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thebitstickon I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework

This will never happen, but the ideal laptop for me would be a Framework Laptop 13/16 with an Apple Silicon mainboard and OLED display.

The soldered RAM of the Framework Desktop has already opened the door to soldered RAM on Framework Laptop mainboards.

thebitstickon Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android

Open -> Click away the error message -> Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Open Anyways -> Open Anyways -> Authenticate -> app actually opens

thebitstickon Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 released

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD should be revived.

thebitstickon Show HN: Local LLM Notepad – run a GPT-style model from a USB stick

> But in fact for most hackers reading this site

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#1-operating-...

thebitstickon Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?

Me when I lie

thebitstickon Power of local LLMs especially with new Apple chips

Local LLM use isn't really continuous though. You're comparing Apples to oranges.

For training especially and for the datacenter, NVIDIA cards still make absolute sense. But for consumer use cases, and even for developers, it's not so cut and dry. Very comparable performance for short-term bursts of compute.

thebitstickon What does and doesn't matter about Apple shooting their October event on iPhone

Mac never had a 30-pin adapter, so lightning makes no sense. Mac also had Thunderbolt 2 with the miniDP port, and switched to Thunderbolt 3 with a USB-C port.

thebitstickon The first stable release of a memory safe sudo implementation

On a server, absolutely. On a desktop, the user is usually the administrator anyways. UAC exists on Windows land and the Administrator account is disabled for a reason.

thebitstickon A real-time 3D digital map of Tokyo's public transport system

Apple adds FeliCa and NFC radios to all iPhones worldwide. Only Android phones sold in Japan have FeliCa radios, worldwide models only have a NFC radio.

thebitstickon Purism Launches New Secure Librem 11 Tablet

Reminder that Purism cannot be trusted to actually ship hardware or issue refunds. You've been warned.

thebitstickon iOS 17 Can Automatically Remove Tracking Parameters from URLs in Safari

> It can even be enabled for regular Safari browsing. On the iPhone, open the Settings app, tap Safari → Advanced → Advanced Tracking and Fingerprinting Protection, and select All Browsing. Users can also turn off the feature in this menu if they prefer not to use it at all.

thebitstickon Japan: sales of train ticket/shopping payment cards suspended indefinitely

This is because ICOCA/PASMO/Suica use FeliCa rather than NFC for data. All iPhones have both FeliCa and NFC. Only Japanese Android phones would bother added FeliCa.

thebitstickon Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs

I have the opposite opinion for macOS shortcuts vs Linux/Windows/IBM shortcuts.

Practically everything is handled with Cmd, with Option/Shift/Control being modifiers. It's the exception if something is handled exclusively with Option/Shift/Control, example being web browsers and Finder for tabs. Text selection is superior in macOS, and anyone who argues PgUp/PgDn/Home/End being a better solution in combination with Shift and Ctrl is insane. Depending on the port of a 3rd-party application, it may adopt macOS shortcuts and be consistent with everything else, or keep IBM/Windows-style shortcuts and break compatibility with other apps.

thebitstickon Developers' Early Experiments with VisionOS

You can do AR experiences. The point of the whole article is to showcase app developers who have existing apps getting their apps up and running quickly.

thebitstickon Rule Changes for /R/Wellthatsucks

Well that sucks

thebitstickon Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?

Unless you're accustomed to them being on the left, in which being on the right is the weird thing.

Red means stop, yellow means slow/yield, green means go, which in the context of window management doesn't make sense, but if you think about it differently, a good 40% of it makes sense. Red means stop existing, yellow means yield to other windows, and green means... go big?

thebitstickon Getting ready to ship 13th Gen and announcing power saving Expansion Cards

I love what the company is doing and I really want to support their business, but I just can't get away from macOS.

Hackintoshes aren't super viable anymore, so I have a pie-in-the-sky hope that there will be a viable general arm64 chip for laptops that one day Framework could adopt for Windows-on-ARM and Linux, and that someone will get macOS working on it.

thebitstickon WWDC Announced on June 5, 2023

Duplicate thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35360080

thebitstickon Universal Summarizer by Kagi – Summarize any content on the web

It was paywalled because you are not the product.

thebitstickon Ask HN: How to opt-out from Chat GPT crawling?

"...public content website..."

thebitstickon LibreOffice 7.5 launches with better dark mode support and much more

There's a great fork of LibreOffice called NeoOffice that makes the app feel more native to macOS. https://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php

thebitstickon Apple Business Connect

Phone call or some kind of document verification.

Phone call just involves typing a verbal authentication code. Very simple.

thebitstickon The Arc browser is the Chrome replacement I’ve been waiting for

Orion is worth the try if you're on Mac.

https://browser.kagi.com

thebitstickon A secret Apple Silicon extension to accommodate an Intel 8080 artifact

wine32on64 is used to translate x86 Windows APIs to x86_64, WINE translates these to x86_64 POSIX, and then Rosetta 2 translates these to aarch64 POSIX.

thebitstickon Apple’s Next Change for Siri: Dropping ‘Hey’ from ‘Hey Siri’ Trigger

I can set an alarm for my washing machine while walking up the stairs on my smartwatch. Just makes routines easier.

thebitstickon Testing Microsoft's Windows Dev Kit 2023

All valid and true points on x86_64.

Windows on ARM ruins everything Windows offers.

- No gaming due to poor emulation

- Usually pricy Surface devices

- macOS on ARM has waaaaay better commercial support

- Do any WoA devices even have USB4?

- WSL still exists, and is better than anything on the Mac

- No hardware upgradability

- More hassle than Linux, since everything is compiled natively for aarch64

thebitstickon FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix to serve video at 800Gb/s [pdf]

macOS is not a UNIX-based operating system. It used to be marketed as "UNIX" but only because it met the Open Group's POSIX standards.

thebitstickon The Browser Company’s Darin Fisher thinks it’s time to reinvent the browser

Every Orion update makes the browser even better. With Safari and Firefox updates I'm always worried what they've made worse... Chrome is the absolute worst.

thebitstickon Driver thanks Tim Cook after crash detection saves his life

What percentage of people do you believe drive a car newer than 2018?