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Boiled Water posted:Half of my apps didn't work. I work in an academic setting. Shaggar posted:The problem with this is lots of stuff claims to handle it but then doesn't (like all QT based applications)
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Boiled Water posted:Half of my apps didn't work. I work in an academic setting. yeah i woudln't expect terminal apps from 1998 to work with dpi scaling
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Endless Mike posted:yeah i woudln't expect terminal apps from 1998 to work with dpi scaling I've since stopped using it. and stopped using windows
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Boiled Water posted:it's mendeley which is update on the reg but still scales like it's poo poo. mendeley posted:The Mendeley Open Source library contains code derived from Qt or kdelibs, and some Mendeley-authored utility classes. huh, whoda thunk it?
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most software i use handles hidpi fine, but jesus windows font rendering looks bad. everything is razor thin. maybe i'm just getting old.
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There are many reasons windows is a POS but the main reason is the software ecosystem and the cruft supported for legacy apps.
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infernal machines posted:huh, whoda thunk it? i'm gonna go ahead and assume since mendeley is garbage that qt is as well. Fabricated posted:There are many reasons windows is a POS but the main reason is the software ecosystem and the cruft supported for legacy apps. microsoft should drop legacy things and just go "you know what run a vm if you desperately need 16-bit whatever"
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Boiled Water posted:microsoft should drop legacy things and just go "you know what run a vm if you desperately need 16-bit whatever" p sure they want people to buy axure licenses for this for the low low cost of [insert linear algebra phd thesis here]
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qirex posted:p sure they want people to buy axure licenses for this for the low low cost of [insert linear algebra phd thesis here] those certainly are some prices. 900 dollaroos per month to get flow charts
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Stymie posted:not terrified of the surfaces themselves necessarily, just the ads we have multiple surfaces and an ipad pro w/ pencil and they both get sent into the field to do punches and construction doc annotations ill let you guess which one works better, has better battery life, and people prefer to use
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BiohazrD posted:we have multiple surfaces and an ipad pro w/ pencil and they both get sent into the field to do punches and construction doc annotations a pad of paper and a mechanical pencil because they're both poo poo that's the point, it doesn't matter if the ipad maxi is "better", they're both lovely products in a stupid market segment that tim was a fool for entering
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Stymie posted:a pad of paper and a mechanical pencil because they're both poo poo yeah let me just carry hundreds of 32x24 inch plotter print outs for each section/floor of an entire building lmao
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Feb 21, 2017 22:49
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BiohazrD posted:yeah let me just carry hundreds of 32x24 inch plotter print outs for each section/floor of an entire building lmao or an actual laptop rather than something that fails as both a laptop and a tablet stop trying to justify lovely products and lovely practices
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the ipads pro have better displays than pretty much any laptop
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qirex posted:the ipads pro have better displays than pretty much any laptop 
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Endless Mike posted:yeah i woudln't expect terminal apps from 1998 to work with dpi scaling i've never encountered a terminal app that had problems with dpi scaling and i'm really not sure how they even would
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Boiled Water posted:i'm gonna go ahead and assume since mendeley is garbage that qt is as well. I thought they did for 16-bit
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mendeley is the only good bib manager if you don't want to write everything in latex though
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Stymie posted:or an actual laptop rather than something that fails as both a laptop and a tablet yes this looks convenient 
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you know what would be even more convenient? if it didn't have the keyboard and instead had a pen hmmmmm, i wonder if such a device exists
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raminasi posted:I thought they did for 16-bit in the sense that you can't natively run 16-bit anything on a 64bit os, yes.
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BiohazrD posted:you know what would be even more convenient? if it didn't have the keyboard and instead had a pen they do exist they're called ipads and styluses this didn't require the creation of a lovely product line that tries to be a laptop and a tablet and fails at both because tim is terrified of ads
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Boiled Water posted:i think you meant to write the maxi ipad.
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Feb 22, 2017 02:36
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avatar/username/quote trifecta pro effort
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the keys have higher pitch, isn't that what nerds want?
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Boiled Water posted:i'm gonna go ahead and assume since mendeley is garbage that qt is as well. there really is no clean technological boundary where apps that use x work badly but apps that use y work well, and the marginal cost of supporting windows 95 applications is likely minimal with the engineering done the broader problem for stuff like dpi scaling is that windows ends up running a *lot* of software which is only made as an afterthought or side-effect in big organizations focused on other things. it tends to be bad, but the sum total of the value of all that software is vastly greater than the value of some hypothetical "pure" version of windows. just need to slowly drag it along into the future one piece at a time
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I was kinda shocked at how bad the keyboard on the new mbps felt
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:there really is no clean technological boundary where apps that use x work badly but apps that use y work well, and the marginal cost of supporting windows 95 applications is likely minimal with the engineering done also its amazing how much of that stuff still works fine or works with a few minutes of thinking and rearranging of paths even on win10
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eric posted:iPads became too needs suiting with the Air 2. It's almost 2 1/2 years old and it's as fast as the first day I got it. I can see it lasting another 3 years. same. they made it too good.
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never engage with a stymie you fools
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tuyop posted:Does anyone else's touchbar just, like, stop sometimes? Like elements will stop appearing on it at random times, sometimes the Touch ID thing won't appear, sometimes the whole thing is just black and I have to press fn to get it to refresh, but sometimes I just have to kill it in terminal. Anyone else?
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I got a 13" pro with butan yesterday, pretty needs suiting so far
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i tried an ipad pencil the other day and it was very cool to see my gay handwriting show up on the screen in paper quality if they come out with a cool new pro one i can see myself buying one then not using it and selling it
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poty posted:i tried an ipad pencil the other day and it was very cool to see my gay handwriting show up on the screen in paper quality im still pissed that wacom pens have had an eraser on the back for years but the apple pencil doesn't also, it looks very stupid when its plugged into an ipad
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:im still pissed that wacom pens have had an eraser on the back for years but the apple pencil doesn't 
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qirex posted:I got a 13" pro with butan yesterday, pretty needs suiting so far how's the battery life
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:im still pissed that wacom pens have had an eraser on the back for years but the apple pencil doesn't dont sign your posts
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timbs Apple
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uncurable mlady posted:never how is this not an automatic probation?
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