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Re:Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:29AM (#50167009)
They kinda already did for niche use-cases. When they introduced the orange/green activity indicators for camera or microphone, they broke some workflows for VJing as your stage visuals now got a persistent dot in the top-right.
Re:two strangers. one call. no names on Monday June 01, 2026 @08:16AM (#48355827)
The Serial Port recently made a fantastic documentary on the IPhone, including conversations with its creators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cip9w-UxIc
Re:Sense Humans with WiFi – Ruview on Monday May 18, 2026 @01:06AM (#48175770)
It is slop. Top starred fork is this: https://github.com/deletexiumu/wifi-densepose (although still AI generated, at least it's honest)
Plugging the same linear.app mentioned in a different comment -- switched a couple years ago (small team, fed up with general slowness and jank of Jira) and don't want to look back.
Re:10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips on Friday March 06, 2026 @12:52AM (#47271372)
Not necessarily, have had my fair share of dodgy OS behavior fixed by replacing RAM
Re:VS Code Pets on Sunday January 19, 2025 @10:15AM (#42757696)
I need Links back in my life :(
The AI generated docs definitely need work - a lot of volume without explaining much. For example, figuring out whether the tool will make the links in the target directory, or replace the source with a link to a moved file, is not immediately obvious.

I'm interested in how using symlinks helped you declutter the file system - doesn't leaving links around in the old place just lead to more clutter? A concrete use case in the readme will also help others better understand the purpose of the project.

Re:Dreamy Blur on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @07:16AM (#32735514)
Reminds me of how the early bloom effects looked like in video games
Re:Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @04:11AM (#31501807)
I use a G603 LightSpeed which also supports operation via Bluetooth. It actually ends up being pretty handy, as I can switch the mouse between my desktop and laptop just by pressing a button.

Beware though, that they have an issue with scroll wheels breaking after several months of use (a plastic axle connecting the wheel to the rotary encoder breaks off). After mine broke the second time after warranty repair, ended up ordering a replacement part myself and also modded the scrolling mechanism to have less resistance.