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The biggest tell of the A-series' chip concessions are the ports. A first for Apple, only one USB-C port is Thunderbolt, the other one is USB 2.0 speed. Apple made a computer with …

I moved to the Mac App Store version of OneDrive specifically because of the constant issues with the background processes it insists it must have running at all times. The MAS ver…

> Still, I think .pkg package style installers are the most intuitive process for non-techies, especially those coming from windows where MSI and install wizard style exes are comm…

Je suis gaucher, et j'ai fait le choix idiot quand j'étais jeune de mettre ma souris à gauche. C'est un choix très étrange, mais ça fait en sorte que je n'ai jamais eu à me trouble…

Get an Apple Watch. It massively cuts the amount of required unlocks.

Very cool looking, but there is an ocean of mechanical keyboards already available with the US keyboard layout. I would explore making ISO international versions. That market is un…

> It's probably a good idea to rather strictly partition your conversations to stick to a single topic. You assume that UI is sacrosanct and the same everywhere. Those LLM provider…

> The blog post is for a different audience. No one? Like literally, I don't understand a thing of what the blog post is saying. It's vague to the point of meaning nothing. Every p…

Your discourse assumes two things: piracy will maintain the archival part without fail and that universal access is the natural end goal. None are true. Counting on piracy means we…

> If GOG went down tomorrow, those games would be gone just the same as the Steam ones Absolutely not. Libraries and archives are able to keep digital copies, with limits imposed o…

You got it mostly right. It's Android, then iOS, then Windows. It is still the number one PC OS, in terms of active users and sales. MacOS is a distant second. Of course in 2026, i…

I presume Chrome on Mac still reports OS X as its OS, even when running a newer version. It is such a ridiculous idea not to put that together.

It’s a common fear. People constantly mention it on HN every time the advice to keep a TV off the internet is mentioned. Yet we have never seen proof by anyone, not once, that it h…

Apple has long term contracts for every part that goes in the most complex supply chain on the planet. Do you think they call their suppliers every morning asking for 2 million chi…

as a mac user who does suffer from the insanity of compiled for Mac, but never tested on a Mac , thank you.

The thing is Apple designs its own ARM cores. They don't use the vibrant ecosystem of ARM for all the important parts of the CPU; they compete with it on their own and manage to wi…

Those two resistors cost money. It's not incompetence. It's a deliberate choice.

That’s why I love the Nova.app model. You pay for a year of releases, but if you unsubscribe you keep the latest version when your subscription was active. It’s the best/worst of b…

I was asked to do that in my hometown with a girl I had never met before. It’s not only tourists, and it’s not only in foreign places. BTW, that girl had to be 5% handsy with me to…

Yes, invented much later, but the expression of a different power structure that those types of Romans felt was not present. But to our modern eyes it was. Hell, the mere fact the …

The best of Microsoft's naming schemes, now coming to your LLM chatbot.

Apple now designs its own modems, and its TSMC that fabs them. OP is asking if Broadcom might start fabbing those modems. This is not the case here, but you seem to ignore the fact…

It’s not literally the map of the game: it’s about what the player can do. A square means total freedom. A star means freedom to choose guarded experiences with internal choices.

Microsoft's executives lacked time to be hands-on with every acquisition. They were very involved in the decision process at the big studios, and the favoured children, but left th…

Game Pass' finances ignored the one true thing about streaming services: they weren't going after the people buying DVDs, they were going after the people paying for cable. Cable s…