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- Comment on Nvidia's Arm-based PC chips for consumers to launch in September 2025, commercial to follow in 2026: Report 2 weeks ago:
More competition in for CPUs in laptops/desktops/servers is a good thing, especially if these can compete on efficiency.
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 2 weeks ago:
If I could game on my MacBook Pro I already would be. There’s a decent library of games that can run but it’s a lot more work than a windows or Linux box if you want to venture beyond 64-bit native ports.
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 2 weeks ago:
I’m the reverse. As I get older, all the things I used to consider deal breakers just don’t matter as much. I don’t really care about how upgradable or repairable the device is, I’m just gonna pay Apple for the upgrade and pay them again to fix it. Whenever I have to solve an issue on my gaming PC I get an inch closer to just throwing it out and buying whatever overpriced gaming laptop comes working out of the box.
- Comment on GitHub Copilot will support models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. 2 weeks ago:
Similar tools have been written that support locally hosted models if that’s what you mean.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 2 weeks ago:
Why? Your boss sure does
- Comment on WebStorm and Rider Are Now Free for Non-Commercial Use 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I think it varies by ecosystem. Java and C# have really good IDE support, made possible because those languages were designed in a way that made the jobs of IDEs simpler. For more dynamic languages like JS and Python, there’s less that an IDE can offer that isn’t easily provided as a plugin. For languages like Rust I think there is more potential for high IDE support, but up to this point I think text editors have dominated due to general preference and a lack of entrenched ecosystem support.
- Comment on WebStorm and Rider Are Now Free for Non-Commercial Use 3 weeks ago:
I think the line between these two categories is less defined than it once was. A well set up vscode environment is functionally very comparable to the equivalent jetbrains product. The difference mostly lies I think it how “out of the box” the set up is.
- Comment on Apple teases “week of announcements” about the Mac starting on Monday 3 weeks ago:
I see this sentiment repeated a lot, but what kinds of stability and quality issues are you experiencing? It seems similar to “back in the day everything was good but now it’s bad”.
- Comment on Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL. 3 weeks ago:
There are 5 required dependencies, where are you getting the number 130 from? github.com/rustls/rustls/blob/main/…/Cargo.toml#L…
- Comment on All Proton Drive apps are now open source 1 month ago:
Absolutely
- Comment on Linux boots in 4.76 days on the Intel 4004 1 month ago:
And likewise the aliens will want to get ahold of our computers where they will try porting an alternate version of doom where you play as an alien shooting humans.
- Comment on Why is UI design backsliding? 1 month ago:
How often are you doing work on another computer? You probably have like 1-3 you use on any regular basis, just set them up and forget it.
- Comment on Here’s how green bubbles are getting upgraded in iOS 1 month ago:
This is just… super wrong. RCS is more open than iMessage by virtue of being supported on two different platforms from different vendors. Doesn’t really mean it is fully open, it’s not, but 2 is more than 1.
- Comment on new foss adblocker for safari (macOS, ipadOS, iOS) 2 months ago:
Here’s a different perspective on Safari: it’s the largest competition to Chrome there is. It’s the only relevant one, really. Apple forces iOS users to use Safari (or at least WebKit), and that’s the only thing standing in the way of Chrome/Blink having >90% market share. Safari alone stops Google from dictating the web. Firefox is great and I love it but it’s got like 3% market share and is itself funded by Google. Hence I think Safari is really important in maintaining an open web, even if that’s not why Apple is incentivized to force it on users. I know web devs also hate it but requiring they put in the effort to support Safari is what an open web is all about.
- Comment on new foss adblocker for safari (macOS, ipadOS, iOS) 2 months ago:
I’m very aware that there is less choice and have run into the various related issues. Ultimately it’s still been a positive experience, despite that.
- Comment on TSMC's $65 billion Arizona facility can now match Taiwan production yields according to early trials | TechSpot 2 months ago:
That’s new mexico
- Comment on new foss adblocker for safari (macOS, ipadOS, iOS) 2 months ago:
Those are a lot of words you put in my mouth. In fact, I can and have sideloaded apps (the process is stupid and overcomplicated, but it does work, I am not in the EU), and my iPhone does in fact have USB C (was a dealbreaker, I used a Pixel until iPhones had USB C). I wish I could use other browsers on my phone besides Safari but it’s not a dealbreaker for me, I can and do run Firefox on my computer when I need a different browser for any reason, I hope this will change in the future.
- Comment on new foss adblocker for safari (macOS, ipadOS, iOS) 2 months ago:
This was like 2018 I think? At this point it’s not really something I’m interested in as I’m not willing to give up creature comforts.
- Comment on new foss adblocker for safari (macOS, ipadOS, iOS) 2 months ago:
Out of curiosity, what functionality and what rights am I sacrificing?
- Comment on new foss adblocker for safari (macOS, ipadOS, iOS) 2 months ago:
I’m in an extremely similar situation. I’m a professional software developer, but the software I develop is cross platform, but in practice most of our users are on Linux (Ubuntu LTS more specifically), and a smaller contingent of Windows users. Honestly not sure if anyone uses macOS besides the developers, but we ship best-effort builds anyways. Our developers run a mix of macOS, Linux, and Windows. I’ve used all three, and ultimately while macOS isn’t perfect, I’ve decided it’s what I can be most productive with, for the reasons you mentioned. It’s close enough to Linux being Unix-like, homebrew is sorta like having all the up to date packages like arch, except with the comfort that an update will never completely break my system, and the macOS creature comforts are extremely nice to have when I’m doing more office tasks rather than writing or reviewing code. Hardware is head and shoulders above everything else, I can go a full day without a charger. Great community too.
- Comment on new foss adblocker for safari (macOS, ipadOS, iOS) 2 months ago:
I understand where you’re coming from but that’s just not practical for me, even if I had the specific device. For pretty much the same reasons as before. I tried this once in college, not fully degoogled but using microg. I was able to make it work but the experience was pretty awful and I just don’t want to spend my time managing something like that anymore.
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 2 months ago:
I went to college in the mid-late 2010s and I recall they specifically banned WiFi routers, but when I checked what they meant specifically all they cared was that it didn’t broadcast on the 2.4 or 5 ghz spectrum and if it was all wired I was fine.
- Comment on new foss adblocker for safari (macOS, ipadOS, iOS) 2 months ago:
Sounds like you haven’t met very many professional programmers then.
- Comment on new foss adblocker for safari (macOS, ipadOS, iOS) 2 months ago:
It’s really best in class in that regard. It’s the most customizable mobile browser. Firefox in android has more extensions, but Safari’s actually integrate better in the UI and you can use shortcuts for simple things too.
- Comment on new foss adblocker for safari (macOS, ipadOS, iOS) 2 months ago:
Most people don’t care about that even a little bit. Back in the day I used to use various custom roms on my android devices, it was awesome. But that was then, I have a job and family now and I can’t just reset my phone on a whim because there’s some cool UI tweak in a new rom. Plus, most of the stuff that made custom roms worthwhile has been integrated into the OS nowadays, so the value add is significantly diminished.
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 2 months ago:
Makes sense. Would that not be trivially mitigated by just blocking dhcp responses from unapproved servers on the switch though?
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 2 months ago:
A consumer router only operates DHCP on the LAN side. Presumably one would plug the WAN side into the university network, making this a non-issue.
- Comment on Ladies and Gentlemen, the sate of AI. 2 months ago:
This applies to any information though, it’s got nothing to do with LLMs specifically.
- Comment on Generative AI creates playable version of Doom game with no code 2 months ago:
Using a different high level interface to generate code is completely different? The fundamental concept is the same even if the UI is very different.
- Comment on Advertisers plan to withdraw from X in record numbers | CNN Business 2 months ago:
I generally avoid voluntarily giving money to people threatening to sue me.