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that's really weird, surely apples oled is sourced from samsung, where googles problematic panels were lg. there has been a lot of oled phones over the past few years, and burn-in has not been that much of an issue, then suddenly in 2017 both lg and samsung ships premium panels that burn in within weeks? both aggressively upping max brightness for hdr?
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Endless Mike posted:it doesn't even make sense for burn-in. oled burn-in occurs due to uneven wear on the pixels in different areas. the black areas around the clock icon wouldn't wear since they wouldn't be turned on at all. similarly, the hand on the clock wouldn't burn unless it never moved from that one time, which isn't the case since it's the one icon they let dynamically change for whatever reason. oh yeah, this is entirely true, burn-in should appear inverted compared to that. makes far more sense, samsung has been doing good oled screens for a good while, it would be very strange is they hosed up that badly suddenly at this point
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C.H.O.M.E posted:samsung has been making phones and batteries for a decade it'd be strange if they made a bad one that caught fire with normal use especially in their flagship model! one p. funny thing about that particular debacle is that apple used samsung batteries in most of their stuff until the patent spat started (same timeframe to when apple moved soc manufacturing to tsmc), rather dodged a bullet by luck there still though, i don't think there is a better option on oled, and in fact apple would likely have gone to just about anyone else over samsung if there were
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why does he say "session password" though? is he really referring to the real lock screen and not to some third party thing?
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oh well, a score for microsoft having a completely different desktop/session for the login interface, so there is no such thing as a window that can be behind it also let's at least partly blame slack since they are no doubt doing lovely stupid things because that is their app development mo
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come on man, i just want to trashtalk slack a bit, the electron thread is so dead
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this is all such a weird hypothetical as you really shouldn't buy an imac pro to start with, and even if you do please do not stick your body parts into any of the openings in the chassi, and if you do please do not post about it
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it is very hard to tell whether one is getting old or whether software actually uses ridiculously much memory these days need some infographics which explains what fraction is used by what really, graphical assets are sort of easy to imagine having ballooned, but it is hard to imagine that that is the whole explanation
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disturbingly it is a perfectly legit hypothesis that largely all software now leaks a fair bit of memory
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possibly apple has accidentally stumbled into proof shattering the illusion of the physical world being the simple spatially distributed thing we perceive it as, and in fact every apparent object is one of uncountably many facets of some actual higher concept, with specifically a handful of chinese people by cosmic chance actually being a repeated facet of the same platonic person seems a lot more likely than apple being a bunch of clowns who made poor choices in biometric identification tech at any rate
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haha, apple is cheating on benchmarks? weird if so, but why would the age of the battery, as a proxy for determining if you are in the window where reviews are being written, differ?
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the class action lawsuit is entirely correct if apple has not informed about the throttling (slightly more specifically than blanket statements). just some fine print, and instructing the support staff to be able to diagnose the throttling and suggest battery replacement if people come in complaining about a slow phone the solution is fine really (best of the alternatives), but they can't keep it secret and just sell people new phones off of the issue, even if the effect is rare/minor
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people complaining about lisp syntax being illegible is the surest sign that you can ignore their opinions on these things. often they imagine unindented one-liner lisp, which makes any language hard to read (but lisp, granted, extra so without editor support, since the bracketing is so uniform) plenty of other things sort of wrong with lisp, but there really is no problem reading it with like 15 minutes practice
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cis autodrag posted:The battery is only 79 bucks? So this whole thing was people who could afford a 1000 dollar phone whining that they didn't want to pay 80 dollars for a battery and therefore Apple should defy physics to extend their battery life without decreasing performance? Apple users are fuckin babies apparently. nah, the whole thing was that apple seems to have failed to inform people that this battery management solution existed, and thus that battery replacement was an actually effective way to maintain device performance. should have been fine print somewhere, and support should have suggested battery replacement for performance complaints, just enough that to make it somewhat discoverable for all i know the fine print existed, but i alluded to it before and haven't heard any suggestion there was anything discoverable for even insistent users, which would make it pretty stupid and negligent
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poty posted:i was talking more about the pre and webos tbh. but yeah palm pilots were ok for the time palmos was further still ahead of the curve than webos they just needed to do one of those chimaeric windows 95-style os upgrade efforts (the kind which engineers hate but which works better for app devs and users than the usual "linux with the old os in a strict vm" solution), and keep going on the smartphones, and their advantage would have paid off the first time, not needing to strike on a second good idea in webos
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macos should also have been revised in a much better way, the osx switch was a hugely finicky task because it was so late that they had little choice but to take a very radical approach apple tried at a resonable time (1988 iirc), but i don't really believe that the failure is a sign that it is not doable, just that they vacillated between too minor updates (what was actually released) and infighting over too unfocused and ambitious projects (pink)
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eschaton posted:it wasn’t actually a disaster, it was actually really good this plus not understanding that revising the stuff into something workable was entirely doable, especially having seen win3 into win95, and then win95 into consumer nt, done. i really think that palm was sunk by listening to engineers going on about clean slates, where a small amount of distaste (preserving limitations apps expected) but very minor effort could have revised the thing into legit dominance
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SO DEMANDING posted:lol no, palmos was old as fuckin dirt and had to go. no one, not users or developers, gave a poo poo about palmos apps. the iPhone was out, Android was picking up steam, and even windows mobile had better market share than palm. palmos was in no shape to compete with any of that. beyond just technical issues the company was also in a really hosed up state, Rubinstein and friends practically had to develop webos in secret within palm. this is a deep misunderstanding of timeline; when the iPhone was out sure; but palmos had ten years to work on revisions before that
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upgrading computers is a  thing, let it gosome pro tasks requiring differing kinds of hardware which are not covered by the configurations apple provides is however not an imaginary concept. quite clearly not apples target market anymore though, so pretty late to cry over that
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if it is just the one-off just use overleaf and save yourself installing twelve billion packages (also use overleaf if it is not a one-off, but in that case probably install latex and use the git integration to escape the browser when convenient)
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Soricidus posted:latex documents stopped being hard to build when latexmk mostly solved the “how many times do I have to run what tools in what order” problem, and modern engines made it support unicode and opentype instead of the weird old proprietary encodings and fonts really pretty latex documents remain pretty tricky because you end up leveraging more and more complex aspects of the thing (and every latex abstraction is incredibly flawed). tikz is notably a gateway drug
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but that’s a fundamental problem that won’t be fixed by getting a web service to run latexmk for you
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i wish other distributions could copy miktex ability to download packages from ctan on the fly during compilation, i don't think anyone does though in principle a dubious security move i guess, but not like i don't just download the packages from ctan either way, and it makes for a nice light install where i still get the random sprinkling of obscure packages i need dragged in transparently debians packaging of texlive is the worst, you don't get everything at the start, but it is chunked up stupidly, so you start with texlive-common or some such, which while it contains the most common packages will still have your documents fail to build, and then you have to drag in like texlive-fonts-extra, which is then some gigabyte-sized lump of 99% useless packages that scatter out 20k+ files. very all-or-nothing while still making you janitor fedora iirc just has a huge number of packages for all the individual ctan packages, which i find to be sort of ok by comparison
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haha, a bit of a reach now, those are some nice keyboards with a trackpoint even, bliss~
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Celexi posted:lol ios almost 50% performance loss with spectre patch http://web.archive.org/web/20180110193140/https://melv1n.com/iphone-performance-benchmarks-after-spectre-update/ i don't believe in these benchmarks at all, it makes no sense that so many disparate benches would be affected so similarly when the issue involves rather specific scenarios possibly apple hosed something up in addition to the fixes
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there is no i in team, this is a learning opportunity!
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pen computing is awesome and i am legit happy that apple came back around, the pro line are the first really compelling ipads to me not everyone needs/likes it, but it is a pretty broad niche if you can make it integrate well
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NEED MORE MILK posted:those suck and also the pencil gives you pressure sensitivity and assists with hand/palm rejection wacom is the gold standard, especially when it comes to things like pressure and tilt sensing, and have a passive (well, operating off the magnetic field the sensor emits) pen afaik
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Wacom is also rapidly losing market share never met a serious art/design person with anything else yet, but, either way, going "timb had to put a battery in there to enable the ~pressure sensitivity~" is bullshit i again maintain the ipads pro are great though, but let's not defend random aspects in random ways
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JawnV6 posted:ah yes, this one feature was done in the 90's with a dedicated unit 8x the size of the products we're talking about, therefore it could be done with marginal space now. rock solid theory here what on earth are you on about? wacom digitizers are commonly used in various tablets, of size and weight similar to the pros (it is literally another coil and controller chip, nothing actually fancy) none are, still, as good as an ipad pro, but not because of digitizer quality. i would assume wacom has a bunch of patents on the stuff making almost all competitors go other routes, but it is not independently powered pens that somehow enables quality pressure sensitivity
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...uh? wacom does pressure sensitivity and does not have independently powered pens, what are you looking for beyond this?
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carry on then posted:proof the pencil would be better the way you describe, specifically, proof the current design of the pencil does not in any way enable it to be better than its competitors obviously something prevented this being possible, every thought anyone in yospos ever has about a change in such a major product will have been thought about previously by someone better paid and informed working on the product, i do dare point out, however, that a battery is not needed for excellent pressure sensitivity, as evidenced by wacom being very good at that aspect. i'd bet on patent issues mostly personally considering that i love the end product either way this all seems pretty defensive
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i figure they can just improve the charging situation. wacoms solution is really neat, but with batteries cheap and dense it is probably not really needed anymore. inductive charging for the pen, and a stand where it happens, and no one would think about it again may be worth it to buy wacom anyway to just replicate all the features of their stuff, but that'd be a committal to an actual pro market, which is likely not apples aim anymore
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qirex posted:protip: don’t buy speakers from bose, amazon, google or apple, buy actual speakers instead - they sound better, last longer and won’t send your voice recordings to the gubbmint a lot of people may not like bose, but to put a company that has made speakers, which many love, for 60+ years does not deserve to be in the company you have put them
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i looked up the first bose speaker to make the above post in their defense (ensuring that i recalled correctly that they had been making speakers for 50 years), and was a bit surprised that while the 901 was their first *famous* speaker (and introduced exactly 50 years ago, it was preceded by the weird 2201: was designed to work well in the usually rather bad acoustic situation of being crammed into a corner of a room. what i learned from this is that bose really has the right dna to (continue to) prosper in the market of making weird speakers
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zen death robot posted:maps works for me appears to 100% depend on where you are, google maps is good in most places, apple maps vary quite heavily in quality which is weird as google is otherwise to a great extent pretty bad at localizing their services, but the maps and search teams are pretty on top of this stuff
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just give me bluetooth (plus an actual audio jack), and a logical place to mount a current phone, the integration between a thing which lasts 20+ years with a thing that lasts 3 need better be shallow
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