JeffeFawkes (u/JeffeFawkes)

JeffeFawkes commented on 'Death to Spotify': the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the app theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/mitchbob

jsbisviewtiful · 5 months ago

Not owning what I stream sucks but I listen to a lot of music that I absolutely could not afford to pay $10+ per album for, nor $1-$3 per single for. Fortunately I own Massive Attack from the pre-streaming era but now I really have to go out of my way to listen to King Giz. No hate on either party for dropping the platform and I appreciate the stance being taken, but now I just don’t listen to King Giz because it would involve hoops.

JeffeFawkes · 5 months ago

Apple Music gave me a 90 day trial as soon as this Spotify snafu started, and it imported all but maybe 50 of my 5000+ songs from Spotify without issue, including King Gizz. I haven't touched Spotify so far this month, and I think I'm going to cancel it. I would say the music discovery features on Music are worse, but I also haven't tried to use them much yet. (That, and Spotify had gone massively downhill, I'd be lucky to get one or two new songs a month I liked with their recommendation pipeline. Which is a shame, because it used to be one of the best for me.)

JeffeFawkes commented on Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000? · Posted by u/lucideng

birdman3131 · 6 months ago

No its not. Slicer software is just CAM software for 3d printers. It just creates Gcode like any other CAM software. Calling it " basically just your interface to the dials and knobs on the CNC settings for speeds and feeds." shows a deep misunderstanding of operating CNC's in general.

Your manual controls on pretty much all 3d printers suck. But that's because manual operation is considerable far down the priority list. I've never seen one that did jogging other than setting an increment and tapping a touchscreen button to make it move 1 increment.

Every CNC machine I have ever ran did way better with the jogging. Even the ones from the 70's. You set a speed with a knob and then hold down a button. It goes till you let up. Or you use a rotary wheel for fine control.

And don't even get me started on homing. The homing sequence on all the printers I have dealt with is home X and Y before homing Z. Most machinists will be aghast at this as if you are homing all 3 axis's at once you home Z first to get the tool out of the way.

JeffeFawkes · 6 months ago

Regarding Z-homing being last - usually endstop positions are on Z-, not Z+, so they do a bit of a hop (2-10mm upwards Z) before the X and Y homing so they don't crash the head. If your Z endstop is on Z-, you can home that first since you know the head is out of the way.

EDIT: to be specific, this is for "bed-slinger" printers, but the concept is the same for fixed height tool head printers (eg where the bed is what's raised and lowered).

JeffeFawkes commented on VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong theregister.com/2025/09/0... · Posted by u/rntn

mrpippy · 6 months ago

Yes, but just try to download it from them. You have to make an account, agree to all kinds of garbage, and then you still might be stuck in "authorization" like my account is. They removed the auto-update functionality (even the notification!) from the app, so you have to manually go through their horrendous website to download updates.

It's 10x easier to just search reddit or internet archive for a link to the .dmg.

JeffeFawkes · 6 months ago

If your name or email address has non-alphanumeric characters, their entire authorization/EULA flow breaks silently. I had to use an old email to get it to work.

JeffeFawkes commented on VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong theregister.com/2025/09/0... · Posted by u/rntn

whalesalad · 6 months ago

TIL VMware Fusion is free now. https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2024/11/11/vmware-...

JeffeFawkes · 6 months ago

Yep! I use it to run SolidWorks on my M1 Macbook. (They sure don't make it easy, though - one of their many EULA approval steps fails silently if you have any non-alphanuneric characters in your name or email address. Feels par for the course with bigcorp software that assumes you'll have an IT team to deal with things.)

JeffeFawkes commented on The cultural evolution of distortion in music royalsocietypublishing.or... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

bee_rider · a year ago

There’s a nostalgic aspect to lots of music. The errors we grew up with do become nostalgic. (And other sounds—what kind of a dead-hearted monster doesn’t get a little happy to hear the first couple seconds of GSM interference noise? It’s so jaunty, how has nobody worked that into some techno?). It reminds us of how things were when we were so cool that we could only afford junk.

Nostalgia is cheap of course, but some times cheap things make us happy and that’s fine.

JeffeFawkes · a year ago

It has been worked into a tune! Love this artist (Venjent), he takes a lot of random samples like that and turns them into EDM tunes.

https://youtu.be/gpQS41WQSPY?si=7zK7wbtulqbgx-AA

JeffeFawkes commented on EU confirms Apple can make a portless iPhone without USB-C 9to5mac.com/2025/03/19/eu... · Posted by u/ksec

SingAlong · a year ago

Since you mentioned the 3.5mm headphone port: I recently found out that USBC audio accessory spec was deprecated in 2023. Means those cheap usbc to 3.5mm adapters are going to be useless soon since there is no obligation to support audio through usbc. Only the relatively more expensive DACs remain.

https://x.com/nileshtrivedi/status/1901512841318072572

(I am not the tweet author)

JeffeFawkes · a year ago

On the bright side, the official apple adapters are $10 and have a legitimately alright DAC in them (including mic input). I picked up a couple to use with pcs and laptops since I generally have better luck with the OEM apple adapters vs the onboard audio (which usually applies weird EQ and FX - looking at you, Dell).

JeffeFawkes commented on AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux rosenzweig.io/blog/aaa-ga... · Posted by u/6a74

andrewmcwatters · a year ago

I think at the moment, this is probably the only way to feasibly game on a Mac. Crossover and other Wine-based apps as well as Parallels are... not really truly possible. If you bought the top-of-the-line MacBook Pro 16-inch, 2021 with M1 Max and tried to play anything reasonably modern on it, you'd find the performance is basically not playable .

JeffeFawkes · a year ago

I've been having good luck on my M1 Max MBP with Whisky, which uses Apple's game porting toolkit: https://getwhisky.app/

JeffeFawkes commented on If AI is helping people code better, why aren't products getting better? · Posted by u/thisismytest

JeffeFawkes · a year ago

My theory... Being able to code well or fast doesn't one to one translate to a good end user experience. The strength of your org's ability to determine good features and iterate on them from a product perspective is what matters, and that /can/ potentially happen faster if AI is enabling faster development, but it's not guaranteed.

Even if we had a magic box that results in perfect code coming out every time for a given feature description, that doesn't mean the feature itself is good or well thought out.

JeffeFawkes commented on Microsoft will try the data-scraping Windows Recall feature again in October arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/taylorbuley

JohnFen · 2 years ago

> The feature will also be off by default

The most important thing, right here. Don't trick people into using something as invasive as this.

JeffeFawkes · 2 years ago

Off, for now... Until a future windows update post-install nag screen uses dark UX patterns to turn it on, probably as part of some other "yes, shut up, let me use my computer" button.

JeffeFawkes commented on Backdoor in RFID cards allows instant cloning securityweek.com/major-ba... · Posted by u/LinuxBender

beeboobaa3 · 2 years ago

Is this an actual backdoor, as in, put in there on purpose by the manufacturer? Sure sounds like it.

JeffeFawkes · 2 years ago

"Additional research revealed a hardware backdoor that allows authentication with an unknown key. Teuwen then used the new attack to obtain (“crack”) that secret key and found it to be common to all existing FM11RF08S cards."

Static key, decrypts all cards of a given model regardless of user stored keys? Yep, it's a backdoor.