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Agreed that there are more rough edges on Mac, but even then, I've been using Tahoe for months now and it's been fine. I hear podcasters saying that they're just skipping the entire Tahoe cycle and waiting until this fall's OS and I just don't get it.

Harper was acquired by Automattic in January 2025

https://automattic.com/2024/11/21/automattic-welcomes-harper...

One possible use case would be for police officers to scan driver licenses when pulling people over. When I worked for a city IT department, they had to have separate barcode readers installed in the cars for that, so I imagine it'd be nice to have it integrated into the laptop.

(This is just to help macOS Finder users, not to say, "Well, Finder can do it too!!)

You can select multiple files in Finder > Right-click on one of them > Rename. That'll bring up a modal with some bulk-rename options, including a name pattern. It's not intuitive, but was really cool when I found it for the first time!

I think it could be a combination of: 1. Marketing speak because it sounds better to compare it to the much slower Intel Macs than to the fast M1. Plus the gains between and M1 and M2 are marginal compared to Apple Silicon vs. Intel. 2. They are marketing more to Intel Mac owners/potential PC switchers rather than M1 owners.

What was your boss's reaction to having their phone get bricked?

Can they not already just sign into the website on their personal phones?

There's a great Safari extension on Mac called SmileAllDay that will automatically redirect you to the Smile version of Amazon.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/smileallday/id1180442868?mt=12

You can remove the icons from the home screen, but it doesn’t actually delete the app from the device storage. They’ve said that’s in case you need or want one of the apps again; it’ll “reinstall” essentially instantly.

iOS 13 drops support for the 6. It'll be 6s/SE and above for iOS 13. It'll be interesting to see what they do for iOS 14. I was surprised that they cut off both the 6 and 5s this year.

I thought somewhat similarly about World War I not being as interesting as later 20th century history until I listened to Dan Carlin's excellent "Blueprint to Armageddon". It's a multi-part Podcast going through WWI. I loved his style. Each episode is a few hours long, but it goes quick.

Here's part 1:

https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50-bluepr...

That makes sense that DFU would still work, since that would let the data continue to be protected and wiped.

Maybe I missed this in the article, but does anyone know if this feature can be turned off? Or if it's enabled by default?

What happens in the scenario of a consumer having an old iOS device sitting around, they forget the passcode, but now can't reset it using iTunes?

1. Always on and ready to go. Don't have to pull out a phone or other device

2. In my experience, understands me and responds way better and quicker than Siri on my iPhone

3. My wife and I love the Spotify integration and other little useful things like timers, alarms, etc.

Overall, it's the simply ease-of-use that keeps us using the Dot everyday.

Apple added an Emergency mode in iOS 11 that’s accessible by clicking the sleep/wake button five times. It also disables Touch ID/Face ID and requires the passcode after that. So if you think your phone will be seized, it’s a pretty quick way to disable everything but the passcode.

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/08/17/ios-11-emergency-sos-di...

There's also a great podcast interview between David Axelrod and Steve Kerr from several weeks ago:

http://podcast.cnn.com/the-axe-files-david-axelrod/episode/a...

Axelrod goes into Kerr's background, his reaction to the assassination of his father, etc. really great listen in my opinion. It's always fascinating to see someone who's in an expert in one field (pro basketball), have such a good understanding of something entirely different (Middle Eastern politics).

My older brother taught himself programming during college and was hired on remotely by a company based in SF to do basic dev for them. It wasn't with a major tech firm, but there are definitely remote possibilities out there for a junior dev.

It's the same here in the U.S, bring your own or buy their plastic reusable ones. The locations I've been too sometimes had spare boxes you could use, but that was pretty rare.

Sorry, I saw the article on Techmeme and posted it here. I didn't think about posting the original blog post, but I realize that would have been better.

I know that submitting articles gets you more karma, but I didn't do this to get more karma. I don't really care about getting more karma as I'm mostly just a passive observer of HN and not really an active participant.

I read a discussion on here the other day about abolishing submission karma, and I agree with it. It doesn't make sense why someone should get more karma just for posting a link, or if they do, more karma should be given for comments than for submissions.

I received a CR-48 as part of the ChromeOS pilot program. It's been nice to use during school for notetaking and general web browsing, but I could never see myself purchasing one on my own. Honestly, the only reason I haven't given it away is because of the free 100mb of 3G every month.

I could see Chromebooks being more popular if they were a more reasonable price, say $99, but the current ones are way to expensive. I think the problem is that they are basically regular netbook hardware with a free OS. The only difference between a Chromebook and a netbook is the free OS vs. a non-free OS. With it only being limited to the web, there's not much reason for the average consumer to choose a Chromebook over a netbook with all the extra features of Windows 7.