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  • What’s the tiniest thing about iOS / iPadOS / macOS that really bugs you?

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  • Using the search bar in iPad OS to solve equations does not require access to the internet.

    If you have a keyboard, press command-space. You can then enter an equation that you want to solve in the search bar. If the syntax is correct, it will give you the solution. Try this equation as an example:

    (2+pi)/(3^3)

    It will display this result: 0.1904293575

    If you press enter and you do have internet access, then it will send the equation to Safari and execute a search in your default search engine. I’m not sure why it odes that; that doesn’t seem too useful.

    Some other operations you can do in the search bar:

    sqrt(n), cos(n), sin(n), tan(n), log(n), ln(n), etc.

    Some other functions that I’ve used in Excel also work in the search bar, such as min(12,2)

    My guess is that it supports many or all of the functions that are supported in Numbers.

    With this, you should be able to quickly solve just about anything you would type into a calculator app.

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  • I've used this button before. I swear it does something slightly different than saying "details" did. Like it doesn't preserve North-up map orientation or something. Without having the old voice command, I can't check to verify. Thank you for taking the time to highlight the button, though!

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  • What bothers me is that Apple doesn’t document its features very completely. Here’s an example:

    In CarPlay, I do a lot of navigating using Apple Maps. I discovered years ago that I could say “Details” to Siri to get the map to zoom in to allow me to see upcoming turns. I could say “overview” to get it to zoom out to show me the whole trip on the map. Very useful! I had to discover this feature by accident, though. As far as I know, there’s no button in the interface to do this, and there certainly isn’t a list of commands that Siri users can use, CarPlay or otherwise.

    Even more infuriating is that this feature was removed about six months ago. Does it exist under some other spoken command? Who knows? Apple doesn’t document anything!

  • What’s the tiniest thing about iOS / iPadOS / macOS that really bugs you?

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  • How advanced of a calculator do you need? You can do a lot with the search bar.

  • Hospital Price Gaps Show Just How Broken the US Health-Care Market Is

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  • I am in the US. My point was that the extreme waits exist here, too, and don’t seem to be tied to whether you have socialized healthcare or not.

  • Hospital Price Gaps Show Just How Broken the US Health-Care Market Is

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  • It took me almost a year to get in for a routine colonoscopy. While I was waiting, the doctors I was scheduled to see left my insurance plan. I then had to find another provider and wait months longer.

  • Police find a second sex video of Moms for Liberty co-founder

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  • The embedded video of Zander Moricz is so good! Click the link and go watch it. If the first line doesn't sell you, nothing will:

    "Bridget, our first interaction was when you retweeted a hate article about me from The Nationalist while I was a Sarasota County School student."

    Hell of a way to open a comment!

  • The Era of American Computer Magazines Has Drawn to a Close

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  • I can't believe they published this article without including a copy of Computer Shopper in the image!

  • Fox News host Kilmeade defends Trump on ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ remarks

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  • This is damage control.

    Trump used a Hitler line in a prepared speech. The media pointed out the connection to Hitler. Then he used the exact same line again in another prepared speech.

    Now the conservative media machine needs to help guide people on how to wave this away until after the election. What better way to do this than to demonstrate arguments that his supporters can make.

    If people try to use these arguments, then ask them if they would have supported Hitler in 1938. If they say no, then ask them why they support someone who is saying the same things today. Don't even give these arguments a shred of daylight.

  • VPNs, self hosting and security

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  • Seeing people recommend nginx proxy manager, I’ve tried to set this up but never managed to get the certificates to work from letsencrypt (“internal server error” when trying to get one). When I finally got it working a while ago (I think I imported a cert), any proxy I tried to setup just sent me to the Synology login page.

    I think WebStation is causing this. I just investigated my Synology NAS and discovered that the default web portal is redirecting ports 80 and 443 to the synology login portal (which lives in ports 5000 and 5001 depending on whether you use SSL or not.)

  • Let's remember some Star Trek games

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  • Is this a PC port of the 1971 Star Trek game?

  • Apple to switch to OLED displays for iPads and MacBooks - Nikkei Asia

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  • That’s amazing! I’ve been living in fear of my super expensive OLED TV getting burn-in. I turn it off during software updates, etc. Now maybe I can de-stress a little.

  • Recommendations on first Homelab hardware: NUC or not?

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  • My homelab started with a Synology NAS as well. At first I put a few VMs on the NAS, and then I expanded the homelab to include a single PC. I almost bought a NUC instead. I’m glad I didn’t, because the NUC only offered one advantage: it was small. Beyond that, the PC was better in every respect. More expandable, more configurable, etc. I decided to get a really small PC case intended for home theater PCs to get some of the smallness offered by the NUC and called it good.

  • Tech Billionaires Launch Fund to Create New Libertarian Societies

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  • I give them three months before the new society collapses due to arguments over age of consent.

  • Vulnerable Republicans nervous as 'tone deaf' Supreme Court takes up new abortion case

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  • "I suspect they'll rule in favor of prohibitions which is a mistake," said one vulnerable House Republican.

    There’s such an easy solution to this problem. Just join the Democrats and vote to legalize abortion. You are a lawmaker, after all.

  • The surprisingly robust careers of Star Trek stars who became video game voice actors

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  • Don’t forget Marina Sirtis and Denise Crosby in XCom 2! It was quite the TNG reunion.

  • Apple's smart ring technology may not be limited to just fingers

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  • please don't say it ... please don't say it ... please don't say it ...

    God dammit!

    I don't know what I expected, actually.

  • Novo Nordisk says Wegovy heart benefits due to more than weight loss

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  • Well, the flip side of that argument comes with people who are in dire circumstances and want to try a drug for the potential benefits, but can’t because it hasn’t been approved yet. I think it’s perfectly fine to welcome the good news along with the bad. Science works with transparency.

  • Any chance to get a mounted NFS folder show up in Synology Drive (Virtual DSM) ?

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  • Thank you for going to the extra trouble to explain this! This is why I love communities like this.

  • Any chance to get a mounted NFS folder show up in Synology Drive (Virtual DSM) ?

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  • I fully admit I’m not the most talented linux person, but you say that you created an smb share on Unraid, but you mounted it as if it were an NFS share. Is that just a typo, or could that be the root of your problem? I could imagine Synology Drive not letting you interact with files in the mounted folder if the permissions and ownership weren’t set up right.