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jerheweton Apple turning to Intel for future iPhone chips, analyst reaffirms

[insert light bulb going on over my head]

This hadn't occurred to me. I think you're right. This could get very interesting over the next couple of years...

jerheweton [dead]

https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/

jerheweton Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands

See: I.C.E.

jerheweton Most technical problems are people problems

At least the headline makes sense to me.

> Most technical problems are people problems

Certainly explains Microsoft Teams and Windows 11.

[note there is no /s -- it's 100% a people problem, because the wrong people are steering the ship]

jerheweton Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)

> JShit doesn't belong anywhere

Or, as I prefer to call it, Kiddiescript.

jerheweton .NET 10

> C# has way to many features, it feels bloated

Could not agree more. Too many -- WAY too many -- "features" from Javascript and functional languages have been jammed into C#, and the language has suffered for it. Every time I see "var blah" in C# code I cringe at how lazy you must be to not use strong typing when declaring a variable.

Same goes for "astink / await". If you need asynchronous multi-threaded code, use the damned Thread Parallel Libraries that Microsoft provided over a decade ago. Being forced to have every damned thing you write in C# wrapped with astink is just one giant code smell.

Yes, I'm old. Thank ghod I'll be retiring very soon, because as far as I'm concerned the tooling and languages I've used over the past 50 years have taken one step forward and at least three steps back in the past five years...

jerheweton Disable AI in Firefox

about:config, type ".ml." in the search (no quote marks), set everything to false / zero / blank.

I don't want anything even vaguely related to spicy autocomplete on any of my machines, and I go to great lengths to kill anything that even resembles it with fire.

jerheweton Everything is fake on Silicon Valley's hottest new social network

https://archive.is/dbCBf

jerheweton I Am An AI Hater

AI is "put Elmer's glue on your pizza so the ingredients won't slide off". AI is "three B's in blueberry".

Garbage in, garbage out. Which will always be the case when your AI is scraping stuff off of random pages and commentary on the internet.

jerheweton Windows 7 x64 Extended Support Page

Congrats on being a parrot in the "oh noes, taken over by bots!" securitah echo chamber.

W7 is just fine. Daily driver on multiple machines, never been "taken over" or turned into a crypto miner or a hub for a bot network, never had a single virus or other issues.

jerheweton We shouldn't have needed lockfiles

Reader mode. Don't leave home without it.

jerheweton How to Firefox

I use Firefox and uBlock Origin, but I'm also routing everything through AdGuard Home on an RPi5 (my router points to the RPi for DNS), and it's been an eye-opening experience.

Just checked AGH, and it's blocking 49.56% of my DNS queries for everything that's connected. I cannot recommend AGH on an RPi highly enough. It's amazing.

jerheweton Where's Firefox going next?

Home Depot. They never test against Firefox, so most of their pages are a dumpster fire.

jerheweton The cultural decline of literary fiction

Wood-working magazines. I subscribed _because_ of the advertising.

I can't afford Fesstools, but that doesn't mean I don't love seeing / reading their ads.

I dropped my very long time subscription to Maximum Computing when they went digital. The end of an era...

jerheweton Another Crack in the Chain of Trust: Uncovering (Yet Another) Secure Boot Bypass

Please ... just give me back my BIOS.

jerheweton Microsoft: Anyone who deleted mysterious folder after update must put it back

The stupid, it burns.

jerheweton Muggy city keeps cool with minimal AC

https://archive.is/9qvq1

jerheweton Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users – including its own employees

eM Client. The best one I've found so far.

https://www.emclient.com/download

jerheweton DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player

MusicBee https://www.getmusicbee.com/

Very (very) longtime user, with just under 10K albums I can peruse. Took me a while to tweak everything in the UI to my tastes, but now I can't imagine using anything else to listen to streaming music.

And yes, I really do have that many albums. Most of them are LP's and CD's, the rest are from places like Bandcamp (https://bandcamp.com/jerhewet).

jerheweton Microsoft cracking down people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware

There is no M2 version of Visual Studio. The version of Visual Studio 2022 I installed was x64. I have some other x64 software installed as well (Notepad++, AWS CLI, git, etc.) and all of them work just fine under the ARM version of Windows 11 running under VMWare Fusion.

jerheweton Microsoft cracking down people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware

I installed Windows 11 and Visual Studio 2022 on my Mac Mini M2 and it works like a bloody charm. It's not as fast as my main Windows development machines, but it's 100% functional and operational.

Bonus: I'm running Little Snitch on the OSX side, and it does a brilliant job of stomping all over Microsoft's telemetry.

Edit: Running it under VMWare Fusion.

jerheweton Windows 11 ISOs for ARM64 devices

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11a...

jerheweton Goodbye Windows 7

You can pry Windows 7 from my cold, dead hands. As long as ESET NOD32 is still being updated, and as long as the half-dozen applications and tools I use on my two desktop machines still works, I will keep using it.

And please, no specious replies about "Oh noes! The botnets!" or "Linux is so much more awesome!". Do not care. Do not want. W7 was the peak Windows OS, and everything after it was varying degrees of a dumpster fire and/or spyware.

jerheweton Why Not Comments

Comments should never be "what". They should always be "why".

jerheweton Ask HN: Is there a website for finding underrated people doing cool stuff?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2024/mic...

The Partnership for Public Service (linked in the article). Pointing at The Canary because I think it fits your request to a T.

jerheweton AI Integration Is Coming to Firefox

How do I disable (or, better yet, delete) it?

jerheweton Ask HN: Audio Setup for Online Meetings

I have the same kinds of problems with Microsoft Teams. In my case the audio is often garbled and unintelligible, lots of dropouts due to multiple people speaking at the same time, and even on a good day it sounds like everyone is meeting in the bottom of a garbage bin.

I've tried various conferencing pucks (EMEET Luna 360 and M0, Jabra 410 and 510, both hard-wired and Bluetooth) and none of them seem to work well with any of my systems (various late model Dell Latitude and Inspiron laptops, mini- and micro-towers) running Windows 7 / 10 / 11.

I've also tried various models of iPads and iPhones, and the audio is just as bad. Pretty sure it isn't a connection issue either (FiOS with constant 1Gb up and down).

Would an external DAC help? Headphones or earbuds with a good microphone? A dedicated portable system I can use for video conferencing?

jerheweton Please don't mention AI again

Hunter S. Thompson.

jerheweton Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code

Not lightweight, but I've fallen in love with MusicBee (https://getmusicbee.com/) and it's been my only music player for at least the last 10 years. Love everything about it.

jerheweton How I search in 2024

Keyword search without SEO trash is EXACTLY what I want, and Marginalia sounds like it might fit the bill. Looking forward to seeing how well it performs over the next couple of weeks!