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ezfe commented on The First Sodium-Ion Battery EV Is a Winter Range Monster   insideevs.com/news/786509... · Posted by u/andrewjneumann
ezfe · 2 hours ago
I don't understand what these headlines are really about, given that 75% of the range loss in my EV is from CABIN climate control.
ezfe commented on Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)   rhodesmill.org/brandon/20... · Posted by u/theblazehen
moritzwarhier · a day ago
Why not just start every alias or script with ë or something?
ezfe · a day ago
Comma is easier to type and less visually distracting
ezfe commented on FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled   404media.co/fbi-couldnt-g... · Posted by u/robin_reala
macintux · 4 days ago
There appear to be a relatively few possibilities.

* The reporter lied.

* The reporter forgot.

* Apple devices share fingerprint matching details and another device had her details (this is supposed to be impossible, and I have no reason to believe it isn't).

* The government hacked the computer such that it would unlock this way (probably impossible as well).

* The fingerprint security is much worse than years of evidence suggests.

Mainly it was buried at the very end of the article, and I thought it worth mentioning here in case people missed it.

ezfe · 4 days ago
The reporter lying or forgetting seems to be the clear answer, there's really no reason to believe it's not one of those. And the distinction between the two isn't really important from a technical perspective.

Fingerprint security being poor is also unlikely, because that would only apply if a different finger had been registered.

ezfe commented on FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled   404media.co/fbi-couldnt-g... · Posted by u/robin_reala
3pt14159 · 4 days ago
This doesn’t work for my iPhone that’s about three years old.
ezfe · 4 days ago
If your phone has home button, then you don't need to press the volume button. Otherwise, yes it does work.
ezfe commented on FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled   404media.co/fbi-couldnt-g... · Posted by u/robin_reala
macintux · 4 days ago
> Natanson said she does not use biometrics for her devices, but after investigators told her to try, “when she applied her index finger to the fingerprint reader, the laptop unlocked.”

Curious.

ezfe · 4 days ago
Why is this curious?
ezfe commented on TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe   taoofmac.com/space/til/20... · Posted by u/rcarmo
atombender · 6 days ago
I meant Sequoia, but I can't edit my comment anymore. I've completely lost track of the OS releases after they stopped emphasizing the number.
ezfe · 6 days ago
Ah, gotcha - never mind then.
ezfe commented on TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe   taoofmac.com/space/til/20... · Posted by u/rcarmo
atombender · 7 days ago
It's reliable except when it's not. I'm using Mojave, and currently fighting a bug where a local snapshot gets stuck. When I list the local snapshots, I see the old one, then a gap of several days, and then additional snapshots.

From what I can tell, this snapshot is preventing space reclamation. The last month or so, I've constantly run out of disk space even when not doing anything special. As in actually run out of disk space — apps start to become unresponsive or crash, and I get warning boxes about low disk space. When you run low, the OS is supposed to reclaim the space used by snapshots, but I guess it doesn't happen,

The stuck snapshot can't be deleted with tmutil. I get a generic "failed to delete" error. The snapshot is actually mounted by the backup daemon, but unmount also fails. The only solution I've found is to reboot. Then I get 200-300GB back and the cycle starts again, with snapshots getting stuck again.

I'm considering updating to Tahoe just because there's a chance they fixed it in that release.

ezfe · 7 days ago
Mojave is 7 years old so I think its safe to say you can't generalize
ezfe commented on TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe   taoofmac.com/space/til/20... · Posted by u/rcarmo
codeulike · 7 days ago
Time Machine is held in high regard for some reason (maybe the fancy scrolling interface when you look for files to restore?) but it's not really useable. It pretends that backups-over-the-network are a possibility but its completely unstable over the network and invariably decides the backup is corrupt after a few months and then tells you you have to start from scratch.
ezfe · 7 days ago
When backing up to a local system it is extremely useable and reliable. It creates separate snapshot volumes for each backup and can be navigated in the Finder interface or using the fancy space interface.

Also, backups over the network are possible and have worked well for me for a few years.

ezfe commented on Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app   macrumors.com/2026/01/28/... · Posted by u/pier25
kccqzy · 11 days ago
If it was enabled, why can Apple still demand 30% cut here? Couldn’t Patreon just switch to external payment processors citing the Epic case?
ezfe · 11 days ago
Because Patreon doesn't want to do that. They could.
ezfe commented on Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app   macrumors.com/2026/01/28/... · Posted by u/pier25
iknowstuff · 11 days ago
Don’t they forbid this? Spotify couldn’t even link to their website in the US lol
ezfe · 11 days ago
Spotify does link to their website to sign up in the US...

u/ezfe

KarmaCake day1989April 11, 2014View Original