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is the ipad air a real big improvement over the base ipad?
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Apr 23, 2021 19:38
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BobHoward posted:i mean there's lots of other differences - faster chip, can record 4K video, better camera, and so forth. op didn't say what they want to use it for so who knows if any of it's significant Yeah fair enough. I have a pretty good phone camera and don't care about facetime or anything like that so I think the base is p good
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Apr 23, 2021 20:29
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mediaphage posted:tapping on the non laminated ipad still feels weird and hollow i got the base ipad a couple weeks ago mainly for writing on and I do see what you mean
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Apr 23, 2021 21:44
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I got the base M1 MacBook Air last week and it's p slick compared to the MBA I got in like 2011. Did you know: computers get better after another decade of development
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Apr 27, 2021 04:01
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are old Mac Classics worth anything these days? My parents had one in the 90s and I can check if it still works
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Apr 27, 2021 05:01
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it kinda blows my mind that Apple is on their fourth architecture for Macs, while DOS/Windows have been running on a glorified 386 for the same amount of time
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Apr 29, 2021 19:39
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Drastic Actions posted:windows nt, at various points, supported Alpha, MIPS, and PowerPC. XP added Itanium. Windows RT started with ARM, as now does mainline Windows. hell, the M1 has helped Windows on ARM because it runs fantastic on it, so more developers are porting tooling to it now because there's actually something worth running it on. neat, I didn't realize Windows had been tried on so many platforms. has Apple said no way to an official bootcamp for Windows on ARM? it does feel like Bootcamp is sort of a "who cares" feature today though
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Apr 29, 2021 22:48
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 it doesn't come with enough storage, so you can bump it up to 256gb ($100 per added 128gb), 512gb (also $100 per +128gb), 512gb ($100/+128gb), or 1gb ($100/+128gb) i don't get why customizing these thing is always such a bad deal (in terms of adding more and more markup) Vivian Darkbloom fucked around with this message at 23:44 on May 1, 2021 |
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May 1, 2021 23:42
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was delighted to see that VS Code has a mac version 
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May 2, 2021 12:42
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big sur comes with python 2.7. are there people still desperately clinging to py2 functionality??
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May 3, 2021 00:55
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echinopsis posted:always say “eye oss” "oh ess ex"
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May 3, 2021 07:42
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The Management posted:wow, siri misunderstands your edge case just like a real human idk if Siri is like this but Google Home never ever asks for clarification. it just takes a wild guess about what you might want. not all that convenient
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May 5, 2021 17:35
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weast posted:are people posting about the epic v apple stuff anywhere or is it too boring it's epic actually i thought the testimony about Flash for iOS was kind of interesting. apple put a lot of work into an iOS version but it turns out Lowtax was right about Flash
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May 5, 2021 22:21
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that seems like it would have been a little excusable before windows had good scaling for high dpi resolutions, but these days I run win 10 at 200% scale and it works just fine
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May 8, 2021 03:46
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is the iphone se decent enough? i have a pixel 3a and it's really good for a cheap phone, but I'll be upgrading eventually
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May 17, 2021 21:30
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Sometimes I am holding my phone while walking and poo poo happens
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May 18, 2021 04:13
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did you see this thing with apple's data centers? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-censorship-data.htmlquote:Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, has said the data is safe. But at the data center in Guiyang, which Apple hoped would be completed by next month, and another in the Inner Mongolia region, Apple has largely ceded control to the Chinese government. so they're enforcing government rules, which is pretty much what any company has to do but it's pretty onerous in the China context. this is a pretty serious problem for a company saying they care about privacy and civil rights and I dunno what apple can really do about it
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May 19, 2021 22:29
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The Management posted:this has nothing to do with labor, it’s about selling in the Chinese market. if you want to sell in any country, you gotta obey the laws. china’s laws are hosed up and bad, and Apple has tried to push back for many years, but realistically their choice was either comply with china’s surveillance state or exit the market. i don't see any special distinction between surveilling a person and accessing private information about him or her. apple would like to draw that line but it seems like a fig leaf. if you can make the app store automatically flag apps about Tibet it seems like it'd be pretty easy to make the phone flag dangerous content too, even if it's not data the user has explicitly agreed to allow tracking. i mean, they want to be in the market and have been willing to compromise quite a bit Vivian Darkbloom fucked around with this message at 06:40 on May 20, 2021 |
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May 20, 2021 06:18
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i've just never had a reason to upgrade
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May 25, 2021 05:04
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njsykora posted:its main use case then was exactly the same as it’s use case now, it’s for when you want your kid to have an iOS device but not have a phone I carried one along with my Razr because smartphones and data plans were really expensive there were some android mp3/video players too right? dreadful
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May 30, 2021 08:16
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Sniep posted:ill transcribe for you I have a parasocial relationship with this guy
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Jun 3, 2021 21:18
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I've been using no-name bluetooth earbuds and they're "whatever", but are the airpods a significant upgrade?
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Jun 24, 2021 20:12
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Ansible Adams posted:if you have Apple devices and have had pairing issues with generics, yes. airpods by far the best pairing ability I've seen on bt I have a Pixel 3a but I'm just curious. There's janky aspects but the pairing is generally fine and i can walk 10 feet away from my phone with no problem
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Jun 24, 2021 20:16
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https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1437498350895501314?s=20 youch
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Sep 13, 2021 22:14
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a year ago i bought an M1 macbook air and an 8th gen ipad. the macbook is the best laptop i've owned - fast processor, reasonable well thought-out OS, excellent battery life. but the ipad is honestly the really cool part. a decade ago these seemed like a cool idea but this thing is really thoughtful in terms of usability and such. the only thing i don't like is that a lot of iOS software is on a subscription basis, which seems like frequently a rip-off, but at least a lot of the software is well-designed and even though i have the base ipad it doesn't really bog down and start to chug. nice work tim apple
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Nov 25, 2021 07:51
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so like, how much better is the ipad air than the ipad plain? the weight difference is itty-bitty but is it otherwise impressive?
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Mar 8, 2022 23:47
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cause honestly every time i use my ipad i'm like "this is amazing, if only i had some stuff to do with it". the laptop replacement thing is almost there but feels like it might never make it all the way
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Mar 8, 2022 23:50
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Jonny 290 posted:i finally learned how to do split screen and got it all set up with streamlabs remote and my twitch chat window and then stopped streaming. it was really good for that though. when I saw the update for the split screen elements I thought it was a silly way to crowbar in desktop functionality but I have to admit it works pretty well. probably a pain in the rear end for developers to design all these different sized views but that's their problem
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