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by yakkers 6y ago
The problem with 56k is that it worked by having specialised hardware on the ISP end for the modulation that made those speeds possible over a phone line. As far as I know, no consumer modem can really do that, so you’re stuck with 33.6k or
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by yakkers 7y ago
The problem with how Apple did it originally was that it was completely opaque to the user. As far as the average user was concerned, their phone was slowing down for no reason. The Battery Health menu should have been implemented from the
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by yakkers 7y ago
I’m a bit disappointed in the new iPad Pro, since it seems to be just as thin as the previous. As someone who had nothing but trouble with the 2018 model because of this, it’s disappointing to see that Apple’s trend of reducing thinness fo
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by yakkers 7y ago
APFS does indeed do compression, the rationale being that compute is cheaper than I/O. Even if most files on a typical personal computer are already inherently compressed (JPEG photos, lossy audio, etc.), you're not losing any per
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by yakkers 7y ago
As someone who uses iCloud Photo Library extensively, sharing an album of photos is horrible. You can’t just instantly share an existing photo album, you have to select the contents of the album, then share it to a shared album. Even worse
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by yakkers 8y ago
I always thought of it the other way around: eSIM for primary, while using the secondary physical SIM slot for using local SIM cards while travelling. Ideally either approach would work, it’d really depend on how mobile service providers ar
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by yakkers 8y ago
OS X wasn’t trying to emulate NeXTSTEP. It borrowed some technologies and ideas from NeXT but the final product from a UI/UX perspective was more a continuation of what is now Classic Mac OS.
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by yakkers 8y ago
This reminds me of Blink Shell, an iOS "shell" that primarily features ssh and mosh. It also implements a bunch of shell commands (a selection of coreutils and netutils), running natively, but with a shim for `system()'. The