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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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
some not-fuckin-around max specifications on this thing
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 3 June 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
anyway someone post it on the trypophobia thread
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 3 June 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
Do we have to wait til fall for these iOS update goodies?
― calstars, Monday, 3 June 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
Oh it’s my old G5 tower!
― calstars, Monday, 3 June 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
I like this new screen. I like wheels!
― stet, Monday, 3 June 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
well, they did it, they delivered a fuck-off video and audio editing machine
― mh, Monday, 3 June 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
Mac Pro starts at $6k
― stet, Monday, 3 June 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
$4999 for the screen, fucking hell, $5999 for the matte. And the stand is another grand FUCK
― stet, Monday, 3 June 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
how much for the Mac Pro wheels? HOW MUCH FOR WHEELS?
― mh, Monday, 3 June 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link
curious to hear what the maxed out price is, i'm guessing 8999
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 3 June 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
maxed out is going to be way north of that. the Xeon 28-core alone is $8k
― stet, Monday, 3 June 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
$23,999.
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Monday, 3 June 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
“Apple said that when a device is offline and sleeping, it sends out a secure Bluetooth beacon that can be detected by other Apple devices nearby, even the ones owned by other people. This results in a network that works to find lost Apple devices through a secure, encrypted, and anonymous signal relay.”This is weird...widescale mainstream mesh
― calstars, Monday, 3 June 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
Looks like they finally have a solution in place of the online store saying “we’ll be back soon”
― calstars, Monday, 3 June 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, June 3, 2019 1:57 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haven't done it for a few years but a friend and I would jokingly max out the top-end system on the website back when Mac Pros were a running thing with regular updates and, even without RAID you could hit $10k reliably
― mh, Monday, 3 June 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
That Minecraft VR demo though ...
― calstars, Monday, 3 June 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link