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New comment by argsnd in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

argsnd — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:18:16 +0000

Is it an Intel MacBook? I think those sucked for obvious reasons outside Apple’s control (Intel getting stuck at 14nm for ages) which they’ve already fixed (by abandoning Intel).

The M1 MacBook Air was more powerful than the top Intel i9 MBP config if I recall correctly.

New comment by argsnd in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

argsnd — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:16:46 +0000

If you filled the negative space on an iPhone 17 Pro/Max it would be a horrendously unwieldy phone. People who say this stuff seriously underestimate the disastrous effect on ergonomics increasing the whole phone from 8.75mm to 13.2mm would have.

New comment by argsnd in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

argsnd — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:27:57 +0000

Your M2 MacBook Pro really struggles? That is genuinely crazy, given that I use one as a daily driver and it feels just as fast as the day I bought it.

I think the Apple Silicon transition has increased Mac longevity far beyond the Intel or PowerPC eras, and I am quite baffled you think otherwise.

New comment by argsnd in "[dead]"

argsnd — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:01:45 +0000

I’m sorry but that README.md is full of extremely obnoxious AI prose for what is essentially saying “buy an old Pixel and install Claude Code on it”

New comment by argsnd in "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"

argsnd — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:10:30 +0000

Safari’s reader mode is good for this. All you have to do is long press the icon on the left edge of the address bar.

New comment by argsnd in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

argsnd — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:52:14 +0000

Many planes have AC power outlets, the Wii uses <20W.

New comment by argsnd in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

argsnd — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:07:36 +0000

Supposing it is Adam Back, and supposing he lost his keys, he's still worth at least nine figures and is one of the most influential figures in the field he’s devoted his life to. Why would he wish he was dead?

New comment by argsnd in "Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026"

argsnd — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:07:06 +0000

Useful background on Mr. Stevenson

https://www.ft.com/content/7e8b47b3-7931-4354-9e8a-47d75d057...

New comment by argsnd in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

argsnd — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:18:09 +0000

The technologies listed aside from the Enigma were largely actually British (I say largely because Canadians were deeply involved in some cases)

New comment by argsnd in "Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of the same mass"

argsnd — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:07:56 +0000

Whatever humans are descended from existed during the time of the dinosaurs

New comment by argsnd in "A nearly perfect USB cable tester"

argsnd — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:15:55 +0000

LTT are fine. I would strongly consider their products if they had any warehousing in Europe to make shipping here cheaper.

New comment by argsnd in "Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing"

argsnd — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:40:49 +0000

Europe simply does not have enough known oil reserves to put a dent in current prices even if it exploited them all.

There may still be good arguments to do so anyway, such as it being less carbon intensive than importing oil, but there is absolutely no magic lever we can pull that would fix this problem that we're just not pulling due to renewables legislation.

New comment by argsnd in "Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi"

argsnd — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:03:34 +0000

That’s actually pretty cool, I’m surprised there’s skateboarders that still use VX1000s or whatever instead of moving on to GoPros etc

New comment by argsnd in "Drawvg Filter for FFmpeg"

argsnd — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:19:43 +0000

It looks like that project is dead, some googling turned up this one which seems active and popular

https://github.com/pyav-org/pyav

New comment by argsnd in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

argsnd — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:25:30 +0000

Separate from this policy debate I think you’ll find Australia is a country where the right frequently wins actual majorities of the vote.

New comment by argsnd in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

argsnd — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:03:31 +0000

Run ARM64 Linux and install Rosetta inside it. Even on the MacBook Neo it'll be faster than your 2020 Intel Mac.

New comment by argsnd in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

argsnd — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:13:45 +0000

The US simply has more numerous and more important companies that rely on being able to freely export their services globally. The leverage here is with Europeans not only because of this asymmetry but because there is also more political appetite there to punish America than there is in America to punish Europe.

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

argsnd — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:50:50 +0000

Apple has a motion sickness mitigation feature that displays dots on your screen that move based on physical motion, so it’s fairly well known that the accelerometer exists.

New comment by argsnd in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

argsnd — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:15:26 +0000

I disagree. Incrementing the minor number makes so much more sense than “gemini-3-pro-preview-1902” or something.

New comment by argsnd in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

argsnd — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:06:31 +0000

A lot of the cursor weirdness on macOS comes from the window server owning the cursor and only passing events to active windows.