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cannolicannonon The MacBook Neo

The big players are just awful at marketing; too many SKUs and models - it takes a paragraph to figure out how 2 Dell laptops from the same release year differ.

Just hired a new colleague who prefers Windows. Dell seemed like a reasonable option for a good laptop. Here is Dell's current lineup:

- Dell Laptop (with 14, 15, 16 inch variants)

- Dell Plus (with 14, 15, and 16 inch variants)

- Dell XPS (with 13, 14, and 16 inch variants)

- Dell Premium (with 14 and 16 inch variants)

- Dell Pro Essential (with 14 and 15 inch variants)

- Dell Pro (with 14 and 16 inch variants)

- Dell Pro Plus (with 14 and 16 inch variants)

- Dell Pro Premium (with 14 and 16 inch variants)

- Dell Pro Max (with 14 and 16 inch variants)

- Dell Pro Max Plus (with 14, 16, and 18 inch variants)

- Dell Pro Max Premium (with 14 and 16 inch variants)

It's maddening trying to sift through the differences at this level. Then when you select a model, there can upwards of 8 different pre-built options to review.

cannolicannonon A Pro Meticulously Restores a Damaged Oil Painting [video]

I'm supposed to be finishing up a changelog entry for a software release, but this is fascinating. Watching someone execute their craft at this level is mesmerizing.

You did warn us though.

cannolicannonon Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync

This sounds like a classic account recovery scam where the scammer uses Google's account recovery feature to gain access to the account. Once they have the 2FA code, they're in. This time the scammer used an account takeover as the pretense for needing the code.

As for the email, this blog post ( https://sammitrovic.com/infosec/gmail-account-takeover-super... ) from about a year ago notes that somehow scammers were/are using Salesforce to spoof emails from Google that appear legitimate. Seems like something similar happened here, but there's no way to be sure without the headers which the scammer seemingly cleaned up.

The FTC reported that scam losses totaled 12.5 billion last year. These scams are elaborate and convincing even for folks who make a living in tech. ( https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/03/... )

At any rate, sorry this happened OP. Stay safe, folks.

cannolicannonon Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

For anyone with an ad-free Kindle, and running the most recent firmware, and you're looking for the Display Cover option using Amazon's documentation, and you're not finding it...like me.

It looks like earlier this year they moved the option out of Settings > Device Options and it's now located in Settings > Screen & Brightness. Which ironically doesn't seem to be documented anywhere that I can find.

cannolicannonon Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?

Same here. Created a Gfaqs account on August 30th, 2001 and have kept it active ever since.

cannolicannonon All you may need is HTML

> "This website used to be hosted by asmallorange. When I became dissatisfied, all I had to do was to open an account on hostgator, upload my html files, and change the DNS entry"

At the risk of being pendantic, asmallorange and hostgator are owned by the same entity[0].

That said, I like the premise of just writing and producing content and not necessarily worrying about setting up tooling. I think devs, and "geeks" in general, tend to enjoy tinkering with tooling, but it can be daunting for the less tech savvy. I suppose that's why things like Wordpress.com exist.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_International_Group

cannolicannonon It's easier and faster to pirate an e-book, than it is to buy it

I think it's a typo, probably should read "cart."

For whatever reason, Amazon doesn't seem to have a way to place Kindle books in your shopping cart and do a single, large purchase. Rather you find the book you want and buy using their 1-click purchase option then go find the next book and purchase with 1-click.