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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:im pretty sure its damage that gradually builds up bc apple is allergic to cable stress relief. how do you charge your iphone? i charge mine overnight on a horizontal surface with the lightning cable dangling down towards a power outlet (which is a pretty reasonable thing to do, imo). it also subjects the cable to small amounts of shearing stress which apparently makes apple cables gradually disintegrate i do this, i also sometime splug the cable into my computer or a battery pack
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Mad Wack posted:checking in on my touchbar mac loving poo poo sucks
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[quote="“Dixie Cretin Seaman”" post="“477026138”"] every lightning cable i’ve ever had frayed within about a year, and both magsafe charge cables. never had anything happen to any other cable, including all manner of USB and power cables for PCs, and micro-USB cables used for charging kindles and an android phone. im pretty sure its damage that gradually builds up bc apple is allergic to cable stress relief. how do you charge your iphone? i charge mine overnight on a horizontal surface with the lightning cable dangling down towards a power outlet (which is a pretty reasonable thing to do, imo). it also subjects the cable to small amounts of shearing stress which apparently makes apple cables gradually disintegrate [/quote] I do the same thing, but have never had the cables fray because I pull them out by the plug like a regular person instead of by the cable like an illiterate ape.
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Oct 3, 2017 23:35
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as long as you don't get your cables from apple they'll be fine.
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Oct 3, 2017 23:38
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It has nothing to do with it pulling apart from sheer force the cable jacket just disintegrates if UV or anything in a normal environment touches it.
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Oct 3, 2017 23:46
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Mad Wack posted:checking in on my touchbar mac turn your computer over
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Oct 3, 2017 23:48
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Anker is a better computer cable company than Apple sad but true
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I had an anker that split recently, it probably lasted longer than the apple cable it replaced but it's not like they're indestructible
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[quote="“qirex”" post="“477029155”"] I had an anker that split recently, it probably lasted longer than the apple cable it replaced but it’s not like they’re indestructible [/quote] sure but I'll bet you it was at least 40% cheaper than equivalent Apple cable at the time
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:sure but I'll bet you it was at least 40% cheaper than equivalent Apple cable at the time the equivalent cable came with my ipad so it was either free or incredibly expensive depending on how you do the math
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The Management posted:lightning: Introduced on September 12, 2012 when the iPhone 5 was launched. i'm a little surprised that you actually worked at apple and somehow still believe they would ship iThings with open-standard connectors if given the chance. aside from a couple of ipod shuffles they've never done this, and this history (along with the other reasons i mentioned in previous post) makes me think that hmmmmmmm perhaps this is intentional like i know apple loves to evangelize about "open" standards when it suits them but c'mon
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OG ipod and 2nd gen used bog-standard 6 pin firewire
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Doc Block posted:I do the same thing, but have never had the cables fray because I pull them out by the plug like a regular person instead of by the cable like an illiterate ape. there must be another factor i guess. but even if i were rough on my cables (im not) it wouldn't explain power cables for nearly a dozen PC laptops? never frayed serial, parallel, PS/2, USB, and proprietary cables for various mice, keyboards, external hard drives, printers? never frayed mini/micro-USB charger cables for kindles, wireless headphones, and misc cheapo chinese gadgets? never frayed charging cables for every cell phone i've owned before an iphone (including an android)? never frayed 30-pin ipod connectors? frayed over time with normal use lightning connectors? frayed over time with normal use mag-safe chargers? frayed over time with normal use always frayed near the connector, which coincidentally have no stress relief
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infernal machines posted:OG ipod and 2nd gen used bog-standard 6 pin firewire whoops forgot about this. but imo my point still stands
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reminder that the touchbar is literally an embedded apple watch running watchOS with a long skinny screen
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[quote="“Lutha Mahtin”" post="“477030213”"] i’m a little surprised that you actually worked at apple and somehow still believe they would ship iThings with open-standard connectors if given the chance. aside from a couple of ipod shuffles they’ve never done this, and this history (along with the other reasons i mentioned in previous post) makes me think that hmmmmmmm perhaps this is intentional like i know apple loves to evangelize about “open” standards when it suits them but c’mon [/quote] I suppose you would be surprised to learn that we weren't just hunched around a dimly lit table, our fingertips pressed together, laughing at how we're going to screw the customers out of more money with dongles while singing the stonecutters song.
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The Management posted:I suppose you would be surprised to learn that we weren't just hunched around a dimly lit table, our fingertips pressed together, laughing at how we're going to screw the customers out of more money with dongles while singing the stonecutters song. nah. it was a brightly lit orgy suite, solid white with rose gold accents. you were laughing about about screwing the customers on flash storage upgrades, and everyone whose mouth wasn't fully occupied was singing karaoke from The Mandatory U2 Album
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[quote="“Sagebrush”" post="“477034256”"] reminder that the touchbar is literally an embedded apple watch running watchOS with a long skinny screen [/quote] this is less funny when you realize all this means is "it's running on apple's lightest weight OS on their lowest power SoC"
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Oct 4, 2017 03:33
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i pretty much just use it to hit the "picture in picture" button while watching a video in safari
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The Management posted:I suppose you would be surprised to learn that we weren't just hunched around a dimly lit table, our fingertips pressed together, laughing at how we're going to screw the customers out of more money with dongles while singing the stonecutters song. i was hardly being critical in the slightest and even pointed out the consumer benefit of "not wrecking this gadget i bought with some garbage AliExpress cable" but i do certainly apologize for piercing your incredibly thin skin
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The Management posted:I suppose you would be surprised to learn that we weren't just hunched around a dimly lit table, our fingertips pressed together, laughing at how we're going to screw the customers out of more money with dongles while singing the stonecutters song. I'm imagining the hack jonny ives in his featureless void testing materials to see which work the worst.
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hobbesmaster posted:this is less funny when you realize all this means is "it's running on apple's lightest weight OS on their lowest power SoC" no, that's not actually less funny, or stupid. hey, check it out, your keyboard runs its own os, in aid of being worse than a regular keyboard we call it "innovation"
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infernal machines posted:no, that's not actually less funny, or stupid. the touchbar is separate from the keyboard. the keyboard itself isn't running watchOS (or any OS).
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[quote="“infernal machines”" post="“477036020”"] no, that’s not actually less funny, or stupid. hey, check it out, your keyboard runs its own os, in aid of being worse than a regular keyboard we call it “innovation” [/quote] I would be surprised if a lot of keyboards didn't have a cortex m0+ or better running on freertos these days
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Doc Block posted:the touchbar is separate from the keyboard. the keyboard itself isn't running watchOS (or any OS). it functionally replaces part of the keyboard and is attached to the keyboard. sperg out all you want, your keyboard runs macos for some reason
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[quote="“Mad Wack”" post="“477035257”"] i pretty much just use it to hit the “picture in picture” button while watching a video in safari [/quote] I didn't even know that but it's easier to hit the button right there on the screen so why would I even look down I refuse to believe anyone uses the video scrubbing bar instead of just using the touchpad and the screen I gave this touch bar a serious chance but it's just been a long wet fart 💨 maybe I'm using it wrong so how about those homepods
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the touch bar is a secure display that can show you things the OS can't fake or access, which is required to make sure your Touch ID purchases aren't being spoofed by malware.
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Oct 4, 2017 05:11
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 but in your macbook
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The Management posted:the touch bar is a secure display that can show you things the OS can't fake or access, which is required to make sure your Touch ID purchases aren't being spoofed by malware. that's a cool feature it was necessary to replace the function-key row with this device because: 
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what if, like, there wasn't a touchbar, but the power button was still a TouchID sensor??
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[quote="“The Management”" post="“477037406”"] the touch bar is a secure display that can show you things the OS can’t fake or access, which is required to make sure your Touch ID purchases aren’t being spoofed by malware. [/quote] cool why can't we also have function keys
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hobbesmaster posted:I would be surprised if a lot of keyboards didn't have a cortex m0+ or better running on freertos these days they probably just put whatever microcontroller was cheapest that week. but literally every PC keyboard since the original IBM PC keyboard has had a little microcontroller inside, so it's dumb to complain about a thing that's next to the keyboard having a little SoC that runs a stripped down OS with a secure enclave so it can be used for authentication. and if the touchbar is gonna be a thing, they've already got a pretty secure tiny SoC + secure enclave implementation, so why not use it? like, I'll agree that the touchbar itself is dumb and mostly useless, but having an iWatch SoC run it isn't the dumb part.
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it's me, I'm the guy who presses the function keys on purpose and more than once every few months.
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there's a lot of keyboards with dumb gimmicks in them (ie "gamer" poo poo) that probably aren't done with an 8051 anymore
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then again if you told me some bastardized 8051 variant was driving those lcds in Logitech keyboards I'd believe it because those things were put into products they didn't belong decades after better architectures were affordable
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(the person relating the 8051 story would insist that I'm not a real programmer for using a C compiler and then walk away in disgust when I say actually it supports c++11)
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Doc Block posted:literally every PC keyboard since the original IBM PC keyboard has had a little microcontroller inside, so it's dumb to complain about a thing that's next to the keyboard having a little SoC that runs a stripped down OS lol. you're gonna launch into orbit with that spin. but no, it's dumb for like, all of the reasons. it's an over-engineered gimmick that's worse than the thing it replaces infernal machines fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Oct 4, 2017 |
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Doc Block posted:it's me, I'm the guy who presses the function keys on purpose and more than once every few months. i press f5, f10 and f11 dozens of times a day, hundreds if i'm working on something complicated
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Doc Block posted:it's me, I'm the guy who presses the function keys on purpose and more than once every few months. is that you, the employed person?
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i mean, a person with a computer, really
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