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> The small feline, about the size of a domestic moggy, went under the radar because it was confused with other wild cats that share similar spots and stripes.

> But DNA studies show the cat is actually in a class of its own, highlighting how much remains unknown about some of the world's most elusive mammals.

ASOCIAL people prefer solitude.

ANTISOCIAL people doesn't care about society, are harmful towards other people, break laws, etc.

When I'm working, I'm at my desk, with a keyboard, mouse, and monitors. But the reason why I have a light laptop instead of some beefy desktop computer is the convenience of having a computer when I'm not at my desk. At a café. Or to check emails when I'm at relatives'. Or to work on my hobby project in a car, waiting for my daughter to finish her training session. Or to be next to me, on a carpet, while I'm checking why the network under the TV is behaving strangely.

I've been living laptop life since 2002, IIRC. In all that time, the most stupid design decision I saw was on some HP EliteBook, where designers, in their infinite wisdom, put tiny legs on a laptop. Those four stupid pieces of plastic and rubber bite my legs every time when I try to use the convenience of having a mobile computer.

Fans on the bottom of the laptop case are firmly in the second place on my list. And no amount of ackchyually you're holding it wrong will change that.

I frequently sit on my balcony, with my MacBook Pro in my lap. I'm still alive.

I also frequently use that computer, that doesn't have vents on the bottom, for watching movies in bed. And I don't need to think about vents. My last non-Apple computer was some ThinkPad, with vents on the bottom, and I remember always chasing some book to put under the computer to make the vents free. Boy, how I hated that.

That's overly dramatic. I don't think a new Macbook Air today is a worse value proposition than some Mac from 35 years ago. I just checked Apple prices from 1991:

    - Mac Classic II, the slowest of the bunch, $1.900, or about $4.661 today
    - Quadra 900, the fastest model in 1991, was $7.200 ($17.663 today)
    - PowerBook 170 was $4600 ($11.285)

I don't want to compare anyone to Michelangelo, but the opening sentence of the aticle is more than flawed. My daughter got some painting classes in that age, and I saw work of some gifted kids. A bit better than "directionless doodles, chaotic comics, and a few unsteady-at-best school projects".

You don't need to go that deep into the article. Just - emacs. Of course I know what it is, I had to google the name to find it's EditorMACroS

I had a buzzing problem with AirPods Pro 1. Apple replaced it (both headphones) after year and a half of use, for free.

I'm probably missing some context, but on my Mac I'm using three fingers drag and I can lift fingers and (quickly) reposition them without breaking the drag.

What are "competitive options"? It's a genuine question. Before Synology, I had some DIY server in a Fractal Design case, and noise and, to be honest, bulk were a problem. Also, maintenance of the server wasn't funny.

I switched to Synology about six years ago (918+). The box is small, quiet, and easy to put in the rack together with the network gear. I started with 4TB drives, gradually switched to 8TB over time (drive by drive). I don't use much of their apps (mostly download station, backup, and their version of Docker to run Syncthing, plus Tailscale). But the box acts like an appliance - I basically don't need to maintain it at all; it just works.

I don't like all this stuff with vendor lock-in, so when the time comes for replacing the box, what are alternatives on par with the experience and quality I currently have with Synology?

Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/108345

I bought Kindle Paperwhite with ads. Get tired of ads. Tried to pay Amazon to remove ads, for some reason it didn't work (I'm not from USA).

Contacted customer support, explained what's the problem, the person on the other side said "wait a minute, sir" and removed ads from my Kindle without asking me to pay for it.

That was a good experience with Amazon.

80% optimised charging, 100% battery life. iPhone 15 Pro, manufactred - September 2023, first use - November 2023.

So if I have a company that sells, say, manure, I can search and hire a voice actress that sounds exactly like Scarlett to promote me in radio ads? And write a tweet that vaguely implies that it's really her?

I understand that making a good app is hard, and don't want to undermine your effort, but $150 for a todo app... ouch.

Huh? Rust, Go, Swift and probably many more languages does the same.

> Third RANT please STOP making cherry, OSA etc profiles. Very old IBM keyboards have solved the height issue with a simple parabolic support, there is NO DAMN REASON to make flat support and different height keycaps making limited room to move them on the keyboard.

Some of us like to experiment with various profiles (my favorites are MT3 and Cherry and I rotate them every couple months on my keyboards). You can try XDA and DSA profiles, they're qute flat.

You can type names with only upper case letters and be gramatically correct.

> I guess the point I'm trying to make here is that the problem with passwords is password hygiene, not with the method itself.

I guess the point I'm trying to make here is that the problem with obesity is just amount of food consumed, not the food itself.

Because it's easier to touch empty space and adjust fingers. Back when I worked on Thinkpad, I really hated these keys, whenever I accidentally pressed them. I don't say you're wrong, just it's a matter of taste.

It's the same with mechanical keyboards - I can't use these compact 75% keyboards where arrows/Pg Up/Pg Down/Home/End are flush with other keys; but a bit "exploded" layout, with just a bit of space between arrows and the right column keys is perfectly ok with me

What I really hate is that combination of full size/half size arrows on modern laptops, put there just because some designer hate empty space.

[citation needed]

Yoir sample of "normal people" is vastly different than mine.

Most editors have zz functionality. Ctrl+L for VSCode, JetBrains tools, and SublimeText, for example.

At this point, whenever anything Apple-related comes to HN front page, I can bring up a bingo card with pre-canned responses and cover at least 80% of conversation.

Same with go fanboyism/hate.

You can preview it in VSCode. Open command pallete, type "Color Theme", click on top on "Browse additional color themes", and type "catppuccin" in the box. Arrows up/down to preview, Enter to install it.

Tailscale is free for personal use.

I'm using this to authorize sudo (and other things) with Apple Watch:

https://github.com/insidegui/pam-watchid

... and my /etc/pam.d/sudo needs to be changed like this:

    # sudo: auth account password session
    auth       sufficient     pam_watchid.so
    (...)

This needs to be applied after every system update. Apart of that, it works really well (I have very dry skin so touch ID works for me 50% on a good day)

I have iPhone XS. Full of 3rd party apps. My wife and my daughter have iPhone XR. Also full of 3rd party apps. Other daughter have iPhone 11. 3rd party apps? Yes.

Nobody in our home noticed any slowdowns, especially 4-6 seconds to unlock the phone. That's just ridiculous. I just checked with wife's other phone (iPhone SE), it works as always.

You can blame Apple for many things, but iPhone longevity isn't one of them.

I was in a similar position, worked with C# from the beginning and recently switched to non-MS stacks. I found official documentation [1] easy enough to follow - I started with "What's new in C# 8.0" to the latest version.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csh...

> A $1600 monitor with no HDR, can you believe it?

Is there a good alternative for reasonably calibrated 27" monitor, with 5K resolution, integrated (96W) USB-C hub that have camera, good speakers and HDR? How much that monitor costs?