I thinkit’s jarringto readtextlikethat yes
― mh, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 04:14 (five years ago) link
not inoneofthosebooks ofpoetrylikewhatrobertcreeleywrites,though
though
johnjacobjingleheimer&cis nobobcreeley
― j., Wednesday, 13 March 2019 05:27 (five years ago) link
E E Cummings morelike
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 06:09 (five years ago) link
what if a much ofa wrap ofaword
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 11:53 (five years ago) link
New iMacs with 9th gen processors out today. Are Vega graphics worth the extra £450 though? And surprise! the SSD prices are utter filth.
― stet, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 12:54 (five years ago) link
Probably not A friend of mine dropped her iMac and now the whole computer is inoperable - a major downside of all-in-ones
― calstars, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 13:19 (five years ago) link
Counter-argument is that if you empty a beer over your keyboard, you don’t fry the whole computer.
― Luna Schlosser, Tuesday, 19 March 2019 13:46 (five years ago) link
My late 2007 iMac has finally died. Probably 80% of my computer use is on a MacBook Pro but I do like to have a Mac desktop around for photo editing, managing music, and streaming video via Plex. I usually don't like buying computers used but I'd like to keep the replacement well under $1000 so I've been looking at my options. 2014 Mac Minis are around $300/4GB, slower processor and $400/8GB, faster processor. Thinking of pairing one of those with a <$200 new 27 inch monitor. How bad are sub $200 monitors, considering I've been OK with a 2007 iMac screen for the last 12 years? Will a 2014 Mini run a Photoshop alternative (e.g. Affinity Photo) and process raw images reasonably well?
B&H has the new 21.5 inch 4K iMac on sale for $1100 right now but if I could get by OK for the next couple of years for half that price... I dunno.
― early rejecter, Sunday, 24 March 2019 21:05 (five years ago) link
Why not just by a good monitor for the MacBook Pro, and an external disk if storage is an issue?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 24 March 2019 21:07 (five years ago) link
Forgot to mention that the MacBook is a work computer that I don't have admin privileges for so can't install my own software.
― early rejecter, Sunday, 24 March 2019 21:40 (five years ago) link
And between me, the wife, and kids, we need more than one computer in the house anyway.
― early rejecter, Sunday, 24 March 2019 21:44 (five years ago) link
I think Ed's line of question probably leads to the right answer - just get some removable storage and a nice external monitor.
How bad are sub $200 monitors, considering I've been OK with a 2007 iMac screen for the last 12 years?
extremely bad. There is not a corollary of Moore's Law that applies to monitors.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 24 March 2019 21:45 (five years ago) link
we ran into your problem a few years back and did what you're thinking of. so we're now on our second Mac mini (the first went down hard, right on schedule after its AppleCare ran out) with a crappy monitor and we use it for device backups, uploading photos to dropbox, and managing the music library. That is literally all it does. While you could conceivably stay under $1000 for a similar package, I would advise caution (see above re: lifespan of our 2014 Mac mini).
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 24 March 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link
2007 iMac screen likely better than most <200 monitors in the market. Spend a little more and get a dell ultra sharp.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 24 March 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link
a 2011 mini w SSD and maxed out RAM is an extremely credible general purpose computer fwiw. it can't install mojave but there's little else it can't do.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 24 March 2019 22:53 (five years ago) link
Do you know what failed on your Mini, Tomboto? Hard drive or something else? Higher spec 2014 Mini and a decent monitor I guess would be approaching $700 -- at which point I can see me talking myself into just getting a new iMac for $400 more. Argh...
― early rejecter, Monday, 25 March 2019 04:26 (five years ago) link
bought a new 3rd gen ipad air in lieu of the existence of a macbook with a working keyboard. it’s basically just the old pro with an a12 chip and two (not four) speakers, so it takes smart keyboards and 1st gen apple pencils. really quite impressed with it, considering the price jump to the current pro line. this is fine. massive jump from my ipad 3, which has been effectively useless for several years and is probably the dumbest thing apple ever made,
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 11 May 2019 00:05 (five years ago) link
Was that the first retina iPad? Man that thing was slow.
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Saturday, 11 May 2019 00:07 (five years ago) link
yep, that thing was a streak of absolute shit
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 11 May 2019 09:36 (five years ago) link
and 12 minutes later they release the ipad 4 with sufficient grunt to run the retina screen. total swizz.
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 11 May 2019 09:38 (five years ago) link
https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/05/apple-updates-macbook-pro-processors-and-keyboard-extends-keyboard-service-program/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 18:06 (five years ago) link
unbelievable that they haven't yet canned the shittest of all possible keyboards. so shit neither Samsung or Acer have copied it
― stet, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
swipe keyboards are an improvement. i feel like i've lost a superpower when i have to use someone else's phone. though the autocorrect is still so bad. surely this is a good use-case for the kind of natural-language tech that powers Alexa etc? don't suggest words that make no sense?
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link
Apple is renaming iOS on the iPad to:iPadOS🤯 pic.twitter.com/yRwIAaqW14— Steve Moser (@SteveMoser) June 3, 2019
hahaha
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 3 June 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
oh shit, gamechanger
― Aspen Jortstein (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 3 June 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
actually interested in this wwdc keynote for once
― stet, Monday, 3 June 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
I'm vaguely interested because it seems like a moment where something interesting *has* to happen?
although right now they're telling developers about how great their original streaming video content is going to be so we're not off to a good start
― mh, Monday, 3 June 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
multiuser TvOS is good. Goodbye Horrid Henry, Goodbye Gardener's World
― stet, Monday, 3 June 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
this is really starting at trundle pace for something that was meant to pack in a whole lot of shit
― stet, Monday, 3 June 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
I get that these talks are widely viewed outside of the developer community but ranting on about first-party app features on existing hardware without mentioning new APIs they're using seems like a complete waste of developer time
― mh, Monday, 3 June 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
I will never enable dark mode on anything and you can't make me
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 3 June 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
love how close to parody these presentations skew
― mh, Monday, 3 June 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
why stet? I'm exactly the opposite I will never disable it.
― easy ball shooter (Spottie), Monday, 3 June 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
not me! I'm a dark mode stan myself
― stet, Monday, 3 June 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
oh sorry meant silby!
― easy ball shooter (Spottie), Monday, 3 June 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
dark mode is essential it saves my eyes
ok, the email masking stuff is good but more of a cloud service offering. nice to have it built in
― mh, Monday, 3 June 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
I just don't care for it, seems silly
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 3 June 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
I also have the system text size slider all the way to the left tho so apparently I don't care about my eyes in general
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 3 June 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
imo the best not caring about eyes would be using dark mode 24/7, even outdoors
― mh, Monday, 3 June 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
dark mode is good, it makes it like you are in a secret cave
― j., Monday, 3 June 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
If I'm gonna be in a secret cave I want muted warm light and like a comic book
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 3 June 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
iPad OS is fixing a whole lotta shit for me
― stet, Monday, 3 June 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
― calstars, Monday, 3 June 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
multiple docs side-by-side is huge for me. And direct Lightroom import
― stet, Monday, 3 June 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
i don't like dark mode because it doesn't feel like an apple os. feels like windows or some shit like linux that i don't understand
― flappy bird, Monday, 3 June 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
Yeah DM meshes all my open windows into a black mass which looks great but makes it a little hard to distinguish them visually
― calstars, Monday, 3 June 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
NEW MAC PRO klaxon
― stet, Monday, 3 June 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
it's full of holes
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 3 June 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
RIP my iPhone 6.
― pomenitul, Monday, 3 June 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link