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mmglron Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac

I enjoy the nostalgia of booting up and using old machines. After the first sentence this article came off as disingenuous. There are easier ways to stay productive without needing to break out a 17 year old Mac. It’s almost like the author is trying to convince himself this is a good idea. Turning off WiFi and using apps in full screen seems much easier.

The author mentions Slack. I’ve been using Mattermost for about 2 years now. I’ve found that having a mandatory offline schedule is important. I’ve been vocal about that with my team. Usually I’m offline from Mattermost for about 2-3 hours a day. Which allows me to focus on my work.

mmglron Montreal is taxing churches (2017)

I wasn’t intending to be malicious by leaving out the full sentence.

Fair point about being a new phenomenon.

mmglron Montreal is taxing churches (2017)

IMO this post should not be on HN. Per the guidelines [1] "stories about politics" are off-topic. I would consider this political for obvious reasons.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

mmglron Show HN: A Programmable iMessage API

Does this hook into an internal iMessage API or is there a rack of iPhones sitting in a data center somewhere handling all the sending/receiving?

sendblue is a clever name btw.

mmglron You download the app and it doesn’t work

Sorry to change the conversation- but how is HEY any different from maintaining a whitelist? For example iCloud has had the VIP feature for a few years now which I use without issue. This is the 4th or 5th article on HN I have seen talking about HEY and Apple. It's almost like this is a marketing ploy.

mmglron How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses

A few questions:

1. What was the intended use case behind the Tegra having 32 blowable fuses? Did Nvidia intend for those fuses to be used in this manner?

2. What is a non-retail switch?

mmglron Google Domains blocking all Gitbook URLS: post-mortem

How did you arrive at choosing Cloudflare? It's clear Google Domains has broken processes not conducive to running a business centered on user content. How do you know Cloudflare does not suffer from similar broken processes?

mmglron iMessage for Windows: A labor of love that will never see light of day (2018)

Are you implying that a closed ecosystem eliminates spam?

> I've never gotten a single unwanted blue message.

This has not been my experience. While rare I have gotten a few spam messages.