Hasn’t the Prius also generally used NiMh batteries rather than the Lithium-based chemistries?

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That was the first time it really hit home to me how much it hurts to lose real talent from this world.

No deduplication. Before replying I tried doing some research to find where the 1 TB/1 GB rule came from originally but couldn’t find any original source, and everything I found said that was without deduplication, for dedup its supposed to be more like 5 GB/TB (no idea how true that is either)

Yeah, TB, oops, edited thanks!

That whole “1 GB per TB of capacity” is some generic rule someone made up once that doesn’t really have anything backing it up. It depends completely on your use case. If it’s mostly media storage that is rarely accessed, I’m sure that 4 GB is plenty.

I run a beefy TrueNAS server for a friends video production company with a 170 TB ZFS array, right now ARC is using 40 GB of RAM with 34 GB free that it’s not even bothering to touch, I’m sure most of the ARC space is just wasted as well. That’s just one example of how 1 TB = 1 GB makes no sense.

I’ve been dabbling in C development for classic Mac OS when I’ve had some spare time over the past year. I’ve been doing it directly on my old Macs, a PowerMac G4 when I’m at my desk or a PowerBook G3 Lombard when I’m in the living room.

I’ve been using CodeWarrior as a compiler/IDE. For documentation I have a copy of Inside Macintosh in HTML format from an old Apple Developer CD, a copy of “A Hobbyist’s Guide to Programming the Mac OS in C” in PDF format, and a program called “Toolbox Assistant” for quick reference. Occasionally using MacsBug as a debugger when I’m outside of the IDE. All of this can be found on Macintosh Garden or just Google.

edit: My focus has been more on utility-type applications but if you’re more into games or something there are a bunch of books here with different focuses https://vintageapple.org/macprogramming/

Whoever inside of Netflix pushed for this, you’re fighting the good fight!

13 running on my little Synology.

Actually more than I expected, I would have guesses closer to 8

Laptops have all but taken over from desktops for everything but AAA gaming. New houses are still built with zero Ethernet because “the internet is Wi-Fi right?”

People are using their laptops to edit video off of a NAS, MacBooks can run 100 GB LLMs. Heck even non-AAA games are many gigabytes.

I think Apple has the best sandbox UX. By default sandboxed apps have access to zero of your files. It can’t even see they exist. It’s only granted access to any file/directory the user manually selects through a system UI - opening through file type associations, the open/save dialogs, or drag & drop. This means that access is given seamlessly, there aren’t any prompts, and the user doesn’t even realize there’s a sandbox. If the program wants to manage a project, just have the user select the folder and all the sub-contents are also granted.

What happened to Second Life anyway? All the gooners are on VRChat now and they seem to be doing fine

I mean I’m a big fan of VR but it’s clearly been a money pit for meta, their massive investment in it is never going to pay back, they were betting on selling “metaverse” real estate rather than making money on the hardware

Windows 8 was where Microsoft went all-in on optimizing Windows to run on low-power tablets to compete with the iPad. It’s mostly remembered for the terrible tablet-first full-screen “start menu”, but also continued the work to trim away all the Vista bloat that had started with Windows 7 (where the motivation was to make it work on netbooks so they could finally stop shipping XP)

That’s not a solution. There is no other carrier that has the coverage I need.

The problem with eSIM as a concept is that it puts too much responsibility on the carrier, and there are way too many shitty carriers out there, and with the cost of building a network and the limited amount of spectrum, mobile carriers are not a functioning free market.

The screen died on my wife’s iPhone, fine I have other spare iPhones aplenty she can switch to. But at some point she had accepted a prompt on the iPhone to switch to eSIM so we couldn’t just move a physical SIM over, you had to go through the “transfer eSIM” menus, which we couldn’t do because the screen was dead. The only option the carrier gave us was going to a physical store.

I’m never switching my main carrier to eSIM, what a PITA for absolutely no upside.

(they’re great for throwaway travel SIMs though)

My parents came to visit my over xmas and installed Airalo to get a local SIM. Activation failed, the support AI bot re-issued the eSIM, activation failed again, it got escalated to human support, they asked for a refund, and 12 hours later randomly the phone popped up an “eSIM activated!” message. That would have sucked if you actually relied on needing the SIM on landing.

On my (OpenWrt) router, configured using the OpenWrt interface

Yeah they’ll log out in protest, but they’ll all be back in a week or so. Happens every time.

Their FAQ actually has an audio clip, haha https://forgejo.org/static/forgejo.mp4

The only way to stay sane

Anubis was originally created to protect git web interfaces since they have a lot of heavy-to-compute URLs that aren’t feasible to cache (revision diffs, zip downloads etc).

After that I think it got adopted by a lot of people who didn’t actually need it, they just don’t like seeing AI scrapers in their logs.