canuckintime

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by canuckintime 3y ago
He's... not wrong? tbh if you're interested in the 'bleeding edge' or 'future of computing' (which I've seen many people use to justify their Vision Pro purchase) then you should be buying both Vision Pro
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by canuckintime 3y ago
RSS feed?
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by canuckintime 3y ago
> and all their other "new paradigm" platforms also initially shipped with no software (Mac, iPhone, iPad). The mainstream usage of these devices is really based on what developers built for them in the first couple years after
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by canuckintime 3y ago
There's still no confirmation if the battery is hot swappable or not. Also Apple removed the text about passthrough charging. I'm surprised there's no option to purchase a bigger battery (the connection is proprietary; it&#x2
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by canuckintime 3y ago
> Perhaps the only one (potentially, and not trying to derail this) might be Donald Trump (but I also have a hard time seeing him accepting a plea deal on the current raft of bullshit around him). (Not sure what “current raft of bullshi
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by canuckintime 3y ago
I have an iPhone SE. It might still be getting security updates but the actual user experience is quite bad now; new features and apps are just not designed for it. Meanwhile the original Google Pixel doesn't have the newest security u
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by canuckintime 3y ago
> Sit the 15 inch MBA next to the 16 inch MBP and the screens look identical. No, they do not.
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by canuckintime 3y ago
But it should be sweat resistant, no? All the top VR games involve movement. If Apple really is going to treat the headset’s gaming story as connect a PlayStation controller and play Apple Arcade games on a virtual screen I’ll be disappoint
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by canuckintime 3y ago
I’m very surprised there was no Fitness+ app for Apple Vision Pro mentioned at all. The Mindfulness app even got quick reveal but no exercise feature? That’s been the most sticky feature for Quest 2/Pro for me (perhaps because their sc
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by canuckintime 4y ago
That's not clear and correct. The conviction was about 'perjury' committed under a subpoena for the sunshine laws investigation concerning a fact (when the phone calls stopped) that turned out immaterial to the sunshine law c
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by canuckintime 4y ago
Don't only consider VR headsets; also check out AR glasses. The newest generation of AR glasses are surprisingly practical as portable displays e.g. Nreal Air.[1] However neither VR headsets nor AR glasses have reached the resolution s
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by canuckintime 4y ago
> They hadn’t started collecting social security due to some debts and was worried it would ALL be garnished. Your contractor’s actions makes a some twisted sense to me as he’s still receiving ‘undisclosed’ cash. The homeless veteran do
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by canuckintime 4y ago
The phone was released today and Reachability does NOT allow for one-handed operation. It wasn't referred to in any pr or reviews by the way... Not sure how well Apple could make it work but Reachability would still be a crutch
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by canuckintime 4y ago
There’s music controls there. You may also touch the indicators to expand into bigger controls.
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by canuckintime 4y ago
Works well with Surface Book and Duo but Apple doesn’t officially support multipoint so it doesn’t have the semi-seamless sharing enabled for Apple devices
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by canuckintime 4y ago
Dynamic Island looks neat (reminds me of webOS) BUT controls at the top of the screen still work poorly, especially on these bigger phones. I had a little hope when Apple introduced those controls in iOS 16 on the lower half of the lock scr
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by canuckintime 4y ago
Touch volume control removes my biggest pain point with the original. I might actually get two: one for my Apple devices and another for Windows/Android
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by canuckintime 4y ago
> You are not going to like what I’m going to say but I think the reason they rewrote so much of it is simply that the books are not particularly good in the first place. The ideas are very interesting but... The prose and characters are
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by canuckintime 4y ago
> The only way to faithfully film the book would be to make some sort of anthology series, and I don't think that format works well for big-budget prestige drama. It wouldn’t work on traditional TV but this is streaming on AppleTV.
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by canuckintime 4y ago
> It reminds me of what Apple did with iBooks: they weren't trying to do the right thing, they did it the wrong way, but if they had been successful, it would have been better for the market as a whole... Amazon for using what were
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by canuckintime 4y ago
They didn't 'conveniently' forget; it's mentioned and accounted for in the article: > $49 to rent Apple’s tools for a week, more than wiping out any refund I might get for returning the old used part.
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by canuckintime 4y ago
I'm waiting on alternate screen options. The 3K2K OLED screen on the HP Specter X360[1] would be a great highend option for me. Framework is suggesting many customisable options but the wifi antenna is behind the screen so it's no
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by canuckintime 4y ago
My problem was with the fogged up mirror after a shower. I tried some 'solutions' (spraying mirror with a fog proofing liquid, separate showering room etc) but eventually went back to shaving before showering
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by canuckintime 5y ago
Windows supports non-integer DPI scaling. The typical riposte is many (most?) third party Windows programs don't support it* BUT many third party MacOS didn't support 'Retina' scaling for some time after launch either (
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by canuckintime 5y ago
Your links only shows two (of which only one is in stock)...
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by canuckintime 5y ago
> 2560x1440 /logical/ pixels (what apple calls points) at 27" to be the ideal amount of [MacOS] screen real estate (and physical size for [MacOS] UI elements) ftfy. Apple is double dealing you here. Apple developed MacOS t
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by canuckintime 5y ago
For a prosumer there’s only so much you can offload to iCloud or NAS and eventually these machines, which are typically owned for a long time, do run out of space. Apple added back expandable internal storage for the Mac Pro and I hoped the
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by canuckintime 5y ago
Apple still doesn’t want to allow expandable internal storage. That’s my core requirement for a pro/sumer desktop
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by canuckintime 5y ago
It's truly insightful as a 'down under' punchline
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by canuckintime 5y ago
> (2) it doesn't require us to entirely revamp copyright law; Actually there’s no reason Congress couldn’t just make an exemption to copyright law for libraries in regards to electronic media

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