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JK-Swizzle··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
Depends on how you define it. I used “needs replacing” to mean “the average user will feel the battery is not meeting their needs”, which I believe 80% is generally accurate. This can be demonstrated by apple care allowing for battery replacement after the device is below 80% battery health.

If you are using “needs replacing” to mean “the device will be non-functional or risk permanent damage”, you can go significantly lower than 80%. In fact, I think most devices could go down to 0% battery health unless the battery swells.

JK-Swizzle··on Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste
For what it’s worth, Proton has all but solved gaming on Linux. The only things I have been unable to run are games with low level anticheat.

It is so consistent I don’t even question if a new game will work.

Nvidia drivers on the other hand could still use some work. All wired for me, so I can’t speak to your driver troubles.

I have a windows vm for photoshop and the few programs I can not run native.

I personally run Mint and find it very reliable and capable. It has a windows style interface and my only issues are some minor things with taskbar settings and window snapping. For comparison, I could write a few novels on my issues with windows.

JK-Swizzle··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
Looks like I am going off old info. Up until the iPhone 14 it was 500 cycles to 80%, 15 and up is 1000.

I also believe apple’s claim is assuming optimal conditions. Real life is going to do a fair bit worse. So likely 700-1000 cycles for 80% if the pattern holds up.

JK-Swizzle··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
I hear you, but the convenience of 30W charging is very hard to give up. The only downside is it damages the battery, which makes it harder to give up, which damages the battery more.
JK-Swizzle··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
I think you are the average case.

I follow the estimate that lipos lose 2-4% capacity per year without any use beyond recharging for safety. If the battery sees daily use that number gets a lot worse.

My guess is everyone else is the perfect mix of hardly any use and winning the battery lottery.

JK-Swizzle··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
With reason. That glue is a nightmare to deal with. I would not advise anyone start with iPhone repair.

I damaged my first iPhone repair even after multiple years of active hardware modification on other consumer devices. The older models really only go smooth if you have the Apple tools. A nice $149 of tool rental to swap the $50 part at home, rather than paying the $199 to get Apple to swap it for you. Odd how that math works out.

JK-Swizzle··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
Very jealous over here. I had a 12 mini whose battery dropped off a cliff just in time for the mini line to get discontinued.

Big phones are overrated.

JK-Swizzle··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
I think anything after the 16 regular or 17 pro becomes easy to repair. I feel you though, my first battery swap turned into a screen swap too.

The SE versions have a history of board level issues so I have been afraid to touch any of them.

JK-Swizzle··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
That is genuinely shocking to hear. You have to be like 3+ sd above the mean. Do you know how many charge cycles you have? I recall that most batteries need replacing after 300-500 cycles.
JK-Swizzle··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
I just tested a number of apps on my 15pm connected to WiFi and could not find anything that took longer than 5 seconds. That includes some small developers and bad developers.

Not quite sure where you are seeing this. Maybe games?

JK-Swizzle··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
I doubt any phone battery is lasting 5+ years. But I can say modern iPhones are pretty easy to swap the battery on. They designed it so the back plate gets removed to open the phone rather than the screen. No more risk of cracking the display.
JK-Swizzle··on Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
They do offer a mostly anonymous search via the privacy pass. It generates tokens to prove subscription without providing account details. I believe it changes token every session, but it might be every search.

Mostly anonymous because even if they don’t know your account, we all know they can still track your fingerprint.

Keep in mind I have drank the Kagi koolaid, so I’m a bit biased.

JK-Swizzle··on Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
I am of the opinion that ads are not inherently bad, just that they have gone too far.

An ad on the sidebar is not an issue. For example the site for Rufus: rufus.ie

The issue is when ads cause trouble loading, autoplay audio, block the content of the website, have fake close buttons… Really anything that prevents a user from using the site for it’s intended purpose.

Things only go stale when the people behind them get greedy. As another user said, micropayments won’t work because the credit card companies take half the money. If some major players were willing to earn a decent profit rather than the optimal profit, stuff would work a lot better on the user end.

JK-Swizzle··on The Origin of Consciousness (2008)
How would you define it?

Would your definition be that of your experience?

Would that definition encompass all of humanity, past and present?

Would that definition contain all sapient life? Sentient too?

Would that definition allow for less complex forms of life?

Reading the comments on this post, I am inclined to agree with the words of his biographer “there were people who disagreed with him [who] had not really read his book or understood it.”

If you do get a chance to actually read the book (as you ought to), it covers all the issues and complexities you may have. It is limited only by the information of the era.

JK-Swizzle··on The Origin of Consciousness (2008)
I am unsure as to what you are trying to say here. It reads to me as “the word the article discusses has a more popular homonym, but they are clearly not talking about that”.
JK-Swizzle··on Hello, me. It's been a while
I had not heard that about mindful exercise before. Do you have a source with more information?
JK-Swizzle··on Every fucking website: 2026 edition
It is missing the fade in on scroll.
JK-Swizzle··on License plate reader searches should require a warrant
For those examples, yes, I was meaning the recording rather than the event. I find a pretty or emotional visual is better to describe moments like that than just words.

And no, I did not discuss this with the people in the images. I only share these things in person so I am not too concerned with it spreading. On occasion I will offer a copy for the person (often the time I realize I have a good photo is weeks after the fact).

Do you have countries in mind? Photography laws fascinate me, so I’d love to read more. I only really know about the US.

For the examples I gave, I used a situation with implied consent but not explicit (a person performing in public), a situation with neither implied nor explicit (a layperson in public), and a situation that may not need consent (a non human subject with people visible). It would be interesting to know if each of those would be handled differently.

JK-Swizzle··on License plate reader searches should require a warrant
Looking at the sentiment of those around me about public recordings (in this case it was street photography), I would not be surprised if there was a push soon to ban all public recordings. At least, the sharing or usage of those recordings.

It seems many people feel it limits what I would consider "freedom of impermanence", or the concept that as an ordinary individual nearly every action or mistake you make will not considered in your future.

I for one would act differently if that were the case. Many vulnerable or stupid moments would not have happened. Many of those moments have allowed me to grow as a person. And this is as a person who has not faced persecution or bias in law enforcement.

I do not have a stance on the matter of general recording currently, but know that I would have acted differently if there was a camera around all the time. There goes my first time asking someone out, there goes frying a 5V board with 12V because I thought I knew better, there goes bar karaoke so bad that even the bartender looked pained. But if this were law, so too goes the guy I saw in a park fire spinning, so too goes the joy I captured on a strangers face at seeing a beautiful chandelier, and so too goes the countless photos of nature that happen to have people in the background.

JK-Swizzle··on License plate reader searches should require a warrant
By my understanding, this would be similar to the situation with marketing calls. In the US is it legal for a human to call anyone and market to them. But due to issues from scale, it is illegal for either a program to make the call, or a prerecorded message to be played.

To me, that is precedent in US law that computerized methods of executing human tasks do not fall under the same rules.

JK-Swizzle··on Recycle – Floppydisks
If losing floppies pushes you towards modern technology, I don’t think you have to worry. You are still 4+ generations behind. If you think those Zip disks are great, just wait until you hear about DVD-RW!
JK-Swizzle··on Position: LLMs Can't Jump
I would argue that the whole concept of a "jump" is contrary to the need of quantitative evidence.

The idea that everything needs to be proven with evidence is what an LLM excels at. If you give it a task such as "analyze this massive dataset and demonstrate that is proves or disproves this concept" or "find a counter argument to this theory", it will dutifully run through the information and give an answer. If you give it the task of "invent a new style of music", it will do poorly.

It will not do poorly from of lack of ability, nor lack of originality, it will do poorly as "style of music" is a human concept, "new" is a human concept and "invent" is a human concept. Being human concepts, these are things without quantitative value. There is no truth or certainty to what is "invented", as others may call it "discovered" or "developed" (developed in the sense of progressing from a previous work). While a trained ear my call a song "Breakcore" and not "Gabber", another would clump it into "EDM".

The only solution to this is to have human origin. As humans will tell the tale of how an idea came about, inspiring similar thought patterns in peers and earning the title of "new". This to me seems to happen more often with art than science or engineering. Although, it is hard to tell if it is due to increased creativity, or ability to convey thoughts.

All of this is impossible for a non-human to do, as they will give evidence to support the conclusion rather than the tale. This will turn into a possible addition to the knowledge of humanity, but can never earn acceptance as a "jump", as humans care little for evidence. Humans are inherently social beings and, as a side effect, will never acknowledge a non-human contribution.

An easy way to put this is a literal jump. The humans at Merriam-Webster define it in part as "to spring into the air". However, a quick peruse of the comments on a video about the "World's Highest Jumping Robot" will find disagreements about the definition of "jumping" and "robot". The device does spring into the air, but it does so without human legs, human movement, or human consideration for safety. Should you instead look at a video on the highest jumping bipedal robot, you will instead find nearly full acceptance that what happened was a "jump" (it should be noted that there is much disagreement in comments about if such videos are AI generated). By my understanding of the world, this is due to human ability to excite brain paths of an action when viewing another entity preforming the action. So if the viewer's brain does not fire the signal of a jump motion happening, the viewer will seek any rationale to explain the action as not being a jump.

TL;DR: It is all based on vibes, and LLMs give the wrong vibe.

JK-Swizzle··on Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search
https://abcnews.com/US/man-speaks-after-police-release-9-tra... He was attacked by a police dog after a flock camera misread his license plate. He was then charged for "obstruction", which was dropped 4 months later.
JK-Swizzle··on Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller
Running some quick numbers shows you should be able to get >1Gbps. But I seriously doubt you could get those speeds in reality. You would need to get them perfectly in sync, which would likely take a dedicated board and some great knowledge of the oscillator.

As someone who has done a reasonable amount with PIO, I do not think this is possible. However, that should not stop you. If you get it to work, please ping me.

JK-Swizzle··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
I have been working on an indexer for myself using data from common crawl. They do all the leg work and just host the outcome.
JK-Swizzle··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
That’s on me, didn’t see the text explaining it above the captcha.

I’ll give it a shot. Always happy to see some competition in the market. And I love the idea of handing out the source after a year.

JK-Swizzle··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
It looks good, but one of the big selling points to me with Kagi is them having their own index. It seems like you guys are working on that, but right now it sounds more like a search aggregator rather than a search engine.

You also mention not using the source for commercial use or distribution, is that only relevant before it becomes AGPL?

I am also struggling to find how to activate the 2h trial, so have not been able to test it out.

JK-Swizzle··on How to make your text look futuristic (2016)
As someone who has read the book, it does go through the history and inspiration of modern sci-fi typeset. Great coffee table book. Mainly expands on the articles on the website with more details and graphics.
JK-Swizzle··on I'm scared about biological computing
That just makes it even more interesting. Have we been selectively modified to think dogs are cute? If I showed a toy poodle to a caveman, would he also want to put it in a little bag with only its head poking out?
JK-Swizzle··on Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors
Did you read the article? It was not about ultrasonic power delivery. I’d describe it more as tuned ultrasonic bells.
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