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spectre3d··on Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance
He made something more important and influential than most of us ever will, so it’s interesting to hear his thoughts on these things.

Where did you get the idea that anyone was talking about trying to copyright vibe-coded tools for personal use?

spectre3d··on Steam Frame starts at $1059
Overload[0] is the modern version of Descent, made by the creators of Descent. It has standard VR support, but doesn’t work with motion controllers. Flight sticks, keyboard and mouse and other input devices work fine.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/448850/Overload/

Try Underdogs for some fun mech action, “You control giant metal arms using your real-life hand movements to punch, bash, and tear enemies apart. Movement: You move around the arena by grabbing the floor with your hands.”

That’s on Steam and also on the Meta store to run directly on the Quest.

Also, find the Hawken discord where we meet for networked games on a community build of the old Hawken.

spectre3d··on Steam Frame starts at $1059
That’s not how it works, there is no gaze support. I just double checked and couldn’t find it in any Accessibility or Experimental settings. Apologies for the misinfo. (Also no inward-facing cameras ofc)

What I was thinking of was on iPhone. It was Eye Tracking + Dwell for selecting.

Hands act as a pointer on the Quest, with a pinch action to select and drag.

spectre3d··on Steam Frame starts at $1059
That’s how it works with the Quest 3 on an updated OS. If you’re using hand tracking then you gaze + tap thumb and finger together to select, or pinch and hold to grab a corner for resizing or a border for dragging.
spectre3d··on App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours
I just refreshed my feeds and the typo is still there, although maybe that’s due to some part of my FreshRSS+Reeder setup.
spectre3d··on John C. Dvorak has died
“The Devil’s Advocate”, often on the last page.

https://vintageapple.org/macuser/

Example Feb 1989, “The NeXT Grand Scheme”

spectre3d··on Stop the Apple Music app from launching
The abbreviation doesn’t have to be the first few letters verbatim either. For example, I use ‘du’ to launch Disk Utility and ‘ff’ for Firefox.
spectre3d··on Stop the Apple Music app from launching
Like Quicksilver, Alfred, Launchbar, Butler, Raycast, and many other launchers, you can train Spotlight to always launch the same thing depending on what abbreviation you type.

The next time you go to launch Chrome, type ch and then use the arrow keys to navigate to the Chrome result to launch it.

You may have to do that for one more launch. After that it should always launch Chrome with ‘ch’.

spectre3d··on Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port
Smultron is a good one that I’ve been using for over a decade alongside BBEdit. The developer offers versions for 10.10 Yosemite and newer.

https://www.peterborgapps.com/smultron/

spectre3d··on macOS 27 won’t be supporting Intel anymore
The T2 chip is Apple silicon, and marked the beginning of really locking down the OS running on a Mac (as opposed to iOS, which was always locked down that way, and Intel Macs which of course could run anything).

It was the first mass market SoC hardware test of their new Mac chip design and it seems it was also to prep macOS for the M line. The level of control Apple gave it makes repair and refurbishing very difficult without Apple’s authorization.

T2 Overview PDF https://www.apple.com/jp/mac/docs/Apple_T2_Security_Chip_Ove...

spectre3d··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
> Many apps are missing many keyboard shortcuts that you may be used to

This is true. To see the ones that are available, hold down the command ⌘ key to get a scrollable list of all of the shortcuts for the app you’re currently using, and use Fn-m or globe key-m to see a list of the system shortcuts.

spectre3d··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
Yes, AdGuard works. That’s what I use, although I appreciate the other recommendations in the sibling comments above.
spectre3d··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
VNC and other Remote Desktop solutions work, I use an app called Screens to remotely manage my Macs and PC from an iPad with keyboard and mouse.

Or did you mean the other way around? It would be great to have the iPhone mirroring feature on iPads.

spectre3d··on Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware
> I believe what you wrote here has ten times more impact in convincing people.

Seconded. It was great to follow along in your post here as you unpacked what was happening. Maybe a spoiler bar under the article like “Into the weeds: A deeper dive for the curious”

I skimmed the article but couldn’t bring myself to sit through that style of writing so I was pleased to find a discussion here.

spectre3d··on Show HN: I Made Loom for Mobile
Same here, I was confused and disappointed when I clicked the link and was presented with yet another screen recorder.
spectre3d··on Making macOS Bearable
Hold down the Command key when you have something selected in Spotlight, it will reveal the path.
spectre3d··on Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'
Two iPads, an iPod Touch and an iPhone of mine have been made unusable by OS updates. If Apple had made the cutoff just one OS version sooner, then they would still feel snappy to use. They’re not actually bricked, but completely unusable and essentially e-waste.
spectre3d··on Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'
Agreed, pulling the phone out of a pocket with my thumb on the home button and having it unlocked and ready to use by the time I look at it is is ideal.

Much better than having to pull it out, hold in in a way that it can see my face, then swipe up, then wait for the stupid animation at the top of the screen to finish and the actual unlock to occur and then finally be able to use the device.

spectre3d··on iPhone Pocket
Except that Apple didn’t make this. It’s made by the Issey Miyake brand.
spectre3d··on iPhone Pocket
Agree with the frustration at their SSD and RAM upgrade prices, but Apple doesn’t make the iPhone Pocket. It’s made by the Issey Miyake brand.
spectre3d··on iPhone Pocket
The iPhone Pocket is not made by Apple. It’s made by the Issey Miyake brand.
spectre3d··on No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
> That’s not… an option for the workflow it’s currently being used in. I’ll hunt for more user-generated scripts to modify on that forum. Thanks for your response.
spectre3d··on No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
Thank you, good to know AHK is able to do part of what Keyboard Maestro can, it just requires more work and troubleshooting for every script/macro.

That example script also doesn’t let you simply drag a marquee selection to choose the image to find, you have to provide a file path to an image that already exists. That’s not

There must be a market for something more user friendly, at least on Windows.

spectre3d··on No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
I wish there was something like Keyboard Maestro for Windows or Linux. It seems like there isn’t. I’d love to be corrected, though!

From what I can tell, AHK can’t do (m)any of the cool things that KM does, like “Click at Found Image”, “Set the Find Pasteboard”, “Prompt for Screen Rectangle”, “Stream Deck Show OK”, “Increase Song Rating by Half a Star”, “OCR Image/Screen”, “Paste from Named Clipboard”, or many other useful actions. Is there any Windows or Linux application that can?

spectre3d··on How to turn liquid glass into a solid interface
“Show Borders” is available in Accessibility-> Display & Text Size in iOS 26.1. (Along with Increase Contrast and Reduce Transparency)
spectre3d··on What to do with an old iPad
It was a 10W. I ran many system-intensive games and only remember battery drain when using a smaller power brick, but never ran Geekbench on loop to test that.
spectre3d··on What to do with an old iPad
Perhaps with some tablets, but the iPad 2 and first gen shipped with an adapter (20W?) that didn’t allow that to happen, in my experience.
spectre3d··on New Huawei 96GB GPU
Yes, similar to the slower M4 Max option. The Mac Studio with either M4 Max or M3 Ultra uses 8533 MT/s LPDDR5X.

Memory bandwidth for the M4 Max is 410 GB/s with the 32-core GPU or 546 GB/s with the 40-core GPU. It’s 819 GB/s in the M3 Ultra config.

spectre3d··on New Huawei 96GB GPU
I took a gander: “Available for around $1,250 to $1,500 before shipping and potential import fees … if your primary bottleneck is VRAM for loading massive models … it is not an RTX 4090 replacement for high-speed inference on smaller models, but it is a VRAM barrier-breaker for running the giants of the open-source world.”

https://www.hardware-corner.net/huawei-atlas-300i-duo-96gb-l...

spectre3d··on Show HN: A Minimal Hacker News Reader for Apple Watch Built with SwiftUI
Looks good, nice to have the option of a dedicated HN app for watchOS instead of having to open a full-fledged reader like News Explorer. RSS on the watch is great.
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