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Hetzner has been allowing a lot of spam lately and doing nothing about it, so I've been blocking it for all my clients. Something to consider. If you send email, it may be blocked.

Download doesn't seem to work. The VMware download area closed in late April, and can't seem to download Fusion now. The replacement store doesn't seem to be available yet.

I'm using Parallels and it is great on an Apple Silicon Mac, but I'm a long-time VMware Workstation and Fusion user, so I'd like to try it again.

Loading time is not an issue for me. I run tmux so my sessions stay alive and performance is very quick. M2 MacBook Air with 16GB RAM, using Warp terminal. Using OMZ with Dracula Theme and mosh for remote servers.

Electric car range varies widely depending on how you use it and conditions, regardless of which car brand or model you use. Our family has a Nissan Leaf and a Tesla Model 3 and both ranges vary widely depending on how you drive.

Driving at 80mph on a highway will greatly reduce the range of any EV, compared to 45 mph. Using high-draw features like heating (also depends on the type of heating used) will also drain the battery faster.

Cold temperatures also reduce range, but it depends on the EV. Teslas cool or heat the battery to keep an optimal battery temperature. Nissan Leaf uses air cooling, which means repeated supercharging in hot weather overheats the battery, so they cannot make long trips. So Teslas are less affected by hot and cold temperatures than some other EVs. So it depends on the EV.

EV users need to educate themselves on how electric cars operate regarding range. It's not unique to Tesla by any means.

Wow this article is so wrong in my experience. $50/month for my Nissan Leaf vs $200/month for a Honda CR-V, charging at home.

This looks interesting, but a better option in my opinion is to use the Local app (on Mac) to install a lightweight VM running WordPress in seconds. Then you have all the tools, for example phpmyadmin and MySQL database management, all running locally on your Mac, and with Internet access. Open Source and free to use.

https://localwp.com

This is exactly why I stopped using Linux as my personal computer many, many years ago. I could do it, yes, but just got tired of spending hours fixing random weirdness. I have work to do! Love, love love it on servers, and have many. But I use macOS on my Mac and everything runs smoothly for me…

I meant to add that Luma Fusion also runs on the M1/M2 Mac as well as iPad.

Pay the cancellation fee and learn from it, to read the terms and conditions before you buy.

Then in the future, depending on your needs, use alternative applications, like many of the excellent Affinity programs such as Affinity Photo (vs Adobe Photoshop), Affinity Designer (vs Adobe Illustrator), etc. that are an affordable one-time purchase. Likewise Luma Fusion video editor (on iPad) instead of Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut.

And did you report it to Tesla by pressing the button on the screen?

I thought not.

Oh wait, they didn't actually turn on Full Self Driving, so the whole "test" is bogus.

Disingenuous.

I’ve run the Windows ARM beta on my M1 MacBook Pro 13” and it boots quickly, runs fast and well, under Parallels. Office works good too. I had assumed that since this was a beta, that a regular ARM release would be coming soon, but apparently not? I use it to test compatibility for websites in Windows web browsers. They all work fine too.

When will there be an iPad version?

If you have a subscription to Apple News or Apple One, you can search for and view the entire article. Many WSJ articles are included in Apple News along with other paywalled service articles.

I set up a copy, thanks for sharing!

I've been using Linux for more than 20 years. For many years it was my primary computer platform, until I moved to the Mac.

I recently put the latest Ubuntu LTS Linux on a spare laptop, as I needed a laptop. Sure, it was fun configuring everything for a day or so. But then it started to grind me down, as Linux always seem to do (for a personal computer - it's fantastic on servers).

Then I had a new, big project come in and bought a new MacBook Pro 13" with the M1 chip.

Wow.

I have never had a computer anywhere near as nice as this. Very fast. Light. Days of battery. Screen is fantastic. Best keyboard I've ever used. Best trackpad I've ever used by far. Never gets hot, barely warm, fan rarely comes on. I can do things like extend my screen to my iPad Pro 12.9" OR use Universal Control to control both from either keyboard/mouse/trackpad.

It has the Touchpad, which I'm undecided about but mostly like.

I work on Linux servers all the time, and the free/open source iTerm2 is a really really good terminal app.

It's BSD Unix under the hood, so most Linux commands also work here, and there's Homebrew to install whatever you like.

And the productivity apps are fantastic, many of which only exist on the Apple platforms, like Omnifocus.

So yes, I like Linux, but I'm so much more productive using a Mac these days.

So I don't really get where the OP is coming from.

Like window tracking - yes, I've used that on Linux but I actually find it equally annoying. If it's on, I don't like it. If it's off, I sometimes miss it ;-)

I’m not sure why he is singling out Apple. All the services scan cloud content for child porn, like Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc.

Apple is not looking at images, it makes a hash of the images and then looks to see if they match known child porn. Only it there is an excessive amount (30 images is what I read previously) do they do anything.

There is a lot of evil in this world, including child porn, and up to this point not a whole lot is being done about it.

I think this is a good step.

Do I want them look for anything further, no, of course not.

But as I said, Apple isn’t alone in this. Google is reported to censor user documents in the Google Cloud. That to me is far, far worse than what Apple is doing.

You’re safest on an Apple device, far more than Windows or Android, but people single out Apple.

I just don’t get it.

Been using mosh for years now, couldn’t imagine working without it!

Been using it for months with my MacBook Pro and iPad Pro and it works great!

I tried Sublime Text a few years ago, and it was OK, but I’m still sticking with Emacs which is burned into my muscle memory. I can use it with or without a GUI (I never use the menu) like in a remote SSH command line. The thing that could get me to move was if there was a Mac AND iPadOS version of Sublime Text.

Looking ahead, now with the M1 chip on the iPad Pro, it seems the next step for Apple would be to allow a lot more power in iPadOS, especially since it is a different OS than iOS on iPhone. We shall see. In the meantime, I plan to get the 2021 iPad Pro 12.9 to replace my 2018 12.9 and look forward to WWDC for any iPadOS announcements.

I never used Hypercard back in the day. But I recently started using Obsidian, and it has the idea of cards/notes and linking to them. It’s built on Markdown files, and you can use it for Zettelkasten if you wish.

Linking notes (or even creating them) is as easy as type [[ and then type the (new) name and ]] and boom it is linked or a new note created (as you type the name it searches for existing notes of course).

A powerful idea, but it appears that it is anything but new lol

https://obsidian.md

Use for free on Mac, Windows, Linux. Support them for early access to iOS and Android beta apps. Stores all your notes as plaintext markdown files.

Optionally pay to sync (encrypted) with their sync across devices.

I really like Markdown - that’s what brought it to my attention.

I put Elementary OS on my 2012 MacBook Air. I’m a very experienced Linux user, but in the past I had to fiddle a lot with things, especially on Mac hardware.

It setup Ubuntu 18.04 very well, with wifi, Bluetooth, audio, ethernet, those are not unusual. But also the brightness controls, the keyboard backlighting controls, the trackpad, the volume control keys. Everything and all hardware worked out-of-the-box. I was very pleasantly surprised. Been using it for months now and it works a charm. And yes I made a donation and was very happy to do so.

Kudos!

Can’t you just pull the drive from the failed server, extract the DNS entries and build a new DNS server? It doesn’t sound like everything is broken, just that it is failing because the DNS server isn’t answering. Just install Linux on a new box and set up a DNS server on it. It could be done in a day I would expect. Or am I missing something?

Works the same as an additional monitor- which is what it is. The Dummy Plug creates the second monitor thru native support in the OS. Deskreen connects your additional device to it via a web browser. I installed it on Ubuntu and had it working in two minutes, using my iPad Pro 12.9” as a second monitor ;-) Looks and works good and decent latency.

OK, I’m very handy with Linux and tried X11/VNC mods before to do this but with no success, and they were very complex.

This - Deskreen - I ordered a dongle on Amazon, plugged it in, installed Deskreen with a single command and boom it works! Multiple resolutions available to choose from, decent performance, kudos!

This is on Ubuntu 18.04 with an iPad Pro 12.9” and it looks glorious.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU ;-)

Except that screen is dead :-/

You should try tmux over ssh over mosh. Your session lives on thanks to tmux. And mosh reconnects you automatically, even when your IP address changes ;-)

There is a “colored-man-pages” plugin for zsh, which I had turned on already, and promptly forgotten.

I was puzzled because my man pages are already colorized ;-)

Your bias is showing. Good article overall, but you repeatedly state the Hunter Biden laptop story is false. Yet some of those in the email chain have verified authenticity of the emails. And how do you “fake” a whole Mac hard drive contents? I don’t believe it is possible.

Plus: * The hard drive wasn’t “stolen” - it was forfeited when the customer didn’t pick it up and pay the bill. That’s called a mechanic’s lien. Try taking your car into the shop and then never pick it up - same thing happens. * So at that point the laptop belongs to the shop. * How is it “stolen”, then? * If I had a laptop like that in my possession, I would be afraid too, and want to hand it off!

You’re being disingenuous :-/

This is a very helpful reminder ;-) It’s not about you or about showing how smart you (think you) are, but about being helpful and helping others to grow.

Thank you for updating my favorite editor of all time ;-)