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by skibble 6mo ago
All of them? Hmmm.
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by skibble 6mo ago
I'm not from the U.S. but as my country's elections work the same way, I feel compelled to weigh in on this. Here in the UK, you go to your local polling station, you give your name, they check it against the list, then cross you
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by skibble 7mo ago
I have set up Time Machine backups for literally hundreds, if not thousands of people in a support role over many years and have hardly ever witnessed this happening. It's one thing to say you may have had to do this once or twice in a
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by skibble 1y ago
This is incorrect. Mac minis (starting with the M4 model) and Mac Studios simply need to be restored via DFU mode following physical installation of another SSD (be it a larger one or simply a replacement) to function. There are third parti
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by skibble 2y ago
I can never understand this tired line. Do you and all the people who bleat the same thing also post the same thing about Nintendo and PlayStation bloggers? He’s an Apple commentator. Doesn’t it stand to reason that he does that full time b
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by skibble 2y ago
They do, sort of; iCloud Private Relay. Details: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/102602
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by skibble 2y ago
I’m not validating the automatic anti-China sentiment you can sometimes get in these discussions, but there is a major difference between the two. If you live in any mainstream European, or for simplicity’s sake, ‘Western’ country, regardle
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by skibble 3y ago
If you still have one, I’d love to finally get in! Been on the waitlist for months with no luck. Edit: thank you SO much!
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by skibble 3y ago
Yep, in macOS Sonoma (14.0) and iOS/iPadOS 17.0).
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by skibble 3y ago
Fire up the built-in Screen Sharing app, type their Apple ID email address in and hit connect. It should bring up a prompt their end that they can accept and you can then observe/control their screen! I use this all the time for tech s
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by skibble 3y ago
Your comment about iPhone build quality is as anecdotal as they come. Here's my counterpoint anecdotal take: I've had pretty much every iPhone model since the iPhone 3G, and the tiny number of issues I've had have been straig
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by skibble 3y ago
The premium version is needed for codec support (basically anything above basic Dolby, so all the lossless codecs and possibly Dolby digital+). It’s well worth the annual cost, been using it for a few years now and it’s a bulletproof setup
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by skibble 3y ago
What kind of taxi? Do you mean black cabs?
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by skibble 3y ago
That is very cool! Without utterly derailing this thread I'd love one too, I've been on the waitlist for a little while too but no luck yet. Eager to reserve my handle and kick the tyres early on. I will say to be on topic that I
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by skibble 4y ago
I think a big reason for Anandtech losing the deep dive expertise is that the founder of Anandtech, Anand Lal Shimpi, was hired by… Apple! That was a while ago (2014), but that sort of knowledge isn't easy to find I imagine.
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by skibble 4y ago
There’s a GUI app version here: https://github.com/vrunkel/F3XSwift
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by skibble 4y ago
It doesn’t sound like you read it very carefully, as it only mentions two makes by name, both of which are only available on the secondary market.
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by skibble 4y ago
It’s mostly hysteria. I’m enjoying it a lot more than the clunky GoT prequel series, for instance. I can’t possibly see how it could move someone to join in a one star review-bombing campaign unless they had a political agenda they weren’t
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by skibble 4y ago
I’m sorry but this is profoundly and aggressively incorrect. The civil war was not reframed after the fact to be about slavery, quite the opposite in fact. The ‘reframing’ is in fact what you’ve tried to assert, in that it was supposedly a
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Ask HN: My friend's Instagram account got phished
3 points by skibble 4y ago|0 comments
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by skibble 4y ago
Fascinating take. So I'm typing on a scarf right now? The future is truly wild.
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by skibble 5y ago
If you disable automatic connection for that network, you can have Wi-Fi on without being connected (I have this setup on a work Mac connected via Ethernet so I can use AirDrop).
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by skibble 5y ago
My memory of this is hazy, but when I was younger Apple had a feature where you could log in with your voice. Really! It would have been either OS 7 or OS 9, probably OS 9. I'm almost positive this is either the phrase you had to say
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by skibble 6y ago
Oh please. Just because there’s someone shouting this in every such thread doesn’t make it automatically true. You can set up a Mac without ever connecting it to the internet and it will work perfectly. These are defensive measures to prote
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by skibble 6y ago
How charming. I take it you spend most of your waking hours glowering at anyone you see in public with an iPhone in hand. Thank you for your invaluable service!
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by skibble 6y ago
It's 11.0, and the initial release is actually 11.0.1, so there's that!
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by skibble 6y ago
You’re using a gigabit connection to capacity with less than a dozen people (assuming numbers, of course!) just streaming Netflix/HBO/Amazon Prime? I don’t mean to be sarky, genuinely curious!
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by skibble 6y ago
My S4 easily lasts the best part of two days. Perhaps you had a software glitch?
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by skibble 7y ago
This absolutely does work. If you get outbid normally on eBay, say at least half an hour or so before the auction ends, then people get irrational and you quickly end up in a bidding war. This way, as a bidder, you set the maximum price you
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by skibble 8y ago
Sorry, yes I should clarify. What I mean to say by that is that while there is objectively a difference between a 256kbps MP3 and a FLAC copy of a song, it's very hard to discern, but the difference is there. But personally, I can&#x

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