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Reading this and replying on the 13 Mini. Love it so much but wouldn’t mind if it were a little lighter. If it stays the same forever, I think I’d still buy it. Great phone. P.S. I work at home, so battery life is not my biggest concern.

8ig8on How to check if your Apple Silicon Mac is booting securely

Dr Howard Oakley. I think of him as an OG Mac guy.

8ig8on 20 years of Git

Don’t forget Fossil, which started around the same time…

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/history.md

8ig8on Steam Networks

Cogeneration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogeneration

8ig8on Macrodata Refinement

Cool Rick is in Severance.

8ig8on I still like Sublime Text

There's this...

https://sublimetutor.com

But for v3.

See also on Package Control...

https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Sublime%20Tutor

8ig8on Show HN: Vince – A self hosted alternative to Google Analytics

Matomo is another one…

https://matomo.org/

8ig8on Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?

If I recall, you’d stick the straightened paperclip into one of the holes on the mouthpiece and touch the other end of the paperclip to some metal part on main phone body.

War Games used a pull tab from an aluminum can to a similar effect?

(It’s been a while.)

8ig8on Volkswagen Plans to Shift from Selling Cars to Offering 'Vehicles on Demand'

Full title: Volkswagen Plans To Shift From Selling Cars To Offering ‘Vehicles On Demand’ – And Grabbing Even More Data About Drivers

8ig8on Digital Wood Joints

Charles Hayward [1] has a great book on the topic:

Woodwork Joints https://archive.org/details/woodworkjointski0000hayw_k7x4

Hayward discusses not only the joints, but techniques for cutting them with hand tools.

There are plenty of used copies out there. Hayward has many other useful books.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Hayward

8ig8on Transformers.js – Run Transformers directly in the browser

The Syntax podcast recently did an episode on Transformers.js and the developer…

https://syntax.fm/show/740/local-ai-models-in-javascript-mac...

8ig8on SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine

Dogpile was another.

8ig8on Twenty Ago, Google Did the Only Good April Fools Joke: Launched Gmail for Real

Mods —- As an aside, please consider increasing the submission title limit to something more like 100-120 characters.

8ig8on The Reddits

I came to Reddit via Alien Blue and stayed via Apollo. Now I check a few subs periodically in a browser, but my usage has drastically dropped without Apollo.

8ig8on Monodraw

Pikchar is another to consider for your list. From the creator of SQLite…

https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/doc/userman.md

8ig8on Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey

Don’t forget about car windows with a crank.

8ig8on FDA approves first medication to reduce allergic reactions to multiple foods

So hard to believe that this is so complicated. People’s lives and health. I wish it was easier.

8ig8on iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail

They found it…

https://lite.cnn.com/2024/01/07/us/alaska-airlines-faa-plug-...

8ig8on 2×4 Lumber Sizes – The History Behind the Mystery

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