you do what works for you.
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by stephenr 2y ago
I think you'd have to sit further back than is otherwise natural (and then have the issue of legibility/lost workspace) to achieve "can't see the pixels" on this. Sure it's 8K but it's 65", it's
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by stephenr 2y ago
1080p at 32"? Dear god man have some self respect. Not everything on a screen is meant to look exactly like Tetris you know.
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by stephenr 2y ago
> Python and lua are pretty close to that. Python maybe often installed by default but it's definitely not an essential/required package "out of the box" on every install. Also, in a thread where one topic is how P
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by stephenr 2y ago
For what it's worth I bought the Dell U3224KB last year. I don't know why it's never on any of the "recommended" lists for mac-friendly monitors, but it's frankly amazing. It's not super cheap, but it&#x27
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by stephenr 2y ago
... in macOS all drives always need to be "gracefully ejected".
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by stephenr 2y ago
If it isn't distributed out of the box with every nix-like OS, it inherently isn't* “better by every objectively measurable metric" - distribution of a common, stable standard is a huge benefit in and of itself.
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by stephenr 2y ago
> but it's available. Like a cheap hooker. Username checks out.
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by stephenr 2y ago
As evidenced by other responders, no it isn't a legitimate complaint. Every time it's mentioned people come out of the woodwork to complain about "how can I use it while it's charging". Meanwhile the people that act
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by stephenr 2y ago
If you're unable to acknowledge basic information like "battery is low" and respond accordingly within several days nor able to wait a few seconds to get enough charge to last through your super critical meeting/whatev
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by stephenr 2y ago
Are you sure about the keyboard? Mine disconnects from BT when it's plugged in (and continues to work)

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