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Re:I hacked my washing machine on Sunday July 27, 2025 @10:18PM (#44706591)
I use the Delay feature. It will wait to start the wash for a settable amount of hours.
Re:The Apple Vision Pro on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @02:42PM (#39279467)
You can schedule a demo at the Apple Store
Re:Apple reports first quarter results on Thursday February 01, 2024 @05:45PM (#39222555)
Their services income also includes the Google Search deal and App Store and in-app purchase commission.
This appears to be for the .zip format, not gzip.
Apple also released Safari 16.5.2 for Big Sur and Monterey to address this: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213826
Re:NPR cancels 4 podcasts amid major layoffs on Friday March 24, 2023 @05:03PM (#35295461)
Marketplace isn’t an “NPR” show. It’s owned by American Public Media.

I wonder if this page is more of a generic podcast feed and player

Re:A Better Git Flow on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @03:46PM (#29999863)
> and is playing with fire for no absolutely no benefit

How so? The previous commits are still recoverable from the reflog.

I don't like the update system introduced in Big Sur. An update that is only around 124MB on iOS is 2.20 GB on Big Sur.
Re:Thunderbird 78 is available on the Snap Store on Thursday November 05, 2020 @05:40PM (#25002882)
I don't use Snaps myself, but Ubuntu did announce that they saw large speed improvements by switching the compression from XZ to LZO. The numbers they gave were for Chrome: https://ubuntu.com/blog/snap-speed-improvements-with-new-com...

It made the Snap about 100MB bigger, though.

Re:Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster on Friday September 25, 2020 @12:28PM (#24591504)
You claim it's dead, but suggest using a fork that can't hope to keep up if Firefox dies? They benefit from all the architectural improvements done to Firefox, including this.
Re:Exciting Days for ARM Processors on Monday July 06, 2020 @06:24PM (#23753487)
What size is a memory page on other ARM CPUs? I think Apple's processors use 16KiB pages. Doesn't x86 software assume a 4KiB page size, unless it deals with huge pages?
Re:Apple Store leaks 4.7-inch ‘iPhone SE’ name on Friday April 03, 2020 @02:23AM (#22766728)
The 3.5mm adapter is no longer included for free.
Re:Darling – Run macOS software on Linux on Friday March 27, 2020 @02:21AM (#22700770)
This project is nowhere near the level of Wine, if that's what you're expecting. They admit they have basic experimental support for simple GUIs. Anything command-line is highly likely on Linux anyway.
Re:Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @09:31PM (#22176645)
In the case of a Mac transition, applications would go from little-endian 64bit x86_64 to little-endian 64bit AArch64.