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This will never happen, but the ideal laptop for me would be a Framework Laptop 13/16 with an Apple Silicon mainboard and OLED display. The soldered RAM of the Framework Desktop ha…

Open -> Click away the error message -> Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Open Anyways -> Open Anyways -> Authenticate -> app actually opens

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD should be revived.

> But in fact for most hackers reading this site https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#1-operating-...

Me when I lie

Local LLM use isn't really continuous though. You're comparing Apples to oranges. For training especially and for the datacenter, NVIDIA cards still make absolute sense. But for co…

Mac never had a 30-pin adapter, so lightning makes no sense. Mac also had Thunderbolt 2 with the miniDP port, and switched to Thunderbolt 3 with a USB-C port.

On a server, absolutely. On a desktop, the user is usually the administrator anyways. UAC exists on Windows land and the Administrator account is disabled for a reason.

Apple adds FeliCa and NFC radios to all iPhones worldwide. Only Android phones sold in Japan have FeliCa radios, worldwide models only have a NFC radio.

Reminder that Purism cannot be trusted to actually ship hardware or issue refunds. You've been warned.

> It can even be enabled for regular Safari browsing. On the iPhone, open the Settings app, tap Safari → Advanced → Advanced Tracking and Fingerprinting Protection, and select All …

This is because ICOCA/PASMO/Suica use FeliCa rather than NFC for data. All iPhones have both FeliCa and NFC. Only Japanese Android phones would bother added FeliCa.

I have the opposite opinion for macOS shortcuts vs Linux/Windows/IBM shortcuts. Practically everything is handled with Cmd, with Option/Shift/Control being modifiers. It's the exce…

You can do AR experiences. The point of the whole article is to showcase app developers who have existing apps getting their apps up and running quickly.

Well that sucks

Unless you're accustomed to them being on the left, in which being on the right is the weird thing. Red means stop, yellow means slow/yield, green means go, which in the context of…

I love what the company is doing and I really want to support their business, but I just can't get away from macOS. Hackintoshes aren't super viable anymore, so I have a pie-in-the…

Duplicate thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35360080

It was paywalled because you are not the product.

"...public content website..."

There's a great fork of LibreOffice called NeoOffice that makes the app feel more native to macOS. https://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php

Phone call or some kind of document verification. Phone call just involves typing a verbal authentication code. Very simple.

Orion is worth the try if you're on Mac. https://browser.kagi.com

wine32on64 is used to translate x86 Windows APIs to x86_64, WINE translates these to x86_64 POSIX, and then Rosetta 2 translates these to aarch64 POSIX.

I can set an alarm for my washing machine while walking up the stairs on my smartwatch. Just makes routines easier.