Yeah man, apple made some killer bezels back in the day
― calstars, Friday, 4 January 2019 01:19 (five years ago) link
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.
― brokenshire (jed_), Friday, 4 January 2019 01:19 (five years ago) link
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.
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 4 January 2019 02:00 (five years ago) link
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 02:04 (five years ago) link
what is a "notch"
― flappy bird, Friday, 4 January 2019 02:23 (five years ago) link
A kind of haircut, or a pattern of baldness, according to Samsung
― calstars, Friday, 4 January 2019 02:31 (five years ago) link
extremely funny that their products aren’t as inelastic as they thought
lower your goddamn prices u xunts
― there are no good podcasts (||||||||), Friday, 4 January 2019 05:36 (five years ago) link
and it’s incredible that they’re blaming everything except their own greed
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 4 January 2019 08:25 (five years ago) link
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
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Which hp amp did you get?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 4 January 2019 09:29 (five years ago) link
tired: $3500 laptop with keyboard... issueswired: $279 laptop that is spill proofhttps://t.co/kF3oHrImG0— ZG (@zachgrosser) February 25, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 00:25 (five years ago) link
that looks... pretty good actually
― Nhex, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 04:11 (five years ago) link
does it have a caps lock button
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 18:07 (five years ago) link
i had planned to buy a new macbook when i go to taiwan, but not with these fucking keyboards
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 19:57 (five years ago) link
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...
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 28 February 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
[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
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 11 March 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
lol
― mh, Monday, 11 March 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
what was wrong with the finder
― j., Monday, 11 March 2019 21:15 (five years ago) link
excited for Apple TV TV
― moose; squirrel (silby), Monday, 11 March 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
https://infinitediaries.net/the-state-of-mac-hardware-early-2019/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 11 March 2019 21:33 (five years ago) link
glad I haven't needed a new computer in like 6 years
― moose; squirrel (silby), Monday, 11 March 2019 21:40 (five years ago) link
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.
― DJI, Monday, 11 March 2019 21:54 (five years ago) link
I want to put OpenBSD on like a $300 micro-desktop
― moose; squirrel (silby), Monday, 11 March 2019 21:56 (five years ago) link
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?
― lukas, Monday, 11 March 2019 22:28 (five years ago) link
Windows 10 is fine.
― DJI, Monday, 11 March 2019 22:32 (five years ago) link
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.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 11 March 2019 23:15 (five years ago) link
WSL is pretty decent
― mh, Monday, 11 March 2019 23:23 (five years ago) link
Linux itself seems bad tho
― moose; squirrel (silby), Monday, 11 March 2019 23:33 (five years ago) link
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
― moose; squirrel (silby), Monday, 11 March 2019 23:34 (five years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 04:36 (five years ago) link
is it safe to install Mojave yet or does it still suck?
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 04:38 (five years ago) link
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.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 04:42 (five years ago) link
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.
― L'assie (Euler), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 11:58 (five years ago) link
Fuck w10 telemetry. I’m now looking again at hackintoshing
― stet, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 13:27 (five years ago) link
Flappy , Mojave running fine for me
― calstars, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
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.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 14:33 (five years ago) link
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
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.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
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!
― mh, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
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
― moose; squirrel (silby), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
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
― mh, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
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
― moose; squirrel (silby), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
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.
― moose; squirrel (silby), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
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
― mh, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
tbh i wasn't even using tmux, you could switch between linux consoles with what, alt+f1 through f8 by default?
Yah. Still can!
― moose; squirrel (silby), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
X11 is all Wayland now though
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protocol)
(it isn't, i don't think, not yet)
― koogs, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link
yeah, I think it's a bit optimistic to say that at this point
I haven't used linux on the desktop in a serious way for yeeeears though.
― mh, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 17:24 (five years ago) link
dang maybe I should just get a Pinebook
― L'assie (Euler), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
the last time i used linux for personal use wasabout 15 years ago and it was a debian distro.can't say i miss it.
i usually stick to macs, unless i'm dealing withservers, which luckily i don't do a whole lotof work on.
― John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
yet you seem to be using a text editor with hard-wrapping instead of actual word wrapping to draft posts
word wrap is fine, most unix text editors have it
― mh, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link