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A timeline of Mac processor transitions

K7PJP — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:52:00 +0000

Article URL: https://colinmckellar.com/2026/03/12/mac-processor-transitions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47448218

Points: 2

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New comment by K7PJP in "Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?"

K7PJP — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:31:42 +0000

Active General license holder here, although mostly on 2m as of late. I hope to get my HF station set up this spring.

Socialism AI: A historic advance in the political education of the working class

K7PJP — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:08:09 +0000

Article URL: https://ai.wsws.org/en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248978

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by K7PJP in "Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?"

K7PJP — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 01:29:07 +0000

They're referring to A-POC https://www.moma.org/collection/works/100361 In any case, these were sold in 10 Apple Stores worldwide, and only a single US store. They were aimed at an Asian audience, as far as I understand.

New comment by K7PJP in "Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28"

K7PJP — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:40:36 +0000

This isn't a new or unique move; Apple has never prioritized backwards compatibility.

If you're a Mac user, you expect this sort of thing. If running neglected software is critical to you, you run Windows or you keep your old Macs around.

New comment by K7PJP in "Apple M5 chip"

K7PJP — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:13:05 +0000

There was a company or two that made cases for the older Apple remotes with the express purpose of making them larger, which I always thought was kind of funny. I would buy one for the current remote if one existed.

New comment by K7PJP in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

K7PJP — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:28:42 +0000

Both the Mac Mini and the Apple TV use internal power supplies.

New comment by K7PJP in "USB-C for Lightning iPhones"

K7PJP — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 23:12:13 +0000

For what purpose? There are USB-C to Lightning adapters if you were using some specialized Lightning device you couldn't or didn't want to replace.

New comment by K7PJP in "In macOS Tahoe, Things Are Indeed Dire for FireWire"

K7PJP — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:24:08 +0000

It's been 10 years since any Mac shipped with a FireWire port. That was only because they kept selling a single 13-inch non-Retina MacBook Pro model for several years. That model was also the last MacBook Pro to include a built-in optical drive, a spinning hard disk drive, and a built-in Ethernet port.

I still have a FireWire-based MiniDV cam I use for digitizing video, so this provides good reason to keep an older machine around for said purposes.

Frame of preference A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004

K7PJP — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:14:19 +0000

Article URL: https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44505171

Points: 207

# Comments: 24

An update on improving passkey support in Linux

K7PJP — Fri, 23 May 2025 17:57:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.iinuwa.xyz/blog/linux-passkeys-update/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074976

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by K7PJP in "Plex no Longer Offers Free Remote Playback for Personal Media"

K7PJP — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:01:05 +0000

Plex just works, it's not weird at all. Also, I prefer proprietary software. It pays my bills.

New comment by K7PJP in "Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser"

K7PJP — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 18:59:17 +0000

I believe that's what Apple did for AirDrop, "Everyone for 10 Minutes" is available in AirDrop settings. You can also use NFC (Near-field communication) to initiate a transfer with a non-Contact, while optionally establishing a Contact relationship. If only this were also available on Android.

I think it'd be great if Apple supported this, even if it meant an Apple AirDrop app for Android. Especially if it meant an Apple AirDrop app for Android.

New comment by K7PJP in "Show HN: Bayleaf – Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard"

K7PJP — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 01:09:25 +0000

> My ideal keyboard would be taking a Magic keyboard (in black or space gray) and splitting it into two.

Me, too. I feel there's a lot of us who want precisely this. I want every key that's on the Magic Keyboard. I already have a number of other Karabiner bindings, like the Hyper key, so I'm adding "layers" that way.

New comment by K7PJP in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"

K7PJP — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:42:11 +0000

I can't repro this on macOS 15.3.1 with an Apple Studio Display. What display are you using? It's likely something related to color space translation.

Edit: Repro-ed using the additional steps you mentioned below. As someone who handles external bug reports and writes them, it's so often the case that there are additional steps or a specific start state required, which both prevents reproducing the bug and narrows the affected user base.

New comment by K7PJP in "Disappointed with the TVs at CES 2025"

K7PJP — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:41:10 +0000

What would you need a web browser on Apple TV for? I just Airplay from another device.

New comment by K7PJP in "Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?"

K7PJP — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:23:46 +0000

> Last time I had an Apple device the only way to backup was plugging it into a desktop with iTunes.

Apple's supported full iCloud backups and over-the-air restore for at least 11 years, maybe 13 years.

New comment by K7PJP in "Rosetta 2 creator leaves Apple to work on Lean full-time"

K7PJP — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 06:56:38 +0000

Where did Apple state that Rosetta 2 was to be deprecated?

New comment by K7PJP in "Only buy a magnetic keyboard for gaming"

K7PJP — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:39:26 +0000

I have never missed the numpad, as I am not an accountant.

New comment by K7PJP in "macOS Tips"

K7PJP — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 02:00:11 +0000

This is an excellent write up, it explains the logic of macOS in a way that is seldom understood.

I learned something here and I've been using OS X/macOS since 2003, and Macs since System 7. Like the author, I

> just enabled the “Show all filename extensions” checkbox in Finder settings, thinking that hiding file extensions was some sort of paternalistic simplification.

It's much smarter than that. It's worth disabling the setting and perusing the Finder to get a sense of how it works.