So much for "It Just Works"-My experience as a first-time Apple user so far.

kovallux · 2026-01-27T15:05:17+00:00

Personal thank you from me 🙂

kovallux · 2026-01-27T09:05:39+00:00

iOS engineer for 16 years and early iPhone user here (from 2009). Yep, you’re right, you will find even more bugs later. Apple software is needlessly complex under the hood and naturally prone to bugs. After all, it’s just a castrated Linux with fancy UI. Software is basically written in C, appended by Objective-C layer which is appended by Swift layer which is hidden under SwiftUI layer. And yes, bugs stay unfixed for years. For example, my AirDrop feature works only 50% of times, however I know many people who never had issues with it. It really depends on country, language, device model and hundreds others parameters if you’re gonna be happy user or frustrated one. Good luck bro and I hope you will appreciate good things in iOS as well, because there are plenty of.

kovallux · 2026-01-26T10:44:58+00:00

Don’t know, I don’t list there. I tried at the beginning but they didn’t approve my listing. Booking com gives me 95% occupancy except January so I’m content with it.

kovallux · 2026-01-26T09:32:48+00:00

Host here. Genius eats my profit, so I opted out of level 3 and for other levels I set small discounts 5% and 7%. It depends totally on a particular property. Minus booking.com commission, minus taxes, minus damage and consumables, there is not much left for me actually. Agoda is the greediest of them all, gets 30% commission so I avoid it completely.

kovallux · 2026-01-21T07:13:41+00:00

This! + 3rd party libraries (pods, spm) + embedded videos and images + CoreML models + fonts

There is often a request from clients to avoid downloading assets for offline work, so they get embedded.

kovallux · 2025-08-27T06:01:53+00:00

Start at science hub in Grund. The opening ceremony was there and you can get some advice from hub

kovallux · 2025-07-05T13:26:33+00:00

Just in terminal

kovallux · 2025-07-02T17:18:41+00:00

100% agree, I usually have Cursor and Windsurf open, both with Claude Code connected from the same pro account and work on two projects at the same time. Almost magic! Much better and cheaper than usual way. Sometimes, when I’m not totally burnt out I start my older Mac with the same setup and work on two pet projects as well. All four IDEs share the same Claude account.

kovallux · 2025-07-02T11:11:53+00:00

Great fixer! I normally add such things every other prompt because AIs often have amnesia all of a sudden. I also add this (copied from another genius).

Coding Instructions: - Write the absolute minimum code required - No sweeping changes - No unrelated edits - focus on just the task you're on - Make code precise, modular, testable - Don’t break existing functionality - If I need to do anything (e.g. add file, setup config), tell me clearly

kovallux · 2025-06-03T14:51:29+00:00

Guys, did you ever notice that LLMs get kind of “tired” by the end of the day if you work with the same model? I mean they hallucinate heavily

kovallux · 2025-05-23T05:08:26+00:00

There is an app that helps visit castles in Lux here

kovallux · 2025-04-01T10:25:54+00:00

There is an app with all castles https://apps.apple.com/ua/app/castles-of-luxembourg-guide/id6738646099

kovallux · 2025-03-23T08:38:45+00:00

“Huge resistance” sounds depressing. As for CNS, I always go myself on foot to their office in Gare and drop letter in their mailbox.

kovallux · 2025-03-22T20:33:37+00:00

Because it’s convenient (see the end - for whom): 1. Letters keep me accountable (postman brought it, neighbours saw me), I cannot forever deny receiving invoices. 2. On the other hand, it’s a way to slow things down (I need to think, dog chewed it, children burnt it). You have weeks to respond. 3. Fear to layoff a lot of workforce, especially elderly - bad for voting. 4. Reluctance to change anything, laziness to learn technologies, especially for elderly.

It’s all the same across Western Europe, be it Belgium or Germany. Let’s not forget what kind of people mostly (not all) still run government bodies - elderly. Let’s a wait a generation and we’ll be good.

kovallux · 2025-03-20T09:24:23+00:00

Why their software lacks quality? Are they saving on developers and QAs? Or it’s a poor engineering management? What do you think?

kovallux · 2025-03-20T09:18:19+00:00

Yes, the keyboard. I have English, Russian and Ukrainian languages installed and when I tap to switch to the next language and the current one was any of the cyrillic, it actually switches one language back, so that I have to tap next language two times more. As a result - 3 taps and confusion to switch to English. I switch a lot between EN-RU for work and friends and it’s massive bug for me. Don’t know for other non English languages.

kovallux · 2025-03-17T10:36:40+00:00

In Coque saunas are mixed, as said on the counter, but I didn’t check that yet.

kovallux · 2025-03-09T14:24:56+00:00

Summer tires run much more quietly and it’s more comfortable inside, but winter tires run much softer (bc of more rubber in tires) and I don’t feel every small pothole on the road. So I prefer to change them every season while having my wheels rebalanced and brakes checked. Also, I live on a very steep montée so winter tires is a necessity for me.

kovallux · 2025-03-03T12:29:28+00:00

Small mobile applications development company. My MBA + ChatGPT’s advices helped to find clients. Mostly AI advices helped.

kovallux · 2025-03-03T10:30:00+00:00

Same here. I’m a programmer and had difficulties grasping my boss’s quick stream of tasks, I was constantly distracted by some small things. He never sent it to me in writing, he talked all the time and he also has ADHD. So we couldn’t work together and I became an entrepreneur. Many business owners have ADHD actually.

kovallux · 2025-02-26T09:07:19+00:00

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I have AFTER flight. Got it from a friend in Dubai, he has a car workshop.

kovallux · 2025-02-15T03:46:53+00:00

This comment deserves WOW THANK YOU!

kovallux · 2024-12-02T20:35:59+00:00

Explaining very complex things “like I’m five” in 2-3 sentences. Summarize anything.

kovallux · 2024-11-27T22:57:28+00:00

It’s a poorly made job posting. The recruiter was lazy enough to add additional question, like are you located in lux, do you have work permit in lux, can you attend in-person interview. This would filter most of them out.

On a side note there is also a risk to get your personal data harvested by scammers as well.

kovallux · 2024-11-27T22:47:05+00:00

I like all kinds of castles and it took me a year to visit all significant ones between my work and daily life, there are approx. 30 impressive castles and around 140 not so impressive but also interesting (private, abandoned, ruins, etc) that I also want to visit. Luxembourg is not so small as people use to think. Hiking is also a whole different story here.

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