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angulardragon03··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
2x-5x the price is not a like-for-like comparison then. TCO is lower for Macs in the enterprise over the lifespan of the device.

https://www.jamf.com/blog/debate-over-ibm-confirms-that-macs...

angulardragon03··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
FleetDM (https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet) is also mentioned.
angulardragon03··on Apple Watch Ultra 4
If you’re using the sleep tracking features, the watch will remind you if it thinks it won’t have the juice to get through the night.

15 mins of charging during a shower is usually all I do for my S9

angulardragon03··on GPT-6 Astra
It’s not about whether or not Nvidia will be able to sell hardware to these providers - it’s about literally killing companies they are financially invested in.

Why would you invest money in a company, and then enter the market to compete with them?

angulardragon03··on GPT-6 Astra
And if they get too good, they risk harming or otherwise killing their golden geese (their customers), who they are heavily invested in.
angulardragon03··on AWS Acquires DuckLabs
Back in 2018, I took Hannes’ database course as part of my CS degree, which was one of the better ones I took. Over the years, I’ve seen DuckDB celebrated here (and other places), and now this. Congrats to both him and the Ducklabs team.
angulardragon03··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
Yeah but this is the point, right? The guy thinks the US is still living in an era before it became a massive service economy
angulardragon03··on The tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view
Wow, I walk there all the time and I’ve never noticed
angulardragon03··on Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom
Yandex’s parent holding company was Dutch, and Nebius is now the same. A lot of their employees were effectively transferred between the two. Nebius is basically still just Yandex, just rebranded and legally a different entity.

It’s also by many accounts a bit of a weird company to work for, but they can afford to pay above-market for many roles.

angulardragon03··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
This is why we don’t use Mythos/Fable-series models at $WORK (hosted on Vertex).
angulardragon03··on Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen
Mollie doesn't resell Adyen, nor does it rely on Adyen's banking license.
angulardragon03··on Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage
> also sends gray bubbles

Incoming messages are _always_ gray on iOS, irrespective of the use of iMessage or SMS. Your solution is not any different in this regard.

angulardragon03··on UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system
The MHCLG blog post that this article is reporting on is available here: https://mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2026/04/09/from-emergency-t...
angulardragon03··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
> Everything that isn’t a MacBook will be more expensive than a MacBook

Unrelated, but never thought I’d see this kind of sentiment

angulardragon03··on Bluesky's 2025 $100M Series B Lays Foundation for Open Social Web
Weird to raise $100M and not announce it for almost a year, imo. But the fund leading the round is also crypto-focussed, which doesn’t seem like it would go down well with large swathes of the user base.
angulardragon03··on MacBook Neo
It is - you’re not trained to upsell, only to give the customer what they need to do what they want.

Can be a little annoying (an employee actively tried to downsell my partner, even though they knew what they wanted), but overall it’s a nice practice.

angulardragon03··on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
This. You can’t downgrade below the version the device ships with (a forked build of the current version at time of mass production)
angulardragon03··on Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit
It’s also for macOS
angulardragon03··on Bugs Apple loves
Yes - all ABM accounts are Managed Apple Accounts, not Personal ones. You can’t mix and match (they each have different features).
angulardragon03··on Can you slim macOS down?
I use a Mac because I have no desire to maintain a Linux box. The software I want is all there, it has a great *nix terminal, and the hardware quality is second to none. I work with computers all day - at home I just want to be able to focus on the task at hand.
angulardragon03··on Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs
Required for Windows certification nowadays iirc
angulardragon03··on I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero
Idle - low usage Minecraft server was the issue for me
angulardragon03··on I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero
All fine and well, but oracle will threaten to turn off your instance if you don’t maintain a reasonable average CPU usage on the free hosts, and will eventually do so abruptly.

This became enough of a hassle that I stopped using them.

angulardragon03··on Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software
This. It’s technically possible (the same way Asahi uses), but Microsoft has to bring the support in Windows.
angulardragon03··on Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software
No, because there is no codesigning/notarization on Linux.
angulardragon03··on A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad
Yes, system_profiler is just a terminal version of System Information.
angulardragon03··on Sora Update #1
Gotta juice the utilisation numbers somehow. Limiting everyone to 10 per day would kneecap them, and they’d have nothing with which to attract new investors to keep the gravy train going
angulardragon03··on Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers
Honestly no idea. Hopefully! And hopefully you’ll be able to vote with it.

I just have a magnetic wallet on the back of my iPhone with the two cards and my travel card, so I always have them. I don’t carry a physical payment card or cash so don’t need a wallet otherwise

angulardragon03··on Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers
The counterpoint to this is obviously that the requirement to present ID to vote is tantamount to voter suppression - iirc there is no “free” form of ID in the UK.

As an ex-Brit I am also used to carrying an ID and a drivers license, and I’ve always found it quite weird that you can’t get an ID card of any kind that isn’t a full-fledged passport or a drivers license.

angulardragon03··on Apple: SSH and FileVault
Yeah iirc they have moved some stuff around that sshd relied on into the pre-boot volume, so it works exactly as you describe.
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