Hacker News: jammmety

New comment by jammmety in "Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities"

jammmety — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 10:42:05 +0000

Apple's AAC encoders are often touted as being the 'best', quality-wise: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,119876.0.html

New comment by jammmety in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

jammmety — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 01:21:10 +0000

I suspect the data transfer requirements of CarPlay can be handled by USB2

New comment by jammmety in "Apple's iCloud+ “VPN”"

jammmety — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 15:09:16 +0000

Apple said it also will not offer "private relay" in Belarus, Colombia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Uganda and the Philippines.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/apples-new-private-relay...

New comment by jammmety in "iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro"

jammmety — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 18:33:09 +0000

Can't vouch for it, but there is software available that helps with your first issue: https://mobiletrans.wondershare.com/whatsapp/transfer-whatsa...

New comment by jammmety in "Face ID and Touch ID for the Web"

jammmety — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 13:14:16 +0000

It doesn't work if both devices are connected to different WiFi networks. But Airdrop works without being connected to any AP…

New comment by jammmety in "Time to Upgrade Your Monitor"

jammmety — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 14:04:59 +0000

My 2018 13-inch MBP is driving a 5120x2160 LG 34WK95U-W just fine, over Thunderbolt 3.

New comment by jammmety in "V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB"

jammmety — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 17:47:38 +0000

Why not use Canon's own EOS Webcam Utility?

https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/about/news...

New comment by jammmety in "Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned"

jammmety — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 14:06:15 +0000

convert is part of imagemagick: https://imagemagick.org

New comment by jammmety in "Zoom has a signed binary that runs any unsigned script"

jammmety — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 12:54:19 +0000

Not on the Mac App Store

New comment by jammmety in "Boeing 737 Max Aircraft: Preliminary Investigative Findings [pdf]"

jammmety — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 18:34:51 +0000

Boeing are poised to acquire Embraer: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-embraer-m-a-boeing/boeing...

New comment by jammmety in "Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up"

jammmety — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 06:11:38 +0000

Would you be able to share your research?

New comment by jammmety in "Off-Grid, Solar-Powered, Zero-Battery Refrigerator"

jammmety — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 09:48:00 +0000

I love the simplicity of removing the requirement for a battery. In applications where one is necessary, and portability is not an issue, we have been looking at saltwater batteries. Non toxic, 15 year lifespan, 100% DOD, heavy so hard to steal… https://www.bluesky-energy.eu/en/greenrock-saltwater-energy-...

New comment by jammmety in "Researchers propose solar methanol island using ocean CO₂"

jammmety — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 04:15:42 +0000

What about the African Great Lakes?

New comment by jammmety in "Guardian records first operating profit since 1998"

jammmety — Fri, 03 May 2019 19:40:56 +0000

Which news organisations are censored by the UK government?

New comment by jammmety in "1TB microSD cards"

jammmety — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:42:20 +0000

There is evidence that education technology can be effective, but perhaps the global community should be focussing on the hundreds of millions of children in school but not learning: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/feb/02/h...

Software for getting children reading - in their own language first - is a great first step.

See the work being done by the Global Learning XPRIZE: https://www.xprize.org/prizes/global-learning

New comment by jammmety in "Emulate Mac OS 9 with QEMU"

jammmety — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:59:28 +0000

Here is an 'easy way' that also provides simple transfer of files to / from the OS 9 VM: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/macos9osx.html