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Cake day: September 24th, 2024

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  • Individual developers develop on Mac hardware. They do primary tests on Mac mobile devices.

    For production and QA, our CI pipeline builds on a cluster of bare metal Mac Minis. Basic unit tests happen during the build. We deploy to mobile devices.

    Mac doesn’t make any server equipment anymore, We could technically run VMs on the minis. But they’re not so expensive that we can’t just have a cluster of them around. We even tried to do the hackintosh route with VMs. It was incredibly difficult to keep it stable, and every time we had to do a xcode update, It needed an OS update and it fucked over the hackintosh. I would have had to keep somebody on staff full-time just to keep the hackintosh VMs going.


  • They had terrific brightness. (At least until they started to wear out)

    The resolution was a mixed bag. They couldn’t handle the resolutions we have today, But when you were running 800 by 600 on a 1600x1200 they looked pretty crisp. It was a problem on LCDs before they got their pixel counts up because they were driven purpose built for a given resolution and anything else was a hack.

    Nowadays 800 by 600 on a 4K screen looks pretty decent.

    The biggest problem we’re dealing with replacing CRTs with LCDs are the sharpness was crap so the content looked good soft. We have to throw shaders and all kinds of crazy stuff on ROMs to degrade the screen enough to make them look good. And then any light screen devices that use pixel scanning for location just don’t work because newer technology doesn’t work that way. The best in the light guns are going so far as to use camera sensors to detect location.








  • What all they said about the reset, also Amber light on a Dell could be anything out of the ordinary. Only have one out of two power supplies plugged in? Messed up network config, bad fan, missing discs, bad disc. You name it, it’ll throw amber.

    If you really don’t want to reset it, throw it on a switch with another device and run Wireshark, You’ll see it’s a source IP while it’s looking for its long lost network. Course that’s still not likely to help you if you don’t have logins


  • I went from Fitbit to Withings, that Fitbit scale was nothing but pain. Every time my battery started getting low it would disconnect from Wi-Fi and I have to re pair it. It was inconsistent, If you pick it up and move it a foot to the left you get a completely different reading than if you just leave it where it sits. Because of the messed up fluctuations, It constantly identified the wrong person in the house.

    Had the Withings scale for 4 years now and it’s just been fine.