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by chendragon 7y ago
Here in Vancouver BC Canada, we do have data caps but it appears to have been only $10 CAD ($7 US) to upgrade to unlimited for that month. Hence, it's not a massive issue other than in principle to some. Currently there are two compani
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by chendragon 7y ago
Bonus points if this results in mis-clicking something dangerous or irreversible, like "delete", "cancel","post","send", "close", "exit without saving" or the like.
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by chendragon 7y ago
Type-C cables have an E-Marker IC inside them by design, so this would probably render the cable non-functional or worse-functional unfortunately.
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by chendragon 7y ago
On my iPhone I find everything up to maybe 0.6 seconds to be just fine. Part of this may be being used to using SSH over VERY poor network connections. I think the biggest frustration with latency is not the latency itself, but rather when
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by chendragon 7y ago
Is this how the eBay phone unlocking services work? Usually they say something about servers and "sending your IMEI to the server" etc, and sometimes it can take a certain number of hours.
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by chendragon 7y ago
Generally the higher the voltage you distribute, the lower the current in the wires, allowing you to use thinner wire and reducing I^2R losses. With this said, having multiple point of load converters may have impacts on efficiency and will
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by chendragon 7y ago
It looks like they did have these. In one of their pictures there was a stack of Anker PowerHouse power banks/battery packs.
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by chendragon 7y ago
My iPad Pro 12.9 smart keyboard also failed in this way. Fortunately the Apple store replaced it for free (Vancouver BC Canada) saying there was a quality program about these keyboards. Apparently it is not the connector, but the flex cable
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by chendragon 7y ago
If I remember correctly the word you're looking for is nihilism.
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by chendragon 7y ago
This is my personal opinion, after seeing this teardown. If you look at some of the images it looks like the actual contact areas on the PCB that the metal domes contact on are rather small, and both the dome and the contacts look like they
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by chendragon 7y ago
Facebook Messenger. They keep moving the buttons and the UI every once in a while, hiding message requests in some new place every once in a while. They never talk about the changes and the Messenger Web app is slow to load and often has UI
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by chendragon 8y ago
Sort of an aside, but I do sort of wonder what goes into the decision to go with Freescale/QNX as opposed to allwinner/rockchip/MTK and Android in this application. Surely the cost would be similar or less, and the performanc
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by chendragon 8y ago
I have both types of keyboards (pre-2016) and the 2016 Touch Bar 15" MacBook. In my experience there are about three failure modes, some of which you can fix by yourself. However, since the keyboard replacement program started I just s
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by chendragon 8y ago
I bought this, it looks very nice and the UI has a very high level of polish to it. I'm trying to use this with WebViews to hack together a multi-window, multi-tab browser thing, not sure if this is something that exists already. The m
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by chendragon 8y ago
Some of the examples do not work well on mobile (iPad Pro). The UI elements are a tad small to hit accurately on a touch screen and elements which require scrolling don't scroll as expected such as the forms to be filled in.
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by chendragon 8y ago
IIRC until the recent fix they pushed in a macOS update for the new i9 models, MacBook Pros don't have any of their power limits set (or have them on the defaults at 100W). The processor runs at full turbo, until the CPU gets to 102 C
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by chendragon 8y ago
Anecdote: A testing account on fb @mailismagic.com (mailinator) has been up for 2 years now and has never required any form of verification. I wonder why this may be. The name on the account is very common, however.
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by chendragon 8y ago
The rear fan appears to be shared with the CPU fan. This is actually not a bad design in my opinion, many Dell OptiPlexes from around 2002-2009 were built with a similar design. By putting the fan farther from the grille, they can reduce th
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by chendragon 8y ago
Was there any particular reason that the problem could not have been resolved through hardware since the hardware was a new development?(i.e. a UPS or better filtering?)
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by chendragon 8y ago
The motor for the dryer also needs to power the fan that draws air through the unit. Without anything attached to the shaft, I previously measured the no-load power of the electric motor to be 200W. I would expect the full load current to b
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by chendragon 8y ago
Iirc the chips were supposedly found near the SPI flash for the BIOS if you can locate that, probably close to the IPMI/BMC chip.
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by chendragon 8y ago
I think you can change the pressure for Force Touch or 3D Touch under Settings > General > Accessibility
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by chendragon 8y ago
I have the 2016 version of the machine, base model, and it throttles. Not nearly as badly as anything else in it's thinness class, but the CPU can only run at 37w as measured by Power Gadget under p95 with fans forced to 6500rpm. PC ma
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by chendragon 8y ago
Here in Canada Apple charges about $250 CAD to change the set of battery/topcase in a MBP Retina 13 from 2015. I think that's not a bad price considering you get a new keyboard, casing, and trackpad.
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by chendragon 8y ago
I suspect some of this has changed at some point, right around when they switched to material design. Scrolling became laggy on some machines and the page would often become unresponsive. When Google Photos first came out it was wonderfully
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by chendragon 8y ago
I'm not entirely sure if the problems with the keyboard are simply inherent. The gap between the keys on the new one and the frame is simply tiny, and since the key doesn't move, and because the key hits the bottom when pressed, a
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by chendragon 8y ago
I wonder if they will provide an option to run Linux when it's plugged into the display. It seems like they're giving it quite the bandwidth to drive a 4K display and fast charge power through the multiple connectors, so it would
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by chendragon 8y ago
Did they change them after the 2016 touch bar models?
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by chendragon 8y ago
I bought one of these things last year around September. I had the 12 inch 2016 MacBook before it. tl;dr buy a keyboard cover if you have this machine, or just contend with cleaning under the key with alcohol. I've had a fairly good ex
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by chendragon 9y ago
Just kind of hoping they can get the look&feel and most importantly the thermals right on this one. If you go on notebookcheck you can see that every single thin machine that comes out has throttling problems and insufficient sizing of

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