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therealmarv commented on Show HN: I built an iOS app with all 5 major AI models for $13/mo   chatxos.com... · Posted by u/jsontsx
therealmarv · 21 days ago
t3 chat, perplexity etc.
therealmarv commented on Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)   jon.bo/posts/nano-texture... · Posted by u/dsr12
jen729w · 24 days ago
> Btw. alcohol is a very good way to destroy the old glossy screens (non nano texture).

Respectful disagree. My partner's family's go-to surface spray has always been a home-made mix of ~30% methylated spirits to water. That's the only bench spray I've used for 10+ years and I can report it's as effective as any commercial spray, and 10% the price. Just mix it at home and use it everywhere. Kitchen, bathroom, anywhere else. I speak as a clean-freak. It works.

It's also amazing for cleaning laptop screens. I spray it directly on. I shouldn't. I do. I type this on a 5-year-old Macbook Air whose screen has been cleaned countless times using this method. It looks like this. (The moon-surface-like texture at the top is the texture of the reflected wall, above.) https://share.cleanshot.com/bnHrCQDZ

1. Make this mixture in a $1 spray bottle at home.

2. Lock your laptop and press Escape so the screen turns off. Lay it screen-back-down, keyboard open at about 80°, so it sits on the bench.

3. Spray a small amount of this mixture on the screen, directly. But don't be shy. Just don't have the screen be swimming.

4. Wipe carefully with a kitchen towel.

5. Repeat as necessary.

So far the only danger I've found is catching an abrasive particle in the cloth in the wiping process. A pre-wipe can alleviate the issue.

therealmarv · 23 days ago
I've researched a little deeper. Apparently it depends on the mixture and on the model of your laptop.

I've written that because I remember of "staingate" of Apple Laptops. Apparently the 2012–2017 Retina models were really not okay with alcohol solutions.

So depending on the manufacturing year and alcohol solution percentage you can be fine with alcohol on glossy displays.

therealmarv commented on Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)   jon.bo/posts/nano-texture... · Posted by u/dsr12
therealmarv · 24 days ago
Alcohol? After research on Apple they allow:

    For infrequent cleaning of hard-to-remove smudges, you can moisten the cloth with a 70-percent isopropyl alcohol (IPA) solution.
source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/104948

But never apply it directly on screen. I think it's important to mention you just do not use "some alcohol" but it should be 70% isopropyl alcohol solution.

Btw. alcohol is a very good way to destroy the old glossy screens (non nano texture).

therealmarv commented on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app   xdaforums.com/t/discussio... · Posted by u/Magnusmaster
Magnusmaster · a month ago
The Vietnamese government has mandated all banking apps to detect if either the phone has been rooted, the bootloader has been unlocked, or ADB is enabled and force quit if that's the case.
therealmarv · a month ago
the funny thing is... you can go around that with root if you know how.
therealmarv commented on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app   xdaforums.com/t/discussio... · Posted by u/Magnusmaster
lucasjans · a month ago
I have a Vietnam bank account tho I live in the States now. I recently enabled developer mode in my Android phone, didn't think much of it. But later when I open my mobile banking app it told me to disable developer mode in order to open the app.

It's not just root that they block.

therealmarv · a month ago
you are as developer already half way on the evil side in their opinion ;)

It's ridiculous.

therealmarv commented on Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups   smokingonabike.com/2025/1... · Posted by u/coldpie
therealmarv · a month ago
I'm totally on the side of the author. Major browser developers (including Firefox) do not care themselves for many many years.

The only "browser developer" which cares is Brave with its native built-in adblock engine (written in Rust). It gives you on desktop and especially on mobile the best out of the box experience in blocking all these intrusive ads. I don't understand people who browse the mobile web without adblocker.

therealmarv commented on Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration   ankursethi.com/blog/gemin... · Posted by u/speckx
therealmarv · 2 months ago
Try to get a Google Vertex API key working locally. It's even more complicated. Took me literally one full day to get the whole toolchain working (had to do some pauses out of frustration).

I only went through it because I got once 300 USD for free to spend on my Google Workspace account I/my business owns.

OpenAI API usage is so much easier.

Btw Google: Fix Google Console API usage dashboard... why is there a delay of 2+ days? Why cannot I see (and block!) the usage of the current day?

therealmarv commented on Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI   mistral.ai/news/devstral-... · Posted by u/pember
therealmarv · 2 months ago
offtopic but it hurts my eyes: I dislike for their font choice and their "cool looks" in their graphics.

Surprising and good is only: Everything including graphics fixed when clicking my "speedreader" button in Brave. So they are doing that "cool look" by CSS.

therealmarv commented on Ghostty is now non-profit   mitchellh.com/writing/gho... · Posted by u/vrnvu
zikduruqe · 2 months ago
Good. Maybe they'll add search to the terminal now. /s
therealmarv · 2 months ago
A little unfair that this is downvoted. No search is like a dealbreaker for me. I'm happy with iTerm and for 99% of my use cases I don't need a "very fast" terminal. Thanks for pointing this out.

Seems I will wait a little longer before search is in the regular build (and not nightly ones)

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