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n1000on Chargie. A USB device to control charging of phones

The latest shortcuts app is able to monitor the charge level and one can configure it as a trigger.

n1000on Chargie. A USB device to control charging of phones

I created a shortcut in iOS that will remind me to unplug.

Dell does

n1000on Launch HN: Inflow (YC S21) – Self-help app for people with ADHD

Hyperfocus is actually one of the odd trades of ADHD. If people with ADHD work on a topic that motivates them, they can easily loose hours just like you describe. However, if the task is too mundane or overwhelming, I can easily procrastinate months on them.

n1000on Geizhals – Tech Product Price Comparison and Tracking

My favourite feature is sorting by price per GB

n1000on M1 Icestorm cores can still perform well

As discussed here [1], a fairly beefy Ryzen/RTX setup is often found idling around that number.

[1] https://hardforum.com/threads/killawatt-owners-whats-the-idl...

n1000on M1 Icestorm cores can still perform well

Also, aren’t desktop CPUs constrained by thermal load at some point or can we use ever bigger coolers? Personally, I find it almost obscene that my desktop PC consumes roughly as much as a good old incandescent lightbulb (60+W) while idling. My laptop uses as much under full load.

n1000on FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source

Loved it until they introduced a subscription, which was a considerable price increase.

n1000on What Happened to Flight MH370? (2019)

needs a [2019] tag

n1000on Show HN: I made an interactive anti-procrastination video course

I also found 3. is a self-reinforcing downward spiral (postponed work piling up creating more anxiety, etc.). This one is important to break early on.

n1000on Show HN: I made an interactive anti-procrastination video course

4. I am exhausted or did not sleep enough. Sometimes it is difficult to realise / accept that I simply need some downtime. In that case cut yourself some slack.

n1000on Why do we use R rather than Excel?

Can confirm. When I started working in academia, we built very sophisticated Excel models. But every new project would ask form ever more sophisticated sheets and workarounds. Once the calculations took more than a few minutes, I moved on to macros. But at that point I realized that I am using Excel as nothing more than a data container. That finally pushed me to learn Python and I felt never more liberated. Whenever I supervise PhD students now, I push them hard to learn programming early on. I am pretty sure never has any one of them had regret for following my advice. It simply adds a few degrees of freedom to their work.

n1000on Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (2010)

I love how they don't use SSL.

n1000on Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you?

It is an amphetamine. Go to r/ADHD and read the thousands of enthusiastic stories of people that just took it for the first time and are basically just high. I took medication for a while and it helped me surmount a bunch of issues. Now I can do well without. I never liked the effect on my body and mind.

n1000on Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you?

I read this post from 2015 yesterday and was amused because the guy clearly seemed to have ADHD in my opinion [0]. Then in the comments on HN somebody mentioned that the author recently wrote about being diagnosed at 40, which may be an interesting read here [1]. The author says it was like living the Truman show.

ADHD can be harmful and comes with a bunch of comorbidities that can also develop later in life. If you have trouble listening, tend to hyperfocus on things but also emotional states, etc. I recommend going forward with a diagnosis.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27495535 [1] https://www.raptitude.com/2021/03/what-raptitude-has-always-...

n1000on How to get yourself to do things (2015)

Thanks! That is so funny. The article was screaming ADHD at me all the time while reading it. Especially this feeling of vague anxiety. He basically comes up with typical ADHD coping strategies.

n1000on How Long Does Apple Support iPhone Models?

Thrilled to see the iPhone 6s will be supported at least one more year [1] and older versions of iOS will receive security updates [2].

  [1] https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/07/ios-15-iphone-ipad-compatibility/
  [2] https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/07/apple-wont-make-you-upgrade-to-ios-15/

n1000on Show HN: Supernotes – Embeddable Markdown note-cards

Looks inspired by https://noteplan.co/

n1000on Your Move, iPad

Although it makes me nervous, I think iOS and macOS will continue to move closer together. Big Sur feels already much like iOS.

n1000on The physiological effects of slow breathing in the healthy human

https://quietkit.com/box-breathing/

Edit: Learned it here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13508038

n1000on Place the App Store badge first in the lineup of badges

> Whenever one or more badges for other app platforms appear in the layout, use the preferred black badge. Place the App Store badge first in the lineup of badges.

n1000on The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work (2016)

I did the same for 3 years, but mostly for environmental reasons. It is a very effective strategy to shave off a fair amount of your personal carbon footprint (next to not flying).

As you say the rush after the shower is amazing! I stopped, because in winter (central European) there were days where I was cold all day and felt like I would never quite warm up again before going to bed. In summer, however, I still do it regularly and it really helped during the recent heat waves.

n1000on Science United – distributed computing for scientific projects

...or https://www.rechenkraft.net/index_en.html

n1000on Running 32bit Apps on macOS Catalina

I wish Apple stopped releasing new major versions every year. When they changed to the annual release cycle with 10.7, the time an OS X version was supported dropped also by one year (from 4 to 3 years).

n1000on Why do holes horrify me?

Apparently the new iPhone is known to trigger trypophobia. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/09/12/iphone-tryp...

n1000on Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut

Unfortunately, there is no up-to-date and comprehensive guide out there. I should write one i guess. I takes some tinkering. This is a good first start: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/turn-nas-windows-share-time-ma... If you’re using a USB drive, I recommend to make the first backup while directly attached to save some time. Also if the server is a Mac (and I believe there are ways to do that with other OSs too), you can simulate a time machine capsule. Now whenever I am in my home wifi my MacBook does automatic backups.

n1000on Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut

> Time machine's performance has slowly gotten worse and worse, leaving me having to cancel backups just so I can go home.

you could try to increase the backup service‘s priority with ‚sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0‘

n1000on Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut

You can use (encrypted) sparsebundle images with a given size limit as backup destination on the server.

n1000on NASA Flew Gas Detectors Above California, Found ‘Super Emitters’

sure, but at least the compost doesn’t go to waste :)

n1000on Passivhaus Detailing and Design

Not from the future, but for the future: In 30 years from now (2050) we should be carbon neutral in order to have a shot at the 1.5° C target. Average building lifetime is >30 years. So in my opinion it would be irresponsible to build anything else than a passive house or a zero energy building today.