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Lysidas posted:volume buttons on phone are overridden to control the apple tv while the tv remote app has focus i tried this several times as my first thought and it didn’t work, weird. ill try again since i don’t think ive tried that with tvos 12
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hobbesmaster posted:i guess its possible if its an engine feature that can be turned on or off... that would mean they did the rigging for it on the models for no reason however it means they had it all rigged up, probably for the “enjoyment” of the devs for internal builds, and forgot to turn it off for the external build.
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:my macbook pro is so thin and light* at this point the university is buying $300 worth of dongles for every faculty member who gets a new macbook pro some of those are the faculty member's fault, not apple's (e.g. the cretins whose brains break when they have to put their ID number and password into the wifi and say that ethernet "just works") but the port splitters, USB-A adapters, and handful of different video dongles are all valid complaints oh and in my experience it's a clutch purse, not a fanny pack
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Sagebrush posted:at this point the university is buying $300 worth of dongles for every faculty member who gets a new macbook pro why again are they not buying a single thunderbolt dock the size of 2-3 cigarette packs that has all holes you could possibly want?
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Oct 9, 2018 19:38
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hmm where do I buy that dock for a friend
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poty posted:the apple tv remote is pretty bad even for normal scrolling around and clicking buttons stuff. another victim of jonys "gotta make everything as tiny as possible" bullshit tray integration with iOS 12 was a godsend
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:hmm where do I buy that dock OWC
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:hmm where do I buy that dock https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Thinkpad-Thunderbolt-Dock-40AC0135US/dp/B071NWZDJB perfect academia dock imo. you have vga, you have ethernet, you have lenovo support contract, nice balance of price vs how difficult it is to loose one. downsides - no sd card reader, no microphone hole, the charging spec of on-dock tb3 hole does not fully saturate an mbp if you control your own setup and want it fancy, there are plenty of similar options that look more like apple and are closer to charging spec, ditching vga and one or more other video ports since the calculation there is use displayport chaining for dual external monitors. you can also have ok models with sdcard or microphone port if any of those are crucial to you. manufacturers such as startech, owc, and belkin, to name a few
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cinci zoo sniper posted:https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Thinkpad-Thunderbolt-Dock-40AC0135US/dp/B071NWZDJB that is the same cost as the dongle pile though
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hobbesmaster posted:that is the same cost as the dongle pile though i did never promise considerably lower cost, that's not really possible if you dont want some china-tech dock that also doubles as cigarette lighter. it's just much more convenient than have like 10 separate dongles you carry and plug around, imo
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Oct 9, 2018 20:03
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just wear the mega-dock as a necklace nbd
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I have a startech thunderbolt 3 dock for work and one of those usb-c all-in-onegles with an HDMI out for meetings whatever because its tiny. The work dongle is a no brainer since I get power/data/everything in a single port and the mobile one barely gets used because everything is wireless these days
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Oct 9, 2018 20:16
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I have a dell wd15 usb c dock at work and it seems to work ok but theres a newer version that does higher res monitors and doesn't waste a port on vga.
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Oct 9, 2018 20:17
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I haven't seen a usb-c dock that can do 4k @ 60z, only 30.
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ditto on startech at work. my computer was partially pre-bought for me so i only have the one with dual displayports. every new coworker i am buying the exact same laptop setup now, and they all get an all-in-one hp tb3 dock for dual monitor setup, or just a usb extender for single 21:9 monitor setup since elitebooks come with decent connectivity alread
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the dell d6000 can do 4k@60 x 2 via dp and 4k@30 via hdmi at the same time via usbc but it doesn't look like it provides enough power so lol
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also we had to buy a wired dock for conference room because i am not given reign over our office network, so we are stuck with woefully bad wifi that makes the wireless display in the confroom mildly unusable at best
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we have a few Microsoft wireless display adapters and they work really well. I can even use them with my winphone
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Shaggar posted:we have a few Microsoft wireless display adapters and they work really well. it was a pain enough already to get this one going so now every will have to just use the wired dock, it’s a usb3 thing that has the conference speakerphone and webcam connected so it’s literally one cable to plug
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Shaggar posted:I can even use them with my winphone somewhere in an office in redmond every time you do that 
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yeah i wish my laptop was two inches thick so i could have a loving dvi port
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Endless Mike posted:yeah i wish my laptop was two inches thick so i could have a loving
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Endless Mike posted:yeah i wish my laptop was two inches thick so i could have a loving dvi port
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Endless Mike posted:yeah i wish my laptop was two inches thick so i could have a loving dvi port if you aren't capable of making the intellectual leap that current port arrangements would be different (which was implied from a photo of a 15 year old computer) this is going to be a tedious conversation
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how thick are these docks by the way
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do people actually take docking stations with them? or do they have to spend $300 on that and another $300 on "portable" dongles?
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:do people actually take docking stations with them? or do they have to spend $300 on that and another $300 on "portable" dongles?
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anthonypants posted:if work is paying for it why wouldn't you make them shell out for a second dock that's not quite what i meant, are any docks portable enough that it would be desirable to take them with you versus a gallon ziplock bag full of dongles?
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in any event it's pretty rich to complain about a marginally thicker laptop when the alternative is to pick one of those choices in order to accomplish anything with your computer
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i wish i could get the 17-inch macbook pro back, unapologetically large and powerful, with plenty of room for ports. i realize 17-inch laptops are out of vogue, though
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:that's not quite what i meant, are any docks portable enough that it would be desirable to take them with you versus a gallon ziplock bag full of dongles?
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i have a 2018 13 inch and don't have dongle problems, i just have ethernet and egpu thunderbolt, and usb 3 hub. However I'm a lameass casual so it fits my use case. It's absolutely not an actual Pro computer and the air should die and this should just be called the macbook, and the macbook macbook should be the new air. I want a USB 3 and Ethernet dongle so I can free up a port, I use all four right now lmbo.
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anthonypants posted:you mean like one of these https://satechi.net/products/type-c-multi-port-adapter-with-ethernet-v2 so there's no way to charge your macbook (the kind with only one port)? if it's reliable (big if, given that even plain usb2 hubs still suck and i've heard about all kinds of unreliable usb-c docks and dongles) it seems ok for that macbook pro with a whole two ports
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Toady posted:i wish i could get the 17-inch macbook pro back, unapologetically large and powerful, with plenty of room for ports. i realize 17-inch laptops are out of vogue, though i love my "desktop replacements" in TYOOL late 2018
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gimme a three-inch thick mbp call it the mbt, or macbook thicc
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i have no overall problem with "sub-notebooks" like the one port macbook, the issue is that now that's the only thing available from apple
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Toady posted:i wish i could get the 17-inch macbook pro back, unapologetically large and powerful, with plenty of room for ports. i realize 17-inch laptops are out of vogue, though just glue a battery pack to an imac
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:so there's no way to charge your macbook (the kind with only one port)?
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