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fckgw 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
djhn · 8 days ago
Wait, wasn’t touch id phased out together with the intel touch bar macbooks? I’ve never used anything but a long password to unlock.
fckgw · 8 days ago
No, it's been part of the power button since then.

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fckgw commented on Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability   apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
jon-wood · 16 days ago
I'm curious whether the improved range is actually going to make the product worse for my particular use case, which is being alerted when I've left my bag somewhere (this has happened to me at least 5 times over the years). My understanding is that the item left behind notifications are triggered when your phone loses contact with the AirTag, so increased range can potentially take me from being notified as I step off the train to being notified as I leave the station and the train has departed.
fckgw · 16 days ago
It triggers within a certain radius that you can change in the settings to be wider or narrower. It's not specifically when it loses contact with the device.
fckgw commented on Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday    · Posted by u/Daemon404
RyanShook · 22 days ago
Vimeo you manage your brand and presentation. YouTube you have little control over where or how your video is presented. Vimeo also provides VOD for some large brands and media companies.
fckgw · 22 days ago
Yeah, it's this. It's a hosting platform, not a social media platform. You see a ton of people who have short films, art projects, commercial portfolios and stuff like that hosted at Vimeo. They don't need/want comments, discoverability, or to deal with things like automated DRM takedowns. Clean, simple, video hosting.
fckgw commented on Apple Creator Studio   apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/lemonlime227
ksec · a month ago
>Comes out January 28th

I wonder why? Why not today but 28th of Jan?

Part of me thinks M5 MacBook Air and M5 Pro MacBook Pro will also be released on January 28th.

fckgw · a month ago
Mac Studio is still on M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips.

I could see a press release refresh on that day to M5 chips.

fckgw commented on Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs   pcgamer.com/hardware/dell... · Posted by u/mossTechnician
9rx · a month ago
The problem isn't so much the five seconds, it is the muscle memory. You become accustomed to blindly hitting "Yes" every time you've accidentally typed something into the text box, and then that time when you actually put a lot of effort into something... Boom. Its gone. I have been bitten before. Something like the parent described would be a huge improvement.

Granted, it seems the even better UX is to save what the user inputs and let them recover if they lost something important. That would also help for other things, like crashes, which have also burned me in the past. But tradeoffs, as always.

fckgw · a month ago
Which is fine! That's me making the explicit choice that yes, I want to close this box and yes, I want to lose this data. I don't need an AI evaluating how important it thinks I am and second guessing my judgement call.

I tell the computer what to do, not the other way around.

fckgw commented on The Gemini AI Studio "Context Tax": How a 10-word prompt cost me £121    · Posted by u/daitandojo
segmondy · a month ago
what exactly does this mean? claude was sitting next to them watching them then wrote up the report? they put in lots of personal details and experience in the story, it's obviously not written by claude and it's very rude to accuse someone without evidence.
fckgw · a month ago
If you can't see that this post was obviously "enhanced" with AI then I don't know what to tell you. They had a small anecdote about their experience and then asked AI to flesh it out into a multi paragraph post.

I mean, the cute section titles are a dead giveaway.

fckgw commented on Ask HN: How do you manage kids' accounts?    · Posted by u/xfax
fckgw · a month ago
If you're already in the Apple ecosystem, get them separate iCloud accounts with their own email and join in a family plan. You can manage their devices and setting from one location. You can also use the Passwords app, create a family group and add the shared passwords there so there's a central access to everything.

My family does this except we use 1Password app instead of Passwords. Kids have their own devices, allowance is paid via Apple Cash and they can use either Apple Pay or their virtual card number to buy things in the real world or online. Google and game account credentials are stored on their device or on their PCs via Chrome plugin (which Apple Passwords has as well).

fckgw commented on TP-Link only works with a permanent internet connection    · Posted by u/roscas
mcsniff · a month ago
This is a pretty interesting claim...I have a few C110 and C200 that work just fine offline after null routing them.

You may need to enable RTSP (https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/2680/) to get a feed off them directly, it works fine in Frigate and any other viewer that can consume RTSP.

I am not defending TP-Link, but it's a pretty big claim for you to say their devices don't work offline and will immediately power down, without any supporting technical evidence.

fckgw · a month ago
I have the same C200 camera and recently had a 24hr+ internet outage and the camera stayed on just fine. I am also using RTSP with Frigate and Scrypted.

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