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cannolicannon commented on The MacBook Neo   daringfireball.net/2026/0... · Posted by u/etothet
KingMachiavelli · 3 days ago
IMO the consumer PC industry is near an existential crisis. The big players are just awful at marketing; too many SKUs and models - it takes a paragraph to figure out how 2 Dell laptops from the same release year differ. The exact same specs will be in two different chassis designs.

Additionally, you can’t count on the basic being correct. It takes a hour of research to know if the trackpad is not-awful, keyboard doesn’t suck, and display isn’t a 300nits POS unusable even in a bright room.

You want the same performance as a MacBook Air without one of these fatal flaws? You’ll hand to spend $1500+ anyway so you save nothing. Then the OS is full of ads and pre-installed garbage “gaming-optimization-tool” or driver tools taking up 99% of a single core while being riddled with security holes.

cannolicannon · 3 days ago
The big players are just awful at marketing; too many SKUs and models - it takes a paragraph to figure out how 2 Dell laptops from the same release year differ.

Just hired a new colleague who prefers Windows. Dell seemed like a reasonable option for a good laptop. Here is Dell's current lineup:

- Dell Laptop (with 14, 15, 16 inch variants)

- Dell Plus (with 14, 15, and 16 inch variants)

- Dell XPS (with 13, 14, and 16 inch variants)

- Dell Premium (with 14 and 16 inch variants)

- Dell Pro Essential (with 14 and 15 inch variants)

- Dell Pro (with 14 and 16 inch variants)

- Dell Pro Plus (with 14 and 16 inch variants)

- Dell Pro Premium (with 14 and 16 inch variants)

- Dell Pro Max (with 14 and 16 inch variants)

- Dell Pro Max Plus (with 14, 16, and 18 inch variants)

- Dell Pro Max Premium (with 14 and 16 inch variants)

It's maddening trying to sift through the differences at this level. Then when you select a model, there can upwards of 8 different pre-built options to review.

cannolicannon commented on A Pro Meticulously Restores a Damaged Oil Painting [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=uQbZI... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
gus_massa · 2 months ago
[rabbit hole warning]

Just in case the algorithm has not send you down there, https://www.youtube.com/@BaumgartnerRestoration

cannolicannon · 2 months ago
I'm supposed to be finishing up a changelog entry for a software release, but this is fascinating. Watching someone execute their craft at this level is mesmerizing.

You did warn us though.

cannolicannon commented on Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync   bewildered.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/davidscoville
cannolicannon · 6 months ago
This sounds like a classic account recovery scam where the scammer uses Google's account recovery feature to gain access to the account. Once they have the 2FA code, they're in. This time the scammer used an account takeover as the pretense for needing the code.

As for the email, this blog post ( https://sammitrovic.com/infosec/gmail-account-takeover-super... ) from about a year ago notes that somehow scammers were/are using Salesforce to spoof emails from Google that appear legitimate. Seems like something similar happened here, but there's no way to be sure without the headers which the scammer seemingly cleaned up.

The FTC reported that scam losses totaled 12.5 billion last year. These scams are elaborate and convincing even for folks who make a living in tech. ( https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/03/... )

At any rate, sorry this happened OP. Stay safe, folks.

cannolicannon commented on Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more   aboutamazon.com/news/devi... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
kaonwarb · a year ago
Just FYI, this is now a Kindle option too. https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=23435466011
cannolicannon · a year ago
For anyone with an ad-free Kindle, and running the most recent firmware, and you're looking for the Display Cover option using Amazon's documentation, and you're not finding it...like me.

It looks like earlier this year they moved the option out of Settings > Device Options and it's now located in Settings > Screen & Brightness. Which ironically doesn't seem to be documented anywhere that I can find.

cannolicannon commented on Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?    · Posted by u/throwaway_08932
onychomys · 2 years ago
My gamefaqs account has been used basically every day since April 11th, 2002.
cannolicannon · 2 years ago
Same here. Created a Gfaqs account on August 30th, 2001 and have kept it active ever since.
cannolicannon commented on All you may need is HTML   fabiensanglard.net/html/i... · Posted by u/ecliptik
cannolicannon · 3 years ago
> "This website used to be hosted by asmallorange. When I became dissatisfied, all I had to do was to open an account on hostgator, upload my html files, and change the DNS entry"

At the risk of being pendantic, asmallorange and hostgator are owned by the same entity[0].

That said, I like the premise of just writing and producing content and not necessarily worrying about setting up tooling. I think devs, and "geeks" in general, tend to enjoy tinkering with tooling, but it can be daunting for the less tech savvy. I suppose that's why things like Wordpress.com exist.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_International_Group

cannolicannon commented on It's easier and faster to pirate an e-book, than it is to buy it    · Posted by u/leoff
mgkimsal · 3 years ago
> Amazon doesn't have a shopping card for kindle books

I don't know what this means. What is a 'shopping card for kindle books'?

EDIT: OK - thanks all. Likely a typo of 'cart', unless the OP explains further. That was an initial thought, but the next line mentions 'so for each of the purchase I created a new virtual card and bought them'... so wasn't sure what the 'card' connection was.

cannolicannon · 3 years ago
I think it's a typo, probably should read "cart."

For whatever reason, Amazon doesn't seem to have a way to place Kindle books in your shopping cart and do a single, large purchase. Rather you find the book you want and buy using their 1-click purchase option then go find the next book and purchase with 1-click.

u/cannolicannon

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