you could easily just buy a shitload of $3 usb A-to-C adapters and put them in a bucket in a computer lab or leave one next to the podium. such is the march of interface
― mh, Monday, 23 October 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
xp my HS physics and chemistry students use google docs and google sheets at home and then just keep using google docs and sheets when they get to school, it's a good system
not sure if i was teaching another subject (like coding or whatever) if it would work as well
― the late great, Monday, 23 October 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
what's even the point? so it's an extra 1/10th of an inch thinner and i get to tote around adapters?? who was clamoring for a v slightly thinner macbook experience?
― Mordy, Monday, 23 October 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
ideally this will end with me not using any computers, other than getting me into high-paying jobs without having to work hard at it they've ruined my life
― .oO (silby), Monday, 23 October 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
xp this is neither here nor there as we use PCs at school so they can use their USB keys if they feel like it
― the late great, Monday, 23 October 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
I think the main draw for USB C is that it sucks incrementally less and is in theory a more robust interface
there's nothing stopping them from putting one C and one A connector on a laptop, or even, god forbid, three or four ports other than their hardware design philosophy
I just know the largest Dell laptop, which is usually aesthetically a dump truck, probably has like six different USB ports, a VGA port, HDMI, and at least one port I can't even identify because their enterprise customers demand it
― mh, Monday, 23 October 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
i'm looking at the side of my macbook pro and ... it looks too thin for usb-A
― the late great, Monday, 23 October 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
here we go, on a Dell you get:1. 3-in-1 SD card reader | 2. USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type A | 3. Ethernet | 4. Security N Lock| 5. Power adapter | 6. USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-C™ (DP/Power Delivery) | 7. HDMI out | 8. USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type A with PowerShare | 9. USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type A | 10. Audio
So uh, one USB C, and three USB A ports with varying features that I can't decipher
― mh, Monday, 23 October 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
my work windows 7 PC is remarkably bulletproof. it's good.
my home media PC with windows 10 or w/e is okay but it's full of microsoft upsell crap.
my iMac, it's good but i don't really use it for anything other than paying bills and occasional photo editing. i read/do most things on an iDevice or while i'm at work on my work computer
― 龜, Monday, 23 October 2017 17:18 (six years ago) link
in other words, i'm fully on board 'the Personal Computer is dead' train
― 龜, Monday, 23 October 2017 17:22 (six years ago) link
my latest reason for hating apple is that i took a video in landscape mode but can't figure out how to rotate it to portrait mode for easy viewing on twitter without downloading a zillion third party apps
― 龜, Monday, 23 October 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link
I reckon the next series of Black Mirror should have an episode where the only way you can write anything is using predictive text on a tiny touchscreen.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 23 October 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
yeah windows 7 at work, 4-y-o HP laptop, fucking flies, Photoshop opens in like 4 seconds. totally solid. HDD. puts my mini in the shade.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 October 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
Photoshop has run faster on PCs for years I think. Something about ancient code base on the Mac version.
― Alba, Monday, 23 October 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
i guess that's it. everything else is just really fast too though (relatively). windows explorer vs finder, opera vs opera, outlook vs mail.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 October 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
my coworkers have made the point that the last few Windows 10 updates have really tightened up the core OS, crediting the fact Microsoft's been working really hard on getting things working for cloud deployment -- if you have virtualized servers running at scale, you really have to have your shit together
the user experience in Windows 10 is still a complete mixed bag, but ehh
― mh, Monday, 23 October 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
I get the impression that the Windows kernel and shell orgs are basically good at their job, and Marketing insists on crapping things up to justify their own existence and the fact that you still ostensibly have to pay for Windows
― .oO (silby), Monday, 23 October 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
also i didn't think it was possible but apple made the podcasts app worse. worse!!
― 龜, Monday, 23 October 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
agreed. new podcasts app is garbage. can't find anything.
― Mordy, Monday, 23 October 2017 18:33 (six years ago) link
imo they should integrate the GUI team and the hardware team
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/d/surface-book-2/8MCPZJJCC98C/TC4H
specs-wise, this is... good? just make one without a touchscreen and with a good-ass keyboard and trackpad and I'm in
I have the microsoft surface desktop keyboard, and it's good! they can make good ones, I think the surface books use some soft surface tablet keyboard bullshit though
― mh, Monday, 23 October 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link
has apple ever had a good podcast app, on anything
i updated my moms iphone iOS when she visited a few weeks back and she was almost in tears with how bad the podcast app update was. "i had it just the way i liked it why would they do this? who cares about these big pictures?"
― Spottie, Monday, 23 October 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
yeah i wouldn't be surprised if the podcasts update actually hits publishers' stats
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 October 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link
this... doesn't address the core issue, but pocket casts is great and definitely worth the money
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 09:47 (six years ago) link
(ios app)
Is there anything I'm missing from Overcast?
― Alba, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 10:58 (six years ago) link
what do you mean?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 11:03 (six years ago) link
i've never used overcast but they seem to be more or less on par. if overcasts is working for you, probably no need to change.
i was using icatcher for years, but its ui is like being punched in the face and just keeps getting worse. buy it if you hate yourself.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 11:04 (six years ago) link
I don’t think so, they are pretty similar. I have a slight preference for pocket casts. They are both light years better than the podcast app.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 11:06 (six years ago) link
this is probably not the thread but my god podcasting is good atm. you could do nothing but listen to excellent free podcasts in every waking moment of the rest of your life.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 11:08 (six years ago) link
That's what I do, basically. Yes, happy with Overcast and it's free.
The only thing I miss from having wired headphones is the ability to use the middle button to control podcasts beyond just pause and play. Overcast (and Downcast, iirc) allows you to set gesture controls like 'two taps to skip forward 30 seconds' which is super-handy when you've heard a Squarespace ad for the billionth time. But as far as I can tell, no bluetooth headphone support this. Maybe AirPods do?
― Alba, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 11:44 (six years ago) link
Oh no, they don't even have buttons, do they? Is there some tapping thing you can do?
― Alba, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 11:45 (six years ago) link
you can double-tap either airpod to do commands you can select yourself (play/pause, next/prev track, invoke siri)
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 11:47 (six years ago) link
Not the commands that the app defines like skip 30 secs then?
― Alba, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 12:27 (six years ago) link
lol they are not testing are they?
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2017/10/24/ios-calculator-bug/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
Not the commands that the app defines like skip 30 secs then?they do! just confirmed in pocket casts and (ugh) icatcher. youtube changes videos though.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
I'm surprised how few people seem to use Castro for podcasts. it's got by far my favourite interface. not quite as powerful as overcast, but it's just beautiful. and somehow its queue system feels less stressful, and more open to whim.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
people scared of the embargo, obviously
― mh, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
cosine on Castro, love the queue/inbox/archive system. If they let me search a podcast's archive it'd be perf
― .oO (silby), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 22:12 (six years ago) link
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/27/iphone-x-screen-repair-out-of-warranty-fees/
Ouch
― Jeff, Friday, 27 October 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
has anyone successfully used migration assistant since i dunno 10.9 or 10.10? everything seems to go smoothly but the file permissions get all dorked up. i'm glad there's no longer a way to repair permissions from disk utility
― dynamicinterface, Friday, 27 October 2017 18:12 (six years ago) link
i think i solved my iOS 11 battery life issue - even though i've always had background app refresh turned off, the updated turn it on individually for all my apps. so i had to go back and turn it all off.
― 龜, Friday, 27 October 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
yeah same went in a tweaked a bunch of stuff. helped a bit.
― Spottie, Friday, 27 October 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
it was super weird cause i couldn't turn them off individually unless i went and turned the general setting on. just really funky
― 龜, Friday, 27 October 2017 19:17 (six years ago) link
turning off notifications for the majority of apps helps too.
― Spottie, Friday, 27 October 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
anecdotally the new Podcasts app is doing less caching, increasing the pings to publishers' RSS feeds
so that means more site traffic (which costs $ on the hosting side), for the same number of subscribers/listeners
https://www.facebook.com/groups/podcastmovement/permalink/1444696465617971/
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 October 2017 10:47 (six years ago) link
Paradise Papers: Apple's secret tax bolthole revealed
"The world's most profitable firm has a secretive new structure that would enable it to continue avoiding billions in taxes, the Paradise Papers show.They reveal how Apple sidestepped a 2013 crackdown on its controversial Irish tax practices by actively shopping around for a tax haven.It then moved the firm holding most of its untaxed offshore cash, now $252bn, to the Channel Island of Jersey."
Greedy dicks
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Monday, 6 November 2017 21:12 (six years ago) link
firms that dump their IP on remote rocks in the Atlantic shouldn't be eligible for US copyright protection
throw em to the pirates
― it me, Monday, 6 November 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link
https://www.apple.sucks
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Friday, 10 November 2017 08:51 (six years ago) link
www.apple.sucks
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Friday, 10 November 2017 08:52 (six years ago) link