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I don't have one myself yet, but the Power-Z KM002C [1] looks like it can do most/all of that. There's an example on their unboxing video [2].

[1]: https://www.chargerlab.com/power-z-km002c-is-now-available-o...

[2]: https://youtu.be/RVMxe_NIDJI?t=2m20s

If you're still interested in that sort of thing, Benson Leung is another Google engineer who's done a lot of work similar to Nathan K. He's u/LaughingMan11 on Reddit [1], and engages in a lot of technical discussions on r/UsbCHardware [2].

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/user/LaughingMan11/

[2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/

Driver source code/detailed hardware documentation for all the components. Signing keys to enable proper persistent installation of custom firmware. In a perfect world, source to whatever the final version of iOS to run on it is.

Basically, everything required for third parties to support the devices to the same level that Apple did before discontinuing them.

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(Getting downvoted for a strong right to repair stance? I wasn't really expecting that here, but OK.)

With Face ID, there's also the risk that a malicious viewer who is holding your phone could point it at you and get it fully unlocked before you are able to react. A cop who is standing at the window of your car would absolutely be close enough to do that. The only way this would be safe is if it engaged the emergency mode which requires the PIN/password to fully unlock.

JDownloader [1] is a pretty good all-purpose download tool. It's a GUI tool, though, so it fills somewhat of a different niche than youtube-dl.

[1]: https://jdownloader.org/

yt-dlc was forked off of youtube-dl during the youtube-dl takedown last year, but has itself been largely unmaintained for months. yt-dlp [1] appears to be by far the most active fork.

[1]: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Ugh, yes. The MagSafe silicone case I bought last fall got nicks in the corners within a few months of use, and they've been slowly but steadily growing ever since. Supposedly the case has a one-year warranty and I can take it in to get swapped out, but I haven't tried yet.

I would love having a slightly thicker phone. The iPhone 12 Pro Max is good enough for most days, but having around 25% more battery would be welcome, especially for weekends when I'm not sitting at a desk with a charger. Just make the entire phone the thickness of the camera lenses, and that would probably be sufficient.

There's at least one more: Rachel Bryk, a developer working on the Dolphin GameCube/Wii emulator [1], was driven to suicide back in 2015, likely in part due to transphobia and harassment [2].

[1]: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2015/04/25/commemoration-rachel... [2]: https://www.nj.com/monmouth/2015/04/post_18.html

It hasn't been confirmed by authorities, but may never be, since almost nobody knew his real full name or exactly where he lived. However, it definitely doesn't look good. :-(

Of course they could always add something like PIN/QR code/plugging the iPad into the MacBook for local connections - but that will never happen with an Apple that prioritizes simplicity over functionality.

> Holds it back from what?

Being a full-fledged computer.

> Why not use a laptop if you want these?

What if I want a tablet I can dock and turn into a laptop or workstation? The M1 iPad Pro would be a perfect competitor to the likes of the Surface Pro, if the OS weren't holding it back.

Unfortunately, the sideloaded-JIT support seems to have been an accident, as Apple killed it off in 14.4.

https://twitter.com/altstoreio/status/1354096048650809349

I have a couple of those, and they work fine. The only downside is you can't use wired charging and wired headphones at the same time unless you use a third-party splitter, none of which have great reviews.

The MagSafe charger kind of solves this, since it's at least easy to pick up with the charger attached, but MagSafe chargers are more expensive than Lightning cables, and the official one has a very short cord.

In my dream world, the iPhone would have two Lightning (or USB-C) ports, but I don't expect that to ever happen.

Another recent study [1], discussed on This Week in Virology [2], also found T-cell immunity to be robust against mutations. However, there seems to be an open question of how well natural T cells, trained on the whole virus, will compare to T cells trained on vaccines that only have the spike protein or some other subset.

[1]: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.27.433180v1 [2]: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-736/

Sadly, Apple removed the JIT support in 14.4, so not even sideloaded apps can use it any more.

https://twitter.com/altstoreio/status/1354096048650809349

Is that the Best Buy right next to the Irving Fry's?

How do you deal with cleaning the handle part of the tank? It looks like the end can pop off, but I haven't tried.

I bought one last fall and have been using it quite regularly during the winter. The humidity in my bedroom has been dipping down to 20-30%, and I prefer it to be 40-50%.

I started with distilled water, and it worked great - the wick/filter stayed in pristine shape for the 3 weeks I did so. However, buying distilled water was about twice as expensive as changing the filter every two weeks: $0.99/gal at 1-2 gal/day vs a $6.99 Walmart-brand filter. I haven't looked around to see if I can find cheaper reverse-osmosis water.

I have not had to clean the fan yet, but that does seem difficult.

My biggest issue is the fan noise. The machine only works well when set to the highest speed, but the fan is quite loud at that setting. I have the machine a few feet away from my bed, and High makes it hard to sleep. Medium/Low are no problem, so I just leave it on all the time on Medium.

Refills are only an issue if you carry the tank by the handle. I only use the handle to take it out of/put it into the unit, and carry it upside-down in my arm when taking it to the bathroom to refill.

Heating element replacement? The Honeywell HCM-350 I got has a UVC bulb which will eventually need to be replaced, but there's no heating element since it's an evaporative humidifier.

There's one screenshot in their blog [1]. Unfortunately, it's not clear from the announcement just how flexible this is. It would be fun if it's capable of effects like cool-retro-term[2].

(EDIT: There was a "retro terminal effect" released a year ago, and the announcement for that version [3] shows it affecting the whole window. A quick search through the Microsoft Terminal source suggests this new feature is an extended version.)

[1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-...

[2]: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

[3]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-...

The emphasis was more on the "no web interface" part. In 2020, I feel like Subversion is significantly less common than git, so having to install SVN + possibly learn SVN commands is a moderate barrier to browsing the code.

I think it is OSS [1], although all the code is in Subversion and I don't see a web interface. I haven't dug through it much, but poking around inside the "trunk" module, I see files with headers that say they're GPLv3.

EDIT: Here's a Git mirror of trunk [2]. See, e.g., this file [3].

[1]: https://svn.jdownloader.org/projects/jd [2]: https://github.com/mirror/jdownloader [3]: https://github.com/mirror/jdownloader/blob/master/src/jd/gui...

Beyond Compare [0] has manual alignment. It works within files as well as within directories, allowing you to match up files with different names when comparing directories.

I don't think it has syntax-aware alignment, though.

[0]: https://www.scootersoftware.com/

How common is the ? operator in modern Rust code? I feel like if you reach a point where almost everything returns Result and almost every call is qualified with a ?, the pattern has turned into something that's not much different from checked exceptions.

Nintendo fixed that loophole back in August 2018, didn't they?

I was disappointed, too, but they added an update in a comment[1]:

> Right, the Pinecil is coming along; Ben Brown who’s porting his firmware to the RISC-V chip ran into some problems with the prototype we sent him (our fault), so a new unit is on its way to him now. Once he confirms that everything is working as intended we’ll file a production request with the factory. I too am waiting for it with anticipation and hope that it won’t be much longer before we get it in the store.

[1]: https://www.pine64.org/2020/09/15/september-update-let-it-si...

Absolutely. It feels like we're finally almost back to the level of functionality browsers had in 2010 with Flash/Java Applets.

Is it not possible that they give people _almost_ all of what they want, while making one or two changes that are detrimental but not quite dealbreakers?

That's the single remaining killer feature of RAR for me. I think the last time I actually used it was years ago when pulling a backup off of a degraded DVD-R, but it still provides a bit of peace of mind for long-term storage.