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Are they talking about only MacBook Pros with Intel chips since they reference Butterfly keyboards or is that sarcasm that sort of feels out of place ?
by zitterbewegung 4y ago
Are they talking about only MacBook Pros with Intel chips since they reference Butterfly keyboards or is that sarcasm that sort of feels out of place ?
- eyelidlessness 4y agoI strongly suspect they’re referring to the aspects of the UA string specific to their own device. I.e. they used an MBP (whose vintage can be intuited from its notorious keyboard problems and) which has evidently stopped receiving OS updates past 10.15. Edit to add: I also suspect they thought this was a clever way to avoid some nerd inevitably chiding them to upgrade their OS, but it’s probably too clever to achieve that.
- auscompgeek 4y agoMozilla froze the macOS version in User-Agent strings past Catalina too, also due to web compatibility issues (particularly with older versions of the Unity game engine). Other engines do the same as well: https://www.otsukare.info/2021/02/15/capping-macos-user-agent https://www.otsukare.info/2021/02/15/capping-macos-user-agen...
- eyelidlessness 4y agoI welcome any correction or explanation for why my comment was unhelpful.
- mrweasel 4y agoThat honestly seemed a little unnecessary and made the whole thing confusing. I read it as: "This is only an issue on a MacBook, assuming that your s key sticks and the date is December 29th, 2022". I suspect that the only part of that which is true is that the bug only occurs on macOS. The date or a sticky s keys isn't a prerequisite. What would be more interesting is: Why isn't this an issue on Windows?