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Corb3t posted:Anybody get any fancy Apple hardware for Christmas? I got some AirPods Pro 2, but I got them early on Black Friday so I could use them on a flight in mid-December. A++, would recommend It’s not Apple hardware, but I got my dad a Triathlon M720 mouse to use with his new Midnight M2 MacBook Air and his old iPad Pro. He has a Samsung M8 4K Airplay/dock display to go with them, and it’s a  desktop setup for way less money than going full-Apple. The resolution could be better at 32” (or the screen could be much smaller), but it’s perfect for two older people doing mostly browser poo poo and content consumption. At $500 instead of $5000 I can’t complain it’s not the Pro XDR. For its intended market (dorm/apartment/bedroom/kitchen users who need an attractive small 4K TV that pulls double duty as a computer monitor with power delivery and webcam features) it’s pretty perfect. The magnetic webcam adds a nice touch of polish. trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Dec 25, 2022 |
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Dec 25, 2022 21:59
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Corb3t posted:Anybody get any fancy Apple hardware for Christmas? Yeah the watch ultra which is really really nice.
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Dec 25, 2022 23:42
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Binary Badger posted:Don't really need new AAA games when I got console emulators and Sheepshaver and a ton of games on abandonware sites I never got to play when new.. That was me. On the one hand Falcon BMS is the most ridiculous overdone grognard sim project ever. On the other it’s a extensive simulation of a large scale theatre conflict AND probably the best F16 simulator ever made, and it’s free. It’s such a weird anachronism in todays market but it’s really scratching a ‘oh you think you know something about video games? Here, try to turn the engine on.’ Itch I didn’t even know I had. If punching yourself in the genitals with 100 page manuals and keybind files that make xml look pretty sounds fun try it out - based on the performance I’m getting I imagine you’d be fine and if you’ve got Falcon 4 it’s free. It flies fantastically and tonight I actually shot down some training targets.
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Dec 26, 2022 08:13
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SourKraut posted:I'm trying to survive Christmas with 5- and 2-year olds plus a 4 week old. Fun times! Sounds like it might be time to send the older kids to play Reader Rabbit and KidPix. 
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Dec 26, 2022 13:32
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~Coxy posted:Sounds like it might be time to send the older kids to play Reader Rabbit and KidPix. gently caress yeah and MathBlaster and TreasureCove and see if you can dig up a copy of Mercer Mayer’s Little Monster or Richard Scarry’s Busytown for the toddler
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Dec 26, 2022 16:22
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Have em print up signs and New Years / late Christmas cards with the Print Shop Don't forget Stickybear Bop and Old Ironsides for some arcade fun Or maybe Swashbuckler if you like hearing quacks generated by a 1 MHz CPU Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Dec 26, 2022 |
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Dec 26, 2022 16:28
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I need to get an eMac. I always liked the design more than the iMac G3.
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Dec 26, 2022 18:04
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~Coxy posted:Sounds like it might be time to send the older kids to play Reader Rabbit and KidPix. Yeah, and there was this old movie creation simulation game we would play on some old PowerMac 9600s in my high school journalism class, where you input the various simple parameters and then would see how successful the movie would be box-office wise. Wish I could remember what it was called...
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Dec 26, 2022 18:50
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I got an eMac from Fry's in, like, 2001. Replaced the tricked-out Rev A iMac I had, which was fitted with a Voodoo 2 card. The eMac was good to me as a 'work' computer, especially as I had a PC at the time to handle gaming duty so I didn't have to ask particularly much of it. Good times.
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Dec 26, 2022 19:08
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SourKraut posted:Yeah, and there was this old movie creation simulation game we would play on some old PowerMac 9600s in my high school journalism class, where you input the various simple parameters and then would see how successful the movie would be box-office wise. Wish I could remember what it was called... https://www.filmsfatale.com/blog/2020/2/22/growing-up-a-cinephile-write-camera-action maybe?
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Dec 26, 2022 19:11
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Meanwhile, in modern news: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/26/3nm-chips-mass-production/ TSMC claims their 3 nm plant will be up and running at full steam just three days from now, hopefully to give us M2 Pros at some point in the future
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Dec 26, 2022 19:16
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Tayter Swift posted:I got an eMac from Fry's in, like, 2001. Replaced the tricked-out Rev A iMac I had, which was fitted with a Voodoo 2 card. The eMac was good to me as a 'work' computer, especially as I had a PC at the time to handle gaming duty so I didn't have to ask particularly much of it. Good times. jelly what color was your iMac?
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Dec 26, 2022 19:25
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Binary Badger posted:Meanwhile, in modern news: drat What'll they do when they eventually run out of nm??
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Dec 26, 2022 19:37
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Data Graham posted:drat Start stacking them
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Dec 26, 2022 19:48
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I remember being an IT bod at a school with classrooms full of eMacs. They used to develop an issue where the CD drives would eject and refuse to stay closed. This was fun for two reasons: 1) Before AppleCare would accept the machines for repair, they had to go through a diagnostic procedure over the phone that involved booting from the installation CD. This meant carefully and slowly explaining to the technician that we couldn’t boot from the CD drive because the CD drive wouldn’t close. 2) There was no way to submit multiple machines for repair in one go. Somebody had to sit in a room full of defective eMacs and spend a day or more on the phone to AppleCare repeating the same “diagnostic” procedure and subsequent repair authorisation over and over (although at least after the first machine the person on the other end got the hang of skipping past the ‘boot from CD’ part)
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Dec 26, 2022 20:00
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It was also fun because it involved connecting OS X Panther to Active Directory, which if you’ve never tried it is extremely super fun!!
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Dec 26, 2022 20:02
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OSX wasn’t a fully baked operating system until Tiger
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Dec 26, 2022 20:04
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Ok Comboomer posted:OSX wasn’t a fully baked operating system until
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Dec 26, 2022 20:05
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Snow Leopard was peak macOS.
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Dec 26, 2022 20:09
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American McGay posted:Snow Leopard was peak macOS.
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Dec 26, 2022 20:14
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Last Chance posted:Start stacking them So, after it stops going down, it will... go back up?
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Dec 26, 2022 21:10
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TheMadMilkman posted:I need to get an eMac. I always liked the design more than the iMac G3. The eMac is super nice, but it's such a pain to move around. No handle, extremely heavy and unbalanced load that's almost entirely slippery polycarbonate. Nightmare. I put mine upstairs in my last house and regretted it intensely. Same floor as the door is the rule for those things.
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Dec 26, 2022 21:21
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Ok Comboomer posted:jelly The Rev A only came in Bondi Blue.
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Dec 26, 2022 21:56
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Mister Facetious posted:So, after it stops going down, it will... go back up? Like phone size
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Dec 26, 2022 22:13
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American McGay posted:Snow Leopard was peak macOS. I miss this release
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Dec 27, 2022 05:08
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Data Graham posted:drat I’ve heard people in tech media talk before about how they’re already researching picometer chips.
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Dec 27, 2022 13:57
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Data Graham posted:drat Intel, at least, will measure in Ångström.
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Dec 27, 2022 13:57
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https://www.engadget.com/apple-a16-chip-ray-tracing-mistakes-180839937.html Related, but troubling if true. Makes me wonder if Apple plans on offering that high power GPU on desktops, of course its no good for a mobile device but put it in a cooled chassis where nobody cares about battery drain.. and Apple tends not to let development efforts go to waste.. Brain drain may not bode well for future chip iterations.. yeah yeah supposedly Apple planned out the roadmap for AS chips years ago but if you dont have the staff that can help reach the goalposts in a timely manner, well..
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Dec 27, 2022 17:36
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Binary Badger posted:https://www.engadget.com/apple-a16-chip-ray-tracing-mistakes-180839937.html https://youtu.be/dA3fR1YjekE https://youtu.be/oZyLZl9M7gM
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Dec 27, 2022 18:25
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is there any workaround to get my printer working with my m2 air? I looked around and couldn't find any current drivers. the older ones won't install. https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/samsung-ml-1630-laser-printer-series/17156950
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Dec 27, 2022 19:32
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actionjackson posted:is there any workaround to get my printer working with my m2 air? I looked around and couldn't find any current drivers. the older ones won't install. Did you migrate from an old Mac?
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Dec 27, 2022 19:46
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actionjackson posted:is there any workaround to get my printer working with my m2 air? I looked around and couldn't find any current drivers. the older ones won't install. If you have another machine knocking about that it does work on, you can usually share the printer over the network. I usually use this to go the other way (i.e. to let my PPC macs print to a printer they have no driver support for) but I can't imagine it wouldn't work for your use case as well. Also worth checking gutenprint to see if it supports your printer.
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Ok Comboomer posted:Did you migrate from an old Mac? yes a 2017 MBA which I have now sold it's not even in gutenprint  https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252188318 "The ML-1630 appears to use a special Samsung printer language. This makes it difficult to find/use alternative drivers."
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Dec 27, 2022 20:13
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I'm ~4 months now into a full Mac setup, departing from windows and a "custom" pc. Things that are nice.. 5k studio display is nice. I previously had four 24" 1080p monitors and between being adhd and lazy I would find myself on other monitors doing gently caress-all while the main work was needing attending to. (work from home/office/personal setup). Being back on one monitor and the open laptop display keeps me either completely focused on work, or completely focused on being lazy. More of a light switch in my brain to flip it back and forth. Also nice - the M2 and 24 gigs of ram in the Air handles everything I throw at it.. I've got Mail, Messages, ~10 browser tabs in Safari, Brave, FF each, a VM or two running, and half a dozen RDP/VNC/SSH connections open. Its light.. It's super portable and the battery life is a solid 10 hours for me. For comparison my XPS doing similar workload-on-the-go was about 6 hours. The integrations with my iPhone, iPad, and all the other apple devices really keep me here. I could say for the sake of work specifically I could go back to my pc and an XPS to get around some minor issues like certain powershell modules not compatible with Windows ARM, etc. But for the sake of the apple ecosystem and its cohesion I'll just keep an x86 windows VM hosted somewhere. Things that suck? Haven't learned all the keyboard shortcuts to mastery yet. The apple keyboard is too flat. I need something propped up a little. I did 4 months with the Magic Mouse, got used to it. Now I'm using the external touchpad and haven't missed a mouse. I might try the Logitech mechanical keyboard and their Mac specific mouse at some point but that's $250.... Hope this helps someone on the fence.
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Dec 27, 2022 20:16
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are you using a separate apple keyboard or the one on the m2 air. i've been fine using the latter.
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Dec 27, 2022 20:20
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What do you people use all these monitors for? Genuinely curious.
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Dec 27, 2022 20:24
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Brian Worms posted:What do you people use all these monitors for? Genuinely curious.
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Dec 27, 2022 20:26
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Brian Worms posted:What do you people use all these monitors for? Genuinely curious. Email, chat, documentation, references, debug windows, video/music players.
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evelyn87 posted:Things that suck? Haven't learned all the keyboard shortcuts to mastery yet. The apple keyboard is too flat. I need something propped up a little. I did 4 months with the Magic Mouse, got used to it. Now I'm using the external touchpad and haven't missed a mouse. I might try the Logitech mechanical keyboard and their Mac specific mouse at some point but that's $250.... You don’t *need Mac-specific, any Logi stuff will work fine and is usually like $20 cheaper if you don’t go Mac-specific. The worst you have to put up with is keys that feature both Win and MacOS symbols. Also considering an MX Mechanical (either the blue or brown switches) for my MBP+PC setup
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