mike_pol · HackerTrans

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I recently got the Garmin Instinct Crossover with solar charging, basically if you turn off all the features that the OP did you get infinite battery life more or less. It functions as a normal watch with hands and can do most of the smart notifications. I've turned off all notifications apart from calls/messages so it doesn't constantly beep and have been very happy with it so far.

mike_pol

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

I was sure it was going to be about it as well! 3D touch was a really cool feature. I also find now that it’s a lot easier to activate the flashlight or camera on the Lock Screen since they are not ‘buttons’ any more

mike_pol

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

I appreciate where you’re coming from but experiencing the joy of dual clutch automatics and their shifts in BMWs and Audis that I had the joy to diving might change your mind. The latency you mention is really not there. Admittedly I could not service it if it broke but aren’t cars consumables now?

mike_pol

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

I think this 100%. The problem with Linux is that it’s not controlled by a single company, there are many components developed by different contributors which have different interests. There is no single gui framework, no design guidelines so even the out-of-the-box software you get with any mainstream distribution doesn’t look cohesive. It simply lacks the polish of macOS.

Hardware wise I think if you use modern (i.e not older than 5 years) and also not just released hardware you are mostly ok. I haven’t had any driver problems, but that’s not to dismiss other peoples’ experience.

mike_pol

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Whilst I agree with you for writing queries, the gui tools provide some nice tools. I haven’t used postico but I regularly use sequel pro and the ease to write a query and export results via csv that non technical people might need is a great feature. I’m sure there is a way to do it in command line but for me I find it a lot easier as I’m not a db admin.

Also gui tools are really useful for visualising content in tables with a lot of columns.

mike_pol

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Text looks sooo much better in 4K. Antialiasing especially around curves kills text for me in 1080p. Plus if you have good eyesight you can fit more text on your screen.

mike_pol

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

iPad Pro 13 with the keyboard accessory? A bit pricey for what it is but I run my whole workflow away from my workstation on one of these. Super bright high resolution screen with excellent colours and iSh can be used with tmux on a vps if you need some light code editing.

mike_pol

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Yeah I had exactly the same problem myself on iOS, I'm really promoting it to all my friends and family but this is quite a bad bug. Also I've noticed that sometimes that calls don't connect through and the person will only notice the missed call when he relaunches the app.

mike_pol

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

You can go to the control centre or whatever it's called when you pull down from the battery side of the screen and tap and hold the volume widget, you can then drag your finger up/down to change the volume in small increments. I have the same issue as you when I'm listening to stuff at night.

mike_pol

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Had the same problem with mine. You need to change the sleep mode. You need to change sleep to mem_sleep_default=deep

mike_pol

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

You can use an app such as HealthFit (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/healthfit/id1202650514) to export your data. Downside is that you have to pay for what should have been built in functionality but I guess $3 is reasonable. I use it all the time as I record my runs with the Workouts app and sync them to Strava (since Strava doesn't play nice with the health app and locks your data).

mike_pol

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

Yi cameras are quite cheap but good quality (xiaomi is behind that company I think). There is a custom firmware you can load that will enable ftp and ssh so you can grab the recordings from your home server and push them wherever you want, bypassing the need to use their cloud.

mike_pol

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

Agreed on password fields, however if you have a webapp crm it causes so many problems. And also giving a solution of "hey just put something that we don't understand in the autocomplete so we won't try to autocomplete it" is really not a solution at all.

Imagine if instead of autocomplete it was something like ignoring font sizes/color because they detected that engagement was low when font size was whatever so they render it differently. A browser should render HTML not make decisions like these

mike_pol

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

For me the high CPU usage seems to happen because of the video background. As soon as I remove the <div class="video-background"></div> the CPU usage drops to normal on my MacBook Pro (with integrated GPU)

mike_pol

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

I do if I feel the content is worth it and I currently have multiple subscriptions. However I'm not going to allow ads from any blogger that believes that because I view his content I have to support his website regardless of the quality. The claim that independent bloggers need ad revenue for hosting costs is a joke when you can get dedicated hosting for less than your phone contract, and if you want revenue, create something that is worth it, so people would want to subscribe. Also I will always block 3rd party cookies/trackers regardless.

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