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Infuriating website UX, you really must add the scrollbar back. Apple do shiny things like this but they know you can't get rid of the scrollbar and piss people off trying to look at information
Re:macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:29PM (#49897022)
Stayed on Catalina for a few versions, if I was stuck for 4 years it would be fine. 2027 is the YOTLD ;)
Re:macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @11:15AM (#49894779)
I'm so glad I stayed on Sequoia, gonna wait this mess out
Re:Kimi Work on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @05:09AM (#48989855)
Amusingly, the WebBridge video demo[0] shows the model incorrectly including the answers into the question field

[0]: https://www.kimi.com/features/webbridge

Re:Porting 3D Movie Maker to Linux on Friday May 15, 2026 @08:14AM (#48147657)
My 12 year old 3DMM masterpiece was "Super Poo in the Super Loo". I was surprised this wasn't more popular, so much fun
Re:Googlebook on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @02:44PM (#48112528)
Is this ... an Android laptop? I can't recall if Files icon on ChromeOS matches the Android version.
Re:Mercury 2: The fastest reasoning LLM, powered by diffusion on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @02:29AM (#47148489)
Its exciting to see, but look at the die size for only an 8b model
Run server with ollama, use Continue extension configured for ollama
Re:Running Claude Code dangerously (safely) on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @08:54AM (#46691864)
It's a practical approach, I used vagrant many years ago mostly successfully. I also explored the docker-in-docker situation recently while working on my own agentic devcontainer[0]- the tradeoffs are quite serious if you are building a secure sandbox! Data exfil is what worries me most, so I spent quite some time figuring out a decent self-contained interactive firewall. From a DX perspective, devcontainer-integrated IDEs are quite a convenient workflow, though docker has its frustrating behaviours

[0]: https://github.com/replete/agentic-devcontainer

Re:I switched from VSCode to Zed on Monday January 05, 2026 @09:57AM (#46499486)
Ecosystem.
Re:I switched from VSCode to Zed on Monday January 05, 2026 @09:38AM (#46499221)
An easy switch for an individual, for an organization the ecosystem is typically too much to give up. Hopefully this changes in a few years.
Re:Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @01:05PM (#46303145)
They are focusing on an Azure migration for then next 2 years...
Codenames are good identifiers when lots of projects exist. There are more software projects now than EVER.

I welcome Splorg, Chizzel, Rapunzel, Brap, Titoid, and Chungus - I don't care as long as it's good.

Re:Anthropic acquires Bun on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @06:51PM (#46128554)
A whitelist in package.json is only a partial assist
Re:Codex Is Live in Zed on Friday October 17, 2025 @04:25AM (#45614415)
Because they use emdashes?
Is this a joke?

Kids made this in the G-Mod sandbox for Half-Life 2.

If it feels dystopian, it's because HL2 is set in a dystopian world.

Honestly, it might literally be the toilet aspect that made this viral with 7 year olds

Re:Apple M5 chip on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @04:13PM (#45597818)
I think the M5 Max will be more like 614GB/s, unless they somehow have exceeded DDR5x-9600 or added more than 32 memory controllers
Re:Apple M5 chip on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @04:11PM (#45597796)
Looks like the M5 base has LPDDR5x-9600, which works out to 153.6 from base M4's 120GB/s DDR5x-7500. The Pro/Max versions have more memory controllers, 16, 24 and 32 channels accordingly. The 32 channel M5 top-end version will have 614GB/s by my calculations.

It would take 48 channels of DDR5x-9600 to match a 3090's memory bandwidth, so the situation is unlikely to change for a couple of years when DDR6 arrives I guess

Ventura got a security update last month. Sequoia will get updates for at least another 3 years. These glaring issues will get resolved eventually, even if it is the 'Frosted Glass' update.
Re:KDE is now my favorite desktop on Thursday September 18, 2025 @12:41PM (#45291823)
I had fantastic results with lxqt some years on an HTPC. System used less resources and seemed more stable with Qt. Perhaps GTK is better these days, but at the time lxqt was a clear winner for that kind of scenario.

For a daily drive DE though, it may be too minimal?

Re:DeepSeek-v3.1 Release on Friday August 22, 2025 @11:58AM (#44986132)
Reminder that OpenAI is an American company whose headstart is attributed to stealing copyrighted material from everyone else. Without the huge theft, they'd be nowhere.
Re:Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever on Friday August 22, 2025 @06:04AM (#44982691)
I relied on the TotalVisor - every system I have I will hack together something to get this functionality:

- Windows hotkey bottom file explorer: https://github.com/replete/productivity-ahk/blob/main/Bottom...

- MacOS hotkey bottom Finder: https://gist.github.com/replete/245986ddfb5a912f0bc71f5708be...

There's XtraFinder which promises something similar, but now all modern macs require disabling security features, which seems a bit much for a convenient hotkey.

I have also requested TotalFinder-like feature for PathFinder(https://cocoatech.io/) which is the closest thing to what TotalVisor did.

Wild how tiny little utilities can change your expectations of using a computer. Simply cannot get by without quake terminal and bottom file explorer anymore, on any machine I daily drive.

Re:I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file on Monday August 11, 2025 @05:33PM (#44869724)
The best native app IMO is 2Do. I have tried literally everything for years, not found anything better. One cost, no subscriptions, sync never failed me (caldav), android/iphone apps, android widgets. Also has GTD options
Re:Zorin OS on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @06:15AM (#44508160)
I have my eye on COSMIC Desktop, but ultimately decided Fedora was a better fit for me from a perspective of 'latest stuff with less hassle, mostly stable' as a technical person.

The real comparison is 'stable distribution for developer/techie type people' vs 'stable distribution that is easy to use for newbies'. Zorin is the latter, comparing the two doesn't quite make sense. If you are the former, you wouldn't pick ZorinOS.

Not to say you can't do anything on Zorin you couldn't on PopOS, but the point of Zorin is a well integrated operating system for non-technical people, which means packages won't always be latest because they want to ship a stable operating system for non-technical people.

If you had an older system and wanted to use it for basic web type activities, Zorin would probably be a better fit for that scenario

Re:Zorin OS on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @12:17PM (#44501451)
FYI: FydeOS[0] is ChromeOS without google services

[0]: https://fydeos.io/

Re:Zorin OS on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @12:06PM (#44501304)
I reviewed ZorinOS last year when considering going all-in on Linux at home last year, testing around 30 distributions.

While it wasn't a good fit as a techie, I rated Zorin the best distro for 'general desktop computing' for "normal" people who have used Windows their whole life.

I was impressed by how integrated and easy to use the desktop environment was. Now, this is not a statement of Gnome vs KDE etc etc, it is of the experience of using it - e.g. simple settings for making the general OS feel like Windows or MacOS, lots of sensible things.

Re:Horse Browser on Sunday June 22, 2025 @07:18AM (#44345949)
Alternatively, add the multi-row tabs CSS hack for Firefox; it has a the side-effect of half-breaking tab re-ordering, forcing you to CMD/CTRL+click thereby solving the trails problem. 5 or 6 rows of tabs during a research session is not uncommon, conveniently chronological.

https://github.com/replete/firefox-userchrome

Re:The Grug Brained Developer (2022) on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @05:51PM (#44304343)
grug read words and move head up down lot

grug make other work grugs read this after yellow circle arrive next

grug thank clever grug

After the plug was pulled, I bought a new HP TouchPad on sale for £109. The software was decent for the time, and nowhere near as terrible as other comments make out.

If it had worked out, it might have altered the current landscape in positive ways. For instance, if they contributed significantly back to Qt this might have affected the linux desktop situation?

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