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You got voted down, but your sentiment is reasonable. Times are pretty rough right now, politicians seem worse than ever, and people seem to be more ready to hate each other than ever. But the trajectory is controlled by individuals.

Heinlein wrote this in a dark period in history too. The writing of it was resistance against the trajectory of his times. Belief is a choice. Action is a choice. If you don't feel optimism, that's OK to recognize. But then make a choice: to believe something good about your neighbor, to honor something noble about someone you disagree with, and to act as if we each can do better than societal trends seem to indicate.

Reads as nice memories of a memorable character who was a part of the evolution of our industry. I enjoyed it.

Tell me you're ignorant about computer science history, without telling me you're ignorant about computer science history.

I chose Algebra II, which I'm currently re-visiting as an adult learner starting a new direction in college. It immediately thrust me into problems I've not seen before. I skipped multiple times and was never presented with something I recognized. I went into settings an turned on Algebra I, thinking that would start with more basics, but had the same issue. Gave up after 5-6 tries, feeling just as frustrated and dumb as I do in class.

Programmer of 27 years, doing math by other names. I continue to be frustrated by how bad math-as-a-programming-language is. This tool did nothing to improve that feeling.

I got this working a few years ago on era-appropriate hardware. It was awful -- unstable and crashy. There were glimpses of what they were trying for, but it was painfully obvious they were a long way from even the stability of 7.5. I'm sure it was a tough call, but whoever decided to axe it made the right one. Besides, if it had succeeded, they might not have bought NeXT and we might not have gotten OS X!

Have been waiting for something like this so I could decommission my old Raspberry Pi Netatalk solution. Thank you!

So like Pushover — but for Apple devices only?

I only use my ownCloud instance behind Tailscale...

I tried Optery. It got a good chunk done in two months, then the rest were just pending for a year... until I cancelled. Felt like they were just keeping me on the monthly dole while they didn't do anything.

Not for me! Intel Mac Pro 7,1, Sequoia 15.7.3, running v0.4.7

webOS is still around -- sorta! https://www.webosarchive.org

Nicely done. Hold this line — there’s got to be one somewhere.

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Have they fixed the touchy trackpad issues? Super impressive work, and I want to want this, but...

I just setup pushover to send a message to my phone for this exact reason! Trying out your server next!

ANY ability to answer simple questions without telling me to open Safari and read a webpage for myself...?

Love it, installed and set it to run at Login. Can I follow you on any social media that isn't Xitter?

exFAT?

Set my teenage son up to dual boot his gaming rig with SteamOS this Christmas. He hasn't rebooted to Windows since...

I mean, its still in the spec. Go for it!

I don't think you've used it. I used it intensely and mostly autonomously (with clear instructions, including how to measure good output) almost non-stop over the holidays. Its a new abstraction for programming -- it doesn't replace software developers, it gives them a more natural way to describe what they want.

I really wanted this to work, and it WAS remarkably good, but palm rejection on the (ginormous) Apple trackpad didn't work at all, rendering the whole thing unusable if you ever typed anything. That was a month ago, this article is a year old. I'd love to be wrong, but I don't think this problem has been solved.

I hope you researched Linux driver support for that model first. I share the dissatisfaction with the direction of Windows -- but their driver library is unparalleled. Linux CAN run great on lots of machines, but it has nowhere near the hardware support.

I had to go the other way. The Apple TV controls the LG. It wakes it, controls the volume and turns it off when it sleeps.

Yup, my AppleTV is the only device that gets CEC right. Even my LG TV and LG soundbar get confused. And don’t get me started on the PS4 Pro’s garbage implementation. I’m sad that Logitech killed Harmony because CEC was supposed to make universal remotes obsolete — they’re still the only way my full home theater can function without juggling a dozen remotes.

On my m2 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM, it took over 12 minutes to startup and get to a usable state. When it did, it was plainly just a jacked version of VSCode. Opening a project caused it to hang again. Dumped it. VSCodium, with the terminal pane open so I can talk to Claude works fine for me...

I still remember fondly when we paid for two, and only two streaming services. Netflix for movies and older TV shows, Hulu for current TV (usually only a day behind cable). It felt good -- using two definitions of that word. It felt good-as-in-right that I didn't have to pirate content anymore, because two reasonably priced services were worth the money, and it felt good-as-in-satisfying because everything we cared to watch was at our finger tips (we've never cared about sports.)

I know Disney is not solely to blame for the state of affairs, but all the services seem to be racing headlong back toward the cable model: subscribing to bundles of crap I don't want, just to watch a couple of things I do want.

They say piracy is not a pricing issue, its a user experience issue. I'd say we have both issues, and that if it hasn't already, piracy will win this particular race -- yet again.

Agreed. Containers are the reason I use Firefox -- they are a much better fit than profiles. But I've not been able to successfully communicate that to Chrome users. Its like their mental model is stuck, and they can't grasp the differences.

Reminds me of the SuperClock days: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/superclock-404

I read his book during my early years of software development, as a big fan of the (early) Mac and with a real passion to build better user experiences in industrial software. I often wonder what Jef would think of the iPhone (or even the current Mac), if he were still with us. I suspect he'd be deeply disappointed.