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The Vision Pro battery is already external, isn't it? But the device is heavy anyway, I think because of the used materials like glass.

In Europe contactless payment is nearly everywhere - nearly every store supports it. Even in Germany (which is historically very pro-cash), since Covid more and more people pay wit…

I cannot directly answer your question, because I am looking into this topic myself currently, but I found this HN discussion from two weeks ago, which should give you more insight…

You could argue the same with Boeing vs. Airbus. Why should Europeans build their own aircrafts? Today I think a lot of people are happy, that Airbus exists to compensate for the p…

Me and my wife had the plans of visiting the US every year for vacation before our daughter starts with school in a couple of years. Not anymore. I think this administration will n…

> Also, why does it take 10 seconds for activity monitor to show information? The list goes on. That's not a bug, but a feature. Under View -> Update Frequency, you can change it.

I was shortly excited because I expected Google Street View from the 1840s, oh well...

Oh yes, my wife bought a new Intel MBA in summer 2020... I told her at the time Apple planned its own chip, but it couldn't be much better than the Intel one and surely Apple will …

Using Sublime Merge for over a year now after using Magit/Emacs mostly (and git command line for years before that). What I like about Sublime Merge is its performance and the stag…

That's not true. I have a German eBay account from May 2001 when we still had the DM. eBay was very popular back then and had a completely different feeling because it was mostly u…

> And from Microsoft / GitHub - who would have a lot additional information (logs, ip-adresses, use of two-factor auth etc.)? Have they made a statement? Based on a HN comment from…

Exactly. I remember that many PAL PS2 games at the time had big black bars at the top and the bottom, and as a result a distorted image overall. The video game experience was not g…

Your privacy policy is very short and missing some important information. Where are your servers located? What cloud providers do you use? Do you use encryption in transit and at r…

I also have the feeling that the Vision Pro will be Apple's Virtual Boy [1]. Impressive tech that would have been very successful in 2020 with Covid, work from home and all. But in…

We switched from using SMTP to the AWS SDK for SES because when sending an e-mail the SDK returns the unique message ID of the e-mail. This allowed us to have a special process for…

> Curious why they've chosen Dresden though. The region is known for its semiconductor industry, at least in Germany. Quote from Wikipedia about Dresden: > Silicon Saxony Saxony's …

Another excellent and also OpenSource book, which I used a couple of years ago to refresh my knowledge about modern JavaScript is Eloquent JavaScript by Marijn Haverbeke. Highly re…

According to this recent support article by Yubico, the YubiKey 4 series should be compatible: https://support.yubico.com/hc/en-us/articles/7449189070620

Advanced Data Protection now for the rest of the world. Any experience how well it works? I'm currently in the process of updating all my devices and activating it as soon as possi…

I've never met anyone who say's "I like YAML, it is great"... most people that worked with it say something like "YAML is annoying, I don't like it"... While introducing Kubernetes…

I have the newer XM5s. The main reason for me to go with them instead of the cheaper XM4s was the call quality. I use my headphones very often in conference calls and the XM5s have…

I’m using 1Password Family with my partner which provides the functionality for defined users to recover all passwords for the other user. [^1] So in case of my death or my partner…

Another advantage not mentioned is that '@icloud.com' is a generic domain that has been (and still is) used for a lot of real e-mail addresses for years. That means that most regis…

How do you install uBlock Origin on iOS?

For Hacker News I always use https://hn.algolia.com - it has more specific sorting and filtering options. Besides HN itself it is one of my main bookmarks because I search for Hack…