I actually don’t want the Windows aesthetic, but for my older family members, I recommend Linux Mint. For those more technical who still prefer a Windows-like UX, stock Ubuntu with ArcMenu w/ Eleven layout and Dash to Panel with Windows 11 Theme & Icon pack.
Readit Newsminton commented on America's cyber defenses are being dismantled from the inside theregister.com/2025/04/2... · Posted by u/rntn
Mouse Utopia experiment doesn’t give mice space it’s just not the kind of restriction that’s initially obvious.
The modern take is when you put animals into environments well outside what they evolved for you get seemingly bizarre behavior.
I don’t think we need a study to understand that someone who always gets everything they want is usually a spoiled brat.
minton commented on The Rise and Fall of Toys 'R' Us (2018) history.com/articles/toys... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
do you think that had PE not been involved, Toys would be the same as it was in 1991 [1]? Glass cases with RC cars and hovercraft? Glue-together models, Hot Wheels? The times change, even though I agree with you that PE sucks. Besides, if it were merely PE then wouldn't that create new opportunity for people to start their own local toystores? If it were merely PE then the market to buy toys would remain unchanged, wouldn't it?
They had electronics and legos, not just models and hot wheels. I think they’d have adapted like most businesses have.
You see more reasons for low alcohol because we are finally waking up to the fact (and the science is confirming) that it's a poison ... at essentially any dose.
You see more reasons for low carb/keto because it's the current diet trend.
Low carb has been a “trend” for 20+ years with the Atkins Diet and keto for over 10 years now (although it’s from the 1920s).
> but even non-tech people I know are wondering why Android phones run smoother than iPhones. Stuff that would be completely unheard of purely because of how noticeable 60hz vs 120hz is.
Are they? I'm a tech person and I can barely notice it at all. And I don't think I have a single non-tech friend who is even aware of the concept of video refresh rate.
Whenever there's something that doesn't feel smooth about an interface, it's because the app/CPU isn't keeping up.
I've honestly never understood why anyone cares about more than 60hZ for screens, for general interfaces/scrolling.
(Unless it's about video game response time, but that's not about "running smoother".)
I run Windows daily at work on a 60Hz display. I recently got my son a gaming PC complete with a 144Hz monitor. I was genuinely confused why Windows itself “felt” so much better. Just dragging windows around seemed like magic. It’s not that the UI is lagging on my machine, it’s more the smoothness of things when they move around. It makes everything seem faster, despite us timing various things and finding no actual performance differences.
+ $4,000 to bump to 512GB from 96GB.
The features here seem to be fairly standard with most the WireGuard based VPNs these days. For example, I use Nord for my use-case which is very similar to the author's. This allows me to rsync my home directory between my laptop, tablet, phone's Termux env, and desktop (all running Linux) to maintain configuration parity and file locality regardless of where I turn these devices on, so long as they have internet.
Does Tailscale have features that set it apart now that other VPNs have gotten the private mesh thing down pretty well?
I had no idea Nord offered that and we’ve used them for years.
"With Apple Invites, users can create and easily share invitations, RSVP, contribute to Shared Albums, and engage with Apple Music playlists."
Correct me if I'm wrong:
- create & share invitations: must have iCloud+
- iCloud shared albums: barebones upload/download on non-Apple devices
- apple music: cross-platform, must be subscribed
- RSVP: cross-platform (Apple account req'd)
So yes, it "works" outside the Apple ecosystem, but missing features to encourage lock-in.
It literally says, “...anyone can RSVP, regardless of whether they have an Apple Account or Apple device.”
Just run Arch in a VM on the mac, using Apple's virtualization framework [1]. (No need for other wrappers; the framework is often easier to use directly.) I find no significant performance issues; a lot of software actually runs faster in a Linux VM than when I compile and run it on the mac.
The limitations are that the Linux VM's don't support save/restore of state (i.e., you have to shut down to stop the VM) and the graphics and device support is limited.
You might get more performance if you compile your own Arch distribution with all the flags necessary to enjoy modern CPU features in M-series (particularly M4+ with SME extensions). With M4-Pro memory should run 273GB/second for JAX and PyTorch.
However, AFAICT, PyTorch supports vectorization on Apple silicon by delegating to Apple's Metal API's, and that wouldn't be available from the Linux VM, so you might prefer running those on macOS directly.
To me the biggest draw of the M4 processor is that it supports CPU tracing (at least for Xcode-run code): actual, direct (not sampled) data about CPU internals like branching, cache misses, etc. If you're into performance, this will take you from working with a black box to seeing exactly what's up.
[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/Virtualization/run...