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posting from a blue imac immediately after migration it told me I wasn't allowed to use safari. installing the latest system update fixed it, not sure what I would have done if there wasn't one available
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May 26, 2021 07:20
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that’s a PowerPC iMac with a spinning hard disk
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May 26, 2021 07:31
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The Management posted:that’s a PowerPC iMac with a spinning hard disk ???? my old imac "retina 5k" core iwhatever had a fusion disk with spinny platters in it too. the fusion thing sucked. glad that died quickly.
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May 26, 2021 07:50
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The Management posted:that’s a PowerPC iMac with a spinning hard disk and an internal power supply, and user-replaceable/upgradeable storage and ram... truly incredible what technologies the future holds 
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May 26, 2021 10:09
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May 26, 2021 15:26
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you might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like speaking of, how much in the past did the median user upgrade their computers? I have a feeling it's close to none
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May 26, 2021 15:43
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Boiled Water posted:you might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like iirc even before laptops took over the market only like 10% of people upgraded their computers after purchase
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May 26, 2021 15:45
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apple was always angling towards computing appliances, and they've very nearly achieved that. mac os is still too general purpose, but they've made great strides on that front too
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May 26, 2021 15:52
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i love all my steve jobs sex appliances
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Boiled Water posted:you might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like most users buy MacBooks and iMacs. in the past you could upgrade the ram in both and with various degrees of pain the hard drive too. ram was a pretty common upgrade because the Apple markup on it was what you’d expect, and because it was fairly easy. but ram access slots went away a long time ago on laptops and somewhat more recently on iMacs. so in the recent past the answer is that median users do not upgrade their machine. however, on the other side we have the fact that computers used to become antiquated in 2 years and now they can last 7 or more years if specced well at purchase.
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apple switched to unibody laptops with unremovable batteries because they did some research and it turned out that only a tiny percentage of users ever removed their batteries even once and that the road warrior who swaps out charged batteries during long flights was a largely mythical creature, and they could make the computer sturdier and lighter by making the battery unremovable
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May 26, 2021 16:34
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FMguru posted:apple switched to unibody laptops with unremovable batteries because they did some research and it turned out that only a tiny percentage of users ever removed their batteries even once and that the road warrior who swaps out charged batteries during long flights was a largely mythical creature, and they could make the computer sturdier and lighter by making the battery unremovable and on any longer flight you now have outlets at every seat
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i might replace the nvme ssd in my x1 carbon with a bigger capacity one, and it would be nice if ram were expandable in general, but theres no current equivalent to upgrading from a platter hard drive to a ssd doing that swap in my wife's 2011 mbp was mindblowing in terms of performance increase
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Lysidas posted:i might replace the nvme ssd in my x1 carbon with a bigger capacity one, and it would be nice if ram were expandable in general, but theres no current equivalent to upgrading from a platter hard drive to a ssd give your wife a macbook air m1 its amazing
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May 26, 2021 17:40
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your wife will love the octo-core m1 chipset
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May 26, 2021 17:54
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unexpected drawback of extremely light m1 imac: cat can now push it around with her face
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May 26, 2021 18:04
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The_Franz posted:and on any longer flight you now have outlets at every seat that's still far from universal
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May 26, 2021 18:35
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and even if you have an outlet, it's a coin flip whether it actually works
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May 26, 2021 18:39
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lol if you ever work on a plane
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May 26, 2021 18:43
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Boiled Water posted:give your wife a macbook air m1 its amazing already did that a few months ago, indeed it is
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May 26, 2021 18:44
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haveblue posted:unexpected drawback of extremely light m1 imac: cat can now push it around with her face stick it down with some blu-tac
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May 26, 2021 19:08
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Silver Alicorn posted:stick it down with some blu-tac
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May 26, 2021 19:11
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there's a hardware exploit for the m1 chip that allows malicious users to play an unacceptable amount of anime on your computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLQKrEh6w7M
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May 26, 2021 20:37
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feature, not a bug
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May 26, 2021 20:38
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starting a fund to buy smoka a m1 mac to dodge anime probations
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May 26, 2021 20:42
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njsykora posted:and even if you have an outlet, it's a coin flip whether it actually works it seems like they've quit putting actual outlets in the seats and are just doing usb now. not sure how i feel about that
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May 26, 2021 21:32
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Sagebrush posted:it seems like they've quit putting actual outlets in the seats and are just doing usb now. i think both are for the msot part vestiges of days of much worse batteries anyway.
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May 26, 2021 21:34
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Sagebrush posted:it seems like they've quit putting actual outlets in the seats and are just doing usb now. for opsec reasons always bring a 1Ah battery bank to act as a buffer between random usb outlet and the device, bonus if you use one that's a powerbank and wireless charger in one
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May 26, 2021 22:16
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or just have a charge-only cable
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Chris Knight posted:or just have a charge-only cable likely the thing they're being careful is the power delivered on airplanes is often incredibly badly conditioned (spiky and noisy). i kind of doubt it'll ruin your device, but e.g. the interference often make touchscreens unusable.
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May 26, 2021 22:21
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Chris Knight posted:or just have a charge-only cable every flight I’ve had on delta the usb outlet wouldn’t power up unless you specifically plugged in a data cable (I’ve tried both power only cables and “usb condom” dongles)
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Godspeed You! Black Conservative posted:every flight I’ve had on delta the usb outlet wouldn’t power up unless you specifically plugged in a data cable (I’ve tried both power only cables and “usb condom” dongles) “power only” usb-a is out of spec. airplanes actually have regulations to follow so you’re getting 500mW or 2.5W from usb-a. you wouldn’t want to start a fire or something by providing 5V/more amps than are allowed like a lot of chargers do. usb-c finally fixes things but makes the naming ridiculous
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akadajet posted:there's a hardware exploit for the m1 chip that allows malicious users to play an unacceptable amount of anime on your computer that hardware exploit is mostly nonsense. basically they found a single bit in a register that any process can read or write. so if two processes decided to cooperate they could use that to communicate very slowly for some reason.
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May 27, 2021 03:10
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May 27, 2021 05:01
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what are you doing worrying about power outlets on planes and in airports when usb batteries exist.
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The Management posted:that hardware exploit is mostly nonsense. basically they found a single bit in a register that any process can read or write. so if two processes decided to cooperate they could use that to communicate very slowly for some reason. a shave xor a haircut
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:what are you doing worrying about power outlets on planes and in airports when usb batteries exist. please don’t bring extra big rear end lithium ion batteries onto planes
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:please don’t bring extra big rear end lithium ion batteries onto planes the limit was always 99wh which I assume is plenty to bring down a plane
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The Management posted:that hardware exploit is mostly nonsense. basically they found a single bit in a register that any process can read or write. so if two processes decided to cooperate they could use that to communicate very slowly for some reason. they will have to deal with it in some fashion on ios at least, or facebook will use it as device identification. realistically all they need to do is ban it formally and imply that they'll check it in some way though. on macos it is a security issue only in principle, as it breaks sandboxes, but i doubt there is any real scenario where they are used in a way where this will matter.
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