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This esim handoff is interesting. Why don't MacBook pros have modem and esim and work even more seamlessly between iPhone and MacBook? - Because operators wants to charge you for separate subscriptions

Many office workers gets some MacBook and iPhone by their employees. Do they actually need both if the employer can just hand them something like a duo which transforms to a desktop computer via usb-c cable?

Ive said for years there is nothing technical hindering an iPhone to become a something that looks like macOS when connected to large display, its just ui transformation.

But then, apple can't sell you an iPhone, an iPad and a MacBook. This is why they don't go this route I think, and this is maybe the hinder that something like the iPhone duo won't reach the full potential it could have.


This was the stated intention with Samsung DeX - and it almost works but there are just enough pain points in day-to-day use to make it unviable for me, and a thin&light laptop is almost always the better solution, and easier than carrying around a mouse, keyboard and docking station and hoping whatever desk I'm working at has a display on it.

33000 something, nov 2008. Just interesting to see how the growth escalated in 2009 judging by other comments here as well.


Great, the esp32 will probably never be discovered. Because when the landlord decides to fix the original problem, the whole unit will probably be replaced.


Your kids collect stones and sticks. You collect emails, and probably browser tabs and desktop icons. When you move to new PC, all your desktop files ends up in a directory called New folder on the new pc’s desktop and the journey to fill the new desktop starts over before you have New folder and New folder 2 on the upcoming pc.


It's beautiful. Thanks to Moore's law, you can always fit all historical data in half your latest disk space. Though I personally tend to call them "Stuff" or "Junk".

But don't do

  Stuff
  Junk
That's a rookie strategy, do

  Stuff /
  Stuff / Stuff
  Stuff / Stuff / Junk / ...

When you need to find something old, just go down the folders until you start finding files from the right decade.


I've been telling myself I'll organise my now 4 layers nested stuff folders for 15 years.

A bit off-topic, but can anyone recommend tools to organise this much random stuff?


You should only organize things as you actually use them. The things you use are then generally organized and you haven’t wasted a bunch of time organizing stuff you never use.

If you do decide to organize a bunch of stuff you never use, that decision is then totally aesthetic, so you should choose a method of doing it that you find aesthetically pleasing.

Source: obsidian user who spent a bunch of time organizing stuff he never uses.


I largely agree, that's why I've still got all of it stored away, but I guess I'd like to keep track of what is it that I'm not using, what can I delete and what can I deduplicate.


Not the answer you're looking for, I know, but I used to have 100+ labels/folders, 4-5 deep, and decade+ old emails, obsessively organized etc.

5 years ago, I dropped down to 20 labels, and started routinely deleting anything over 5 years old except for a specific "keep forever" label.

No regrets. No instances of searching for old items and not finding them, etc.


I moved my old pc into a vm. The vm is the new folder.


I moved my SSD from my old computer into my new one. Because I'm a masochist who manually sets up my partitions with custom labels, it literally worked the first time I booted it. (The only change I did was swapping to the AMD microcode from the Intel microcode because of the processor in my new machine being different). When upgrading SSDs, I just replicated the same partition structure on the new disk and copied everything over with rsync, which also "just worked".

I still can't decide whether these strategies are obvious and intuitive or if they go against literally everything I've learned about what should be feasible. Can't argue with the results though!


I had to leave Windows 7 and start using Windows 11.


If only you could mount a separate home folder that stuck along while you changed roots. One can only dream..


I once had a mac laptop and figured out how to get macos running under proxmox.

I was able to boot macos in a VM and migrate my laptop. It "ascended" into virtuality.


You need to solve the migration strategy from stones and sticks to first desktop.


Friday.app, run over by monday.com


"A developer’s dream is a devops engineer’s nightmare"

Well, the opposite is very much true as well.

A devops engineer's dream is usually a developers nightmare.


That is sadly often true today, but not inevitable! When you are overwhelmed with complexity, a natural defense mechanism is to restrict choice. But with better tooling, you can better manage and reduce complexity, which allows you to say "yes" to developers without compromising on reliability and security. That is what we are trying to enable with Dagger.


I think the opposite cannot be true, because developers come physically before operations.

Isn't it actually devops engineers' job to make it so?


So much for "devops" merging together development and operations.

"A developer’s dream is a devops engineer’s nightmare" underines the failure of devops.


Sorry for the harsh attitude here.

You work as devops engineer for 15y and you reply-all to spam emails?


I trust you with my life but do I also trust you with my money and my wife?


"there are too many tools just to create some html these days, so I created another one"

No deal.


As popular is it has become on Twitter and other social media to react to a piece by manufacturing quotes, it's against the rules here.


Look at those gifs enabling the rounded corners.

And also remember how slow connections was back then so the progressive enhancement from square to round wasnt just a blink.

So many memories


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