Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

My idea for the watch is to get the lte version, take off the band, put it in my pocket, and use it as a mini phone / music streaming thingy

what even is dark mode

It's for when you want to sound like you're doing something dodgy but actually aren't.

you can do dodgy things in it if you want tho

the thing about the apple devaluation and the link in that with people not buying so many iPhones now is that apple always (usually) made beautiful objects but now that a phone is all or only screen there are not many ways in which an iPhone is a cherishable object over something else that all or only screen, is there?

esp. in a case.

they could have had they come out of the gates with a notch-less screen

Yeah man, apple made some killer bezels back in the day

my SE as a thing to hold and have is better, more lovely imo, than an equivalent android would be but an XR is no different than something else that is only a screen. If it's only-screen then it's only a screen.

i’m still using an 8+ and i legit forget that it even has bezels.

the race to eliminate the notch is more interesting than the race to fill the phone face with screen imo. when the notch problem is solved once and for all, this era of notchy phones is going to look totally ridiculous.

Never want to upgrade from my 6s really. Although I did just order a mini headphone amp so that would obviate the need for the headphone jack around the house.

what is a "notch"

A kind of haircut, or a pattern of baldness, according to Samsung

extremely funny that their products aren’t as inelastic as they thought

lower your goddamn prices u xunts

and it’s incredible that they’re blaming everything except their own greed

Never want to upgrade from my 6s really. Although I did just order a mini headphone amp so that would obviate the need for the headphone jack around the house.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 4 January 2019 03:04 (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Which hp amp did you get?

tired: $3500 laptop with keyboard... issues
wired: $279 laptop that is spill proofhttps://t.co/kF3oHrImG0

— ZG (@zachgrosser) February 25, 2019

that looks... pretty good actually

does it have a caps lock button

i had planned to buy a new macbook when i go to taiwan, but not with these fucking keyboards

It's extra annoying because Apple's current wireless keyboards are pretty great - can't you just put that keyboard in it, or merge the goddamn teams, or something...

[tim cook walks onto the l train car with a boom box] pic.twitter.com/JJ6A3frSUb

— Caitlin Kelly (@caitlin__kelly) March 11, 2019

they fixed the finder

lol

what was wrong with the finder

excited for Apple TV TV

https://infinitediaries.net/the-state-of-mac-hardware-early-2019/

glad I haven't needed a new computer in like 6 years

I had a scare with my 2011 MBP yesterday. New system install seems to have fixed it. Thank goodness because the current Mac lineup sucks. I think I’d go Razer for my next machine if I had to buy one now.

I want to put OpenBSD on like a $300 micro-desktop

I haven't had serious keyboard problems with the new MBP. If I did my assessment might be different. That said ...

All of these "I'm switching away from the Mac because of annoyances X, Y and Z" are hilarious to me. What other OS could you subject to that level of scrutiny without exceeding your HTTP POST limit? "Screen resolution could be a bit higher" but the plain ugliness of every other OS doesn't bother you?

Windows 10 is fine.

The windows subsystem for Linux is apparently at the level of polish/completeness where you can do real coding work I have a bunch of colleagues who do that.

Also even if you prefer macs right now; the other nice thing about windows is that it’s not abandonware, unlike the Mac.

WSL is pretty decent

Linux itself seems bad tho

I haven't used Linux on the desktop for at least the last 7 years of linux on the desktop but systemd and attendant revolutions in userland seem both inescapable and unpleasant

I'm with Lukas, I've grown up using Apple and can't imagine using any other OS regularly. I used Windows XP at high school and have a Chromebook now, but beyond the most basic functions, I'm completely lost and not interested in spending any more time than I have to working on a computer that isn't running an Apple OS.

is it safe to install Mojave yet or does it still suck?

well what happened to me was that i installed mojave at the exact time my c drive started failing. So i've since reinstalled mojave on the new hard drive and, it seems okay in its current iteration? ended up buying a new word suite cuz i had been using 2009 and it no longer worked. outside of that, i can't complain too much. it's a little slower than i remember macs being but aren't we all.

I would like a cheap and light 12 or 13" portable with a decent keyboard and screen and battery, on which I can write latex and read and markup (often big, with graphics) PDFs. I don't care about the OS beyond those needs. I looked at chromebooks recently but apparently running latex is still so to speak "experimental".

My 2015 MBP is still running beautifully but I don't like lugging it around. iPad pro would be great if it could run latex natively and it was easy to index and search my thousands of pdfs on it : that's the size and weight and screen and battery I'd like, and even the "smart keyboard" is fine enough.

Fuck w10 telemetry. I’m now looking again at hackintoshing

Flappy , Mojave running fine for me

I used macs throughout my childhood and even wrote all my college papers on like, clarisworks. It kind of screwed me up when I had to start working in corporate offices that all used windows.

MacBook Pro (13″ with Touch Bar)

screen is set to 1440×900 pt by default while the screen resolution is 2560×1600 px (1280×800 pt) — this means it’s not at 2x Retina, though this is probably due to battery life concerns

Oh shit I've had this thing for 18 months now and never even bothered to look at changing the screen resolution because I just assumed it was set to the largest value by default. I have so much more screen space now though I am old so it's kind of hard to read.

Also the amount of configuration I've done to override the stupid touchbar behavior and try to get it to behave more like the physical buttons I know and love is maddening.

imo you don't want to use native resolution, but the default scaling is a little too big

the days of really wonky scaling where things don't look quite right are mostly over as long as you pick a resolution that's the right aspect ratio, though!

I'm now reminded of my insane coworker who has a 20" 4k monitor that he runs native and sits like two inches away from the screen

At work I just use the 13” laptop screen and run iTerm full screen with a large font size so I’m usually looking at one thing at a time, all the screen real estate I need

I'd say you really just need a command line machine running tmux (or whatever people use now) and a second computer for web searching but tbh the font scaling is probably better in iTerm

I would definitely have that setup with an iPad as my web browser if I were setting up from scratch but I’m not inclined to badger my boss into spending money to replace my perfectly fine computer

Really tho I’d probably still run X11 bc window managers are easier for me to deal with than tmux, I just wouldn’t install a browser.

macos command-line only mode isn't really useful, for sure

i'm nostalgically thinking about the times i'd be tweaking my x windows config or just not care about running a gui for a while and just run command line-only linux consoles. if all you do is talk on irc and play quake, it was more than good enough