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rcoilliot··on Apple Pencil Pro and iPad Simulate a Shadow of the Pen Being Emulated
Talking about airdrop…
rcoilliot··on Apple Pencil Pro and iPad Simulate a Shadow of the Pen Being Emulated
It’s actually impossible to attach pictures, they always are displayed in the mail. Also, when you drop a file into the message it’s not “attached” in a “attachment box” but their icon is actually floating anywhere you dropped it in the message.
rcoilliot··on Apple Pencil Pro and iPad Simulate a Shadow of the Pen Being Emulated
Again the “insane attention to details” while in 2024 attaching a picture or a file to a message in Apple Mail.app macOS is an absolute nightmare. One example amongst many many others. It’s cool, very cool, but I wouldn’t call Apple this way while there’s so much awkward choices to be fixed in their software.
rcoilliot··on SteerMouse
I’ve been using it for many years, I think it’s one of the oldest alternative mouse driver for Mac. Highly recommended to those who want to avoid the bloated (and now AI powered, for whatever it means) Logitech software.
rcoilliot··on Apple iPhone sales fall in nearly all countries
I’m also a tech enthusiast but I change my iPhone every 4 or 5 years. And it may be the issue here, there’s not that much incentive to switch from an iPhone to the next one except if you are an Apple fan boy, thanks to the awesome upgrades support. Hope they won’t “fix” it.
rcoilliot··on They want you to forget what a film looks like
Regarding film grain and streaming : https://www.slashcam.com/news/single/Netflix-removes-movie-n...
rcoilliot··on France's Bogdanoff Twins Die Days Apart
You are right. I should have specified they were still respected for their contribution to sci-fi in France, but scorned for all their scientific frauds.
rcoilliot··on France's Bogdanoff Twins Die Days Apart
French here. Lately they weren't that much loved by the public and mostly mocked because of their weirdness but they were still pretty famous and respected by geeks because of their successful (and pretty influential) show about sci-fi back in the 80s. I guess they were still benifiting from that golden era of them, but the consensus is that they were freaky.
rcoilliot··on FreeFileSync: Open-Source File Synchronization and Backup
It's incredible how it turns all those nightmarish actions into zen and pure satisfaction !
rcoilliot··on FreeFileSync: Open-Source File Synchronization and Backup
How come this awesome software not more discussed here ? Anyone here use it ? It literraly been a life changer for me in my backup strategy and I can't recommend it enough to everyone.
rcoilliot··on Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System
The issue with Kodi is, in my opinion, the same as with setting up a mame cab for playing roms : Perpetual Work In Progress. Users are spending way more time configuring, optimizing, and eventually breaking the whole thing than actually enjoying it.

On my side, i'm playing my content with my AppleTV through a Plex server on a Nas, using wired network, and I couldn't be happier. Using a professionnal, closed, solution, sometimes make things better.