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Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?
If you don’t want any of their services, you can turn Siri off in its settings, and disable indexing and search in Spotlight settings. Or you can use mdutil, if you know its limitations.
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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 371 posts.
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Quasi-Logarithmic Kitchen Timer
Like some of you, we have several kitchen appliances with integrated digital timers.
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Photoshop's challenges with focus, pt. 2
A blog about software craft and quality
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How to install and start using LineageOS on your phone
Android is one of the most popular operating systems in the world. I is probably also one of the most versatile, used on PCs, phones, cars, autonomous devices such as drones, fridges, and many more.
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Recover Apple Keychain
Yes, I do—and probably more than I should admit. But a few things led to this situation. For one, I’d gotten too used to relying on Touch ID. As a result, if my muscle memory failed me, I was stuck. On top of that, I kept entering my office Active Directory (AD) password instead of my Mac password—again, muscle memory…
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Version control second coming
The very same week we signed our first ever angel investor for Plastic SCM, in early summer of 2005, Linus Torvalds announced Git. I had spent more than a year pitching investors to build a new version control, and suddenly the creator of Linux was building one himself. That week I understood the road ahead was going…
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Focus
The best time to stop a distraction is before it starts. The second best time is now.
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Experiments with Plotter Art
Drawing procedural art with Inkscape and an Ender 3 printer
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Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them
We develop fast Rust crates and release them fast.
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Running Ubuntu on the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet
I own a Lenovo IdeaPad Duet Chromebook, a ChromeOS 2-in-1 ARM64 tablet. I had been running ChromeOS, then postmarketOS, which suddenly broke. Time for some firmware hacking to try and get Ubuntu to run there!