Hacker News: angulardragon03

New comment by angulardragon03 in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

angulardragon03 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:55:23 +0000

> Everything that isn’t a MacBook will be more expensive than a MacBook

Unrelated, but never thought I’d see this kind of sentiment

New comment by angulardragon03 in "Bluesky's 2025 $100M Series B Lays Foundation for Open Social Web"

angulardragon03 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:13:22 +0000

Weird to raise $100M and not announce it for almost a year, imo. But the fund leading the round is also crypto-focussed, which doesn’t seem like it would go down well with large swathes of the user base.

New comment by angulardragon03 in "MacBook Neo"

angulardragon03 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:01:12 +0000

It is - you’re not trained to upsell, only to give the customer what they need to do what they want.

Can be a little annoying (an employee actively tried to downsell my partner, even though they knew what they wanted), but overall it’s a nice practice.

New comment by angulardragon03 in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

angulardragon03 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:32:05 +0000

This. You can’t downgrade below the version the device ships with (a forked build of the current version at time of mass production)

New comment by angulardragon03 in "Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit"

angulardragon03 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:09:21 +0000

It’s also for macOS

New comment by angulardragon03 in "Bugs Apple loves"

angulardragon03 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:45:29 +0000

Yes - all ABM accounts are Managed Apple Accounts, not Personal ones. You can’t mix and match (they each have different features).

New comment by angulardragon03 in "Can you slim macOS down?"

angulardragon03 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:15:48 +0000

I use a Mac because I have no desire to maintain a Linux box. The software I want is all there, it has a great *nix terminal, and the hardware quality is second to none. I work with computers all day - at home I just want to be able to focus on the task at hand.

New comment by angulardragon03 in "Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs"

angulardragon03 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:28:04 +0000

Required for Windows certification nowadays iirc

New comment by angulardragon03 in "I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero"

angulardragon03 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 14:33:30 +0000

Idle - low usage Minecraft server was the issue for me

New comment by angulardragon03 in "I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero"

angulardragon03 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:45:24 +0000

All fine and well, but oracle will threaten to turn off your instance if you don’t maintain a reasonable average CPU usage on the free hosts, and will eventually do so abruptly.

This became enough of a hassle that I stopped using them.

New comment by angulardragon03 in "Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software"

angulardragon03 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 08:24:28 +0000

This. It’s technically possible (the same way Asahi uses), but Microsoft has to bring the support in Windows.

New comment by angulardragon03 in "Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software"

angulardragon03 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:16:46 +0000

No, because there is no codesigning/notarization on Linux.

New comment by angulardragon03 in "A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad"

angulardragon03 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 11:32:29 +0000

Yes, system_profiler is just a terminal version of System Information.

New comment by angulardragon03 in "Sora Update #1"

angulardragon03 — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 23:02:05 +0000

Gotta juice the utilisation numbers somehow. Limiting everyone to 10 per day would kneecap them, and they’d have nothing with which to attract new investors to keep the gravy train going

New comment by angulardragon03 in "Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers"

angulardragon03 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:48:07 +0000

Honestly no idea. Hopefully! And hopefully you’ll be able to vote with it.

I just have a magnetic wallet on the back of my iPhone with the two cards and my travel card, so I always have them. I don’t carry a physical payment card or cash so don’t need a wallet otherwise

New comment by angulardragon03 in "Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers"

angulardragon03 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:15:12 +0000

The counterpoint to this is obviously that the requirement to present ID to vote is tantamount to voter suppression - iirc there is no “free” form of ID in the UK.

As an ex-Brit I am also used to carrying an ID and a drivers license, and I’ve always found it quite weird that you can’t get an ID card of any kind that isn’t a full-fledged passport or a drivers license.

New comment by angulardragon03 in "Apple: SSH and FileVault"

angulardragon03 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:27:26 +0000

Yeah iirc they have moved some stuff around that sshd relied on into the pre-boot volume, so it works exactly as you describe.

New comment by angulardragon03 in "Sometimes Software Is Done, or Why Hugo Why (2024)"

angulardragon03 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 11:01:59 +0000

Hugo is a static site generator, so I can host my site anywhere that can serve an index.html.

With Wordpress, you have to worry about PHP, a database, etc. It’s the difference between being able to use GitHub pages, and needing either a VPS or shared hosting

New comment by angulardragon03 in "Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars"

angulardragon03 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 07:48:33 +0000

… how do you think the cruise control decelerates you? Is this a troll post?

New comment by angulardragon03 in "The Danish Ministry of Digitalization Is Switching to Linux and LibreOffice"

angulardragon03 — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 10:03:27 +0000

Macs are fine for mass admin. Companies like Meta, SAP, and IBM have fleets numbering in the 6 figures that they manage with no issue.

I manage almost a thousand Macs at a financial institution with ease.

If you’re using Intune for Mac management, I would understand your perspective a bit more.