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by jxdxbx 6y ago
I think this statement is, in general, completely true. But it doesn't actually seem to apply to Apple, which continues to design many aspects of the iPhone. In part this is because Apple essentially funds and builds many of the facto
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by jxdxbx 6y ago
Seconded.
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by jxdxbx 6y ago
Steven Strogatz's "The Joy of x."
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
Oh there is one 32 bit app that I lost. It wasn't important.
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
I've had no real bugs over the 3 Macs I regularly use. Some security-related inconveniences, but I think those are overall worth it.
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
Well, among other things, English had a word for "brown" long before it had a word for "orange," which as the video described was previously seen just as a shade of red or yellow. Brown is just a more prominent color in
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
The Shortcuts app used to be called Workflow...and it allows exactly that.
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
I've read so many of these articles lately. People seem to approach the iPad expecting it to work like a laptop, and when it doesn't, they're off to compose a thinkpiece. Many of these articles also state as a fact things tha
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
Slide Over is one of the best features out there. And it’s as simple as can be. You get what amounts to a mini iPhone available on command. And split screen is not only very useful, I think it’s a fundamentally better multitasking model t
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
A completely e2e encrypted backup system would have to include photos (current iPhone backups do not). But true encryption means that when customers forget their passwords, they lose their data. Already, people who don't use iCloud Pho
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
I get the menu item to change name with option, not shift. Incidentally I've been using a Mac for decades, but I never remember to check what modifiers do. I'd always just copy and then go back and delete. I think the right way t
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
I sure hope not. Why do I want web pages to be able to run persistent background tasks? Such an obviously bad idea. The tragedy is that Apple actually is implementing support for this garbage.
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
Web apps suck and all the doodads and gewgaws that browsers now have to implement have made the web a surveillance nightmare that is a worse experience for publishing and reading. There is a place in the world for lowest-common-denominator
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
It is easier if you use two fingers--one to "pick up" the icon or icon you want to move (you can grab a whole stack of them) and the other to navigate to where you want to be.
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
k2pdfopt, which is free, works for almost every PDF.
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
Yeah, but it can't usefully convert PDFs. To make a PDF usable on an e-reader you've got to trim the margins, and chop it into pages that exactly fit the e-reader screen (in landscape, due to line length issues)--and even then so
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
My need to read PDF ebooks led me to just start using an iPad Mini as a reader. The app PDF Expert does a great job of trimming margins making almost every PDF perfectly readable on that size of device. (To really read every PDF without com
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
What in Catalina is worth upgrading to? I don’t see much.
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
It is very much worth looking at Photoshop alternatives every so often. Pixelmator Pro is very good.
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
One point that is so basic that physicists often forget to explain it: leptons and quarks don't really have a "size," they are considered point particles. A proton is a configuration of three point particles though whether it
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
Google's actual policies state that it accepts virtual cards. https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2375433?hl=en
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
CarPlay is completely excellent and I bet Android Auto is also good.
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
I primarily use Apple Maps and its directions and the accuracy of roads have always been great for me. But sometimes I can't find a POI and searching for POIs can be significantly worse than Google Maps.
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
iCloud sharing works the same way, however the public links expire. (When you share photos with someone via iMessage and it creates an iCloud link rather than iMessaging the photos, it's just a public, unguessable URL).
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
You can use this app, too https://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/ to pre-process them in various ways so they are actually readable on a Kindle. (Crop whitespace, flip to landscape etc)
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
I had no idea that an EPUB file was embedded in the weird Amazon formats. I mostly agree that you want to avoid "transcoding" an EPUB. But the formatting on some official EPUBs is so bad that I like to use readers that can overri
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
The easiest ebook format to strip DRM from is the Adobe DRM that various stores use. I only buy ebooks from the Google Play book store now, since DRM removal is so straightforward. (Same deDRM calibre plugin, but you just get a single enc
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
Not just the Mac Pro, but the iMac Pro, Mac mini, and iPad Pros are all outstanding computers. (No, Apple will never make an affordable, upgradable mid-tower, but the new Mac mini plus an external GPU is close.) I'd say keep the Touch
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
They didn't know about those at the time of release; they were mistakes. The recent MacBook Pro got an extended repair program as it was released. Which could be either a way to assure customers, or a recognition of the fact that the
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by jxdxbx 7y ago
Recent pro hardware (Mac Pro, iMac Pro, iPad Pro, and yes, the Mac mini is "pro" now) has been excellent. The laptops haven't been refreshed since Apple started firing on all cylinders in this regard. Going all-in on USB C w

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