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how about an iPad? mini if the size is a concern for you guys, but the camera is pretty solid, performance means it’ll last your kid years, and there are so many edu-tainment titles on the App Store. i think especially the Pencil (or the child-oriented Logitech alternative) would be great to encourage a growing child’s creativity, as well as apps like iMovie, GarageBand…

what tools did you use to set up that port routing thing? that sounds endlessly useful

i think it's simply down to the smartphone industry maturing.

for all intents and purposes, the CPU in your old S20 is more than capable of handling basically any daily mobile task.

the A11 in my iPhone X (2017!) was more than enough, and didn't skip a beat, even with intense usage like playing games or streaming multimedia content over LTE. i only had to upgrade to a 12 mini the other day because the my X got so beat up over the years, and it would've cost more to repair than to just replace the thing.

i love my new phone, but does it really do anything my old one couldn't? the camera, screen, design are definitely better... but other than that...

and the 12 mini is already a year and a half old! i got it used, and i couldn't possibly distinguish this from a brand new flagship phone, in terms of performance.

smartphone manufacturers can't rely on consumers needing to upgrade bi-annually to continue using their phone in an optimal way. so they need to change their economics to keep making a profit.

this is exactly the kind of sweet spot of weed consumption that i’ve been trying to hit lately.

a couple of years ago, in my first year of university, i had developed an unfortunate weed addiction (it really is quite convenient for those who want to escape painful lives into fantasy), but after a couple years of cold turkey, i found myself missing the refreshing change of perspective that weed can genuinely provide when used responsibly.

these days, i try not to smoke more than once a week, and when i do so i try to make sure it doesn’t bleed into the rest of my life in all the same ways you do. clean room, coffee, music, notepad.

i am wary of relying on psychoactive substances to be creative, but whenever i’ve hit a dead end with a project, weed has a way of inspiring me to find new ways to solve a problem — be that aesthetic or technical design.

music is godly when high, and i have had many genuinely transformative moments listening to new albums under the substance.

for those wanting to “microdose” weed (as opposed to smoking blunt after blunt to get blitzed), i can highly recommend the DynaVap, an analogue weed vaporiser. the extraction of THC is significantly more efficient than combustion, and because the chamber is relatively small, it promotes consuming the substance responsibly.

(semi-tangent, but microdosing LSD has also been life changing, and i think delivers similar benefits to “microdosing” weed but with less brain fog, more clarity and more reliability)

unfortunately the line of work i’m in demands i have immediate access to Adobe CC, which is notoriously borked on linux thru wine (for now!)

if and whenever i’m able to make the jump though, i would absolutely love to do the same. i would love to help organise and coordinate efforts towards it

i love Gnome and it’s always my choice when i’m in Linux land (40 was a great step forward, with a much more elegant virtual desktop workflow for one) but as far as i can see, there’s no universal interface for global menus (that is exposed on the UI anyway, there may well be something exposed on dbus…)

incidentally, KDE apps sometimes do expose global menus, and there is a shell extension for this on Gnome, but it didn’t work in 40 last i checked.

but yes, it is the perfect jumping point for the kind of workflow i desire :)

yup yup yup. i would pack my bags from Mac land and move to that distro right away. (if i had adobe too, lol…)

having a global menu interface that presents a uniform structure for navigating applications to the end user with sane default keyboard shortcuts (but universally configurable) would be a -game changer-

it also opens the doors to novel ideas up like Command Palette-like UX paradigms. imagine changing the resolution of a graphic document with about ten keystrokes, and being able to work so seamlessly in all of your apps! it’s almost like a universal command interface that works in GUI apps… okay, maybe i’m getting ahead of myself.

> If I'm ever fabulously wealthy, I already know I'm just going to finance an open source fastidious spiritual successor to MacOS 10.6

i, for one, root for your financial success ;)

cardinal [0] may be of interest to you

[0] https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal

exFAT is great other than its lack of journaling, which has bit me in the ass more than a few times. file system durability is really important, especially for one for a drive being frequently moved between environments

for a software-focussed company like Microsoft to deny running Windows on the M1 seems very strange to me…

if MSFT is serious about (eventually) transitioning to ARM for the majority of consumer-oriented Windows machines, it surely makes sense for them to provide support for the most adopted ARM-based laptop and desktop platform out there… to bolster development of ARM-native applications for Windows on ARM, if nothing else.

i don’t own either machine — but i imagine the ARM-based Surface Pro X would make a miserable development experience, especially compared to a hypothetical Windows on M1(X) MacBooks.

we shall see i suppose, but i would be very surprised if we never see it happen.

> 502: Bad Gateway

hello JAMstack indeed :p

afaik apps can detect patterns on the pasteboard without triggering the notification (i.e. check if the URL is a TikTok URL or not), but they can't actually access the contents without triggering the notification. it's enforced by the pasteboard API on iOS.

so they probably updated their apps to perform this check before doing anything.

how do you find Nova, and what kind of code do you write with it? i mostly work with Node.js and React, and really like VS Code for working with that tech... but Nova is looking very attractive to me as a Mac-focussed alternative.

no idea if this is still the case for the latest version of pegasus. but in 2019, it was observed that the malware tries to hide its tracks by cleaning DataUsage.sqlite, a database file that stores records of tx/rx on mobile data. but it left an observable inconsistency in doing so, wiping only one of the two pertinent tables. source[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/billmarczak/status/1416801514685796352

that's... wow. IMHO Wired has been on a downward spiral for a while, but even tongue in cheek that's a ridiculous thing to say.

> The sole thing propping up TikTok in the US - which is already beginning to fade - is the popularity of young people cloning mediocre dance routines. There is only so far for that one trick pony to go, it becomes increasingly boring with time.

for the first 15 minutes, sure.

once TikTok starts to understand what kind of content you're interested in (and it does this quite quickly), this problem disappears. i can't remember the last time i saw content like that.

it's almost like the difference between YouTube signed out vs signed in.

i don't mean Tile and such devices, i mean the ones where you can put a SIM in it and have them text GPS co-ords. something like https://www.onlinespyshop.co.uk/sms-tiny-tracker/

i know that AirTags are way more accessible, but i just mean these kinds of tools have been available to adversaries for a while.

(i also don't really know how well these trackers really work.)

i get your point, but surely despots, dictators and presidents would already have access to GPS tracking technology? i thought those things were basically commodities by now

it takes a minute to get used to.

when i first got my MX Brown keyboard i was making typos all over the place. i wasn't used to how little i had to apply pressure to actuate a key. over time, i got used to it and i forgot i ever had that problem.

i remember when i see people who've never used Browns before sit down and struggle in the same way i first did.

> The Dockerfiles are kind of surprising since they read more like a an ansible-playbook than like a Dockerfile. This one image has it all - php, nginx, mariadb, phpmyadmin and who knows what else [4]. It's an interesting approach to Docker images, certainly against the recommendation but might have some good reasoning for something as special as WordPress.

i can totally see why they would go that route, even if unconventional. those are all the tools necessary for a WordPress installation, and if you wanted to go the conventional route, you'd have to run each one in a separate container and use something like compose to bring them all together - which can be a little tricky to get your head around.

by contrast, having only one Docker image to deploy means no leeway for the developer to get anything wrong. it's a known-good distribution of all of the tools, pre-configured to work together with each other seamlessly.

i don't know if you have any particular objections to using Windows 10 as your main operating system, but there's a pretty cool tweak called SimpleClassicTheme which can get you a surprisingly long way in replicating the classic Windows aesthetic in modern Windows:

https://winclassic.boards.net/thread/456/reversibly-enable-d...

yeah, the Ledger situation is still a mystery to me, and i can’t profess to know all that much about the security of the device.

i mean, humans make mistakes, and i suppose there is the chance that he slipped up at some point and typed it into his (probably) compromised computer at some point. but if i were take your word on it that that never happened... i really don’t know.

on the trust wallet - it doesn’t matter if he had a passcode. if his computer was compromised, and he signed into iCloud on it at -any- point, an attacker could do whatever they wanted with it.

to everyone saying it's someone the nephew knew that stole the crypto, it can't be, right? because OP confirmed the thief's address had transactions from other addresses, so this seems like a remote adversary.

i'm very sorry to hear he lost $40k, especially because he was saving it for college... i can't even imagine that much money being a student so i just hope you guys can find some way to work this out... i guess.

that said, i don't think Ledger's security is to blame here... it is infinitely more likely that your nephew's computer was infected with something. for example, if he kept his trust wallet passphrase as a screenshot, perhaps that screenshot synched via iCloud to his PC, from which point the attacker was able to pick it up? or they were able to retrieve his iCloud session cookie?

there are a million times more entry vectors if you consider the PC (or, hell, Mac, or whatever it is) as the infected device. i'd wipe the shit out of it and start fresh, if your nephew intends to do anything else with crypto in the future.

You can sideload it without a jailbreak using AltStore: https://getutm.app/install/

handbrake is also pretty great from a user-friendly point of view :)

they -really- want to push iPhone (particularly Pro + Pro Max) as their camera. it even has Wi-Fi, mobile data and iMovie, so you can shoot video, edit it wherever you are, then push to Instagram/YouTube/whatever else.

i say when pigs fly. (sadly.)

It's been a bit more than a year and it's still active. The developer was even granted a Developer Transition Kit for the new Apple Silicon, to test his new apps (despite, AFAIK, only having made apps that aren't available on the App Store). The app also takes advantage of the free 7-day development deployment rule, which is something I can't see Apple being able to change without alienating new devs from their platform. It would also be a bad move, anti-trust wise.

It's very, very clever.