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by jxdxbx 3y ago
I love drag-and-dropping to arbitrary locations in the Finder using spring-loaded folders. I think it is a bit tricky…if you don’t know the trick.
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
Yeah I don’t actually want Apple to put Alps switches into a Macbook. I’d buy one if they did though.
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
Yeah, Windows has gotten better in recent years with “Precision Touchpad” support. If you use an Apple Magic Trackpad on Windows (not supported but works on normal PCs, not just Boot Camp) Windows recognizes it as a Precision Touchpad.
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
Scrolling that exactly matches your fingers and has “realistic” momentum. On a Mac I might scroll through an article by just sort of pushing it the right direction, removing my hand from the trackpad and then tapping to stop it at the right
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
I can’t right click on them. I guess you have to raise up your fingers from the left side? I just found that to be a dealbreaker. I’ve had to use them for work and I turn them into one-button mice with scrolling. The scrolling is excellent,
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
That “ROI” comment stood out. Companies should focus on making quality products without tying everything to ROI. The state of some software on Linux is just embarrassing. No attention to detail. Oh and I’ve been using Linux since I installe
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
Apple has been perfecting its trackpad software since 1994, and it’s been getting better ever since. By contrast Apple keyboards have gotten worse since 1995 when it discontinued the Apple Extended Keyboard II. We don’t talk about Apple’s m
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
I think the basic file system exposed to users in the Finder is pretty simple. /Applications, app bundles, etc. The Unix under the hood is just standard stuff and Apples hides away detritus like .plist files. And sandboxed apps have th
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
That was FaceTime, and it was because it was a peer-to-peer protocol. Then Apple was sued over a patent and had to implement a more normal design, where it pays for and runs the servers. Apple didn't want to run the servers for Andro
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
Encrypted RCS should be a standard. When it is Google should adopt the standard, not its proprietary version. In the meantime I want Apple to implement standards, not proprietary Google technologies.
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
the anthropic principle is why we find ourselves in such an unlikely place (a habitable planet) instead of somewhere that can’t support life. it’s not an argument for god. it’s not entirely trivial. if someone says “god did it” because we f
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
Amazing that you can just pop up an emulator in a browser window. Retro Mac emulation used to be such a pain in the ass.
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
At least apps instead of the web browser can handle the copy/paste a username thing. But, I stopped using Mastodon because there is no algorithmic feed (either of my own follows or in terms of surfacing things)—-sorry I massively prefe
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
China has fined companies for referring to Taiwan as a "country" on websites in English, directed towards Americans, for instance. Apart from financial crimes the US imposes US law on foreign companies all the time--e.g. companies
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
People who think (for ideological reasons) that the web should be the world's primary software platform don't like Safari. Personally I hate web apps, so I am fine with Safari.
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
Adobe / Figma, and Amazon / iRobot. And to the point of the discussion, there are no "limits" to what jurisdiction governments have. Governments--the United States especially but many others--does it all the time, espec
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
The Book Palma is great. I had been vaguely dissatisfied with other Boox devices--and it turns out, it was because they didn't have enough RAM and were too slow. The Palma is responsive enough to actually use for other things than re
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
Simplicity? A guarantee that the file will be readable in 20 years? Project Gutenberg still treats plain text as the default format for a reason.
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
this is an issue in the legal world. court opinions accessed only online are cited according to their “page number” in some reporter or another. it’s better to cite paragraph numbers when possible but most American legal documents are un-nu
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
Thank you. It’s really frustrating that people want to make documents as unreliable and annoying as the web.
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
I understand all this but there needs to be a simple format for just regular books without all this complication. I thought that’s what ePubs were for. What I want it basically an ebook format that is mostly zip files of plain text.
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
Yeah, MS Office PDF generation (at least some time ago) did not generate PDFs with embedded fonts, and I’d often come across weird-looking documents where the system is using a font with the wrong characteristics. Print-to-PDF usually avoid
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
people don’t want fixed layout documents only for printing. they want them because they want to fix the layout of their documents more than they care about small screens.
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
My view as a heavy ebook reader: ePubs should be inert data. No javascript, no interactivity, no network resources. Just a fancy text file with some appearance settings all of which the reader can override.
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
Linux developers didn’t need Apple to do anything to support Linux. Drivers are nice for trackpad, etc though.
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
I don’t agree with the idea that web apps should supplant native software. I’d rather the web were mostly just hyperlinked text. Going to a web page should not download and run software on my computer.
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
Zero-knowledge methods for verifying age are possible but there is almost no political will or interest in them. Sites would get a “yes” or “no” as to whether someone is of age, and no other information.
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
I love this service. Happy customer!
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
I manage files on my iPad (and iPhone) with Files and iCloud Drive. It’s been around for a while! The problem is that many apps are still stuck in 2015. But for apps that support it, using the Files file picker is no different than using th
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
I use a combo of desktop computers with giant screens and an iPad. I like this better than having a laptop. I don’t think the traditional multi-window paradigm works well on a very small screen (though I am aware it was invented for tiny sc

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