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throwaway270925··on Proton CEO Andy Yen: "This will be the last year that we hire engineers."
> a company that does not move will die.

Which is of course not true and just the usual SV/MBA bullshit.

Lots of businesses around the world are happy and successful where they are without chasing the latest fads or trying to be unicorns.

Maybe look outside the SV bubble sometime and learn about the real world.

throwaway270925··on Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'
> "working in tech" is (now) cool,

yeah, thats not the case anymore, it stopped being cool sometime in the last 2 years, unfortunately. Just fyi if someone hasnt realized yet.

throwaway270925··on AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
God am I happy to not have switched to Proton right now!
throwaway270925··on Show HN: Tinycap, a tiny Mac screen recorder that makes PR-sized GIFs and MP4s
Dont really have a need for the tool, but what a beautiful site!
throwaway270925··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
180° and pen support would be nice, yeah!
throwaway270925··on New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
Do people think about the posts they read?

The power supply shortage was obviously tongue in cheek dude!

throwaway270925··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
Dont really care for a touchscreen, but this being Apple I wouldnt be surprised if you will be able to disable touch input in the settings.

Otherwise this seems like a great upgrade, cant wait to get the M7 Pro version of this next year! (My M1 Pro holds up great for now.)

throwaway270925··on New iMac with M6
Unfortunately there are strangely no clones of current imacs.

I would buy one in a heartbeat!

But basically no AIOs or monitors come anywhere near the "slab on a stand" look of current imacs/Studio displays - would love one for my next Linux PC though...

throwaway270925··on New iMac with M6
Since this is exactly what I am searching for, maybe someone here can help:

Does anyone know of a good looking display, just a slab on a stand like imacs or Studio displays?

I want something good looking for the Linux PC in my living room but almost all monitors out there are just plain ugly and bulky. Ideally 27-32" but at this point i dont really care anymore...

Thanks!

throwaway270925··on New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
Apparently after the memory and storage shortage we are also experiencing a power supply shortage now - if you choose the base 16GB/1TB config you cant even choose any power supply as an option, guess its a use-once device now...
throwaway270925··on Apple Announces iMac with M6
Nice, the Ethernet option seems to have been upgraded to 2.5G too!
throwaway270925··on Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11
Better use

https://cards.jlogical.com/

Its way nicer and open source:

https://github.com/JLogical-Apps/cards

throwaway270925··on New iPad mini
Shouldn't it rather drive you to a Samsung Fold?
throwaway270925··on OLED iPad Mini
Looking at my now "old" ipad mini 2024: you might want to delete that comment - and google picturesearch a bit ;)
throwaway270925··on New iPad mini
Now I get why they only announced it via press release...
throwaway270925··on IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem
This on the Front Page the same time as Anthropics S-1, fun times!
throwaway270925··on Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes
It might seem like an overreaction when you only think about a possible fire. While their larger concern was probably the possibly imminent CO poisoning!
throwaway270925··on Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)
Does she actually need WordPress/Plugin features or is it mostly about editing the site herself? would something like Publii work too? Static sites dont have CVEs and you still get a nice WYSIWYG editor so she can update the site on her own.

Did this with my parents websites and they are quite happy and I get basically no support calls (and can read threads like this one out of interest only, thankfully)

throwaway270925··on OpenBSD 8.0
Thats great to hear! I also love the title for this talk about it:

GEFS: The File Shredder of the Future. https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/NVMSCJ/

throwaway270925··on BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBox
> It was shockingly performant, especially with anything graphical.

I had the same experience.

Only few things came close since: QNX, my M1 MBP when it was new and a fresh MXLinux installation (no idea how they do it, maybe some low latency scheduler?)

Those felt similarly instant GUI-wise as BeOS did, while unfortunately current MacOS and Win11 feel glacial compared to it.

throwaway270925··on New York City's iconic horse-drawn carriages expected to take their last trot
> throw out a couple of troughs of water for the horses

They have, while not throughs per se, there are extra hydrants all around the fiaker places at Stefansdom, Albertina, Hofburg, etc for them to fill their horses water buckets, spray them down, etc.

throwaway270925··on Passkeys are a trap
Since you made this mistake a few times:

Its Bluetooth LE, not LTE!

LTE is 4g, LE is a Bluetooth spec (literally means Low Energy).

throwaway270925··on $2599 Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra
Why talk bad about stuff you obviously have no idea about? Or are you just trolling? Go and read the articles, watch the review videos, THEN comment. This new connector is not a full length usb-c plug, but much shorter, so it breaks away just as easily as magsafe!
throwaway270925··on The art of defusing a second world war bomb
Oh how i would love a modern incarnation of man lab! Such a good show!
throwaway270925··on Permanent Daylight Saving Time Could Harm Sleep and Mental Health, Analysis Says
> Go for a walk at lunch time.

Quite the entitled, unreflected comment. Not everyone works in an office or somewhere where this is a possibility!

throwaway270925··on Permanent Daylight Saving Time Could Harm Sleep and Mental Health, Analysis Says
Not really, as its a pretty shallow and trite article about abolishing ALL time zones around the world, not just within a country, totally different thing
throwaway270925··on KDE Plasma 6.8 Now Makes Tiled Windows Fit Together More Nicely
This is exactly the right amount of change I want in my DE.

Dont add 50 new features just for marketing, fixes and quality updates only.

throwaway270925··on European industry is doing better than you may think
He's not talking about "cheaper goods", he's talking about "cheap shit" - thats different things...
throwaway270925··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
Too many people seem to have taken it as a todo list instead of a warning...
throwaway270925··on Apple Mac mini review
+1100€ for the 2TB upgrade nowadays, thats not an "Apple tax" anymore thats just straight up robbery. Even a pcie gen5 nvme costs only about 300€, even with todays prices, so 600€ would be quite in line with Apple pricing, but 1100€!? Thats just being a dick.
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