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New comment by wlesieutre in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"

wlesieutre — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:37:35 +0000

I think they wanted you to buy a Windows Mixed Reality headset and use it for Paint 3D

New comment by wlesieutre in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"

wlesieutre — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:49:20 +0000

And a weird obsession with making it impossible to customize the sidebar in Explorer, so there was a “3D Objects” folder stuck there permanently unless you’re the kind of user who doesn’t mind a trip to the registry editor.

What percent of users ever found that useful? I think I’m being generous to guess one in ten thousand.

Absolutely braindead management running Windows development.

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/remove-3d-objects-folder-wino...

New comment by wlesieutre in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

wlesieutre — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:55:14 +0000

Between the MacBook Neo on the low end and Strix Halo on they high end Intel is in for some tougher laptop competition

New comment by wlesieutre in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

wlesieutre — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:53:55 +0000

Also on pace to drop below AMD on the Steam hardware survey this year

New comment by wlesieutre in "You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings"

wlesieutre — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:28:57 +0000

I'm trying to think of a scenario where a users hits Open and picks a directory but does not want the software to have access to the contents of that directory. If you don't want it to access a folder, then don't open a folder in it.

This behavior gets used all the time in things like opening a folder in your IDE so it can access the whole project.

The OS does allow file pickers that can only pick files and not directories (set canChooseDirectories = false), and if an app has no legitimate reason to need a directory they should do that, but the fact that you can grant permissions isn't the problem. What they need to fix is that you're granting permanent permissions with no indication that you've done it and no way to remove them.

To anyone at Apple reading this - please do not draw the conclusion "permissions to access a previously opened file or folder should expire after 24 hours" there are already more than enough permission prompts.

New comment by wlesieutre in "You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings"

wlesieutre — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:57:41 +0000

When you use iOS's "limited access" permissions to give an app access to some of your photos but not the whole library, the photo picker UI does a pretty good job of letting you easily do three things:

1) Grant access to a photo

2) Identify which photos you've granted access to

3) Revoke previously granted access

macOS's concession to give access to whole folders at a time is necessary for real software to work, but they haven't done a good job of items 2 and 3.

New comment by wlesieutre in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

wlesieutre — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:30:20 +0000

I can organize related windows by task, so if I have two things going on which both involve say a Finder window, a Safari window, and some other assorted things, I can switch between tasks as a group with one gesture instead of cmd-tab which will pull up both Safari windows or both Finder windows, and then maybe needing to cmd=` to switch to the correct one.

When I'm in the appropriate space with only those related windows, the exposé gestures are also much more usable than when everything is jumbled together.

New comment by wlesieutre in "Show HN: I built a navigation app that displays weather along the route"

wlesieutre — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:34:43 +0000

Similar concept to Weather on the Way, for the iOS folks

https://weatherontheway.app/

Looks good and I like being able to browse the map on a desktop, though for actual travel use the app with CarPlay support obviously has benefits

New comment by wlesieutre in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

wlesieutre — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:37:44 +0000

It’s IBM 15 yers ago when everything was Watson

New comment by wlesieutre in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

wlesieutre — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:01:22 +0000

Especially bad for people with poor eyesight who have to use the display scaling set toward "Large Text" instead of "Default" or "More Space"

Between the larger display scaling, losing space to the notch, and the IT department setting up new computers with 8 little pieces of preinstalled bullshit up there, Apple's perspective on this seems to be "if the Ivanti VPN menu extra disappears I guess you didn't really need that anyway!"

Having the sound, bluetooth, wifi, and other system stuff removed from the bar and accessible in control center helps, but is not sufficient.

They're too busy solving important problems like "how can I use part of my screen as a videoconferencing light source" and chasing yearly iOS new feature parity to deal with pesky things like menu extras. It's only been 25 years since OS X came out.

New comment by wlesieutre in "Artemis II astronauts arrive at launch pad 39B in an astrovan"

wlesieutre — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:19:16 +0000

No photos in the article, but are these still the Canoo EVs that NASA acquired for Artemis in 2023?

I wonder how long they’ll keep running with Canoo being defunct.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/kennedy/new-flee...

New comment by wlesieutre in "Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct"

wlesieutre — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:27:45 +0000

A lot of examples from Federico Viticci / MacStories (scroll down past the Automation Academy ad)

https://www.macstories.net/shortcuts/

New comment by wlesieutre in "General Motors is assisting with the restoration of a rare EV1"

wlesieutre — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:00:50 +0000

Too bad. This is just a US market problem though, Honda still has new EVs, just not for us. Insight EV (formerly a hybrid sedan) announced earlier this month.

https://www.honda.co.jp/INSIGHT/

New comment by wlesieutre in "Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application"

wlesieutre — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:48:44 +0000

Cadova - https://github.com/tomasf/Cadova

SolveSpace - https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace

New comment by wlesieutre in "General Motors is assisting with the restoration of a rare EV1"

wlesieutre — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:38:41 +0000

Yes, Blazer EV

New comment by wlesieutre in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

wlesieutre — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:38:23 +0000

FT audio calls are in the same boat where if everyone you knows has an iPad you can make calls within that walled garden for free and don't need to be allocated a phone number. Admittedly more useful since so many people have an Apple product.

Anything where you want a phone number and to communicate with the rest of the phone network, I'd expect to pay money for it. Google Voice is the (only?) oddball here.

New comment by wlesieutre in "General Motors is assisting with the restoration of a rare EV1"

wlesieutre — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:52:01 +0000

Actually a Blazer, not an Equinox

New comment by wlesieutre in "General Motors is assisting with the restoration of a rare EV1"

wlesieutre — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:50:47 +0000

Honda Prologue is an option if you really like the Ultium SUVs, sadly only a Blazer sized rebadge and no Equinox.

I do wonder what the outlook for that is now, they were supposed to be a shorter term bridge until Honda had their own EVs but Honda recently killed a bunch of EV plans so maybe the GM partnership sticks around a while?

New comment by wlesieutre in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

wlesieutre — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:01:16 +0000

I don’t know when that previous comment is from but the text it quotes is not in the linked privacy policy

New comment by wlesieutre in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

wlesieutre — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:57:47 +0000

A monthly fee for a phone service sounds pretty normal to me?