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New comment by hrdwdmrbl in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

hrdwdmrbl — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:23:12 +0000

Why not use WebRTC? 0 download.

(I'm all for alternatives to AirDrop. I'm all for AirDrop inter-operability. Nothing against those things.)

For LAN file sharing, you can do it with any browser. Implementations like: https://sendfiles.dev/ (though there are many others)

New comment by hrdwdmrbl in "Networking changes coming in macOS 27"

hrdwdmrbl — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:55:29 +0000

Other issues with Time Machine:

- Very slow, even on an M4.

- 3rd party devices are often unreliable. Not directly Apple's fault, but the lack of certification process hurts

- SMB extensions: In order for an SMB server to support Time Machine, it must support Apple's AAPL extensions to SMB (my understand of this my be a bit uncorrect)

- Network device connecting is separate from Time Machine device connecting. This causes an inconsistent UX.

- Not possible to browse a backup. You can only view file or folder's backup over time. In other words, you can scroll through time but you can't browse a single backup (point in time). This requires using 3rd party tools like BackupLoupe

New comment by hrdwdmrbl in "Drone attack on parked U.S. Army BlackHawk in Iraq"

hrdwdmrbl — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:55:06 +0000

How long until an F35 is destroyed by a drone?

New comment by hrdwdmrbl in "Drone attack on parked U.S. Army BlackHawk in Iraq"

hrdwdmrbl — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:54:17 +0000

" Trump said that “we don’t need help,” adding that the “last person we need help from is Zelenskyy.” "

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/iran-negotiate...

New comment by hrdwdmrbl in "Overcoming the friendship recession"

hrdwdmrbl — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:01:18 +0000

Unfortunately many people now strongly dislike receiving unexpected phone calls. You may (i have) genuinely upset some people by calling them. Yes, I’m rolling my eyes too, but that’s how they feel

New comment by hrdwdmrbl in "Lil Finder Guy"

hrdwdmrbl — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:19:09 +0000

IIRC it still uses Spotlight indexing under the hood

New comment by hrdwdmrbl in "Lil Finder Guy"

hrdwdmrbl — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:42:10 +0000

Clicked the link hoping for something that might improve Spotlight :/

New comment by hrdwdmrbl in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

hrdwdmrbl — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:51:05 +0000

Note: column staggered is harder to adjust to than a split keyboard

I did not realize this when I switched from one split keyboard to another. It’s fine, but it was a difficult adjustment.

New comment by hrdwdmrbl in "The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (2019)"

hrdwdmrbl — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:30:27 +0000

Hong Kong proved this wrong too...

New comment by hrdwdmrbl in "Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback"

hrdwdmrbl — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:17:55 +0000

This is an IS statment, not an OUGHT statement: Artists are very high-status / high-prestige. As such, their work and livelihoods are more important and more deserving of protectionism.

New comment by hrdwdmrbl in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

hrdwdmrbl — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:28:48 +0000

I would highly recommend Magnets to anyone users who prefer shortcuts anyway: https://magnet.crowdcafe.com/

New comment by hrdwdmrbl in "Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo"

hrdwdmrbl — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:32:42 +0000

I love the idea. It's bold. But, I hate it from an information architecture perspective.

This is something that is, of course, super relevant given context management for agentic AI. So there's great appeal in doing this.

And today, it might even be the best decision. But this really feels like an alpha version of something that will have much better tooling in the near-future. JSON and

Markdown are beautiful simple information containers, but they aren't friendly for humans as compared with something like Notion or Excel. Again I'll say, I'm confident that in the near-future we'll start to see solutions emerge that structure documentation that is friendly to both AIs and humans.

New comment by hrdwdmrbl in "Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 in Rust using AI"

hrdwdmrbl — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 05:10:46 +0000

As a goal for 2030, it doesn’t seem that wild. Shoot for the moon

New comment by hrdwdmrbl in "Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?"

hrdwdmrbl — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:11:32 +0000

Unfortunately, at the moment, for normal people, the legal system is our only option.

I am not a lawyer, but I have done this multiple times:

Read the T&C and search for "dispute" or "dispute resolution". Look for what you're supposed to do when you have a dispute. Follow the steps as outlined. Corporate lawyers generally take things seriously.

New comment by hrdwdmrbl in "WriterdeckOS"

hrdwdmrbl — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:47:46 +0000

Call me names but I couldn't work without an AI

New comment by hrdwdmrbl in "The death of industrial design and the era of dull electronics"

hrdwdmrbl — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 23:56:57 +0000

BS. Everyone is trying to make interesting designs - See Nothing and Teenage Engineering as just two examples.

New comment by hrdwdmrbl in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

hrdwdmrbl — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:43:19 +0000

I tried to like Matrix but the UX was just so bad! Switched to Mattermost and I couldn't be happier. Everything that I liked about Slack.

New comment by hrdwdmrbl in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

hrdwdmrbl — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:40:36 +0000

Can you elaborate on "threaded nature"? Mattermost has threads...

New comment by hrdwdmrbl in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

hrdwdmrbl — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:38:46 +0000

Sorry, you specifically mentioned "these dumps". I don't know about "those" dumps. Mattermost and Element can import everything from Slack, but it might require following their instructions.

New comment by hrdwdmrbl in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

hrdwdmrbl — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:37:55 +0000

Yes, both Mattermost and Element have tools that can.

(BTW, I tried Element and regretted it (massively lacks polish) before switching to Mattermost and I'm loving it!)