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by thinkythought 8y ago
They never had a competitive product. Look at any of the head to head reviews of the QC vs intel radios. Anecdotally, my intel modem equipped iphone has worse signal performance than any phone i've owned in the past 10 years, pretty mu
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by thinkythought 8y ago
In the same boat, with the same machine. I would literally buy a new one of the 2012-15 model with updated specs right now if it was available. USB-C everything isn't even a dealbreaker for me, honestly, and i wouldn't even have y
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by thinkythought 8y ago
It's given me completely day ruining, terrible directions within the past month. Like "go to the street outside this complex" rather than "go to building 5" and them i'm stuck on the phone trying to find someon
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by thinkythought 8y ago
Definitely in the glass, and several are very deep. Because of where i live and when the phone launched, it literally hasn't even been around sand yet because the weathers been awful
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by thinkythought 8y ago
I'm with popsiclepete. I had a long string of "smart" devices before the iphone and they were, unilaterally, garbage. Even the ones with great hardware(looking at the treo 600 series here especially) had awful software and ba
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by thinkythought 8y ago
This has been screwed up since they moved away from the original, much MUCH nicer wacom digitizers(which were also more sensitive with the pen). I still haven't heard a legit explanation besides this other than "they're expen
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by thinkythought 8y ago
There's some interesting budget options like the Chuwi lapbook(both the 12 and 13in versions) that are starting to. I just wish there were more midrange/higher spec options between that and the surface book
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by thinkythought 8y ago
I've had more issues with high sierra than any release since lion, but still less than i've had with windows 10(and i even own a surface pro!). I really hate having to choose between two bad options, but it's more a borderlin
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by thinkythought 8y ago
I had similar issues with a home-rolled desktop(nothing ridiculous! intel CPU, amd GPU, adaptec raid card, stack of ram. No old or weird hardware) and eventually just gave up and sold the entire lot. The last straw for me, after many update
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by thinkythought 8y ago
I have multiple offline friends who don't post on tech messageboards, but have had this issue. A few of them have just been putting up with it to avoid the cost. This is much more widespread than even sites like hn and reddit make it s
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by thinkythought 8y ago
I have no evidence to prove it, but i think you're probably right. I went through like three motherboards during nvidia GPUgate, and i know people who went through more than one screen during the early rMBP bad screen coating thing
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by thinkythought 8y ago
the keyboard, palmrest/keyboard surround, and batteries are all one unit. they replace the whole thing if you need a new battery too. It's been like this since 2012~
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by thinkythought 8y ago
For what it's worth, i bought a bottom panel on ebay for about $28 and swapped it myself. Small components like this are never a good deal from the OEM, regardless of brand. Same deal with cars, pick it up from the junkyard.
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by thinkythought 8y ago
Anecdotal of course, but i've owned almost every iphone that's launched(skipped the 7 and the 3gs) and i haven't ever scratched my screen, no protectors. Exact same treatment: always a case with a lip, since the 4 My X has a
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by thinkythought 9y ago
They break really, really quickly. Almost half of the ones i've ridden have had something broken. And not seemingly from abuse or collisions or anything, just stuff falling apart. Bad brakes, broken shifters, snapped off seat adjusters
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by thinkythought 9y ago
It's just as bad on any set top box platform. It's seriously just unusably awful.
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by thinkythought 9y ago
It's consistently the worst app on any set top box platform(android, firetv, apple tv, roku, anything) which is REALLY saying something as there's some super awful ones out there like HBO Go. It refuses to play nice with, for exam
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by thinkythought 9y ago
This is spreading too. I've seen similar expectations in Seattle, and i've heard this story from multiple friends in NYC
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by thinkythought 9y ago
2011, amazingly. If it wasn't for lack of updates many corporate users would be too(i had to drag my work away kicking and screaming "but the apps still work!" and i've heard many similar stories)
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by thinkythought 9y ago
I would have used this phone forever if the battery life wasn't mediocre to bad. And yes, i put in a fresh battery that came well recommended. It took it from pathetic to just barely ok. It's a shame too, because just about everyt
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by thinkythought 9y ago
The main issue is that a lot of USB-C stuff, even now several years in, is still flaky junk that doesn't work as advertised or lists the wrong features
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by thinkythought 9y ago
Example links to a couple of the good ones?
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by thinkythought 9y ago
the GPS on these is insanely inaccurate on all the systems we have locally. It barely waits to get a lock to save power, and is often off by half a block or more. It's never fine grained enough to tell which area of the sidewalk it was
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by thinkythought 9y ago
How is a granny flat with it's own entrance, kitchen, etc not a "whole home"? those are often rented as apartments anyways
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by thinkythought 9y ago
Browsed around to find an easy answer and left a bit confused, is this compatible with the original chromebook pixel?(both the ME flash and the OS mod) I remember those having all kinds of driver issues and weird custom hardware that hamstr
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by thinkythought 9y ago
to be fair, BGA solder joint issues are ridiculously common on that model. to the point that, as someone who's services phones for years, i warn people away from them even if they're dirt cheap
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by thinkythought 9y ago
As someone also still rocking the original MBPr, the peak for it software wise is actually El Capitan I really, really wish i had never updated from that. It was faster, smoother, and more stable there than it was before and after. Definite
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by thinkythought 9y ago
BMW, honestly To elaborate, they understand actually having physical buttons you can macro to functions, and doing things like starting your first new playlist with a pre-mapped button. It's better in that tactile sense than carplay or
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by thinkythought 9y ago
See also: The xbox 360 fiasco
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by thinkythought 9y ago
yep, i distinctly remember wanting just my first name and it not allowing it. i have one of the first 500~ accounts, and it wasn't taken

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