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I'm glad! It's really bad to be honest. Nothing wrong exploring new ideas, but it's not good. I find the Siri thing that comes by default in the top right corn

I'm glad! It's really bad to be honest. Nothing wrong exploring new ideas, but it's not good. I find the Siri thing that comes by default in the top right corner or the right side of the touch bar super annoying (don't waste your time explaining how to disable). Every single time I touch it by mistake I say "f!ck" or something worse... If true that Apple computes the input data that goes into Siri from the Touch bar, if I am representative of a group of users, there might be a lot of swearing there...

salamandersauce 5y ago
You can customize the touchbar to have a blank space there instead. It's dumb and stupid that you need to do that though. The Touch bar wouldn't have been so stupid if it was a 7th row of keys basically instead of a 6th row replacement. Remember when laptops had a dedicated row of keys for stuff like volume? That was nice.
- LeifCarrotson 5y ago
  Yup, I remember. You had volume and brightness, mute buttons for the mic and speakers, with LED indicators...saved me some embarrassment a few times in conference calls! Sliders to power down the wireless and save battery. You could even use a remappable button if you did want to customize it for something non-stupid, like launching a terminal. And the keys had comfortable travel and tactile feedback! We didn't need dongles and hubs, we had ports all over, and user-replaceable parts, upgradeable RAM, decent thermals. You could swap in a DVD drive, or an SSD, or a battery expansion. The standard batteries were hot-swappable with a thumb slide, rather than glued in... *looks down at Thinkpad T420* Oh, yeah, and the print screen/break/insert buttons like on a full-size keyboard; my fingers have muscle memory of them but my conscious mind forgot they were there. Yeah, those were the days!

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I'm glad! It's really bad to be honest. Nothing wrong exploring new ideas, but it's not good. I find the Siri thing that comes by default in the top right corn

by heldrida 5y ago

salamandersauce 5y ago
You can customize the touchbar to have a blank space there instead. It's dumb and stupid that you need to do that though. The Touch bar wouldn't have been so stupid if it was a 7th row of keys basically instead of a 6th row replacement. Remember when laptops had a dedicated row of keys for stuff like volume? That was nice.
- LeifCarrotson 5y ago
  Yup, I remember. You had volume and brightness, mute buttons for the mic and speakers, with LED indicators...saved me some embarrassment a few times in conference calls! Sliders to power down the wireless and save battery. You could even use a remappable button if you did want to customize it for something non-stupid, like launching a terminal. And the keys had comfortable travel and tactile feedback! We didn't need dongles and hubs, we had ports all over, and user-replaceable parts, upgradeable RAM, decent thermals. You could swap in a DVD drive, or an SSD, or a battery expansion. The standard batteries were hot-swappable with a thumb slide, rather than glued in... *looks down at Thinkpad T420* Oh, yeah, and the print screen/break/insert buttons like on a full-size keyboard; my fingers have muscle memory of them but my conscious mind forgot they were there. Yeah, those were the days!