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New comment by duncanc4 in "Men Lose Life Satisfaction with Fewer Hours in Employment: Mothers Do Not"

duncanc4 — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 18:40:58 +0000

No way. I reduced to 30 hours a week and I’m never going back to full time. I use the extra time for my own projects or other things that need to get done. Such a huge improvement in quality of life.

New comment by duncanc4 in "Bullshit Has Dominated the Tech Industry"

duncanc4 — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 08:27:03 +0000

The butterfly keyboard was pretty terrible. They continued selling the model for years before finally removing it. Customers didn’t get any recourse until the recent lawsuit, but that only applies to certain US states. Apple still denies any wrong doing.

New comment by duncanc4 in "What things did you purchase that enhanced the quality of your life in 2022?"

duncanc4 — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 11:34:09 +0000

Steam Deck.

I got it to replace playing games on an Intel Mac, as Mac has become a worse platform for gaming (32bit dropped, OpenGL deprecated, no Vulkan support, and now developers would have to support Apple Silicon).

The plan was to use it mainly in desktop mode, but it has been really amazing for handheld gaming, that I game more on the couch and in bed with it than as a desktop.

Also Proton works really well and it is great to be able to boot in to a full Linux desktop environment. It’s so refreshing to have control of the device and to use it how I want.

New comment by duncanc4 in "Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)"

duncanc4 — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 07:00:29 +0000

Is it? I’m using Orion on iOS and privacy report has multiple google font domains being contacted by Orion.

New comment by duncanc4 in "The erosion of the Mac experience"

duncanc4 — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 07:49:27 +0000

I have been a Mac and iOS developer for 7 years now and am moving away. I feel like Apple treats developers really poorly from App Review process to forced updates of your hardware/OS/Xcode.

New comment by duncanc4 in "The future of work isn't just remote, it's part-time"

duncanc4 — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 18:58:25 +0000

I don’t have any numbers, but some job postings will say full time, part time, or will have a minimum number of hours they offer. Some will also give a percentage range of hours they offer of part time to full time.

If the posting doesn’t say, I just brought it up during the initial call so we were on the same page before continuing the interview process. Most German companies didn’t have a problem with it, but I found that UK and US companies did.

Keep in mind working hours are fixed in your contract and it’s not unspecified like in the US.

New comment by duncanc4 in "The future of work isn't just remote, it's part-time"

duncanc4 — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 16:40:23 +0000

It’s already common to work part time as a software engineer here in Germany. I work 30 hours a week (6 hours a day) and have 75% of a full time salary. I actually get the same amount of vacation as full time since the vacation is based on working five days a week and not working 40 hours a week. There is no loss of benefits.

New comment by duncanc4 in "Ask HN: How on earth are you using your Apple computer with external displays?"

duncanc4 — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 07:58:02 +0000

I have a 2018 Mac mini and have problems waking it up from sleep. It was significantly worse when using the HDMI port on the Mac mini, I would get snow on the external display. Switching to USB-C eliminated the snow, but it still takes a long time for the monitor to receive the signal when waking up.

I have a 2011 MacBook Pro and had no problems on the same monitor.

New comment by duncanc4 in "Apple and Google’s mobile browser ‘stranglehold’ may face UK investigation"

duncanc4 — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 11:52:11 +0000

Use Yattee, it blocks ads and improves your privacy.

I have a developer account and just resign their ipas to install it. Looks like you could install it via TestFlight as well.

https://github.com/yattee/yattee

New comment by duncanc4 in "Git Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Windows and Mac"

duncanc4 — Tue, 31 May 2022 17:08:09 +0000

I also had the opposite experience. I used Sourcetree for a while, but the performance became really bad, so I switch to Fork and have never looked back.

New comment by duncanc4 in "Booting a Mac Studio from an external SSD, and what it doesn’t solve"

duncanc4 — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 12:24:59 +0000

There was a post on HN recently talking about how SMART isn’t available over USB without a third part kernel extension: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30976160

New comment by duncanc4 in "Ask HN: What do you do to recharge after a day of work?"

duncanc4 — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 18:26:18 +0000

For me the biggest change was to switch to working part time. I now work six hours a day instead of eight and don’t get mentally exhausted.

I have energy to work on my own projects or do whatever with the two free hours.

I don’t ever want to go back to full time, it’s so exhausting.

New comment by duncanc4 in "Proposed EU rules would require clothes to last longer and be easier to repair"

duncanc4 — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 16:32:45 +0000

I found their jeans to not be good quality. I had a pair get holes after one year of use.

New comment by duncanc4 in "My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll"

duncanc4 — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 07:57:28 +0000

Long time Apollo user, I had no idea you could disable the infinite scroll. Thanks for mentioning it!

New comment by duncanc4 in "Tell HN: I got 10x Hetzner storage at the same price"

duncanc4 — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 19:54:38 +0000

They changed their storage share (hosted Nextcloud) offerings as well. I had NX10 100GB for €3.45, which is now gone. The NX11 1TB is €4.64 and the base offering.

New comment by duncanc4 in "Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?"

duncanc4 — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 09:29:26 +0000

This worked. Funny that this bug will cause people to turn off the opt-out data collection. No one is going to turn it back on after the issue is fixed.

New comment by duncanc4 in "Google Voice has stopped forwarding SMS"

duncanc4 — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 06:48:54 +0000

I have issues with Uber 2FA not sending a SMS to my Twillio number. Nothing arrives. 2FA via call works, just not SMS.

New comment by duncanc4 in "Mac OS update failed for the first time in 19 years"

duncanc4 — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 10:16:58 +0000

I hate this as a developer. I feel this is done to force you to buy newer hardware sooner. The SDKs could be decoupled from the Xcode version.

You can work around it a little bit by installing the iOS device support files manually without updating Xcode, but it only allows you to deploy to the device. If you want to build against the newer SDK, you have to update.

Going forward this is one of the reasons I don’t want to personally develop any more apps, as I don’t want to be forced to buy new macs every five years or so.

New comment by duncanc4 in "Alex Stamos on Apple's new child safety protections"

duncanc4 — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 08:59:31 +0000

> Would something like this ever be acceptable on a laptop?

Apple announced this for macOS as well. It’s not just for iOS.

New comment by duncanc4 in "Bacon may disappear in California as pig rules take effect"

duncanc4 — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 18:46:02 +0000

Isn’t the reason it is cheap is because they have really horrible living conditions? Organic meat where the animals are treated properly is expensive.