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New comment by jonhohle in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

jonhohle — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:10:14 +0000

I don’t think the Grateful Dead would be referred to as a “live electronic dance band.”

Assuming it’s a band most have heard of I was leaning toward Daft Punk, but maybe the Prodigy?

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

jonhohle — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:27:43 +0000

How do you know how often those files need to be backed up without reading them? Timestamps and sizes are not reliable, only content hashes. How do you get a content hash? You read the file.

New comment by jonhohle in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

jonhohle — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:53:17 +0000

Doesn’t compute.

He probably meant that “customer” is not making him money, therefore not worth the time. The only reason unsubscribing works at all is probably a legal requirement.

New comment by jonhohle in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

jonhohle — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:32:12 +0000

Yeah, this was an off article that half I completely disagreed with, a quarter is probably accurate, and the other quarter I don’t know anything about.

Zion is amazing. One of my favorites. We found a great dry riverbed trail and saw no one for nearly two hours. My kids loved Arches. Had we known? We would have planned longer. Bryce we thought was meh, unpopular opinion, I’m sure. Canyonlands I can’t even remember.

Smokey Mountains is beautiful as well. Mountains, a ghost town, beautiful forest, an Ectomobile from Ghostbusters II, and motorcycle from Terminator 2. Seems pretty ideal.

The Grand Canyon review is spot on though.

Edit to add: Dry Tortugas is amazing. Take the last sea plane and revel in being lost at sea with 20 other people for serval hours. It’s Unlike anything else.

New comment by jonhohle in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

jonhohle — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:47:06 +0000

I can’t find it now, but there was a Start Menu/Taskbar for Mac OS 9 era Mac’s as well. It was bizarre.

New comment by jonhohle in "The Soul of an Old Machine"

jonhohle — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:24:25 +0000

I’ve held onto FireWire for long and feel attached to it. I’ve used it for over 25 years.

I think I feel the same way about TiVo and fear the day the guide stops updating or the motherboard fails (everything else in the box is replaceable).

These things are ephemeral in the grand scheme of history, but when they are embedded in workflows and habits for decades I find it hard to let go.

New comment by jonhohle in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

jonhohle — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:29:13 +0000

Same. I’m middle age and type in a lot of non-ergonomic positions and always have. It works for me.

New comment by jonhohle in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

jonhohle — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:17:05 +0000

Heterogeneity is the feature. The Linux ecosystem is better off for it (systemd, Wayland, dconf, epoll, inotify are all based on ideas that were in OS X first) and not being beholden to Linux is a competitive advantage for Apple everyone wins.

New comment by jonhohle in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

jonhohle — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:51:04 +0000

For me at least, not being Linux is a feature. Linux has always been “almost Unix” to the point where now it has become its own thing for better or worse. OS X was never trying to be Linux. It would be better if we still had a few more commercial POSIX implementations.

New comment by jonhohle in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

jonhohle — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:13:30 +0000

25 years ago one of early engineering courses included a case study about Ingersol Rand (IIRC). They went out to work floors and saw how all the workers had modified their air wrenches in the same way, adding padding with tape in various areas. They realized they could probably make a better wrench if it had some of those ergonomics built in.

Maybe the next phase of Apple could return to flowing shapes and save our wrists.

New comment by jonhohle in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

jonhohle — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:40:38 +0000

Perforce had change sets and there were lots of tools for code reviews that worked a lot like GitHub before GitHub (review board, phabricator, another one I can’t remember).

New comment by jonhohle in "How to get better at guitar"

jonhohle — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:52:48 +0000

This works for programming as well. I’ve spent countless hours reimplementing things or cloning things just to learn how they work. Sometimes mine is better than the original, sometimes it’s not. But regardless, I learn a lot along the way and occasionally get to teach something as well. It’s a great way to learn new languages, new concepts, new systems.

New comment by jonhohle in "Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11"

jonhohle — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:51:33 +0000

Buy why that much? The first computer I bought had 192MB of RAM and I ran a 1600x1200 desktop with 24-bit color. When Windows 2000 came out, all of the transparency effects ran great. Office worked fine, Visual Studio, 1024x768 gaming (I know that’s quite a step down from 1080p).

What has changed? Why do I need 10x the RAM to open a handful of terminals and a text editor?

New comment by jonhohle in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

jonhohle — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:52:39 +0000

You were not prevented from doing anything, but that doesn’t mean others weren’t. For example, OEMs were not allowed to offer any other preinstalled OS as a default option. That effectively killed Be and I’m sure hindered RedHat.

New comment by jonhohle in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

jonhohle — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:58:09 +0000

What’s interesting is mini pcs are dirt cheap. The RAM for them costs as much or more than a barebones Ryzen 7 mini pc.

New comment by jonhohle in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

jonhohle — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:54:36 +0000

I’ve been using google search AI and Gemini, which I find generally pretty good. In the past week, Gemini and Search AI have been bringing in various details of previous searches I’ve done and Search AI conversations I’ve had and it’s extremely gross and creepy.

I was looking for details about cars and it started interjecting how the safety would affect my children by name in a conversation where I never mention my children. I was asking details about Thunderbolt and modern Ryzen processors and a fresh Gemini chat brought in details about a completely unrelated project I work on. I’ve always thought local LLMs would be important, but whatever Google did in the past few weeks has made that even more clear.

New comment by jonhohle in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"

jonhohle — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:32 +0000

macOS has been one of the best keyboard OSes for over a decade, maybe longer. Nearly everything is bindable without additional software or third party apps. This can be done on globally or app-specific. A lot of this comes from the deep script ability that used to be a priority but has fallen by the wayside in recent years.

New comment by jonhohle in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

jonhohle — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:37:45 +0000

“This wasn’t just AI generated — it was a paragon of hallucinated AI slop.”

New comment by jonhohle in "South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots"

jonhohle — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:30:41 +0000

Thinking about it from an individual (not business) point of view, the upfront capital won’t be repaid for 10-years or more and does little to change the value of the lot. The lot value is probably most dictated by location and capacity. Solar does nothing to affect location, and may even harm capacity. Parking lot customers might choose a lot of its shaded, but ultimately it’s a captive market due to location.

If I owned the lot, I could take on no-risk (which may be why the lot was purchased to begin with), or take on a 6-figure investment that could bankrupt me if the demand for the lot vanished. (I suppose in that case you’d at least be making money on selling power back to the grid.)

New comment by jonhohle in "I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a commit"

jonhohle — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:46:04 +0000

Not only that, but authors and approvers could be used to track who created and voted for each change.