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Modern Intel chips have no issues trading blows with Apple Silicon.

Their fabs are the weakest part of their business (I wonder why once AMD spun off GlobalFoundries so they could focus on the core product, they suddenly started doing well) Once they started making chips on TSMC's processes, wow, all of a sudden, theyre in the same league as Apple Silicon.

This started at Skylake.

Nope. He was head of Microsoft Game Studios Europe from 2001-2008 until he took over globally. By that point the only Halo game to come from Bungie was Reach.

If they have the money for this, they have the money to pay more in taxes.

"Without a lamp-supervision check or a routine lamp test before a generator transfer, a burned-out bulb stays dark during a fault just as it does under normal operation."

This sort of "no shit sherlock" forced "intelligent sounding" nonsense is exactly the sort of thing Claude loves to put into prose.

What a waste of my time. How rude.

plutil -convert xml1 binary.plist -o xml.plist

now its in plain text

or just commit the defaults, plutil, or PlistBuddy commands you'd need to recreate the same plist.

It's also important to keep in mind that a lot of that shit on Twitter is literally just bots. I can mention some trigger word or name and the majority of the replies will be "name-bunchanumbers" with some generic profile picture posting the most caustic and idiotic bullshit. Like, go post something with the name "Brandon Johnson", the current mayor of Chicago, in it, and accounts you have never ever seen will come out of the woodwork to post irrelevant "huh huh progressive politics" slop, half the time they're just non-sequiturs. Same with Mamdani, Abdul El-Sayed, happens on posts plenty of right wing politicians too. Name-bunchanumbers, some AI generated "memes" to make it look organic. It's all bullshit. Automated bullshit.

I have no doubt there ARE people out there with those horrific views and ARE actually making AI generated meme slop and posting it feeling satisfied, but I choose to believe that the vast majority are bots, and a fraction of the real humans doing it learned it from the bots. Just reading that sort of shit over and over again can change how you think about things if you aren't vigilant and the outcomes are more division. Plenty of bad folks in the world just want the division. They want people mad, and feeling afraid.

HIToolbox still lives in /System/Library/Frameworks IIRC

Temba, his brain rotted

Darmok and Jalad, aura maxxing

Shaka, when the six seven

Except you probably have dongles in your bag anyways. USB-C breakouts. C to A adapters. I am already in Dongleville. A slight repreive in the rare case I need an SD card is a glass of water in hell, plus, I already have multiple USB-C to SD card readers anyways.

No issues getting it to work on my MFC-L3720CDW

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You're right, my 100B per square millimeter undershot by six orders of magnitude.

I woulda thought 18 quintillion would've been enough addresses for the next century or two but good thing we locked in all this extra data we throw away with a '::'.

I'm sure it was all well considered by intelligent people, but it was still a dumb decision.

What would be the consequences of ensuring that only those with enough personal wealth to be able to go without a job while campaigning can run for office?

I can read one at a glance and the other makes me fill in the blanks myself after having to count how many invisible blanks I need to fill in.

Of all the sins of IPv6, its tied between using ':' as the separator, and the god awful '::' "just skip writing the address because we made them too fucking big lol"

Wouldn't have been a problem if they hadn't given every square millimeter of the planet 100 billion addresses.

How and why? How is Ghostty's text rendering better? And why should I go try 1.4? Did something change in how it renders text?

Straight up it doesn't look as good to my eye as the built in Terminal and iTerm with the identical text settings and theme, in so far as I can actually get Ghostty to pick up the right font style with its "fire some text into an file and hope its the right format"

How is an HDMI port more practical than a port that can be an HDMI port or a DisplayPort or a USB port or an SD card reader or an SDExpress reader or a dock or a port expander or whatever else?

I have two MacBook Pros on my desk that have all three Thunderbolt ports occupied basically all the time.

I could also assert my experience is universal too but I won't, as it would be dishonest to just make up statistics.

When Ive left, he took a ton of talent with him. Apple's Design Studio is full of B players now and it shows. I hope Lamay can right the ship but god everything they make now is just so ugly, from the advertising to the software to the apps.

Of course he is, he's the CEO of the #2 largest company on the planet.

What would you expect him to do? Come out and say "yeah that thing is shit, really stupid idea, but it was in the product hopper so I dunno we might sell it for a year who cares"?

Exactly. I'm not happy about being in Dongleville. It sucks shit here. I have boxes of dongles. They get tangled on my desk with is stupid messy with dongles. Stupid things. But I am here. And everyone else seems really happy about Dongleville and I can't change the fact that I need dongles, so we might as well just embrace it.

Because the Dongle-heads do have one thing right, one port that can be turned into lots of other kinds of ports with a dongle is more versatile than a port that can only be a video out, especially when the device doesn't have a ton of room for lots of ports.

Assuming you are talking about the 4-port version of the 2019 Intel Pro model, the 2019 had more I/O than the next gen 14-inch, specifically because the 4th port on the 14-inch got turned into a dumb HDMI port that can only do HDMI out, not HDMI/DP/USB/Thunderbolt like an actual Thunderbolt port can. It is absolutely a reduction in total I/O capabilities, changes in abilities from Thunderbolt 3 to 4 notwithstanding.

I would rather have 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports than 3 Thunderbolt 4 ports, an SD card slot I won't use, and 1 HDMI port that can only be used for HDMI instead of whatever the hell I need it to be another Thunderbolt port can be.

Champagne/Starlight is definitely the way to go when available. Starlight especially, it's mostly silver but sometimes the light catches it just right to give it this sort of iridescent gradient to a light gold.

I liked the old Gold they used in the mid 2010s too.

Mouse affordances don't usually ruin it for keyboard preferrers. Keyboard shortcuts and control are often an afterthought or downright written off because "they can just click" but thats down to laziness or lack of care than some hard and fast rule. However, a keyboard affordance is usually invisible, and a mouse affordance isn't, so they can very happily co-exist without affecting one another. For instance, the Alt modifiers in menus in classic Windows, those have almost no effect at all on anyones ability to click the menu item with a mouse.

Touch affordances and UI does have to be visible, and there is only one screen. So the touch affordances and mouse affordances are mutually exclusive: targets get larger, padding expands, UI gets dumbed down, etc etc.

There's ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist and it's always been there

All of the boot chain is a mess because the Pi 1 used a bucket load of unused Broadcom set-top-box SoCs which were GPUs with a tiny ARM core along for the ride. Every Pi boots off the GPU first.

I would expect the default configuration (which does set keys to specific default values) to appear in my ghostty config file. If there isn't a UI, how the fuck am I supposed to know what the names of all of the keys are? How am I supposed to know what is even possible to change?

A brand new ghostty config is an empty file because it only shows you what the overrides to the default config are, which means if you want to change your ANSI colors, off to the docs to look up what they're called as config keys and what format it expects as a value. Want to hide the Secure Keyboard Entry overlay? Off to the docs to figure out what the key is called. Is it a boolean? Does it accept true/false, or only 0/1? Who knows! Go to some website and scroll and scroll and scroll and maybe you can find it.

Or they can just put 'macos-secure-input-indication="true"' in a file it creates when it launches for the first time and notices it doesn't have a config file in an expected location. It can put that in there and every other default setting it actually is setting for itself, instead of just keeping it all socked away in the compiled executable as a behavior. Show me, on the computer I have, in the file I'm supposed to edit anyways, what all of the possible keys are, and some general indication or hint of what the fuck I can put in there. Don't make me fetch it for every single goddamn boolean. I wouldn't need to open a fucking web browser to hide the secure input icon because I'm not stupid and could infer it from the default config. Oh I bet it's the 'macos-secure-input-indication' key I need to set, lets flip that to false. There's a limit to this of course, not everything is going to be immediately clear, and for keybinds it might be a little preposterous to have all of the defaults listed, but for setting my themes? Colors? Fonts? Basic shit? Don't make me work, I have better things to do, but I need to be able to read my terminal.

The lie of "zero config" tools is that they are absolutely NOT zero config. They are usually full of changable behavior and they just skip the part where they make it easy for you to figure out how to change any of it, because...I dunno...configuring your software to work the way you want is...bad? Sounds stupid to me.

Change with a speed of thought

Yeah, except the default config file doesn't EXIST and there is nothing but the reference docs to tell you what the hell you're supposed to put in there. What am I supposed to do, guess? Is it `font=` or `font-family` or `font-name`? That's fucking terrible. The very existence of a website like this: https://ghostty.zerebos.com proves the failure in my opinion.

Good tools should be invisible. Good tools behave the way I want them to. That's different than the way you want them to behave. Or appear. Good defaults are good. That is absolutely no excuse to abandon good UX for configurability.

I'm happy the defaults work for you. They don't for me.

And don't get me wrong, ghostty is a fine terminal and I don't begrudge it, and I think libghostty is awesome, it's just not the application for me.