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it doesn’t support bluetooth bulbs? hue requires either a hub for older ones (which never worked without one) or the new ones should just work with a hub or bluetooth. it may be a pain to have to use the hue app if you prefer the home app but you shouldn’t strictly need a hub to do it?
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i think the new iMacs should come in midnight/starlight/etc and the fun colours  and i think they should lose the chin 
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mediaphage posted:it doesn’t support bluetooth bulbs? hue requires either a hub for older ones (which never worked without one) or the new ones should just work with a hub or bluetooth. it may be a pain to have to use the hue app if you prefer the home app but you shouldn’t strictly need a hub to do it? I still have the Hue hub so it's not a major issue, though I am planning to move them over to my HA setup once I have that nailed down a bit more. The entire affair is on me, don't have a baby and do major software upgrades folks. Still should have saved me from myself though.
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Oct 24, 2023 20:36
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Warbird posted:I still have the Hue hub so it's not a major issue, though I am planning to move them over to my HA setup once I have that nailed down a bit more. The entire affair is on me, don't have a baby and do major software upgrades folks. Still should have saved me from myself though. yeah they have a bad habit of randomly changing the way things work without telling you there's going to be a change; imo it's by far their worst issue
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Oct 24, 2023 20:51
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Warbird posted:This is some horse poo poo. Not only do you lose the ability to remote operate your Homekit setup when you update to the new architecture, you also lose every other user in your home and can't add them back without an AppleTV/HomePod/Whatever on your network. I gave HomeKit + HomePods + AppleTV an honest shot and was so disappointed I ended up returning all the equipment after a week. Setup was annoying and unreliable even with Matter devices and Siri just could not do what my wife and I were used to doing with Alexa and our Fire devices. It’s a shame, because I really appreciate how Apple limits the intrusiveness of advertising into your space and I wanted it to work so bad.
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Oct 24, 2023 21:31
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I said in 2021 I wouldn't get M series until M4 so that's coming along faster than I imagined. But I still won't pay full retail for M4.
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Shaocaholica posted:I said in 2021 I wouldn't get M series until M4 so that's coming along faster than I imagined. But I still won't pay full retail for M4. ok
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Oct 24, 2023 21:41
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It's just number go up so fast.
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Oct 24, 2023 21:42
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What a strange requirement
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Oct 24, 2023 22:11
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Its arbitrary because at any given time I never actually need new computer/laptop.
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TACD posted:This is one of the best Apple goon posts I’ve ever read; thank you for this gift I just started using a work provided Dell laptop and can’t believe how horrible they are. My 2005 PowerBook’s trackpad was better. You’d think some PM over at Dell would figure out whatever Apple does and copy it. Warbird posted:You shouldn't be able to upgrade to the new arch if you don't have a Hub on your LAN, there's utterly no point to do so and it's only downsides. God drat you Timothy Crapple. Yeah, I said it. No hub, no HomeKit control. Pretty simple really. I’m not even sure how you had HomeKit support without a hub in the first place? How does that work? Tiny Timbs posted:I gave HomeKit + HomePods + AppleTV an honest shot and was so disappointed I ended up returning all the equipment after a week. Setup was annoying and unreliable even with Matter devices and Siri just could not do what my wife and I were used to doing with Alexa and our Fire devices. It’s a shame, because I really appreciate how Apple limits the intrusiveness of advertising into your space and I wanted it to work so bad. You’d rather use a FireStick’s OS over Apple TVs? Apple TV’s are kinda considered the best of all the streaming devices, while Amazons are considered the worst. Apple TV doesn’t feel bogged down with ad-sponsored content like Roku, Google TV, and Fire Stick (just a vessel to push Amazon content, gimped App Store). Apps like Plex and YouTube TV are often prioritized on AppleTV even. I’ve been using an AppleTV with HomeKit for years now and have had a few issues over the years, but there are tons of advantages of it over Alexa or Google Home - if your internet is out, all of your HomeKit devices still have to function on your network, for example. Being able to access everything from your phones control center is great as well. I personally don’t feel comfortable giving a bunch of third party apps my location data, or even Google or Amazon (same with mics), so I setup all my automations in HomeKit even though I have a Google Home Hub. There are plenty of HomeKit capable smart switches that aren’t much more than Alexa/Google only devices. Hue is the gold standard in smart lights and have had HomeKit support for many years. Aqara makes all sorts of really affordable and sensors, switches, cameras, etc. Got a free Ecobee from our energy company. That’s HomeKit capable. Most smart TVs that run Android TV or Roku support HomeKit control as well. Corb3t fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Oct 25, 2023 |
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Corb3t posted:I just started using a work provided Dell laptop and can’t believe how horrible they are. My 2005 PowerBook’s trackpad was better. You pretty much have to move up to the high end ultralights before windows touchpads stop sucking rear end.
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Corb3t posted:No hub, no HomeKit control. Pretty simple really. I’m not even sure how you had HomeKit support without a hub in the first place? How does that work? Just fine as it turns out, but that role was being filled by my iPad. However, I’ve had Hue controls in iOS for a lot longer than that iPad was around. I presume it was just doing API calls to the Hue hub or the like. Now how was that working post upgrade to the new arch and thus no hub? No goddamn clue, but it was working.
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Hearing scuttlebutt that the reason the Scarily Fast event is happening late in the day is because it includes a collaboration with a "well known game developer in Japan" who apparently is not someone previously seen at an Apple event (ie it isn't Capcom or Hideo Kojima). As you know, rumours like this are basically fact. Wonder who it is...
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Oct 26, 2023 14:59
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It’s gonna be ZUN, Mac is stealing touhou.
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those events are prerecorded these days, that doesn't make sense like at all
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It’s airing late at night because it’s Halloween themed
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What is the best external drive option for a 2017 MacBook Pro? I keep getting confused by what is and what is not compatible with the thunderbolt on this thing. What keywords should I be looking for when comparison shopping? Planning on storing and moving very large files (vm images) relatively frequently.
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I hope it starts with Tim Cook shining a flashlight up under his chin in a dark room
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Data Graham posted:I hope it starts with Tim Cook shining a flashlight up under his chin in a dark room Submitted for the approval of the Apple Society, I call this the m2 iMac!
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MrQueasy posted:What is the best external drive option for a 2017 MacBook Pro? I keep getting confused by what is and what is not compatible with the thunderbolt on this thing. What keywords should I be looking for when comparison shopping? Here is a good post about it, basically you want the Asmedia ASM2464PD chip. https://dancharblog.wordpress.com/2022/11/29/list-of-ssd-enclosure-chipsets-2022/ Also this link https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbolt/comments/16x4yrq/best_nvme_ssd_enclosure_card_test_results_for/ Perplx fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Oct 26, 2023 |
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Fedule posted:Hearing scuttlebutt that the reason the Scarily Fast event is happening late in the day is because it includes a collaboration with a "well known game developer in Japan" who apparently is not someone previously seen at an Apple event (ie it isn't Capcom or Hideo Kojima). As you know, rumours like this are basically fact. Wonder who it is... hey Sony pls bring your PC PlayStation ports to the Mac
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Ok Comboomer posted:hey Sony pls bring your PC PlayStation ports to the Mac Hi son, I'm Sony. The answer is no.
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Sony Sez that if you can afford a Mac you can afford a PS5
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I feel like it’d be more likely that Microsoft announces that a bunch of more games from Activision Blizzard are coming to macOS (not that I think it’ll happen). I thought I saw that as part of the merger agreement with either the UK or EU, if someone said they wanted Microsoft’s games to be ported over, Microsoft would do it. I think it was more intended for Sony and the PS5, but Apple could take advantage too.
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Fedule posted:Hearing scuttlebutt that the reason the Scarily Fast event is happening late in the day is because it includes a collaboration with a "well known game developer in Japan" who apparently is not someone previously seen at an Apple event (ie it isn't Capcom or Hideo Kojima). As you know, rumours like this are basically fact. Wonder who it is... It will be Nintendo and only on the 2023 M3 iPad Pro.
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I'd rather buy an iPad Pro than a Switch.
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~Coxy posted:I'd rather buy an iPad Pro than a Switch. yeah probably me too, but one has way better games and is cheaper
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Ok Comboomer posted:hey Sony pls bring your PC PlayStation ports to the Mac Square-Enix steps forward, "Would you like our really bad outsourced ports of games we haven't cared about in at least twenty years?"
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Mister Facetious posted:Square-Enix steps forward, "Would you like our really bad outsourced ports of games we haven't cared about in at least twenty years?" lol the funniest outcome would be Tim “I’m simply not a gamer” Cook overpaying for Kingdom Hearts because Disney is a valuable brand
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Ok Comboomer posted:lol the funniest outcome would be Tim “I’m simply not a gamer” Cook overpaying for Kingdom Hearts because Disney is a valuable brand Tim doesn't overpay for anything. He makes the customers do that.
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Ok Comboomer posted:hey Sony pls bring your PC PlayStation ports to the Mac It’s come up in the iPhone thread lately that Sony and Apple seem to have a thing going since the DualSense is always what they use when showing someone playing games on an iThing.
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Mister Facetious posted:Tim doesn't overpay for anything. excited to see Birth By Sleep on all Apple Silicon devices, only $59.99 Edit: then when nobody buys it because it’s kingdom hearts and it’s $60 we can have Craig or Tim patronizingly tell us that it simply doesn’t make economic sense to push AAA gaming on Apple’s platform, because the customers just aren’t interested in that sort of thing trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Oct 27, 2023 |
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I’m guessing Suda51 because I dont care to see little big planet or ff:atb on mac.
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njsykora posted:It’s come up in the iPhone thread lately that Sony and Apple seem to have a thing going since the DualSense is always what they use when showing someone playing games on an iThing. It goes much further back! I’m pretty sure this is the correct video, I’m on mobile. https://youtu.be/UQSKWOw-sZc?si=oM6rTk5CxxRwPIPG It talks about Apple wanting to partner with Sony to use this platform for Macintosh PCs if I recall correctly. Just fun trivia.
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they’re bringing back vaio and they run macos and xm6 will have u1 chips and dante is coming over to hang out with me
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sony design was a big inspiration for apple in a lot of ways too, jobs was a big fan
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Work was selling off some old equipment and I got my hands on a 2020 M1 MacBook Air for 250 Canada bucks. It’s even got 16gb of ram. Finally, my first apple silicon computer of my own :’) The catch? It has a French keyboard. I snagged it knowing even if the keyboard was no bueno, I could just use it in clamshell mode as a desktop, but it would be nice to just have it around the house. I’m thinking I can order US key caps and remap it to approximate a “normal” layout. Anyone here done this / have any tips / suggestions for where to find the right key caps?
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Escape Goat posted:Work was selling off some old equipment and I got my hands on a 2020 M1 MacBook Air for 250 Canada bucks. It’s even got 16gb of ram. Finally, my first apple silicon computer of my own :’) holy poo poo what a deal. if you touch type you can just use a different software layout and ignore the physical keys. but there are sold keycaps it looks like, but i'd consider ordering some of the scissor clips too because google suggests they're easy to break
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