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Re:Killed by Apple
on Monday May 11, 2026 @11:48AM (#48096587)
Is there any evidence that it was "years of regulatory and industry pressure" that did it?
When Apple introduced Lightning it was as the "modern connector for the next decade" and... that's exactly what happened.
Re:Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> pass...
on Friday April 17, 2026 @05:53PM (#47811029)
Pressing and holding Power + Vol Up/Down is the current combo
Re:The Document Foundation ejects its core developers
on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @03:45PM (#47605617)
Re:Prediction: Microsoft Is Going to Do the Funniest Thing Imaginable
on Sunday January 18, 2026 @09:33PM (#46674455)
They might be referring to when Apple removed subpixel antialiasing around ~2018. It caused some consternation at the time because there were still plenty of non-retina Macbook Airs in service. While it technically works, macOS really is not meant for non-high DPI displays.
Re:Beyond Text: On-Demand UI Generation for Better Conversational Expe...
on Friday May 16, 2025 @01:50PM (#44008096)
Yes, there’s a video where Michael Okuda (with Adam Savage, I think?) recalls the TNG cast being worried about where to tap, and his response was essentially “you can’t press a wrong button“.
Hah, yes. Satire can be "deceptively" effective. I didn't create this, and naturally it was flagged for a time, but if it made someone chuckle it was worth posting on a Saturday night.
Deep Musk
Re:Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber
on Friday January 24, 2025 @01:21PM (#42815765)
You can set it so you don’t need the “hey” anymore. Tough habit to break though…
Re:Hollywood Can't Ditch Its Teslas Fast Enough:"They're Destroying Th...
on Saturday September 21, 2024 @11:57AM (#41610759)
At some point we have to judge based on actions, not beliefs.
Re:Playstation 5 Pro Shows the Futility of the Video-Game Graphics Race
on Sunday September 15, 2024 @09:58PM (#41552048)
The fidelity vs. performance decision is precisely what Sony markets the PS5 Pro as eliminating. I’d also just prefer developers make 60fps the baseline, then use any additional horsepower for more frames or more real resolution.
Re:Apple to upgrade base Macs to 16GB RAM, starting from Apple M4 models
on Monday August 26, 2024 @07:50PM (#41363320)
And each level up in RAM typically includes a bump to CPU and/or GPU core counts as well, so it is even more difficult to discern the true pricing. Annoying, but also understandable that they don't want to produce every possible combination of specs.
Don't get me started on needing to buy a 1TB+ iPad Pro to get double the RAM, though.
Re:Californian fed up with stolen mail sends Apple AirTag to herself t...
on Friday August 23, 2024 @02:50PM (#41331880)
The linked article says:
> He [Epperson] is currently conducting a multisite study in Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Louis that examines the development and implementation of deferred prosecution programs, a prosecutor-led innovation to divert people with nonviolent charges from traditional criminal justice processing.
Seems reasonable to me, and a far cry from "an explicit, open policy of not prosecuting petty crime" that is somehow country-wide.
Re:iPhone SE 4 due in early 2025 with OLED and Apple Intelligence
on Sunday August 11, 2024 @05:32PM (#41219464)
"Apple Intelligence" was named precisely to be a marketing differentiator from any supposed "non-useful AI". It's also a hedge, in a sense.
"Do not hallucinate": Prompts meant to keep Apple Intelligence on the rails
Re:Passengers at EU Airports Not Allowed over 100ml of Liquids on Cabi...
on Sunday August 04, 2024 @12:23PM (#41154522)
"We, alongside the mujahideen, bled Russia for 10 years, until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat ... So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy."
Re:Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All but Dead, Market Analysts Say
on Thursday July 11, 2024 @05:23PM (#40940725)
> how Apple announcing they've cancelled the next Vision Pro to work on a lower cost version is squared up
Apple's made no such announcement, and the presence of the "Pro" moniker implies that a non-Pro version has always been planned.
Re:Apple's new AI leaves out more than 90% of current iPhone users
on Friday June 14, 2024 @07:02PM (#40685985)
Yes, 25% more RAM is significant. As you said, the M1 has significantly less performance, but it has enough memory. We can infer that RAM is the deciding factor from that.
Re:Apple's new AI leaves out more than 90% of current iPhone users
on Friday June 14, 2024 @01:38PM (#40682919)
It’s about RAM, I think. Only A17 Pro has 8GB, which we can infer is the new baseline.
Re:Sandy Hook families want to seize Alex Jones' social media accounts
on Friday June 14, 2024 @12:35PM (#40682284)
> no more shenanigans with mail-in ballots
Ludicrous. Remember how T**** told supporters to not use mail-in ballots[0], then tried to stop the counting of mail-in ballots? [1] Or told people to vote twice? [2] Yes, one party is demonstrably more anti-democracy than the other.
As for your voter fraud FUD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_related...
[0] https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/trumps-repeated-false-atta...
[1] https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4920640/user-clip-donald-trum...
[2] https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/articl...
Typeface Resurfaces from the Thames After Being Dumped More Than a Century Ago
GPU advancements in M3 and A17 Pro [video]
Footage of Neurons Forming Inside a Chick Embryo
Re:5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming
on Monday August 21, 2023 @04:46PM (#37215137)
MoltenVK exists. You might also be interested in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30755407
Re:Bun v0.7.0
on Saturday July 22, 2023 @11:51AM (#36827268)
Base M2 tops out at 24GB.
Re:Ron Gilbert: Speed running Monkey Island
on Friday June 02, 2023 @04:00PM (#36170023)
Highly recommend this channel for well-researched and entertaining mini-documentaries on adventure game speedrunning: https://www.youtube.com/@OneShortEye
SomaFM is periodically posted, so I figured it's that time again. Please show them some support if you enjoy this kind of commercial-free, listener-supported internet radio. Rusty (the station manager) is a great guy and has even patiently gone out of his way to help me diagnose streaming issues.
A few favorite channels:
- DEF CON Radio (Music for Hacking): https://somafm.com/defcon/
- Space Station Soma (Spaced-out ambient and mid-tempo electronica): https://somafm.com/spacestation/
- SF 10-33 (Ambient music mixed with San Francisco public safety radio traffic): https://somafm.com/sf1033/
Previously:
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Re:Apple to occupy 90% of TSMC 3nm capacity in 2023
on Monday May 15, 2023 @12:06PM (#35950464)
AS supports Thunderbolt just fine. Isn't the lack of eGPU support due to lack of ARM drivers for them?
Re:AMD promises its new laptop chips will crush the Apple M2 and it’s ...
on Sunday May 07, 2023 @02:34PM (#35854210)
That 64GB RAM isn’t also VRAM though. Not exactly a direct comparison.