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by dpkonofa 7y ago
Eh? It already has gesture support. You can flick the volume and brightness buttons to change the levels one step at a time or you can drag on them to pop-up a slider control. Unless you're suggesting global gestures where two-fingers
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
As much as the Touch Bar doesn't bother me and having the physical F keys seems a step back to me, I think this is the right answer anyways. They'd appease both sides of the argument and they wouldn't lose much at all. Even i
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
Wholeheartedly disagree. I use the Touch Bar religiously for media production including scrubbing through audio/video and adjusting dials/filters/tones and I've remapped it to include my most used functions in things lik
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
I'm with you. BetterTouchTool introduced me to some pretty cool possibilities with the Touch Bar and it's just been even more awesome as I've customized it more. On top of that, it motivated me, for some reason, to try and ge
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
I mostly agree with you except that I fall back to macOS because, in addition to development, I do a lot of media production and hardware support for Linux still just isn't there. I have a VM running Ubuntu for a lot of things but I al
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
How is scroll direction, in any way, restricted to a MacOS experience when Windows has had the option for years ? I also have the scroll direction set that way because it makes more sense for me when I use the touch screen. It's one o
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
Good point. Scrap the whole thing.
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
I have to disagree on all points. If you leave it on, you don't have to worry about its speed because it's always up-to-date. The first backup may be slow but you shouldn't be waiting until an emergency to do that anyways. I
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
Sure, and that's a valid reason to wait. Waiting on rumor and conjecture, though, is almost always a bad idea.
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
Just do a search on the Apple website. She'll have to have an Apple ID to make any kind of service reservation so that's expected. Google also has a pretty thorough list of most of the Apple Authorized service centers in any area.
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
No it's not. The diagnostics are just basic, front-level diagnostics that they do for all machines to check off a few boxes. It's unfortunate when you're in the small percentage of people that have an uncommon problem but the
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
Depending on where she goes to uni, they may have an authorized repair facility on site. I was just able to use the on-site facility at Berkley and have used the one at ASU in the past when appointments at the local Apple stores are all fil
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
Don't make recommendations based on predictions. That's a terrible reason to wait for a necessary purchase.
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
Dead simple and 100% free. I seriously do not understand how every person with a Mac is not using Time Machine. It is the best, easiest, and most dummy-proof backup solution I've ever seen. The world somehow made a better dummy.
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
What in the world could possibly be the reason in that first story for the 'file' program to look for the string 'Tue' and change to the Jam filetype? That's gotta be a very niche case, right?
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
I'm not sure why they wouldn't be simple. Thunderbolt has a USB-C variant. Just get a USB-C to Thunderbolt adapter and keep it plugged in on the end at all times. You'll be in exactly the same situation you were in before and
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
No, you don't. USB-C supports Thunderbolt. The most you'd need is a cable.
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
Then we'll have to agree to disagree. I've run several hundred presentations over HDMI with the dongle that I have and have been able to do several hundred more via VGA, DVI, etc. without that. Other than that, I don't have 5
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
No one's talking fantasy hypotheticals except for you. The "reality" that you're claiming is not at all actually reality considering that every other industrialized nation on the planet pays less for healthcare and presc
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
I never said it does. I just said that only a minority of niche customers actually hold the same opinion as you. The vast majority of people are perfectly happy with both the new keyboards and the lack of a physical escape key. You don&#x27
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
That's completely contrary to my point. You're still just a random person online from Hacker News. The vast majority of people that aren't on a niche website like this have no issues with the keyboard. I haven't gotten a
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
But then we're back at the beginning of this conversation and you're saying you'd rather have a larger, bulkier, laptop that can accommodate several of these single-use ports. The entire conversation was related to why USB-C
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
I don't know that I agree with that considering the S10+ has what amounts to a hole in the top right corner. The notch isn't great but I actually think I prefer seeing those 2 options side by side.
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
This is exactly why I'm 100% for the USB-C switch. I have 1 dongle that handles every video type to USB-C - VGA, DVI, HDMI, and even mDP. There's no reason for all 4 of those ports to be built into the computer on the off chance
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
>how awful it is to not have an HDMI port. Disagree wholeheartedly. I bought a USB-C to Video adapter from Amazon that has DVI, VGA, HDMI, and mDP and it only takes up one space on my MacBook and the only time I ever need to use it is wh
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
I'm the same way and most of the people I know IRL are the same way. It seems like it's only online that I hear people complain about the keyboard and the lack of ports. The biggest complaint online that I see is the physical esca
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
I'm not 100% sure, but I think they're referring to the nines of reliability. Something, such as web hosting or server time, is typically deemed as "reliable" when it is 99.999% available as intended. I think what they&#
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
I don't think anyone is arguing against that. I think it's mostly that "the lowest price [they] could" is typically a pretty aggressive offer. Apple is really great at finding companies that have great proof-of-concept p
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
Now you're being disingenuous or just flat-out lying. The title and headline of the story is literally "It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to? - Apple says, 'What happens on your iPhone stay
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by dpkonofa 7y ago
So can a private company. We're talking about the comparison of private to public. All things being equal, a public trust will always cost less because profit is not necessary as part of the cost of service.

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