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dankons··on Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
They kinda already did for niche use-cases. When they introduced the orange/green activity indicators for camera or microphone, they broke some workflows for VJing as your stage visuals now got a persistent dot in the top-right.
dankons··on two strangers. one call. no names
The Serial Port recently made a fantastic documentary on the IPhone, including conversations with its creators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cip9w-UxIc
dankons··on Sense Humans with WiFi – Ruview
It is slop. Top starred fork is this: https://github.com/deletexiumu/wifi-densepose (although still AI generated, at least it's honest)
dankons··on I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards
Plugging the same linear.app mentioned in a different comment -- switched a couple years ago (small team, fed up with general slowness and jank of Jira) and don't want to look back.
dankons··on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
Not necessarily, have had my fair share of dodgy OS behavior fixed by replacing RAM
dankons··on VS Code Pets
I need Links back in my life :(
dankons··on Show HN: NeatShift – Organize Windows files with symbolic links
The AI generated docs definitely need work - a lot of volume without explaining much. For example, figuring out whether the tool will make the links in the target directory, or replace the source with a link to a moved file, is not immediately obvious.

I'm interested in how using symlinks helped you declutter the file system - doesn't leaving links around in the old place just lead to more clutter? A concrete use case in the readme will also help others better understand the purpose of the project.

dankons··on Dreamy Blur
Reminds me of how the early bloom effects looked like in video games
dankons··on Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard
I use a G603 LightSpeed which also supports operation via Bluetooth. It actually ends up being pretty handy, as I can switch the mouse between my desktop and laptop just by pressing a button.

Beware though, that they have an issue with scroll wheels breaking after several months of use (a plastic axle connecting the wheel to the rotary encoder breaks off). After mine broke the second time after warranty repair, ended up ordering a replacement part myself and also modded the scrolling mechanism to have less resistance.