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by wlesieutre 5d ago
The rumor on Apple's processor roadmap is that they're skipping other M6 variations (all previous generations had Pro and Max, a few had Ultra) in order to focus on the M7 generation for AI reasons. What exactly the M7 improvement
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by wlesieutre 12d ago
Ah that's fair, I forgot how old the Model S is comparatively. Although in a normal car of that era (say a 2012 Kia Rio) you could add CarPlay today for about $220. It's unfortunate that the big tablets have made it impossible to
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by wlesieutre 12d ago
Probably Quest 3S, and unless things have improved with the native solution you'll want to pick up the "Virtual Desktop" app for better wireless streaming. It's not very good resolution by today's standards but it&#
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by wlesieutre 12d ago
I thought that was a pretty direct response to "And it doesn't make you bring your own phone and bluetooth speaker for infotainment." As far as I'm concerned, not being able to bring your phone to the infotainment system
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by wlesieutre 12d ago
How is the infotainment tablet in a 14 year old Model S performing these days? Haven't they progressively worsened its performance through software updates and then sold you a hardware upgrade to fix it for several thousand dollars? I&
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by wlesieutre 14d ago
The follow-up strategy of “smaller width and height didn’t work, let’s try thickness next” reportedly not going any better. I really think COVID shutdowns did the mini in. People couldn’t go to the store and try holding a phone where they c
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by wlesieutre 17d ago
But in hindsight, I misread what grandparent comment was replying to so my explanation is for a question nobody asked. Whoops!
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by wlesieutre 17d ago
At least in my personal experience, Apple Maps is much worse at up to date business information than Google is But when I've submitted updates to road changes a couple of times, they did go through
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by wlesieutre 21d ago
It’s a tweet from 10ish years ago ‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party IIRC originally posted in reference to anti-trans women who voted Republican and were shocke
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by wlesieutre 22d ago
Can’t help that the state government is actively undermining local protections for workers dealing with heat dangers https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/16/texas-heat-wave-wate...
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by wlesieutre 23d ago
Same. The more of Google's services I touch, the more chance that some errant auto-moderation system will lock me out of Gmail and their support won't do anything about it. Better to not risk it, I don't even log in to YouTub
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by wlesieutre 23d ago
Oh you're right, well in that case I'd like to complain about turning the big PDF into a linked web document and not giving it an obvious whole-HIG search box. Worse experience than cmd-F 20 years ago.
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by wlesieutre 24d ago
In the words of the old HIG: Consistency in the interface allows users to transfer their knowledge and skills from one application to another. Use the standard elements of the Aqua interface to ensure consistency within your application and
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by wlesieutre 24d ago
It's like IE6 was - whatever Google/Chrome wants to do effectively becomes mandatory because nearly everyone is using it. Firefox has to follow along because of all the web developers who only test things in Chrome and expect all
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by wlesieutre 24d ago
Other people do fork Firefox though, like Zen browser https://zen-browser.app/ https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop
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by wlesieutre 25d ago
Yes, I can sort of understand Apple's argument that people should be running an email app that's been updated in the last 20 years, but I don't think it's defensible for software like games (or any offline productivity s
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by wlesieutre 25d ago
Has anyone tried giving it the Apple HIG from 20 years ago instead?
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by wlesieutre 25d ago
> Game devs don’t want a major support burden What fraction of game studios still even exist 10 years after releasing a game?
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by wlesieutre 26d ago
As the saying goes, the S in IoT stands for security Not exactly strong evidence presented here, but it wouldn't be a surprise either
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by wlesieutre 1mo ago
Only hundreds? I ended up on Thingiverse by accident yesterday it’s RESPONSIBLE USE OF YOUR DATA We and our 1022 partners…
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by wlesieutre 1mo ago
With the “game mode” and “game porting toolkit” in recent history, I think there’s one person at Apple who cares about gaming and every couple of years he escapes from the basement where they keep him locked up and manages to sneak somethin
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by wlesieutre 1mo ago
Please don't
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by wlesieutre 1mo ago
Is iOS 27 particularly impressive, or was iOS 26 a shitheap? Maybe a bit of both.
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by wlesieutre 1mo ago
You can get a 4' x 8' sheet of 1" EPS insulation from Home Depot for under $20 (thicker available if you need it, costs more) along with compatible construction adhesives. You do have to be careful with glue selection because
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by wlesieutre 1mo ago
It's not open source but I have to shout out Steermouse which has been replacing Logitech's awful Mac software for ~25 years https://www.plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/download.php
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by wlesieutre 1mo ago
Just going off the "TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION" license plates, I'd guess not. Federal tax dollars are spent according to the whims of literally everyone else in the country except them.
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by wlesieutre 1mo ago
> To take advantage they'd have to do some form of price fixing which in most places is a very big footgun. When parent commenter says "They have done this in the past after all" that's exactly what they're tal
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by wlesieutre 1mo ago
Goodhart's law in action
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by wlesieutre 1mo ago
Yes, ultimately a limitation of trying to boil a huge space down to a single value, it can’t represent everything. But I think they had to do Rf anyway, it’s not perfect but it’s better than CRI by miles. The color vector graphics are a gre
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by wlesieutre 1mo ago
Continuing on CRI’s limitations, since 2015 the new and improved metric is TM-30’s “fidelity index” (Rf) which is calculated based on 99 samples, among many other improvements. The larger number of samples makes it harder for an LED manufac

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