Starmina's comments

On: macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt

[Starmina]

That's intended behavior for monitor limited in peak brightness

[nodesocket → Starmina]

I don't think so. Windows 11 has a HDR calibration utility that allows you to adjust brightness and HDR and it maintains blacks being perfectly black (especially with my OLED). When I enable HDR on macOS whatever settings I try, including adjusting brightness and contrast on the monitor the blacks look completely washed out and grey. HDR DOES seem to work correctly on macOS but only if you use Mac displays.

[masspro → Starmina]

That’s the statement I found last time I went down this rabbit hole, that they don’t have physical brightness info for third-party displays so it just can’t be done any better. But I don’t understand how this can lead to making the black point terrible. Black should be the one color every emissive colorspace agrees on.

[kmeisthax → Starmina]

Actually, intended behavior in general. Even on their own displays the UI looks grey when HDR is playing.

Which, personally, I find to be extremely ugly and gross and I do not understand why they thought this was a good idea.

On: USB-C for Lightning iPhones

[Starmina]

Like he highlights in his video, those adapter are not reversible. They only charge 9V max in one side and limited to 5V if you flip them.

[zulln → Starmina]

Which should be fine for all the things the comment mentions though (remotes, keyboards, etc).

On: Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)

[Starmina]

Exactly my thoughts.

On: Show HN: Open Scanner, an open-source document scanning app for iPhone

[Starmina]

Nothing if you like it that way.

On: macOS in QEMU in Docker

[Starmina]

Try VirtualBuddy https://github.com/insidegui/VirtualBuddy

On: Russia Starts Blocking VPN Protocols

[Starmina]

Not at all, WireGuard is secure, but very easily identifiable.

On: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

[Starmina]

You can also use the "Userscripts" extension and add this userscript to https://drop.tf/FaCcNg redirect to "/.i" website.

[fullstop → Starmina]

i.reddit.com just redirects to new reddit now.

On: ArchiveTeam has saved over 11.2B Reddit links

[Starmina]

There's no ARM Docker build, unfortunately.

On: AirPods Pro case converted from Lightning to USB-C with open-source PCB

[Starmina]

Any links ? Because some are just not compatible with Official airpods pro it seems

[rurban → Starmina]

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=AliExpress+Bluetooth+earphone will give you plenty

On: LibRedirect: Redirect YouTube, Twitter, Instagram to privacy friendly services

[Starmina]

iOS does support browser extensions since iOS 15

[Tijdreiziger → Starmina]

Only on Safari.

[hcarrega → Tijdreiziger]

Orion browser support Firefox and chrome extensions