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jaffa2··on Show HN: Tusk for macOS and Gnome
So is this like phpmyadmin but runs locally and talks to postgres not mysql/maria?
jaffa2··on 12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)
I guess tico fruit is just an asshole. Being sued is usually bad. If you can sue your competitor even better.
jaffa2··on GabeN Is Shitting Yacht Money into Flatpak and You're Still Arguing Init Systems
I gave up after about a 1/4 It didnt seem to be going anywhere. Is it a shaggy dog story? I didn’t read the punchline.
jaffa2··on How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
Isn’t it just their AI llm thing?
jaffa2··on Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor
Better to proclaim on the internet that you are special and ADD than just doing the work. I mean, who even are you if you dont have an ‘ism of some sort these days? (Almost always self diagnosed)
jaffa2··on Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor
Is the poster sure or have they checked that the gains and perceived higher level of focus are not just because of the Change? Rather than the actual change? Maybe in a few months a bigger monitor will suddenly work better not because its bigger but because its a change?

Personally i love a big monitor, i use 32” screens (but only 1 at a time) on my Mac, pc and gaming pc. But in reality i do most ‘real work’ on my 16” mbp. And i drop the res to make everything bigger snd nice to read on the laptop.

jaffa2··on I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
“USING AI TO GENERATE DIAGRAMS

Click the AI button in the toolbar to copy the Grafly format reference. Paste it into any LLM (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini…) along with a description of the diagram you want. Copy the JSON the LLM returns. Click the Import JSON button () in the toolbar and paste it in. ”

Super user friendly as well! I don’t even understand the instructions on how to use it.

jaffa2··on Rack-mount hydroponics
I didnt even notice.
jaffa2··on Revolut wins UK banking licence after five-year tussle
The only way to interact with the account is via a specific variant of an android app ?
jaffa2··on macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses
Next try CMD+H to hide instead of minimising, like in Windows Land.
jaffa2··on The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)
The ribbon doesnt work for because the options change and visibility is decided by how big my windows is.
jaffa2··on The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)
Good point. Its a mess. Come on apple get someone to fix this
jaffa2··on The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)
You can disable it but yes macs will periodically wake up to get emails and notifications even while they are ‘sleeping’
jaffa2··on The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)
> For me, the butterfly keyboard was Apple's mostest worstest user interface design decision.

I really liked the butterfly kb. It was responsive, and you could hit the key cap anywhere and it would register.*

Subsequent mac book keyboards imo are all terrible and suffer from the terrible issue of sponge-ness that means i can literally press a key cap in a slightly off centre location and it Does Not Register. Its like the key movement is separate from the actuation. I have way more mis key and missing letter using later post butterfly kbs than i ever did. The worst part is this is ‘normal’ and not a fault. You just have to press harder and in the centre.

* except when it was in for work i had 3x top case replaced on my old mbp

jaffa2··on Unsung heroes: Flickr's URLs scheme
from the article : > This might seem silly. The user interface of URLs? Who types in or edits URLs by hand? But keyboards are still the most efficient entry device.

Can someone let Apple know this ? Safari URL bar is a disaster. If I edit a URL say to remove a part and hit enter 9/10 times it searches the internet.

It seems to forget that it's a url it's displaying despite it cutting the front off, even after telling it to use long urls in address bar. It's so annyoing I actually use another browser since I often need to paste in or modify urls for the work I do. Safari sucks hard. Any solutions to disabling 'search' in the address bar ? I want it to be a URL bar only, and anythign typed in it should be resolved and not searched.

jaffa2··on Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks
I think it’s natural to think of this in terms of frequencies so the kiki shape has a higher visual frequency. As does the word have a higher audio frequencies within in than bouba so that is naturally associated with the lower frequency undulating line of that shape.
jaffa2··on A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data
same here in safari. first strike ok, second froze for a few sec. I did like the sort of 'obstruction' effect of the rain on the house for example. obvioulsy a limitation of the char based render, but it adds a pleasing kind of obscuring effect.
jaffa2··on A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts
I used to use First Word on the ST back in the day.
jaffa2··on Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary
Why are the scans not deskewed and in some cases edges cut off ?
jaffa2··on The New Collabora Office for Desktop
I see the link now. But there's a hell of a lot of stuff on that page that does not help to be clear, rather the opposite.
jaffa2··on UK government launches fuel forecourt price API
Doesn't seem to have any data for Morrisons Stations. Is this a glitch in the data, or Morrisons, or the app ?
jaffa2··on The New Collabora Office for Desktop
Hmm. I can't actually find the link to start using it to try it out. ? It offers a Free Demo that is behind some kind of details harvesting form. I don't want a demo. Is this usable enough to move a small (6 people) team away from google sheets ? hard to say since i can't test it and it doesn't say what the cost is. Stop hiding your shit behind hard to navigate/use/privacy invading bullshit. Just let us use the stuff. If you must gimp it, do it in a way that doesn't stop us using it first.
jaffa2··on Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
Macs have rounded corners on the desktop. I.e 4 corners. It looked awesome in the CRT days because of the shape of them. These days on flat lcd screens the geometry is so good that they aren’t required to provide the same function as in CRT days but some people still like the look. I do, but i dont run extra software if i can help it especially for an aesthetic change. I used a tool like this is the past but there were incompatibility’s.
jaffa2··on Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results
Absolutely this. I can’t agree with this more. Having been using apple macs for 2 decades now I’m wondering whether my next machine will be apple. There’s even a setting for the adverts in the system settings. This is disguising.
jaffa2··on Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?
Isnt that exactly how it works?
jaffa2··on Find a pub that needs you
Seems to be England only.
jaffa2··on UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning
As far as I am aware, 'probably' is about the best you can do, since the OSA is so vaguely defined, it's actually difficult to actually know what is and what isn't valid.
jaffa2··on iCloud Photos Downloader
There's some technical reason (or non-reason) why Mac OS does not accept the System photolibrary on an external disk. It prevents certain things from happening which may or may not mater to you. Otherwise you can switch librarys by holding Option during photo bootup.
jaffa2··on iCloud Photos Downloader
This. I don't understand why Apple don't have another checkbox beside the Download Originals to this Mac that reads 'Store Backup of Original Photos on Timemachine' This is all that's needed to solve the issue. I actually bought a Mac Studio, and a USB disk, just to be able to download originals of my photos for local backup, since a MBP is effetively a mobil limited device just like an iphone.

"I actually bought a Mac Studio"... "I don't understand why Apple don't " ... wait a minute

jaffa2··on State of the Fin 2026-01-06
Can you not just set your TV to turn off after X hours ? In the EU this is actually a legal requirement that they can do this. (for 'energy saving')

Many TV's also have an explicit sleep timer. Yes this doesn't resolve plex issue but could solve the issue in the meantime. Or go old school and plug an actual electric timer in the socket and cut power to the TV after X minutes/hours

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