They wouldn't get any worse, but I assume they'd get behind really fast.

They did not seem to succeed very well. On my M1 iPad Air and iPhone 12 mini background YT playback works mostly fine via Brave, although you might have to go to full screen first before you enter background mode.

This might be an open door, but I use the amazing HN-reader app called Hack which offers a filter that hides posts via a list of keywords you can manage. Of course some false negatives happen this way, but I don't mind about that.

Thanks for creating this amazing tool. A requirement for it to work is disabling "Advanced Data Protection". What are the implications of doing this?

Pretty severe -- ADP allows users to store data with e2e encryption.

Disabling ADP is a pretty serious* thing to do -- and pretty disappointing since I was interested in the product. Since it's OSS though this might be something that can be worked around in the future.

Thanks for confirming my hunch. I'd be surprised if it would be possible to work around this.

That’s a good question. To be completely honest, I don’t know much about Advanced Data Protection myself, and I didn’t do anything specific in the app to detect or interact with it.

I’m actually curious: how did you discover that it doesn’t work when Advanced Data Protection is enabled? Was it through an error message, incomplete backups, or something else you noticed?

I did not discover it, disabling ADP is listed under "iCloud Prerequisites" on the/your GitHub page.

The app that the person you're replying to ('gerdemb) created (Photos Backup Anywhere) is different than the open-source CLI tool that is the HN submission (icloud_photos_downloader).

Aha, thanks. That's good to know.

Apple could sell so many Macs to Linux users looking for decent machines once they'd open up the hardware just a bit...

I just ignore all the smart features and never connect my smart TV to the internet, and I disconnected the WiFi antennas from the main board. I use an Apple TV to feed it live TV, series and movies via apps.

this is the only way. Do not ever connect your new TV to the internet. Never, ever.

They are usually running during summer when sun is shining, so technically energy can be easily covered by renewables.

Technically, but in practice.... On top of that the production of AC's is also a factor, and there is the spilling of the refrigerant liquids that only recently became much less damaging.

I’ve wondered about this many times. How much would the world cool if we turned the HVAC off for a week, a month, permanently? I mean, we watched as the natural world breathed a sigh of relief on 9/11 as all planes were grounded. We watched nature reassert itself in places humans vacated during COVID. So why not HVAC?

You can absolutely install, run and update macOS without an Apple ID.

"Windows 2000 was peak Windows to me. "

Exactly, Windows 2000 was such a comfortable workhorse. And lightning fast, it made me doubt why I was a Mac head. I switched briefly until OS X grew up and surpassed any version of Windows in reliability and versatility (for me).

If you were ever wondering why (us) vegans don't eat honey: this is one of many reasons.