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jnieminenon Teardown of Apple 40W dynamic power adapter with 60W max

How does one distinguish between all the tiny devils in the details between all possible chargers to have the maximum efficiency in ones iPhone charging?

jnieminenon iCloud Drive silently deletes your content

Here is some HN on that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33124631

jnieminenon Ask HN: Best hosted alternative to Google Workspace for email?

I would spent a little more and the the Business Basic plan. I think it is quite a good deal.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ww/microsoft-365/business/micro...

jnieminenon Windows 2000 Modernization Guide

There is a group policy to "turn off windows consumer experience". To edit local group policies win 10 pro is needed. It is also possible to change the register value. See the link for more info.

https://www.prajwaldesai.com/turn-off-windows-10-microsoft-c...

jnieminenon Business Essentials

You could have the 2TB iCloud storage add-on and also the Apple One with 2TB to get the total of 4TB.

jnieminenon Ask HN: What’s your current dev laptop?

The retina screen and the fantastic touchpad.

jnieminenon Mistakes I've Made in AWS

AWS and Azure are a permission to spend.

jnieminenon Mistakes I've Made in AWS

I was playing with the Azure "free" tier. Even I tried to be extremely careful with it, after a while noticed that I had left a storage blob for a VM hanging around and some external IPv4 address. I will continue to use Hetzner online for my own stuff instead running this on "public cloud".

jnieminenon My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day

You could also use Github pages or Cloudflare pages to host.

jnieminenon I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos

How is your experience with restoring? Have you had expensive data retrieval costs?

jnieminenon I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos

There are high endurance SD cards, but eventually those will have also IO problems.

jnieminenon I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos

There is a way to download a copy of all iCloud photos as a zip files.

https://privacy.apple.com/account

jnieminenon A Storage Crisis

What software are you using for tagging?

jnieminenon A Storage Crisis

I use the downloads folder to store the interesting pieces. It is fascinating to jump back in time and see what you have came across.

jnieminenon Apple just launched an official $99 MagSafe battery pack for iPhone 12 lineup

The phone gets hotter more easily so you get a slower charging time compared to just plugging the cable in.

jnieminenon MacKichan Software, maker of Scientific Word, has gone out of business

What kind of alternatives there are for these? At least Matlab and Wolfram Mathematica come into my mind, but are there anything else?

jnieminenon Non-Apple, Non-Google Phone Options

Nokia 105

jnieminenon The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)

There is a limitation for that.

"A surcharge may be applied if: * you use roaming services more than domestic services and spend more time travelling than in Finland"

https://www.traficom.fi/en/communications/broadband-and-tele...

jnieminenon US chip industry plots route back to homegrown production

Paywall.

jnieminenon Opt out your Wi-Fi network from Google's location services with an SSID tweak

_nomap works also for Mozilla's location tracking thing.

jnieminenon Hyperbolic Cellular Automata Simulator

The neighborhood rules are described in the help section.

jnieminenon How Helsinki Built ‘Book Heaven’

You can just order a book you want from another library's collection in the metropolitan area and grab it from Oodi. For instance, in Pasila they have over 1.6 million titles [1].

[1] https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsingin_kaupunginkirjasto

jnieminenon Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?

To me that sound a little bit complicate. How can you handle all the information "mess" with that?

jnieminenon U.S. senators want social media users to be able to take their data with them

The EU has also a similar right [1].

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

jnieminenon Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?

You have also an option to use a docking station.

jnieminenon Ask HN: What are some well-designed, but less well-known native Mac apps?

One should take a look at Ulysses too.

jnieminenon I Can No Longer Recommend Google Fi

iCloud calendar or hosting your own think on nextcloud?