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4 ay öncediscuss

You make some great points here. Here’s one of the places I’m coming from that seems to be aligned with the author of this.

I find macOS to be a superior OS for doing computer work to all the alternatives. It still sucks for a lot of reasons, but to my taste it generally sucks less. I’m a web dev, so I host a lot of crap in Linux, and I’m pretty confident in using it as a desktop. But the general day to day experience I find macOS superior.

There’s plenty of people in similar boats, and this is the most affordable machine (new, not used) that lets someone get to use macOS.

For a lot of people with budget limits I’d point them to used MacBook Air models rather than the Neo, but having this as a new model is a really nice option for some people.

Also you can call the Neo CPU slow but its benchmarks run circles around anything you find at its price range. Those machines have more RAM and storage, but the Neo will likely provide a more responsive experience than anything in its price range.

4 ay öncediscuss

Asahi only supports M1 and M2 series Macs currently. The Neo uses an A18 Pro, which was only ever in an iPhone before. I wouldn’t count on Asahi coming to these soon.

4 ay öncediscuss

My first, and primary, programming language was C# which includes probably too large a standard library. It was definitely a surprise to see how minimal/simple other standard libraries are!

5 ay öncediscuss

For a camera exposing onto Kodak 5254, probably the fastest available in 1975, blazing ISO 100 film stock. Yeah it’s dim for that. To your eyes as I understand it’s pretty well lit.

6 ay öncediscuss

Demos are on the feature page: https://phase8.korg.com

6 ay öncediscuss

No, fta:

> Alternatively, users can also choose to purchase the Mac versions of Final Cut Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Logic Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage individually as a one-time purchase on the Mac App Store.

6 ay öncediscuss

Magnetic induction damping compasses have traditionally used a flat plate under the needle in order to arrest the motion of the needle. This component is not transparent. By removing the plate and adding the ring, you can see through the face, providing the benefits of a liquid damped compass without the possibility of a bubble forming.

7 ay öncediscuss

It offers native x86, Windows on ARM, and Apple Silicon versions.

I think this is incorrect. Specifically the Windows ARM support. Official hardware support page indicates that the Windows version requires x64. I unfortunately don’t have the hardware to confirm for myself. But Blizzard is the kind of company that would have made a blog post about that.

https://us.support.blizzard.com/en/article/76459

This is neat, and exciting that Windows emulation tooling is progressing! It seems like there’s a lot of work hardware vendors would need to do in order to make Win/Arm viable for game devs. I really wonder if that’s ever going to happen.

7 ay öncediscuss

You specified working with web and .NET Core (now just called .NET). Given the scope of modern .NET I don't think I can recommend a single book, but I've tried to order this in how I see them as most to least impactful for a dev.

For web dev specific guidance it's hard to beat ASP.NET Core in Action by Andrew Lock. Check out Lock's blog too at https://andrewlock.net, it's a great source of new features happening in ASP.NET. He does go into publishing an app on both Windows and Linux, with a decent guide to both. But you'll probably want to read through MSDN docs on that as well, I don't think there's a book that goes in very deep on that.

For generally writing modern C# using .NET, I like Code like a Pro in C# by Jort Rodenburg.

For a quick tour of modern C# features C# 12 in a Nutshell by Albahari is basically the reference guide. 12 is the latest, grab any of them from probably 7 up for a decently modern take.

7 ay öncediscuss

Running fine here on Safari 26.1 (Tahoe 26.1).

8 ay öncediscuss

The Phoebus cartel didn't collude just to make the light bulbs have a shorter lifespan. They upped the standard illumination a bulb emitted so that consumers needed fewer of them to see well. With an incandescent you have a kind of sliding scale of brightness:longevity (with curves on each end that quickly go exponential, hence the longest lasting light bulb that's so dim you can barely read by its light). The brighter the bulb, the shorter the lifespan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb7Bs98KmnY

8 ay öncediscuss

Happy to share the report from the ME Mini box (below). But the other one is running Windows so I can't help there. Thanks to this I was able to find I'd initially left off secure boot and was able to fix a couple of its suggestions at least, but if I'm understanding the HSI status and coreboot needs, there's fuses flipped that would prevent it.

  WARNING: UEFI capsule updates not available or enabled in firmware setup
  See https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/wiki/PluginFlag:capsules-unsupported for more information.
  Host Security ID: HSI:0! (v2.0.8)
  
  HSI-1
   csme override:                 Locked
   csme v0:16.50.15.1515:         Valid
   Platform debugging:            Disabled
   SPI write:                     Disabled
   Supported CPU:                 Valid
   TPM empty PCRs:                Valid
   TPM v2.0:                      Found
   UEFI bootservice variables:    Locked
   UEFI secure boot:              Enabled
   BIOS firmware updates:         Disabled
   csme manufacturing mode:       Unlocked
   SPI lock:                      Disabled
   SPI BIOS region:               Unlocked
   UEFI platform key:             Invalid
  
  HSI-2
   Intel BootGuard:               Enabled
   IOMMU:                         Enabled
   Platform debugging:            Locked
   TPM PCR0 reconstruction:       Valid
   Intel BootGuard ACM protected: Invalid
   Intel BootGuard OTP fuse:      Invalid
   Intel BootGuard verified boot: Invalid
  
  HSI-3
   CET Platform:                  Supported
   Intel BootGuard error policy:  Invalid
   Pre-boot DMA protection:       Disabled
   Suspend-to-idle:               Disabled
   Suspend-to-ram:                Enabled
  
  HSI-4
   SMAP:                          Enabled
   Encrypted RAM:                 Not supported
  
  Runtime Suffix -!
   fwupd plugins:                 Untainted
   Linux kernel lockdown:         Enabled
   Linux kernel:                  Untainted
   CET OS Support:                Not supported
   Linux swap:                    Unencrypted
   UEFI db:                       Invalid
  
  This system has a low HSI security level.
   » https://fwupd.github.io/hsi.html#low-security-level
  
  This system has HSI runtime issues.
   » https://fwupd.github.io/hsi.html#hsi-runtime-suffix

8 ay öncediscuss

I love how capable these tiny N150 machines are. I've got one running Debian for my home media and backup solution and it's never stuttered. I'd be curious about exactly what machine they're testing with. I've got the Beelink ME mini running that media server. And I use a Beelink EQ14 as a kind of jump box to remote into my work desktop.

9 ay öncediscuss

Sorry if I'm missing something obvious -- but how have you come to the conclusion that all the articles are AI generated?

10 ay öncediscuss

I like smaller keyboards (80% or less) in both gaming and professional work because it lets me keep my hands and shoulders in a more natural position when I’m using the mouse.

A person with broader shoulders would probably have a different experience, but a full keyboard makes me feel like my mouse is either too close to the keyboard or too far to rest my shoulder.

10 ay öncediscuss

For what it's worth, Maoni is the author's real name. Maoni0 is what they go by everywhere. You can find interviews and plenty of their other content if you search around a bit.

2 yıl öncediscuss

MUBI[0] is another streaming service that's focusing on curation and smaller lists of films available. Their service is available in a lot of countries, and each region has its own curation.

I'm a huge fan of this ultra-curated approach, since it lets me find a lot of things that I'd otherwise have to hunt for, and would likely miss out on.

[0] https://mubi.com

6 yıl öncediscuss

Just 6 days ago you published what was a pretty great writeup on message queues, now this thorough dive on connections & pools; what's your writing schedule like? At some 12k words of fairly accurate and precise technical content I'm kind of blown away by your pace.