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Actually, the iPhone X is a real bargain. Source: @lukew The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

HomeKit is supported by an increasing number of IoT manufacturers. Until now, though, it hasn’t been easy to find out which devices specifically rely on HomeKit. With Projekt HomeKitty you can now get a nice overview of all HomeKit-enabled devices on the market. HomeKitty is a crowdsourced website that collects all accessories that support the HomeKit protocol. — HomeKitty Because it’s maintained Wikipedia-style — by users for users — new products are usually added quite quickly. Great project. ...

The iPhone 7 is the first iPhone without a headphone jack. In the first few months, there was a lot of complaining and joking in the media and on social networks. Now there is a huge selection of wireless headphones, so the lack of connectivity should no longer be a problem. Scotty Allen, an American engineer, has managed to bring back the jack. He documented the development in the following video. I really enjoyed watching him do it. ...

I’m by no means a Bash pro and feel like I have to look up every third command. When it comes to access permissions on Unix systems, I also keep forgetting the right command. The tool Chmod Calculator helps me here — I had to use it in my last Raspberry project. Good tools need to be self-explanatory, and that’s true for the Chmod Calculator. Just click together what you need and paste the command it spits out into the terminal. ...

Caprine is a very nice client for Facebook Messenger that, in addition to the usual features, also includes a dark mode. Very handy when the lights are a bit dimmer. You can toggle dark mode in the View menu or with Cmd D / Ctrl D. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.