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pttrnon Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

I thought so too when I bought a beefy iMac Pro in 2017. But then guess what, new CPU architecture and 10 years down the line it's not supported anymore. Yes I can stay on whatever OS was last supported, but the tools also start ditching support slowly. For example, Rust no longer has tier 1 support for x86_64-apple-darwin so it's a matter of time when things will start breaking.

I am quite sure Apple will think of a reason to deprecate my M1 Macbook Pro (which works great BTW!) in a couple of years, at which point I'm switching back to Linux and will not be coming back. I'm tired of accumulating perfectly good hardware in my house which is nerfed by lack of software updates.

pttrnon Monitors for Work

No this was in the UK.

pttrnon Monitors for Work

16pt is huge on this monitor, fits too few code lines on screen. 18 is almost headline sized.

But anyway doing these acrobatics is not what a professional should be doing in 2026.

pttrnon Monitors for Work

No, just normal font sizes, macOS. 14pt looks huge, had to lower it to 12pt to look physically about the same as 14pt on a 4K/5K 27”, but at that physical size it’s a blurry mess due to low ppi.

Edit: Oh I misread your comment as 6 pixels large, not 6 pixels wide. Yes, you’re correct.

pttrnon Monitors for Work

Yeah I’m on macOS.

pttrnon Monitors for Work

Just started a new remote contracting gig and did a one-week on-site “getting to know each other” thing. I was shocked that everyone in the office had dual 27” 1080p monitors. Didn’t know they even made 1080p monitors that big!

Anyway after a week of staring at that blurry mess I was having eye focusing issues every night trying to read a book. Those monitors should be treated as ergonomic hazard. Total disgrace.

pttrnon A tough labor market for white-collar workers has turned recruiting upside down

https://archive.li/OAEU2 (archive.is seems down for me)

pttrnon Quake Brutalist Jam III

vkQuake.app works great on Apple silicon Macs.

pttrnon Typepad is closed for business

Just went there to check it out, it opened the front page in Russian(?) for me, even though English was selected in the top right. I re-selected English, it refreshed the page... in Russian. Close tab.

pttrnon macOS Tahoe

https://xkcd.com/2224/

But yeah, I agree with you.

pttrnon From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent

+1, shame people are downvoting this.

pttrnon Triangle splatting: radiance fields represented by triangles

Make triangles great again

pttrnon The Frontend Treadmill

“I just fuck around til it works”

pttrnon Show HN: Rust Vector and Quaternion Lib

cgmath?

pttrnon The Israeli weapons and spyware falling into the hands of despots