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My problem with the built-in charging limiter is that if you are not extremely consistent in your usage patterns (I am not), it basically never kicks in. I much prefer a manual sol…

I don't know if they changed this, but I think AlDente follows a polling approach where it periodically checks the charge level and enable/disable the charging accordingly. Such so…

Nice, didn't know that! Basically the SMC key that marcan discovered is the same thing for Apple Silicon

I know, I hope Apple will decide to expose it to everyone in the future, since it's already implemented..

I think this [0] native approach is preferable [0] https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery/pull/163

FYI, on Apple Silicon Apple included a firmware-level "hard-switch" to limit the charge to 75/80% only. It was discovered by marcan while working on Asahi and in my experience it's…

That's reassuring to hear, thank you

Very interesting thread, thank you! I think I'm going to adopt the same strategy as you, since apparently nobody can actually show any meaningful proof of widespread hacks happenin…

Reading some discussions on HN, it looks like many people claim that using a phone which no longer receives security updates is a terrible idea because the probability of you getti…

That's wild. Even on my "highly unrepairable" MBA M1 the USB-C ports are very easily replaceable (new board costs $20)

I completely agree. My phone lost official LineageOS support last year but it still works fine and I cannot justify throwing it away to replace with a new expensive device full of …

I own a 5+ years old low-end Android phone whose official sw support ended in 2021. I've installed LineageOS on it but unfortunately it lost that support as well and I'm currently …

AdGuard for Safari is probably the best option right now, but I really don't like the fact that it ships as a fat electron app.. Hopefully someone will fix uBOL's small incompatibi…

I use Safari as my primary browser, only for its tab groups implementation. In my opinion they just nailed it, I think it's much better than the Chrome one. I would really like to …

That's why it remained free for individuals

There's Colima[0], but in my experience it still isn't as stable as Docker Desktop. It also isn't any faster and I doubt any competing software will be, since the best way to virtu…

On Apple Silicon Multipass actually uses QEMU under the hood. Basically it's just a (very convenient) wrapper

It's in "beta" right now but it works quite well (you can find the binary in the dedicated GitHub issue). Under the hood it just uses QEMU which in turn uses Apple's Hypervisor.fra…