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In fact it's not. The name itself mimicks cat, not less. It's a filter that adds annotations to its input, such as syntax highlighting, git diffs and special-char coloring.

Personally I can't find any use for bat: I'm a devote user of vim for editing, and it already does all of this, so why not using it to view files as well? It's satisfying to have the same interface, colors and shortcuts whether you're editing or viewing!


I use it for previewing files in `fzf` and `lf` (terminal file manager).


My only problem with the Neo is that the base config has a good price, but if I want 512GB storage it reaches into the usable PC category. Usable for me: 16GB/512GB, Arc/RDNA 3.5 GPU Different tradeoffs obiously: light, good screen & touchpad versus Linux compatibility and backlit keyboard.


This seems to be a product management hickup. Call it either something else or add the functionality to WordPad.


The cheapest machine with Linux in the Australian Dell store is 13000 AUD (~9000 USD). You can buy many things for that money.


Weird. The cheapest in the UK seems to be this one https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/desktop-computers/dell-pro-m... at £647. It even helpfully tells you that choosing "no Windows" takes £100 off the price.


Maybe it is time for a new entry into the Smartphone OS market?


It does not help that many have kids later in their lifes nowodays and they are highschoolers when they hit that 50. (+ having first one late means having the second one even later)

(btw I did try to tell friends similarly that half way is at around 35-40, don't look at 50 as start of the B side)


I remember getting a copy of SubLogic Flight Simulator II on a cassette. It was a longer tape than a 90m standard cassette and it was 2 sided. Loading times were crazy on that!

(Eastern EU context) Cracked games came with speed loader "built in", they weren't bad to load, but we did have to fine tune the head position on the C64 too (often per game)!

Floppy drives weren't really accessible for a long time (they were more expensive than the computers, which you were lucky to have at all).


Works for me on Safari 17.4 (Sonoma 14.4.1, M2)


Interesting. I'm assuming Apple is doing some sort of A/B test then, and WebGPU must be enabled for some people but not others. huh.


It’s behind a flag. Enable the Develop menu if you haven’t, go to Develop|Feature Flags and you’ll find the setting to enable WebGPU (which is listed as “testing”).


I think Android already allowed that 7+ years ago: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/progressive-web-apps-firef...


Ok so I guess Android has some sort of API for allowing an app to install additional icons on the desktop with specific parameters like a shortcut and it shows the icon with a little icon representing the parent app, makes sense.

So if you install a PWA from Firefox it runs in Firefox and from Chrome it runs in Chrome similar to desktops. Looking at it this way I could see Apple doing something similar with less effort than trying to standardize a web view API and have PWA use the "system default browser".


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