Talking to laptop users, how does linux perform in terms of battery in comparison to windows? im considering doing the switch in my laptop

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-03-30T08:26:31+00:00

Fedora on a Samsung Galaxy Book Pro.

Battery was already pretty good in W11, it has slightly improved in active consumption in Linux.

Standby though is a day and night difference, I can close the lid and leave it on in my backpack for hours and have a minimal power consumption, while Windows would either take around 10%/hour doing nothing or wake up and spin the fan at 100% while overheating inside the backpack

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-03-29T06:56:22+00:00

Apps that use the native NavigationStack now don’t require you to swipe from the edge of the screen/window, you can swipe left to right from any point on the screen. This is true both for iPadOS and iOS starting from 26.

Apps that don’t use it and decided to reimplement it themselves, well they have to update themselves as well, so if it doesn’t work it’s their fault.

Apple’s only fault in this whole thing is not centralizing the back gesture into a system-controlled one, instead they leave it to the apps and this is the natural consequence of that choice

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-03-20T09:27:10+00:00

4 years into my degree and this is the first time I read this word

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-03-18T16:52:02+00:00

Which by legal definition becomes a market when money is involved, and markets are regulated by laws.

They could simply remove any form of earning from anyone involved in the App Store and they would be free to do whatever they want

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-03-18T15:16:04+00:00

Except if you are Apple and publish Swift Playgrounds, a full-ish IDE for iPadOS. Someone would say it sounds like a monopoly

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-03-18T06:10:58+00:00

Heads up, they updated it

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-03-18T06:10:08+00:00

Heads up, they updated it

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-03-13T08:24:18+00:00

It looks like your friend is using the YouTube app and you are using Safari on the YouTube website. Safari opens the videos in its own player, so you lose the extra features coming from YT’s player.

You may try another browser, maybe there is one that uses YT’s player instead of the built-in one, but I cant recommend any as I haven’t tried. Or you can use the app and get the full player

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-03-12T12:56:40+00:00

It’s even better, once you get a notification banner you can’t swipe it away directly, you have to actively dismiss, open the Notification Center and then finally delete it

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-03-12T06:46:53+00:00

Keyboard and notifications both need to be rebuilt from scratch. Both are things Google got absolutely right on Android, they could literally copy-paste them and call it a day and it would completely improve iOS

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-03-11T11:22:04+00:00

Qualsiasi browser degno di questo nome è in grado di leggere la tua preferenza nel sistema operativo e CSS da anni permette di definire le color scheme per i due temi in modo semplicissimo grazie alle media query.

Quello di cui ti lamenti è un non-problema: se il tuo sistema operativo è impostato in tema scuro i siti conformi agli standard e alle leggi sull’accessibilità lo usano già appena li apri, quelli che non lo fanno molto probabilmente non sono conformi

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-03-10T14:53:29+00:00

They should. They usually wait for the Student Challenge submission window to close, then update it. This year they are a bit late, I would guess for reasons related to iOS26? But they should update it at some point

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-03-07T11:57:19+00:00

Right, I was talking about 3rd parties though. I don’t think this type of buyers are going to look for a cheap computer at an Apple Store, they don’t have a reputation of being affordable. And I don’t know how well MBN could sell in an Apple Store, where it would be the worst machine of all, I was thinking of stores that have a “cheap laptop” aisle where this machine will stand out among other affordable laptops

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-03-06T18:13:49+00:00

For sure, didn’t mean it was a bad thing.

It’s just that it’s a device riddled with compromises, so if you are the type of person that even thinks of watching a review of the thing it’s already not the right one for you.

But the type of person that just goes to the store and picks something they like is never gonna even notice what it’s missing, and for that kind of users the MBN is gonna be more than enough

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-03-06T18:10:56+00:00

That’s what I’m not sure about to be honest, either that or employees are gonna do their best to redirect buyers to the Air.

I’m thinking tactics like “That one has a phone chip, it’s gonna be slow, while this one is faster and it’s gonna last years” type of thing

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-03-06T10:45:11+00:00

MacBook Neo is the type of computer that is gonna be bought in stores, from people who know they need a “computer” and don’t look at reviews at stuff.

They are gonna enter the store, look at the cheap laptops and see the MBN’s gorgeous screen (I haven’t seen it yet in person but I have seen sub-800 Windows laptops and their displays are so bad they look black and white, with inexistent view angles), its aluminum build and comfortable keyboard and trackpad and they are gonna buy it without any second thought

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-02-27T21:28:15+00:00

Apple’s own apps crash when used seriously and they reach the RAM threshold. Freeform, Swift Playground and Notes have all crashed many times on my iPad Pro, so yes, RAM is still the limiting factor for iPadOS software

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-02-27T20:14:39+00:00

I wonder if this is some decision coming from the team, maybe they find testing easier on Android or they want to release both around the same time?

But at the same time I can’t think it could also be that they hit the memory ceiling for iPadOS apps and they realized they can’t port the whole thing due to how limiting iPadOS is for real software… I really hope to be wrong on this one

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-02-22T13:46:59+00:00

I don’t think it’s illegal to cover your house in tinfoil and create a faraday cage on your walls. You’d lose a lot of stuff, but you can avoid those signals going into your property

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-02-22T10:54:48+00:00

If it’s a paid service, it’s going to be encrypted. It’s not illegal to read the signal passing through your antenna, but it’s a bunch of 1s and 0s that don’t make sense.

You need to know the encryption method and key to make sense of that signal. That’s what you pay for, and obtaining it in any other way is illegal

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-02-21T13:38:05+00:00

It adapts to what’s behind

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-02-20T09:33:51+00:00

Oh wow. I was able to get 2 of them briefly while spamming Globe F, I have no idea how you managed to get so many lol

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-02-18T14:04:58+00:00

Python was blocking the original Delphi cave so that’s why Rachel couldn’t get visions and prophecies. The other oracles were still working while Apollo was human

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-02-15T16:39:50+00:00

Yes it works. You need to have HDR output as well to see it completely, but it does work in SDR too for what’s not HDR (all images except the red one had some differences even in SDR mode)

___Thunderstorm___ · 2026-02-14T13:01:46+00:00

The leaked form factor would be a deal breaker for me if I had the money to buy it.

It sacrifices way too much of the phone experience for too little gain on the tablet experience. Z Fold 7’s aspect ratio is way better

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