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by jsz0 10y ago
> I doubt Apple's former lead would ever have put out a Mac that needs a dongle to connect to iPhone The original iPod was incompatible with many Macs still in use at the time that lacked FireWire ports.
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> Apple certainly seems wobbly. They can’t make laptops that anyone wants to use anymore The Apple Store shows all but one model shipping 2-3 weeks out. Amazon also shows most models out of stock. Forbes reported that first week sales (v
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by jsz0 10y ago
> The removal of the 3.5mm jack is a failure by Apple. It's been a total non-issue for me. Since the iPhone 7 comes with both the adapter and Lighting headphones work/home usage isn't a problem. I just use the adapter + ex
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> Won't someone give us the option of a 10+mm thick phone with a huge battery in it. This option exists in the form of battery cases.
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by jsz0 10y ago
> I dont want to spend $10 Pennywise dollar dumb. You're making a $800+ device worse to save $10.
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by jsz0 10y ago
> Let's not forget using $30 USB cords to charge your phone/mouse. Both devices come with a Lighting cable, an Apple first party Lighting cable costs $20 not $30, and third party Lighting cables cost as little as $5.
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> I just can't consistently control the phone. A large percentage of taps or swipes do things I did not intend (how many I'm not sure -- 20%? 33%?) It's just completely crazy. I couldn't agree more with this. Just as
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by jsz0 10y ago
> Count me happy my laptop doesn't double as a bench-press. ThinkPad X1 Carbon: Starting at 2.6 lbs (1209 g) MacBook Pro 13: Weight: 3.02 pounds (1.37 kg)
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by jsz0 10y ago
One good thing about web notification requests is you can use them as an opportunity to evaluate what sites you want to continue reading on a regular basis. When I get a notification request I always stop and think about it for a minute. If
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I wouldn't worry much about it. Typing fast isn't as productive as it looks. When I'm motivated I can easily exceed 100wpm but the quality of my code/writing suffers as my speed increases. Not the accuracy (although some
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by jsz0 10y ago
This certainly isn't a problem unique to Trump voters. Many of my like minded liberal friends are starting to indulge in fantasy these days too. It's gotten much worse in the last couple of years. Some of the stuff that comes out
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> Less smoking is very good for the population health. No doubt but when smoking bans start to overreach to include things like outdoor places it's getting dangerously close to a form of discrimination. What's next? Banning ove
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> if you have an android phone or iphone or smartwatch, you already can "Hey Siri/Google" whatever you want, Most of those devices just don't have speakers/microphones cable of working reliably at room scale in r
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by jsz0 10y ago
That's quite unusual in my experience. Even most low end / lost cost routers are pretty damn reliable these days. In an office complex with more than a dozen competing networks I use wifi 8 hours a day and rarely have a blip. Have
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by jsz0 10y ago
Your problem might be disk IO speed related. How fast is your storage? Most browsers still do trash a lot of disk IO even if you have plenty of memory available. For whatever reason it seems like OSX is way more prone to having performance
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> less I/O functionality ThunderBolt 3 is certainly not less IO functionality. It provides the highest performing / most versatile IO that's ever been available in a laptop before. I get your point that it's not exact
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For a lot of popular packages homebrew is more bleeding edge these days than whatever the default sources are for Ubuntu. It's nice not needing to add a bunch of extra apt sources to get updated packages. Another perk of homebrew is, i
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by jsz0 10y ago
Nothing brand new however there is a huge second hand market for iPhones. Looks like you can get an iPhone 6 for around $250-$350 which is a pretty good deal in my opinion.
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Pretty sure you can use gift cards or a debit card instead though I haven't tried it myself.
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Lots of people complained about the original Apple 'chicklet' style laptop keyboard when it was first introduced circa 2006 for the same reasons. In my experience with many different keyboards over the years once you get used to s
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by jsz0 10y ago
The ergonomics of the guitar are the main reason I don't play much anymore. I hit a roadblock where the amount of practice required to improve further wasn't really worth the physical discomfort. For example barre chords just push
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by jsz0 10y ago
> No company offers an ecosystem that doesn't require "fiddling" to get things to work correctly. In modern times you rarely have to fiddle with wireless routers or displays to make them work correctly with different devic
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> What do I honestly do in a situation like that? Learn a valuable lesson and move on. I lost some important data to a free service many years ago and now I don't rely on anything that I can't pay for with a credit card. I figu
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The best reasons I can think of are: 1. Combating e-waste. Pack-in cables are convenient but not always needed. 2. It encourages people to buy and use the appropriate length cable for their needs. With USB-C it's a lot harder to includ
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Are you unfamiliar with USB-C? It offers some obvious benefits to users.
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The scenario the author outlined 4 years ago was one possible outcome but it turns out he was wrong. Instead projects like homebrew have flourished and it's now easier than ever to get fresh packages for popular GPL software on macOS.
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> The OS itself is still visually superior to anything else, but it’s been showing the signs of neglect for a few years now. Can you elaborate on this? Without going into any detail your post reads a bit like a paid promotion. Probably n
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by jsz0 10y ago
IMO improved battery life and standby time have reduced the need for a feature like MagSafe. When you're charging less often it's easier to avoid charging in hostile conditions. The break away adapter seems like a good solution fo
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I actually think it's best for Apple and Mac users if some of the more regressive/conservative types who have bought Macs in the last 5-10 years switch back to PCs. One of the things that made the Mac great was the user base used
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> seems to me like a crazy thing to try to use and depend on this thing/company Always beware of perception bias or whatever the right term is for this. When docker was new it got tons of hype and people were talking about how great

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