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nice to see an article from my industry! st2110 is such a complex standard which a lot of the hardware mentioned has been molded to deal with.

It costs $5 to open a bank account at most US credit unions.

Not even for the average HN user.

This is because Apple has barely updated the iTunes/Music App codebase and featureset since iCloud came out in 2011.

The only asterisk to that statement would be if OP was a Mac user. Using Firefox for reddit and youtube nets me 4 hours of battery life on a 2020 13 inch MacBook Pro, while safari …

Ah. Then there really isn't any completely voice activated solution on the market that can sort your needs. They're all so cloud-focused.

You can use HomePods as dedicated outputs for your Apple TV 4th gen or newer. Can also work alongside your amp. Also, as stated in earlier comments, you’ll be able to use AirPlay t…

Considering that the HomePod non-mini doesn’t do any on-device language processing, I don’t see a need for that much power.

I also think that leasing or buying used negates the car-rental argument. The costs of owning a used sedan are very low, and the on-demand convenience imho beats renting a car for …

I bought my HomePod mainly for its value as a speaker first -- at $199 I don't think any Sonos or Harman competitor can produce such high-fidelity sound. I also put more trust into…

There is a team taking advantage (jailbreaking on iOS) of the security flaw in all A-series chips up to A11 in the hardware-level bootloader. The T2 in your 2018 or newer Mac is a …

Making UXs for desktop that share design elements with touchscreens will always be a mess. It's my biggest fear for the future of macOS development given the recent announcement of…

I find that funny when Among Us (indie) and Fall Guys (also indie) are some of the highest-trending games at the moment.

This has nothing to do with human rights violations. Two very resourceful companies are fighting over money.

As long as VSTs are native-only (which based on the low-latency nature of audio processing would probably never see a cloud implementation,) web-based DAWs will never replace local…

That's why I use high-quality firefox forks like Waterfox, which keeps the most popular Firefox features and security while removing things like phoning home or Pocket.

With the advent of Tunein and similar services, our family has taken WXRT with us everywhere since moving out of Chicago. We appreciate their culture and it gives us a sense of hom…

No, but having a desktop client fully integrated with the popular desktop environments is a big creature comfort.

I was in Seattle (where it supposedly entered the US) in mid-December and got pretty much the same symptoms as you, a week and a half after ! Everyone else on the trip was sick, to…

I have a Book v1, and let me tell you, that thing is riddled with issues. The hinge is the biggest thing. Because it connects over PCIe to the base, the Book is very sensitive afte…

I think we are jaded to the point that we forget that 2 cores and 4 threads was the norm just five years ago.

I was in my photography class and my magsafe cable was tripped about four times in one day. Crazy.

Ripping DVDs is something that takes very little time. Open the drive, put DVD in, click "go" on HandBrake. Rinse and repeat. You have all the time in the world to work while your …

My friend had a Blade back in 2017 -- had to replace the charger 5 (!) times until he downgraded to a chromebook.