osdril

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by osdril 3y ago
My problem with the built-in charging limiter is that if you are not extremely consistent in your usage patterns (I am not), it basically never kicks in. I much prefer a manual solution.
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by osdril 3y ago
I don't know if they changed this, but I think AlDente follows a polling approach where it periodically checks the charge level and enable/disable the charging accordingly. Such solution is more hacky and it also could cause some
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by osdril 3y ago
Nice, didn't know that! Basically the SMC key that marcan discovered is the same thing for Apple Silicon
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by osdril 3y ago
I know, I hope Apple will decide to expose it to everyone in the future, since it's already implemented..
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by osdril 3y ago
I think this [0] native approach is preferable [0] https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery/pull/163
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by osdril 3y ago
FYI, on Apple Silicon Apple included a firmware-level "hard-switch" to limit the charge to 75/80% only. It was discovered by marcan while working on Asahi and in my experience it's much more convenient than the built-in
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by osdril 3y ago
That's reassuring to hear, thank you
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by osdril 3y ago
Very interesting thread, thank you! I think I'm going to adopt the same strategy as you, since apparently nobody can actually show any meaningful proof of widespread hacks happening.. I must also say that if I feared being a specific h
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Ask HN: Real risk of using an unpatched phone
4 points by osdril 3y ago|6 comments
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by osdril 3y ago
That's wild. Even on my "highly unrepairable" MBA M1 the USB-C ports are very easily replaceable (new board costs $20)
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by osdril 3y ago
I completely agree. My phone lost official LineageOS support last year but it still works fine and I cannot justify throwing it away to replace with a new expensive device full of features I don't give a damn about. Probably I'm j
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Ask HN: Should I replace my unsupported Android phone?
2 points by osdril 3y ago|1 comments
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by osdril 3y ago
AdGuard for Safari is probably the best option right now, but I really don't like the fact that it ships as a fat electron app.. Hopefully someone will fix uBOL's small incompatibilities
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uBlockOrigin Lite (partially) works on Safari(github.com)
28 points by osdril 3y ago|3 comments
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by osdril 3y ago
I use Safari as my primary browser, only for its tab groups implementation. In my opinion they just nailed it, I think it's much better than the Chrome one. I would really like to switch to Firefox as I prefer it in every other way, bu
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by osdril 4y ago
That's why it remained free for individuals
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by osdril 4y ago
There's Colima[0], but in my experience it still isn't as stable as Docker Desktop. It also isn't any faster and I doubt any competing software will be, since the best way to virtualize Linux on macOS right now is to use Appl
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by osdril 5y ago
On Apple Silicon Multipass actually uses QEMU under the hood. Basically it's just a (very convenient) wrapper
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by osdril 5y ago
It's in "beta" right now but it works quite well (you can find the binary in the dedicated GitHub issue). Under the hood it just uses QEMU which in turn uses Apple's Hypervisor.framework for virtualization