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Shaocaholica posted:Wait do they actually use metric screen dimensions in the EU? Like instead of a MBP16 it’s a MBP40? There are two things that are still always measured in inches in metric countries. One of them is screen sizes.
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The Lord Bude posted:There are two things that are still always measured in inches in metric countries. One of them is screen sizes. I believe there was a difference back in the day of CRT though - in the UK we would measure the tube size while in the US (? maybe somewhere else?) they would measure visible screen size. So UK would say a screen is 28” while the other measurement would be 27”. Maybe someone else can confirm or clarify. E: to clarify always in inches, just a slightly different way of measuring. Maybe the European change to 16:9 in tube TVs is poisoning my memory tho, because I’m seeing mentions of 27 and 31 inch screens but they’re 4:3 and maybe that’s what caused the difference. EL BROMANCE fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Dec 31, 2020 |
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When I used to watch Top Gear UK they still used miles per hour when talking about cars.
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Yes, UK uses MPH. Whether we use imperial or metric or whatever the gently caress is really a guessing game if you don’t grow up there tbh. Your weight? Stones and pounds Your foods weight? Grams (I do, anyway) Measuring short distances? Centimetres and metres Speed? MPH Temperature? Centigrade It’s a clusterfuck really.
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As a Welshman, I tend to blame them for most things.
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Always makes me think of this chart.
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I’m an American but I’ve switched over to metric for everything except for speed and distance while driving (Speed and distance while walking or hiking or use metric however) and temperature when following recipes. Otherwise everything uses metric.
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Small White Dragon posted:Always makes me think of this chart. As a Canadian, I- That chart is The bakery I worked at predated Canada's adoption of the metric system, so everything there was done in pounds and ounces. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 09:49 on Dec 31, 2020 |
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FCKGW posted:Best Buy is doing some big discounts on their "open box - satisfactory" Macbok Pro M1 models in some stores. Down to $950 depending on location. Interesting, every used one that comes up around here is labeled as “demo model on display” which seems like pretty quick to get rid of display models.
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Do Apple GPU drivers support variable and high refresh rates for third party displays? Do their own displays support it?
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Somebody with SwitchRes and an M1 could probably tell you.
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Hope this is the proper thread, but does anyone have any recommendations for a Mac-friendly NAS? I hooked a decent SSD to my AirPort Extreme but it's slow as poo poo if my Mac is on Wireless. The Airport's HD is for Time Machine which works fine. I want to have something that I can keep files on centrally between my machines, ideally something fault tolerant. TIA
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Doctor Zero posted:Hope this is the proper thread, but does anyone have any recommendations for a Mac-friendly NAS? I hooked a decent SSD to my AirPort Extreme but it's slow as poo poo if my Mac is on Wireless. The Airport's HD is for Time Machine which works fine. I want to have something that I can keep files on centrally between my machines, ideally something fault tolerant. Probably the lowest-end one that will both be reliable and won't annoy the poo poo out of you would be the Synology DS220j. Synology is general is about the gold standard for NASes you don't have to babysit (and that past the most basic ones are also useful as general-purpose servers), though their product line is an awful mess of fiddly differences between models.
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Shaocaholica posted:Do Apple GPU drivers support variable and high refresh rates for third party displays? Do their own displays support it? Variable, not sure. High refresh, yes. Apple’s display is 60 hz with no VRR, from what I know but I’m not positive.
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Lord Stimperor posted:Maybe that is an option. Mac OS keeps bugging me with accounts that it wants me to log in but maybe I can just opt out of that. And a fresh setup might also be a little bit smoother. I'll try that before side grading to Linux, thanks. IMO a Mac is actually pretty doable without apple accounts. You don’t need the App Store for most apps, and if you don’t use anything from iCloud I don’t think anything is really going to make you. I think stuff like photos is going to suggest cloud features but pretty sure that works fine as a local only photos app if that’s how you want to roll You *can* use an iPhone without iCloud but you’re definitely going to want an App Store account logged in. You could technically use it without an App Store account but it’ll be almost a 2008 experience of only built-in apps.
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Binary Badger posted:Somebody with SwitchRes and an M1 could probably tell you. Oh I meant in general not just Apple silicon GPU but the AMD drivers as well.
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Roadie posted:Probably the lowest-end one that will both be reliable and won't annoy the poo poo out of you would be the Synology DS220j. Synology is general is about the gold standard for NASes you don't have to babysit (and that past the most basic ones are also useful as general-purpose servers), though their product line is an awful mess of fiddly differences between models. Cool thanks. I was looking at that and looked at all the options for different models and figured I’d ask here. Glad I was on the right track. 
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My old Thinkpad finally showed it's age when I noticed that my secondary battery on it started bulging. Took this as a sign to come back to Apple for a bit and just ordered a Macbook Air M1 and try the new poo poo. The 3-4 week wait is gonna suck on account of specing for 16GB of "Unified Memory"...
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EL BROMANCE posted:I believe there was a difference back in the day of CRT though - in the UK we would measure the tube size while in the US (? maybe somewhere else?) they would measure visible screen size. So UK would say a screen is 28” while the other measurement would be 27”. Maybe someone else can confirm or clarify. In Italy it has always been diagonal measured in inches, be it crt or lcd, but it was measured at the chassis and not the viewable area, old crts or lcd could have bigger values than modern ones with more screen estate.
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Got an M1 mini as my PC’s graphic card is starting to die. I have Shadow PC for gaming now and really only play rdr2 anyways. Well an hdmi to dvi adapter wouldn’t work with my monitor, just got a black screen. Apparently this a bug as there’a lots of people online having problems with adapters that they didn’t have with previous Macs. I said gently caress it and got a monitor with hdmi and some USB A ports. Just a heads up for anyone stuck with an ancient monitor.
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I was thinking about waiting until next year to buy the second generation of M1 Macbooks. Maybe it would be even more refined. Crazy I bought a 2020 MBP right in the middle of the year when I could have just waited 6 months.
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EL BROMANCE posted:As a Welshman, I tend to blame them for most things. What the gently caress, I've been replying to someone who isn't American?!?!?!
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Anyone have any experience with replacing individual keys on a butterfly keyboard? I have a 2018 MBP and I'm apparently loving gross and don't trim my nails well enough, and my thumbnail rubs on the left CMD key so much that I've worn a hole through the black paint. There's nothing wrong with it outside of a big white spot in the center of the key, but if I can replace it for like $0.50 for a new key off eBay that would be great. But since the keys are embedded in the case I'm not sure if this is possible.
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Three Olives posted:How does Apple's shipping process work? They pulled the funds out of my account for my M1 16GB Mini but I ordered it days ago and it still shows an arrival date of January 15th. I feel like my past experience with Apple is they only charged your card when shipping was imminent. 8-bit Miniboss posted:My old Thinkpad finally showed it's age when I noticed that my secondary battery on it started bulging. Took this as a sign to come back to Apple for a bit and just ordered a Macbook Air M1 and try the new poo poo. The 3-4 week wait is gonna suck on account of specing for 16GB of "Unified Memory"... Ordered a Mini 16GB 256G on the 23rd and given a ship date of the 15th, shipped yesterday and it is in AK now. Apple even quoted me a delivery date of the 7th but UPS has it scheduled for Monday and I suspect that is only because of the holiday.
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Violator posted:Anyone have any experience with replacing individual keys on a butterfly keyboard? I have a 2018 MBP and I'm apparently loving gross and don't trim my nails well enough, and my thumbnail rubs on the left CMD key so much that I've worn a hole through the black paint. There's nothing wrong with it outside of a big white spot in the center of the key, but if I can replace it for like $0.50 for a new key off eBay that would be great. But since the keys are embedded in the case I'm not sure if this is possible. Everything I have heard about the butterfly Keyboards is they are not user serviceable. A workmate took a key off to clean out some lint thinking it would just snap back on like the older scissor key switches and they do not. She had to take it to the Apple store to get a whole new keyboard
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Granite Octopus posted:Everything I have heard about the butterfly Woof. I’ll just wait until things open up again and take it in and see if they can do it. Thanks for the info, that’s what I was worried about.
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This is going to sound incredibly silly I am sure, but in the era of T2, the secure enclave and TouchID, are there any 3rd party fingerprint readers that work with current MacOS hardware? My search is coming up empty. I'm guessing not but I am growing very tired of entering my password all the time to access all my passwords that are growing increasingly complex by the day for various services. How does Apple not sell a keyboard with TouchID? I would literally just pay $200 for one without thinking. Hell, $400 for one with a Touch Bar, why the gently caress not? Three Olives fucked around with this message at 08:30 on Jan 2, 2021 |
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Buy an Apple Watch instead
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Buy an Apple Watch instead I have one, it doesn't seem to want to reliable unlock my MacBook Air for all the things, maybe it will be better with my M1.
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Three Olives posted:This is going to sound incredibly silly I am sure, but in the era of T2, the secure enclave and TouchID, are there any 3rd party fingerprint readers that work with current MacOS hardware? My search is coming up empty. The reason Apple doesn't sell a separate keyboard with TouchID is that they require some kind of close pairing (cryptographic?) between the TouchID sensor and the Apple chip with the secure enclave. They don't want touch ID to be man-in-the-middled, and that's not very compatible with a keyboard you can just plug and unplug. Perhaps they're going to solve that issue in the future, but for now it's not possible.
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Why do the M1 MBA/MBP only have 2 USB-C ports when the Intel ones have 4? At least for the 13" ones.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Why do the M1 MBA/MBP only have 2 USB-C ports when the Intel ones have 4? At least for the 13" ones. The Intel MBA had two, as did the low-end 13” MBP. I think you can expect the M1X (or whatever it will be called) MacBooks, the 16” and high end 13” (maybe a bump to 14”?), to come with four ports
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Boris Galerkin posted:Why do the M1 MBA/MBP only have 2 USB-C ports when the Intel ones have 4? At least for the 13" ones. They still sell the 4-port Intel MBP, the M1 replaced the cheaper 2-port introduced in 2017. MBA never had 4 ports (and used to only have 1!) Mac Mini was a legitimate downgrade of ports but I'm curious if when they update the other MBP they introduce another tier Mac Mini with more power and ports.
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FCKGW posted:Mac Mini was a legitimate downgrade of ports but I'm curious if when they update the other MBP they introduce another tier Mac Mini with more power and ports. My bet is they will, given that they’ve kept the high-tier Intel Mini around for now. There’s a ton of empty space and repurposed components in the M1 model (for instance they use the same PSU which is way overkill). My guess is either a higher end mini comes out in the same enclosure, but with a more appropriate number of ports, or the whole Mini line gets an overhaul with the introduction of the higher spec model.
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New newer Minu seems doubtful, especially right away, Apple tends to not fuss with the Mini once they pinch out a model. At most they'll just mutter 'buy a hub' if you need extra ports. The 2018s had four TB3 ports. To reduce it to two TB3s and two USB ports seems to be rather lovely to me. I still wish they'd retained the SDXC slot that they kept right up to the 2018 models, not that I'd be booting a Plex server off of it but it was drat useful now that SDXC cards with lots of storage got cheaper..
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