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by thinkythought 9y ago
Importantly, the widescreen ones always have post-processing to convert from the SD resolution to the resolution of the tube, they aren't like PC monitors where they switch resolutions. This adds about as much input lag as a modern hdt
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by thinkythought 9y ago
This still holds up too. My mom is using my ipad air, which is now about 5 years old. Current software, runs smoothly, no complaints
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by thinkythought 9y ago
Yep, it's my backup/testing device. It actually runs surprisingly great, i'd say it's still a better experience than an equivalent-aged android phone honestly, even like a nexus 6
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by thinkythought 9y ago
Anyone doing this would be opening themselves up to a world of liability, and probably a lot of customers who would say no. I know my work is dumping older ipads even though all our integrated software for meetings etc works fine just becau
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by thinkythought 9y ago
As someone who tested this extensively, it really needs to be treated like a major OS upgrade on a computer . Back up important info(pictures, etc) without using icloud, do a full format(DFU restore), and reinstall from scratch. I have an
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by thinkythought 9y ago
These still have crappier panels and features(HDR, etc) than the smart models though. You literally cannot buy a top-spec "display", like you used to be able to in the mid/late 2000s with plasma and earlier LCDs
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by thinkythought 9y ago
This isn't entirely true, and only applies to really old versions of iOS like 6, on truly old devices(ipad 1, iphone 4, etc). I just installed some new applications on my ipad 3 running iOS 9 this weekend with no issues. It grabbed t
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by thinkythought 9y ago
electric cars depreciate ridiculously fast right now. I can buy a couple year old leaf with really low miles for $5000 right now in seattle, and i have tons of choices. Even the up-range models from the past years are under 10k. This also a
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by thinkythought 9y ago
Oink.me was the same but so, so much more in every way
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by thinkythought 9y ago
This would require them admitting their estimates are baloney, which will never happen
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by thinkythought 9y ago
This is a huge crap sandwich if you need to use 32 bit version of pro apps(especially pro audio apps, in my case) to use sometimes expensive plugins that aren't compatible with the 64 bit version of the software, or aren't without
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by thinkythought 9y ago
Have you tried a clean install(IE: DFU mode restore, set up as new phone)? That's resolved it on 3 devices for me. Literally zero issues now
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by thinkythought 9y ago
It wasn't even just the heat either, it was how incredibly aggressively it throttled and how obnoxious the fan was
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by thinkythought 9y ago
I really loved mine. The screen was actually fine, the main issue was that it used a Z series atom, with a powerVR gpu cribbed from early smartphones and absolutely abysmal performance. The screen was high quality, the system just couldn&#x
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by thinkythought 9y ago
What made the vaio killer was that it's super wide width allowed for an almost-normal keyboard(think 12in powerbook or old ibm X series, not some super micro thing like very small japanese laptops usually have). I wanted to love the po
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by thinkythought 9y ago
Anecdotal, but in my building and several of my friends the landlords are just letting units sit open for months, as they flat out refuse to lower rents. They're actually remodeling one of them in an attempt to justify the(really, hone
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by thinkythought 9y ago
the issue is the amount of dirt it takes to cause issues is extremely small. i've seen machines that were only used on a desk in a clean work space, and never even removed from that desk develop issues within a few months. meanwhile, i
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by thinkythought 9y ago
Judging by Apples track record for supporting iMacs, i don't see this as an issue. I owned a 2007 imac until 2014 and it was still getting updates . It was running the latest version of OSX until 10.11 This machine launched with, as i
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by thinkythought 9y ago
Honestly any decent public wifi setup even if it isn't going to limit client to client communication, if that's needed for some reason, should be restricting based on protocol/port/etc. It should be a whitelist, not a
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by thinkythought 9y ago
Well, beginning of the end. It would be 3 years from whatever date they release a new version that locks it to a chip like this and drop support for old models without it. So lets say, 4-5 years. Actually, probably longer since they'
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by thinkythought 9y ago
Ran into this one at work. We wanted to have a public imac as a simple terminal for clients to use our website and set things up. Nothing that needed to be super secure, basically just to walk them through the interface of our stuff etc if
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by thinkythought 9y ago
They did, but it wasn't worse than modern TVs. The paradoxical thing is because everything went through the image processor, digital input>processor>analog conversion>screen was faster than analog input>digital conversion&g
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by thinkythought 9y ago
You can get a top of the line(or close to it) high performance CRT for free if you look around a bit, both PC monitors and TVs. Even the pro grade displays with RGB in. I haven't been able to find even a used OLED display of any kind
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by thinkythought 9y ago
And there's still a very, very strong market for these as retro gaming displays. I scored a few when they were dirt cheap used, and now people are charging $400+ for an old 20in with a ton of hours on it, and even more if it's a h
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by thinkythought 9y ago
Worth noting these were pushing very close to if not true 1080i on the final models with 1000~ lines of vertical res, when most LCD or plasmas were doing 1024x768(yep, non square pixels), or even 800x480. Only the REALLY expensive ones were
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by thinkythought 9y ago
Honestly i find the screenshot shortcut way worse. I would happily take control center screenshots only(like recording a video screenshot) to turn this godawful shortcut off.
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by thinkythought 9y ago
I don't see any real contradiction here. The original pebble was very cool for the time, and the price was reasonable. But the design was a bit cheap/silly and it had serious limitations. The apple watch was one of the first act
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by thinkythought 9y ago
I think it's worth noting that even for someone like Gruber who often defends things about apple others attack, he still craps on the notch in landscape mode. I have an X, and i have very few complaints about it. It's an awesome d
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by thinkythought 9y ago
Weird, on both my phone and one i gifted to my mother for the first week or so it greyed out the screen(like, windows UAC style) and had big bold text at the bottom saying "double press to purchase" while showing the side button a
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by thinkythought 9y ago
The true face-palmer here is the new screenshot shortcut on the X, wherein you press volume up + side button to take a screenshot i seriously take probably 5-10 screenshots a day just trying to lock my damn phone. I've taken to crookin

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