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There's also been rumours of a new high-end OLED MacBook ("Ultra"?) in the works, possibly this year.

I really hope they roll back some of the more obnoxious and pointless aspects of "Liquid Glass" in macOS 27. And the super-rounded window corners are high up on my list. Looks childish, wastes screen space, causes so many little annoyances...

I wish too but they can't just back up, that would be a very bad sign for investors.

Why? What happened to the magic bar? There are many things Apple changed their minds on.

I won’t be surprised if there is a rollback in 27 (i’m hoping there will be - else going to buy a retro mac with a magic bar upon no tahoe runs).


They'll just come up with round displays. Like on PDP-1.

finally, we can run SPACEWAR on macOS as it was always intended to be run.

> "elephant feces have a volume of 20 liters, nearly a thousand times more than a dog's, at 10 milliliters"

Surely this depends greatly on the size of the dog. I've seen dog poops that are far bigger than that. That 10 ml poop must be from a very small dog!


It doesn’t make much sense as 20 liters is 2000 times 10 ml, also.

> “Also, credit card fees are not 4%, they're 1.5-3.5% with an average of around 2.3%.”

And they’re much lower than that in the UK and EU. Even the smallest UK retailers can pay as low as 1.6% or 0.8% + £0.02. The big guys who are running billions of £ are paying 0.5% or less.

(These apply to in-person transactions, accepting cards on the internet typically costs more).


Not really. I did the thermal mod to my previous (M1) MacBook Air and it still didn’t get all that warm.

The Intel MacBook Pro I had before that one got far, far hotter - almost scalding hot if you really pushed it - without any modifications.


The last generation of Intel Macbooks was so bad... the i9 I was assigned from my job at the time would constantly go in and out of thermal throttling, making the whole experience effectively useless... It was also so locked down, I couldn't apply any mods to be able to underclock/volt the thing to something reasonable.

I really do hope that Linux becomes an option in more workplaces without being too locked down for developers.


I’ve used both extensively and there’s very little difference in the keyboards between an Air and a Pro.

The difference in displays (Pro much brighter) and size/weight (Air much lighter) are much more significant considerations, IMO.


> ”Kids walking, biking, and being driven to school in mornings in darkness ... that's also what permanent DST gives us.”

Can’t schools just open 60 (or 30) minutes later if this is a problem? ie: school has winter hours where class starts at 9AM instead of 8:30AM?


I don't get how having "random" things change opening hours is any better than changing clocks.

I'm not a parent, but I can imagine that if some of my schedule had to change by 30 minutes some months out of the year, I'd find it more inconvenient.

What if school starts/ends at a different time but my job does not?

What if I have a standing appointment at a business that keeps its hours year round that now conflicts with one that changed to winter hours?

It seems more like a different set of problems than a solution.


It is completely obvious to me. There is only one uniform time, and thousands of arguments for what is a good time to do this or that. Reschedule things to work better. Don't force everything else according to some most important thing

How is "rescheduling some things" a solution and not a different problem?

Biodegradable foam packaging, as well has food containers, disposable cutlery, etc, has also been made from corn starch for decades.

I’m curious what the advantage of mycelium packaging is over these existing materials. Presumably, it’s not cheaper to produce? Is it mainly that the mycelium degrades faster and can be recycled more easily in home composting, etc? Or is this about creating “hard” plastic-like packaging that resists crushing, water, etc?


Theoretically fungi can live off sawdust, don't need plenty of light or watering, etc, so they should be less expensive than corn.

OTOH corn is highly optimized over centuries of breeding, harvesting, and processing. Fungi, not nearly so, so by now they may be more expensive.


It’s pretty difficult to do that. iPhones are known to potentially lose some of their water resistance after a battery swap, as it’s hard to guarantee the replaced waterproof seal is as good as the factory one.

The EU battery regulation has exemptions for IP67-rated devices which retain 83% of original battery capacity after 500 charge cycles, which most modern smartphones will qualify for.


> ”Replaceable batteries mean that you can just buy two or more and just carry them around so you can charge them less often.”

If you think this is what the EU battery regulation means, I’ve got some bad news for you.

Besides, as others pointed out, encouraging people to carry around multiple batteries for their devices would just lead to more e-waste, not less.

Also, carrying “naked” Li-ion batteries that are not installed in a device is prohibited on airlines - another reason why it shouldn’t be encouraged!


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