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Bought this same oven and share the same quibbles but otherwise it's been great.

The criteria of knobs on an induction oven filters out quite a lot of options annoyingly.


I mean the obvious one is cross platform support? People who don't want or have an icloud account?

Contrary to your belief there are still people out there living outside the apple bubble.


Hey this is really neat thanks for sharing definitely putting this on my list of things to put together.

Any chance the name has a connection to Twister?


Yep! It's definitely Twister-inspired :)


Mesh Central has been really great for me. Moved to it from rust desk.

https://meshcentral.com/

Use it to manage my entire family's computers and phones.


Really one of the worst pieces of software I've ever been forced to use.


Windows Explorer isn't great either. Still can't support names/paths that the windows filesystem can


Sorry but windows explorer is miles ahead of finder.

Granted that's not that hard with how bad finder really is.


Naw, Windows Explorer is basically useless for productivity. No QuickLook, no spring-loaded folders, can't show directory sizes in list view, for some reason it sorts directories separately from files(?!?) so you can't just type to jump to files, search is still atrocious etc etc. It's just so barren.

No the Finder UI is far superior. The part where it falls down is just in sheer bugginess and performance. And Apple of the past couple years has shown it does not care about fixing bugginess or performance on any of their platforms.


Yeah no. Finder is garbage on every conceivable level.


Seriously I don't get how anyone can literally defend that garbage.

Bunch of Stockholm syndrome going around.


I did this with AwesomeWM. The Lain (plugin/extension/i forget what its called in awesome) has a "centerwork" style layout that solves this exact issue.

Actually it's really surprising how few tiling WMs support this sort of scenario.

I eventually just gave up and switched to KDE+KZones as it covers 90% of what I'd get from a tiling WM anyway.


> Network is steady and more bulletproof than wireless on Linux.

I gotta disagree hard here. Macs have by far the most obnoxious and temperamental WiFi stack I've ever experienced. Constant disconnects, have to turn it off and on to get it to bother looking for APs again. All of them constantly trigger bad experience scores in UniFi.

Absolutely subpar compared to any of my Linux devices, even the raspberry pi jammed inside a metal box.


Wow that is where that garbage comes from? So damn embarrassing...


... and here I wonder why video chats make my CPU usage go brrrrrr. Fuck hell no, I'd like to have an opt-out after an OS update that disables everything that can negatively impact performance.


This is what I do when my job forced me to use a mac. I think the only thing I installed on the mac outside of it was Firefox.

Worked great for years before I changed jobs that let me bring my own hardware finally.


What is your preferred hardware and flavor of Linux for this? I'm trying to do the same


Rancher Desktop used Lima + QEMU behind the scenes: https://lima-vm.io/


Tbh no one matches the hardware quality of MacBooks. But I refuse to use them on principle. Thinkpad t14 been serving me well (using fedora).


Isn't that the truth. For a site with the word "hacker" in it there seem to be so few of them. I can't imagine letting all that curiosity die out of me like the parent comment implies.

I don't have the amount of time I used to to do that stuff either but the curiosity of it has never died and if I had more time I'd still do it.

If I ever lost that drive I think I'd rather be dead.


The funny thing about growing older is that we change, and the things that were once "I'd rather be dead than not do this" just naturally fade away, and other new exciting things take their place.

I say thus not to dampen your enthusiasm, but rather to encourage you to enjoy it to the maximum while it lasts.

Everything has a season and in that season it can seem terribly important. Perhaps an activity, or a favorite sports team, or a group of friends.

Some of that remains forever, some of it gets deferred as other things happen. It's part of life, we grow, we change, the world around us changes.

It's not that the drive is lost, it's just that it manifests in different ways, different activities, different challenges.

When you see a post like yours in 30 years time, remember this moment, and raise a glass :)


> If I ever lost that drive I think I'd rather be dead.

I wonder how many others had this exact same thought, before they lost their "hacker" drive while also preferring to continue living.

This may shock you, but people's interests and desires can evolve over time, even when those people don't expect them to evolve.


I’m going to gently pile on to the sibling comment here, and note that the “hacking” we find interesting should and does change over time. I used to spend time hacking PDP-11 assembly code to make games. That got old, and if I play a game now it’s purchased. The stuff I hack on now is more like applied math.

This is all good and natural, if it’s organic and not growing it’s probably not alive.


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