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by system7rocks 5d ago
Couple this with the fact that many Silicon Valley/tech nerds are in a bit of a bubble, as has existed for a long time... And we are losing more and more news outlets who can critique these giant, strange companies. I am aware other fi
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by system7rocks 1mo ago
And we must protect it at all costs. I love Firefox. We need more browsers like Firefox - more open source, more open to standards that improve the web, that can improve our browsing experience.
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by system7rocks 1mo ago
Truth! I bought my Apple Watch so I could skateboard with my AirPods in and not lose connection. But the connection is a pain to make happen, not intuitive, and sometimes just doesn’t work. I like the watch for trying to keep me reminded to
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by system7rocks 1mo ago
When I met my future wife, the first thing she did was to check if my personal homepage was fully validated. It was. And we are celebrating 20 raucous years this year!
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by system7rocks 2mo ago
These articles, over and over again, are what have made Hacker News one of my regular go tos for amazing ideas and creative ingenuity.
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by system7rocks 2mo ago
Wow. This is the golden age for classic Macs.
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by system7rocks 2mo ago
Yes, I think people who move away from Substack already need to have a brand and a number of followers to drive people to their personal websites, even if they use Ghost. And I do get the concerns that Substack has some super bizarre and aw
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by system7rocks 2mo ago
Interesting. I've never quite found that Linux is more optimized on battery-powered machines for energy savings, even though supposedly there is a lot of room to tweak and optimize settings -- from selecting a low resource window manag
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by system7rocks 2mo ago
Wow. Just wow, I will give this a run on my old iMac G4 later today. Very cool to see this progress, and I am a big fan of NetSurf.
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by system7rocks 3mo ago
So grateful for all of the dedicated coders and hackers in this space to keep our old Macs relevant and useable. PowerFox has tweaks especially for Leopard and Snow Leopard and Mac-quality of life features. You can also try Basilisk, which
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by system7rocks 4mo ago
I love these books. I would like to own every single one of them, as crystallizations of a moment. But let's be real -- some of these books are trash.
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by system7rocks 4mo ago
This story remains pertinent. Can we imagine a world where we can question everything? Where we have the means to do so? The Lottery parallels plenty of other works - of the banality of evil. Of how we can turn to cruelty through our tradit
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by system7rocks 4mo ago
One of my favorite things to do is update the firmware of devices. I know it is often ill-advised because if it is working fine, why risk something going wrong? But it’s kind of fun to imagine gaining tiny speed increments with optimization
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by system7rocks 4mo ago
I may buy a Neo just to do this. Intrigued.
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by system7rocks 4mo ago
I like Dillo, and I like this project. I have tinkered with Gemini on occasion, and while there are stubborn adherents, it’s not super intuitive to use. Not sure why it can’t be beautiful and simple. Maybe it can’t? I think a standard like
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by system7rocks 4mo ago
This is deeply disturbing. The terrible, incoherent messaging and strategy around the Iran war (unapproved by Congress) is connected. This is an administration that is seeking less freedom, not more. What entity would sue on behalf of the o
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by system7rocks 5mo ago
Thank God human beings who spend money on these resources are left to fend for themselves. Imagine if we spent good money on a flight, and now the company winds down its operations even as we are on route to our destination. Since we are ju
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by system7rocks 5mo ago
I am so grateful for this announcement. In a time when gas prices are high, Spirit should be the kind of capitalist example that dominates. Instead, it goes bankrupt despite the President trying to nationalize it. Thanks be to the God of mo
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by system7rocks 6mo ago
If you are a tech guy and working with drones or any AI company that has even a bare relationship to some security firm, you have a few options: 1 - Immediately share all information and intel with the public so as to spare any judicial acc
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by system7rocks 6mo ago
I notice they are sold out at MicroCenter - I was hoping to go look at one in person today.
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by system7rocks 6mo ago
This is why I come to this site. Some of the tech stuff goes over my head and limited skills, but this article was insightful and still so relevant. It probably applies to non-profit organizations that tend to falter after their visionary (
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by system7rocks 7mo ago
I don't like to paint Apple as being completely incompetent (but damn have they been screwing stuff up), but I do think trying to solidify the experiences around a common codebase has become untenable. The idea is great thought - write
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by system7rocks 8mo ago
I am a diehard Apple fan. I stuck with Apple through the dreadful 90s and fought for their relevance as a needed computing alternative in education spaces. I extolled their virtues. I hung on until Steve Jobs took over and helped things imp
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by system7rocks 9mo ago
I love the idea of this... but here is what I want - IT SHOULD WORK WITH EVERY HARDWARE PERMUTATION KNOWN TO EXISTENCE. If not... combine your energy with Fedora.
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by system7rocks 10mo ago
I’ve been waiting for this post. I run OS 9 on my lamp iMac G4 but now I want to try 7.6.1!
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by system7rocks 11mo ago
This looks like an advertisement for a new season of Severance or something. The image on this page is wild: https://radiant.computer/principles/ Of course, I am intrigued by open architecture. Will they be able to sol
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by system7rocks 11mo ago
Just in time for Halloween nightmares!!!!!!!! Imagine being a kid and waking up to this sitting in your room, silently watching you sleep. Imagine how terrified your dog is going to be of this thing, shuffling around or getting stuck with i
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by system7rocks 1y ago
I love this idea, and I imagine with years of successful lobbying efforts we could potentially get some laws passed to provide rights and clarity around our own data that could move us into this direction. But until then, while BlueSky is s
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by system7rocks 1y ago
It's usually something like this. But I guess for Ubuntu? https://wiki.debian.org/wl Just note: anytime the kernel is updated, you need rerun these commands and rebuild the drivers for the new kernel.
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by system7rocks 1y ago
How difficult would it be just to switch to Swift for some of these apps?

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