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New comment by twilo in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

twilo — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:56:11 +0000

If a battery can do 1000 cycles and remain above 80% capacity it is exempt from this, which is exactly what Apple implemented a few years ago.

Low cost phones will be most affected.

New comment by twilo in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

twilo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:53:31 +0000

Linux is pretty awful at a lot of things …

New comment by twilo in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

twilo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:50:45 +0000

Am I the only one who’s been using 11 on multiple machines for years without any issues?

New comment by twilo in "Phil Spencer is exiting Microsoft as AI executive takes over Xbox"

twilo — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:18:30 +0000

His successor seems to have zero experience in the industry

New comment by twilo in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

twilo — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:41:48 +0000

Their cars today are much better than when sales were at their peak.

Getting politics to get in the way of good engineering is a real shame.

New comment by twilo in "Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload"

twilo — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:45:14 +0000

Died? It’s been working perfectly fine for me for years now.

New comment by twilo in "Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling"

twilo — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:33:06 +0000

You can just ping your CPU usage to the menu bar and monitor that. I have CPU and total system wattage up there so I always know if something weird is going on.

https://github.com/exelban/stats

New comment by twilo in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

twilo — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:04:47 +0000

Why bother with Linux when there is MacOS? You get decent hardware to go with it too

New comment by twilo in "BYD builds fastest car"

twilo — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 23:55:03 +0000

AMG One did it in 6:29.xxx

New comment by twilo in "BYD builds fastest car"

twilo — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 23:52:55 +0000

They can do better

New comment by twilo in "iPhone Air"

twilo — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 03:09:25 +0000

This chassis would be perfect for the 2nm chips next year

New comment by twilo in "Family of MSFT employee who died warn tech companies not to overwork workers"

twilo — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:17:55 +0000

I dunno I’ve been seeing more of these stories ever since sars2 started circulating but it’s probably “just stress”

New comment by twilo in "China is eating the world"

twilo — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:27:45 +0000

China still burns more coal than anyone else by the way

New comment by twilo in "Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?"

twilo — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:17:37 +0000

They bought Palo Alto Semiconductor in 2008 which is where all their ARM chip designs came from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.A._Semi

New comment by twilo in "Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?"

twilo — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:15:01 +0000

Apple purchased Palo Alto Semi which made the biggest difference. One of their best acquisitions ever in my opinion… not that they make all that many of those anyway.

New comment by twilo in "Battery charge limiter for Apple Silicon MacBook devices"

twilo — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 02:45:46 +0000

I don’t know why everyone is concerned about the top end of the these batteries when we should be limiting depth of discharge instead, which causes way more damage than charging to 100%.

There should be an option for the machine to pretend like 40% is 0% and just go to sleep.

I know Windows has this option but it’s deep inside the power settings, they should bring it out of there.

I don’t think Apple devices have anything like that.

New comment by twilo in "The History of F1 Design"

twilo — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 21:54:25 +0000

Books to read:

How to build a car by Adrian Newey

Total Competition by Ross Brawn

You will know more about the world of F1 than you need to

Bonus:

The Mechanic by Marc Priestley

New comment by twilo in "Windows 11 is a minefield of micro-aggressions in the shipping lane of progress"

twilo — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:48:48 +0000

I use this thing daily, its a win11 pro, and I see no issues with it at all...

I am the only one?

New comment by twilo in "GLP-1s are breaking life insurance"

twilo — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:43:53 +0000

“mortality slippage” coincides with Sars2 circulating within our population so I bet it has a lot to do with it

New comment by twilo in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

twilo — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 06:14:39 +0000

Yes but like the post above says MS didn’t start to “monetize” their users until the 2000s and it was mainly because Google set up that beautiful business model… on top of Microsoft’s platform (Windows) which makes the whole thing really funny