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I'm surprised not so many people know about DivestOS[0]. It's the best option IMO if you don't have a google pixel for grapheneOS. Has similar support to lineageOS which it is based on. Same developer made Mulch and Mull web browsers. Monthly security updates. Obviously none of the hardware security features grapheneOS offers, but many other features, binary deblobbing, private DNS, MAC randomization etc.

Also, if you're handset model supports relocking, you can use banking apps etc.

[0]: https://divestos.org

Gomockingbird was the best at this (for my purposes), but they decommissioned and didn't open source it like they said they would.

Balsamiq was next best and I use it still, but has a cumbersome user interface with enough friction that it gets in the way.

I tried using Excalidraw for a while, for my dislike of using Balsamiq, but for wireframing even with libraries it was too fiddly.

Just tried out Konty and it feels like an upgrade to Balsamiq for sure, and is clearly inspired by Excalidraw. Great work

It's strange to read this when you see articles like this[0] and see Lighthouse ranking better with it switched on. Nothing beats real world stats though. Could this be down to server/client implementation of HTTP2 or would you say its a fundamental implication of the design of the protocol?

Trying to make my sites load faster led me to experiment with QUIC and ultimately I didn't trust it enough to leave it on with the increase of complexity.

[0]: https://kiwee.eu/blog/http-3-how-it-performs-compared-to-htt...

Intel Mac, Chrome and ungoogled chromium: index.web.ts:159 Uncaught (in promise) OperationError: Instance dropped in popErrorScope

Apologies, somehow I didn't finish the comment with ' on desktop', regarding the new arch these are all based on.

Ultra 200V is a good model name. Interested to see how hot they are running them for the performance crown. I suspect we'll still be seeing 275w+

I'm sure we'll have a github repo with a disable script appear soon, or it will be rolled into the debloat powershell scripts floating around, e.g. `winutil.ps1`

One if the issues is the t2 failing and dumping 13v into the SSD , destroying it. Nothing to do with fear of TPM.

I spent a couple of days exploring linux distributions after deciding to drop Windows at home. It was an interesting experience, seeing how each distro approaches augmenting GNOME for desktop integration. I really like PopOS, but with the transition away from GNOME and GNOME extensions breaking between versions I went with Fedora.

Looking forward to trying COSMIC out again in stable, the alpha was actually very good. Let's see how they approach extensibility, as the GNOME extension fragmentation ended up a reason for my choosing Fedora.

Also if you were considering installing linux for a family member, I found ZorinOS was very good for this

There absolutely are issues, whether you accept it or not, and it is nothing to do with 'not trusting TPM'.

Apple SSDs engineered in the worst way possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qbrLiGY4Cg

Exploding USB-C MacBook Ports Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAGnMR1aVuE

Anyone else smell ChatGPT in this article?

This article is calling for something to happen that already is happening. I just came back to the linux desktop and I'm pleased to discover I can pretty build features I like into a normal desktop environment through GNOME extensions. It's unfortunately quite fragmented still at the moment, but looks very promising. I think once COSMIC lands and more people use it we'll see even more of this extensible desktop rather than the all-in elitist desktop approach. It's already there to be honest, but it's hidden in plain sight. And of course if you want to be a cool kid there's hyprland

Exactly, it's great to hand things down to family like that. And with the 2016+ laptops, with these known issues, its quite possible it just becomes ewaste with an expensive repair that you can't do yourself at home

The 11" MBA was my favourite laptop ever. Powerful enough to do full development workloads, small enough to take anywhere.

Well the repair cost if you have this problem on a computer would approach the used value of the computer, so its likely to become ewaste. It wasn't a problem before the 2016 machines, and its still a problem on the current machines. Meanwhile my pre-2016 apple laptops are still in use by family members without issue

My 2012 11" MBA is the same, love that machine. It's an issue with 2016-present laptops unfortunately

It's about a specific issue known in the 2016+ laptops, I just don't want to carry the risk of this known issue bricking my laptop out of warranty. And still exists in the current ones.

I have a 2012 i7 Thinkpad T530, that is still useful. My whole life desktop machines are usually useful for about a decade. Cheap laptops don't seem to last more than 4-5 years at most, but the top end laptops built really well can last a long time. It's nice to hand useful technology down to family members also.

Low power sleep states seem to have been broken for many years in most laptops. Apple machines do not have this issue it appears.

I figure in an enterprise setting, machines get replaced within a few years?

I simply don't trust these latest machines to last without a particular issue happening. There's a fair amount online from the repair shops guys who are repeatedly encountering this issue. It seems like some kind of buck converter fails earlier than expected due to being run closer to its limits, and when it goes it dumps 13v into the SSD chips, destroying them, and bricking the machine, requiring SSD desoldering and component replacement, which isn't cheap or easy to fix. What % risk is unknown, but if the failure appears to be MTTF being reached early, then the longer I hold onto the machine the more likely I will encounter the issue and I don't fancy the risk...

My 2012 11" MBA is still absolutely fine, its the machines after 2016 to now that have the same issue.

I knew I'd get downvoted, but there are known SSD / T2 chip issues with 2016+ macs. Still present in Mx mac laptops. 2012 Macbook Air was my favourite laptop ever. See Louis Rossman etc... if you get lucky you get lucky, but I don't like the odds, so Apple hardware for me is a subscription model...

I hope one day they can fix the engineering problems so I can buy a machine and keep it for more than two years without fear of some cheap components exploding. A purchased computer should work for a decade at least. If this sounds over the top, look at what the repair shop guys are saying...

Edit: Thanks for the downvotes, its not popular but an unfortunate reality. These issues are related to 2016-present Apple laptops. My 2012 MBA is running just fine, but I cannot trust these soldered systems.. there's other content around about the 13v being dumped into the SSDs when another component fails. There are engineering issues.

If you want to understand what I'm talking about:

Apple SSDs engineered in the worst way possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qbrLiGY4Cg

Exploding USB-C MacBook Ports Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAGnMR1aVuE

DivestOS is based on lineageOS and while not as good as grapheneOS, does support a number of other devices [0]. I think its the next best alternative to GrapheneOS.

Monthly security updates too.

[0]: https://divestos.org/pages/devices

I've noticed some BIOS' do not allow the full capacity of unified memory to be allocated, so if you do this check you can actually allocate 16GB, some are limited to 2 or 4GB, seemingly unnecessarily

I found the fragmentation of desktop environments frustrating, with lots of gotchas that I felt likely to lead to problems later on. A couple of days later after trying out maybe 10 distros in vmware, I eventually settled on ZorinOS. PopOS looks like it might be good with the cosmic desktop in the future. If I was going all-in on linux for work, I'd probably end up with arch and hyprland or something, but what I was looking for in the desktop environment for secondary general computing needed to be a bit more well rounded.

Tried out GhostBSD with Mate for a while, but as expected the hardware support makes it more work, e.g. USB wifi and missing drivers.

update: Installing windows

Despite years of random github hacks to disable forced updates, yesterday a 200GB+ file transfer was ruined by a forced Windows update I specifically said no to 30 minutes earlier. Today I'm trialling PopOS and have resolved to never install windows on bare metal again on my machines. The forced update garbage is a tipping point I'm sure now after almost 10 years.

My guess is that this[0] means we might see some manifest v3 type stuff happen in the future as ad blocking becomes a conflict of interest for Mozilla.

[0]: https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/18/mozilla_buys_anonym_b...

Notifications are good. Notifications that are temporally disconnected from actions (e.g. debounced, cooled down) are suboptimal - but its what people are used to. Getting rid of notifications altogether is not an improvement. In his example, the notification is basically a confirmation of a direct action. Notifications don't always feedback instantly

Not checking dependency updates need to die already. Not choosing better dependencies needs to die already.

I tried out Zed and really like it, but its still lacking things like EditorConfig support, so project switching sucks. Has strong potential to replace vscode entirely if they don't get carried away with fancy features

I use a keyboard shortcut to quickly switch between source and live preview mode.

I open sourced my css snippets repo, and the first CSS rule in this file in my minimal theme CSS snippets repo resets font sizes in source view so font sizes are the all the same:

https://github.com/replete/obsidian-minimal-theme-css-snippe...

I tried out Zed after reading this, super impressive and could overtake vscode in a year or two. Missing a few things like supporting editorconfig, but that's being worked on this week. Would switch immediately if it supported a few more things