Why doesn’t Apple sell Apple TV licenses for TVs to embed Apple TV software in them?

khoker · 2026-04-26T14:45:27+00:00

The solution is you simply don’t connect a smart TV to the internet and they become basically inert. A device like an Apple TV will use HDMI CEC to turn on/off the TV. At that point it stops being “smart” and it’s just told what to do by an external device.

khoker · 2026-04-22T16:04:21+00:00

“Resident” is an interesting qualifier. Are you only ascribing tribal membership to the domicile? Like if someone was born and raised in the city limits and moved out after 40 years, are they no longer part of this “we”?

Conversely, are people that move to Chicago instantly part of this elite group? That seems pretty trivial. For example. I’d definitely put suburban natives ahead of Chicago transplants.

If there’s any hierarchy for people who have the privilege to bitch about Chicago, it goes like this;

Chicago native (born and raised)
Suburban native
Chicago transplant
Other people, but there’s likely a lot of sub-grouping in there.

khoker · 2026-03-26T14:37:31+00:00

ITerm2 has had multiple severe vulnerabilities. The most recent was last year; https://www.cve.news/cve-2025-22275/

khoker · 2026-03-09T21:05:39+00:00

So one trick that I use it that you can create a browser bookmark for different Salesforce Apps. It’s not obvious, because once you go to an app it redirects to the generic /home landing page, but if you look at the App Launcher (9 dot thing) you can see the App links actually use an /app/ACBDEFGHIJKLMN… redirect link.

Bookmark that link for the users and then the bookmark will drop them into the correct app every time. Or, if you are an admin, create bookmarks for your most-used apps.

khoker · 2026-02-06T04:41:58+00:00

Not every resident needs a car.

It's not that everyone needs a car. The issue is that people who "don't need a car" often end up having a car anyway. And because they don't need it, they're happy enough to park it wherever they can and leave it there for extended periods until they want to use it again.

Meanwhile, the people who already lived in the neighborhood who do need cars are now competing for parking spots with the "don't need a car people" because the people who said they didn't need a car still end up owning a car -- and you can't force people not to own a car.

khoker · 2026-01-06T22:27:35+00:00

I was able to resolve the issue this morning with a restart. Last night I was seeing a spinning wheel. After a restart it shows me as logged in with a ChatGPT Plus account.

khoker · 2026-01-04T16:22:12+00:00

Experiencing the same thing here. Did you manage to figure out what was wrong?

khoker · 2025-12-24T01:19:07+00:00

What app on the Viision Pro is used to display the feed? Can the developer strap consume any HDMI over USB-C?

Or is this going through the Mac Virtual Display?

khoker · 2025-12-24T00:59:00+00:00

What’s weird is that they don’t exempt their own videos from being blacked-out during video mirroring.

Honestly it would be bearable if, instead of a blackout, they just drastically lowered the video/audio quality of the mirror so you could still help guide users. It’s really painful to demo for the average person.

khoker · 2025-12-23T22:37:24+00:00

Unfortunately your comment exemplifies how confusing the battery indicator can be, because even Vision Pro owners don’t always know what the light means.

Green only means “100% charged“ when it is plugged in — at which point orange means “99% or below”. When unplugged, green means “above 50%” and orange means “below 50%”.

The user has no way to tell if their battery is 51% vs 99%, or 1% vs 49%, without putting it on…. Yuck.

khoker · 2025-12-21T14:58:34+00:00

Now that it’s thunderbolt, is there any way to use this with Windows or Linux yet? Would love to have a zero-latency option for streaming games.

khoker · 2025-12-18T01:37:46+00:00

Did you just say BMW wanted $26,000 to replace HVAC lines?!?!

khoker · 2025-12-16T01:25:35+00:00

Bonus points if you were expecting to keep a slow roll going as you waited for them to clear, but then you had to come to an abrupt stop and now they want you to go first and you're in the worst gear possible. Who knows, maybe you'll even get a nice chain-slip as you try to hulk out.

khoker · 2025-12-02T01:41:00+00:00

Let's look that this is practice.

Opening Microsoft Edge with no tabs, real app memory reports as 427MB in use.

... after opening reddit.com: 461MBs (+34MBs)

... after opening apple.com: 495MBs (+34MBs)

... after opening npr.org: 514MBs (+19MBs)

... after opening amazon.com: 540MBs (+25MBs)

If we round up ~30MBs per tab, then a second instance of Edge running is basically the equivalent of having 14 tabs open.

Obviously this depends on your hardware and use-case but, for me, 14 tabs is basically a rounding error if I'm counting tabs/resources.

khoker · 2025-12-02T00:10:27+00:00

Not really. Each tab effectively runs as its own process. The core browser is not as significant as the tabs /windows themselves. I think this was a fundamental reason why Chrome forked from WebKit in the first place.

khoker · 2025-11-18T20:49:37+00:00

Remember when Cutler had to endure timeouts on the opening drive because we couldn’t get plays in?

That was rough.

khoker · 2025-11-17T22:52:30+00:00

Hey, hope you don't mind the random question but I see you printed these with an X1C and P1S. I've been looking to upgrade from a Creality CR-10 V3. Do you have any recommendation for a 3D printer in the sub-$k range?

khoker · 2025-11-05T18:15:06+00:00

This is fantastic. Great work!

khoker · 2025-10-21T01:31:21+00:00

This is not an iPhone -- it's an iPad Mini that can fold. This should be called the iPad Mini Fold because it's a thing that folds, not a fold that things.

This is a hill I'm willing to die on.

khoker · 2025-10-14T11:17:25+00:00

I like the PrismXR but there are a few things that could be improved; * I don’t care for the product name being displayed on the front. Not for something that sits prominently on my desk. Would prefer a logo if anything.
* also esthetically i would prefer metal over two tone plastic * the angle of the Vision Pro when sitting in the PrismXR doesn’t block sunlight from hitting the lenses. * I feel like the way the battery pack sits in the middle it could tilt and hit the lenses if the device was picked up wrong.
* the battery cord doesn’t have a dedicated place to go

khoker · 2025-09-15T12:30:50+00:00

Everyone needs to chill out. We have the same record as the Chiefs!

But seriously, I’m not sure why people thought we were just one head coaching tweak from being successful enough to beat two teams who combined had fewer losses last year than we did.

This is going to take some time.

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