Comment by peteretep | Hacker News Reader

Comment by peteretep | Hacker News Reader

    > FreeBSD won’t sleep the laptop if you close the lid.
    > Kind of a deal.

Kind of a deal breaker, from my angle

Then there's the stuff about 1Password. I feel his pain. Only I also use Things.app and OmniOutliner and DayOne, and a bunch of other apps that sync with my iPhone, which - frankly - you can pry from my cold dead hands.

OS X has definitely been getting more irritating, and don't get me started on the new Apple TV, of which I foolishly bought two.

But that I can lie in bed, and without touching anything say "Hey Siri, remind me to send John a birthday card", and it'll show up in Things.app tomrrow morning ... the future is here.

Suspend on lid close actually does (or should) work on that laptop. It's just not enabled by default because suspend doesn't work on everything.

Adding:

  hw.acpi.lid_switch_state=s3

to /etc/sysctl.conf should enable it.

I've been considering the new Apple TV - could you share what you dislike about it?

I watch a lot of TV series. When I say "Homeland" to it, it takes me to a page about Homeland in general. From there I have to select a poorly named button to say "I want to see the episodes I own", and then I have to scroll along with no visual indication of which I've watched. When I hit Menu from that, I'm dropped in to the main menu, with no obvious way back. If I go in via TV Show from the main menu, it's a different UI that works more sensibly. This and 101 other minor irritations with the UI just get between me and my content.

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