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but if airdrop as of OS26 uses wifi aware, and the proprietary awdl version has been shuttered due to the eu regulation, how come devices on that software version can still airdrop to older devices?
Re:Apple M5 chip on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @02:13PM (#45596436)
I think this is a GNOME thing...the keychain by default has the same password as the login password, so logging in with the password unlocks it too. fingerprint login doesn't unlock it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38527876, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNOME/Keyring
Re:Helium Browser on Thursday September 25, 2025 @06:32AM (#45371263)
by "Mozilla approved" do you mean that it has to come from the official add-on store?

because in my experience, it doesn't--I've installed a couple of extensions manually by just dragging the .xpi into the window.

Re:KDE is now my favorite desktop on Friday September 19, 2025 @08:53AM (#45301143)
bit unrelated, but the newest version of macOS (Tahoe) does now have a clipboard manager
Re:Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @02:46PM (#45279794)
try chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml
Re:I like to install NixOS (declaratively) on Sunday June 01, 2025 @05:37AM (#44149695)
i don't think @-ing dang works, you should probably send an email to [email protected] i think?
Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @01:31AM (#44038100)
as for 1. if you ever have some free time on your hands, and want to take declarative configs to the next level, you can check out Impermanence for NixOS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37218289

and 2...hm I know i've done Miracast before with GNOME Network Displays https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.NetworkDisplays

Re:A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries on Monday April 14, 2025 @04:25AM (#43679221)
hm, that's new, it didn't pop up when last I opened the page

edit: it's a troll, it's meant to redirect i think: https://x.com/boring_cactus/status/1303832687648464897

Re:Cursed Excel: "1/2"+1=45660 on Monday April 07, 2025 @02:35PM (#43614511)
hm i mean, python doesn't really care about indentation kind, as long as it's consistent...

maybe writing a Makefile (which afaik really REALLY wants tabs), and want to ensure someone's IDE doesn't change it to spaces.

Re:Reddit is launching their own gen-AI search engine on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @05:40PM (#42393849)
damn so this is really what they're focusing on doing...when the top 10+ posts on r/help are people trying to get new.reddit back
the pandoc typst reader is a bit barebones, it doesn’t support packages (understandable) and seems to get confused with functions for me…though it’s been a bit since i tried it
Re:Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org on Sunday October 13, 2024 @01:56AM (#41825544)
they renamed to "secure custom fields"
Re:ACF Has Been Hijacked on Sunday October 13, 2024 @01:52AM (#41825528)
Well yes, but it's like going to buy a bottle of Coke and finding out it's now Koke (but actually Pepsi inside)...it's iffy
Re:Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX on Saturday October 12, 2024 @04:53PM (#41822468)
Could you give an example of how it could be more similar to Markdown? I recently used Typst for my bachelor's project and never really thought that it needed to be simpler
Re:Manifest v2 is now removed from Chrome canary on Friday October 11, 2024 @10:55AM (#41810037)
hm i'll post this in the thread over there later but i'm pretty sure ff has that?

https://imgur.com/a/gXrsBq3

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024) on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @01:57PM (#41711848)
Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @02:40PM (#41650537)
you might be able to order hypernova, a slimmed down version of this, next year

heavy on the might

Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @02:32PM (#41650437)
2 hours, according to the verge
Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @02:22PM (#41650344)
don't know about spectacles but the verge's article about it quote someone saying it's about 10k to make this:

> As Meta’s executives retell it, the decision to shelve Orion mostly came down to the device’s astronomical cost to build, which is in the ballpark of $10,000 per unit. Most of that cost is due to how difficult and expensive it is to reliably manufacture the silicon carbide lenses. When it started designing Orion, Meta expected the material to become more commonly used across the industry and therefore cheaper, but that didn’t happen.

Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @02:20PM (#41650312)
the wristband reminds me of the Myo armband, this thing you could wear to control a computer

did meta buy them out?

Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @02:17PM (#41650288)
well they're not going to be sold to consumers (apparently they cost like 10k-ish to make)...but i'm curious how they'd do motion tracking without cameras though...
Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @02:15PM (#41650270)
the verge's hands on has more info: 2 hours, 98g, 70 degrees

https://www.theverge.com/24253908/meta-orion-ar-glasses-demo...

Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @02:09PM (#41650187)
the verge's article says 70 degrees
I think they've been (slowly) migrating things over--passwords.google and blog.google and a few others exist nowadays
Re:Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @03:46PM (#40859848)
they got rid of it :(
not sure if it's true (i haven't tried installing anything later than 23h2 i think), but i heard that oobe\bypassnro doesn't even work anymore

https://x.com/TheBobPony/status/1797517797624598988

Re:API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @08:09PM (#40506872)
nope

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