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New comment by cpt_sobel in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

cpt_sobel — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:42:14 +0000

> 7 inches to the iPad mini's 8 inches

These numbers don't correspond to the screen size though

New comment by cpt_sobel in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"

cpt_sobel — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:24:21 +0000

I think this is the most level-headed take I've read in a while, sums up perfectly the HN discourse on "AI taking our jobs", thanks!

New comment by cpt_sobel in "macOS needs its grid back"

cpt_sobel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:51:22 +0000

I also used to use BetterTouch tool just for this feature, no idea what they have been thinking over at Apple with this delay.

New comment by cpt_sobel in "Please Use AI"

cpt_sobel — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:20:24 +0000

I've always felt that his slop movies were just excuses to go film on some exotic island with his buddies, I'd have done the same :)

New comment by cpt_sobel in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

cpt_sobel — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:18:29 +0000

Don't they already have some subscription to get rid of ads?

New comment by cpt_sobel in "Please Use AI"

cpt_sobel — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:55:14 +0000

This movie hit harder than my highest expectations from an Adam Sandler movie.

New comment by cpt_sobel in "Please Use AI"

cpt_sobel — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:54:01 +0000

> Sometimes it feels like all digital technology is simply an enterprise to replace human to human contact.

Hasn't it always been the case that technology reduces the contact with other people? Now with cars we don't need to sit next to others on trains, we don't need to ask pedestrians for directions thanks to GPS etc.

New comment by cpt_sobel in "Ferrari Luce"

cpt_sobel — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:04:32 +0000

You're not getting it out of my head that they just used what would be the Apple Car design.

New comment by cpt_sobel in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

cpt_sobel — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:48:16 +0000

Their prices are currently so unreachable because of the big players hoarding every chip they can get their hands on, but if/when the market realizes that locally deployed LLMs are the way to go, maybe (hopefully?) then more chips will be available to the consumers for lower prices.

New comment by cpt_sobel in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

cpt_sobel — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:36:15 +0000

> It's hard to imagine quickly centering onto a headshot pixel (or group of maybe 12 pixels) with a trackpad

These days it's hard to imagine me doing it with a mouse even :) The gyro takes some getting used to but it can indeed be really precise

New comment by cpt_sobel in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

cpt_sobel — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:19:38 +0000

Does the release of the controller mean that valve solved the issues with the supply chain of their announced products? I know that the main problem is the rising prices of memory chips, but I would hope this leads to an announcement about the Steam Machine and (I'm still hoping...) HLX/HL3

New comment by cpt_sobel in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

cpt_sobel — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:17:17 +0000

I've always been a M+KB player and especially for FPS games I've always found it impossible to aim with the sticks, so the trackpads really helped in this regard. Especially for older games that may not natively support joysticks it was a game changer (I recently played Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay)

New comment by cpt_sobel in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

cpt_sobel — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:01:21 +0000

> Except in this Mint i've never tried

Well, Cinammon is the windows manager for Mint, it's the barebones experience that's the closest to Windows (?) style, it's mostly what you see is what you get, but still very customizable.

KDE used to be extremely buggy 5-6 years ago and since testing it on my Steam Deck, from my experience, this is no longer the case. It's a bit more feature-rich and flashier than Cinnamon.

> Can I run KDE on a box that idles at 10 W and never turns the fan audibly on?

No laptop I'm aware of will do this, no idea about ARM adoption.

Personally I'm glad to have a windows manager that doesn't force dumb decisions down my throat. On MacOS I have to wait for half a second for the focus to land on the next window when I switch desktops, the only workaround exists as a minor feature recently introduced to BetterSwitchTool called instant desktop switching or something. And it's to be mentioned ofcourse that for all similar fixes you _must_ give full screen recording and accessibility permissions to 3rd party software. And don't get me started on the stupid windows management (maximize != full-screen, minimized windows not recoverable with keyboard only etc)

New comment by cpt_sobel in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

cpt_sobel — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:32:31 +0000

> The problem that fucks us over is that Mac OS only has to be better than the competition.

I'm with you here, but I'm having a _much_ better time on my Linux machines (KDE and Cinnamon Mint) than on my (unbelievably-powerful-but-for-what) M4 Max MBP. It's so much cleaner, even without having upgraded to Tahoe, and imagine that I don't even like tinkering that much, it just works.

New comment by cpt_sobel in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

cpt_sobel — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:28:28 +0000

> Backseat industrial designing through legislation is not the answer.

But it _could_ save us from Lenovo or Dell or any other company copying Apple's design practices (and the latter largely already has), while, as another poster mentioned, not mandating design per se, but rather just setting minimum standards.

New comment by cpt_sobel in "Goodbye to Sora"

cpt_sobel — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:51:50 +0000

Drawings then?

New comment by cpt_sobel in "Goodbye to Sora"

cpt_sobel — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:34:47 +0000

What market? I thought the whole point was that Sora at the end of the day couldn't find a way to generate revenue

New comment by cpt_sobel in "Goodbye to Sora"

cpt_sobel — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:28:43 +0000

Are these the Memojis or whatever Apple calls them these days? Pretty much eveyry iOS update mentions them near the top of the list and I still have no idea where to find / create / care about them...

New comment by cpt_sobel in "Goodbye to Sora"

cpt_sobel — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:25:12 +0000

1.0 should be attributed to pornography _before_ online distribution, and I suspect that was pretty profitable

New comment by cpt_sobel in "The Neo cannot scale with macOS behind on the basics"

cpt_sobel — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:29:38 +0000

Have mostly had the same complaints with MacOS since the beginning. Also something I'd like to see mentioned is the refusal to add a tiny X on the corners of windows in the Mission Control view, and the only workaround I've found is some 8$ app on AppStore.

Still can't believe how much better it felt to log in to KDE (admittedly not my favorite) on my Steam Deck when I had to configure something and got to use the file manager. It just let me... do stuff that MacOS wants to hide from me. Cmd-shift-. to show hidden files, seriously? Cmd-shift-G to go to a path?!

I've been using MacOS exclusively for 5 years now and had forgotten how much I like working on linux - I definitely haven't forgotten how much I dislike Windows though...