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Real courage would be to extend the keyboard by adding the touch bar above the f key as a 7th row of keys so you no longer had to deal with dumb combined media keys getting in the way of your function key usage Shrink the touchpad a little while you're at it so your palms don't have to rest directly on top of it all the time. My 2017 MacBook pro misclicked so loving much that week i had it
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infernal machines posted:lol. you're gonna launch into orbit with that spin. yep I have never, ever wanted a "secure display" inaccessible to the OS, particularly not at the cost of battery life or my f-keys it is cute but pointless, like those ibm laptops with a second, smaller slide-out screen
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Oct 4, 2017 06:25
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no, but look, now you can make one-touch purchases from the app store!
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Oct 4, 2017 06:26
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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. standard PCs just use TPM for this but I guess an off the shelf $0.50 part that doesn't suck battery or require a screen would have been too simple for you brave genius types in cupertino
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Oct 4, 2017 06:27
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the idea of an extra little bar that shows useful common functions and switches according to the current task is cool and good there was no reason to remove a row of keys to do it. make the tragic macpad a half inch shorter instead
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Oct 4, 2017 06:43
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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 use them as volume control, pause/start button, and brightness control probably at least once a day
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Oct 4, 2017 09:27
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i use F8 (play pause) and F9 (next) like 100 times a day. i guess we found the windows user?
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Oct 4, 2017 09:56
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:maybe I'm using it wrong 
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Oct 4, 2017 10:52
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Mr SuperAwesome posted:i use F8 (play pause) and F9 (next) like 100 times a day. no, i use function keys repeatedly
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Oct 4, 2017 11:19
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I have yet to meet anyone IRL that likes the touchbar
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Oct 4, 2017 11:41
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:I didn't even know that the video scrubbing bar apparently allows you to skip through youtube ads, so i guess if you're in that lucrative crossover between someone who needs a 'pro' machine but doesn't know how to install adblock that might sway you. same with picture in picture and the PIPtool extension. i use a bespoke artisanal keyboard from assdrop that has no function row because i'm an idiot that doesn't know how to spend money properly. this required way too much effort and macro-ing to use on windows, but since i started using osx full time i can't remember a time when i've actually needed anything in the function row; no keyboard shortcut actually seems to use it. media playback controls are nice but they still don't work consistently enough for me to rely on. the thing does thankfully have an escape key which i'm pretty sure i would not be able to handle the removal of. i guess it doesn't stick out too much in the grand scheme of things with the MBP keyboard, what with it already requiring an adjustment period wherein every muscle memory instinct is screaming 'something is deeply wrong here' honestly, the touch bar seems like a cool gimmick. it's just in the wrong product. i don't doubt it would surprise and delight people who don't and will never use keyboard shortcuts and look down at the keyboard occasionally whilst typing
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Oct 4, 2017 12:19
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For my personal computer I use a Kinesis Freestyle2 Mac edition with the last great MBP, the maxed out discrete Nvidia 2014 model.
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Oct 4, 2017 12:23
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duTrieux. posted:okay, seriously, what the gently caress do people do to their cables the lightning cables that shipped with the 5 did have a materials issue where the plastic would disintegrate rapidly at about the 2yr mark but you could just walk in to an apple store and they'd swap it out but of course people are gigantic loving babies
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Oct 4, 2017 13:32
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Fabricated posted:I have yet to meet anyone IRL that likes the touchbar i think it is o.k. but yeah i have to literally think about it to remember to use it at all
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Oct 4, 2017 13:52
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also i get survey emails from apple focused on the touchbar its like nobody else bought it or something
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Oct 4, 2017 13:53
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I replaced the Siri button in the upper right with a lock button which is nice but why doesn't OSX have a Win+L shortcut equivalent
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Oct 4, 2017 13:58
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:I replaced the Siri button in the upper right with a lock button which is nice but why doesn't OSX have a Win+L shortcut equivalent ctrl+cmd+q
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Oct 4, 2017 14:04
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that is poo poo, poorly documented, and too easy to accidentally force quit an app with
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:that is poo poo, poorly documented, and too easy to accidentally force quit an app with iirc it was only added in weed cat also
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Oct 4, 2017 14:25
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lmbo even better
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Oct 4, 2017 14:31
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:standard PCs just use TPM for this but I guess an off the shelf $0.50 part that doesn't suck battery or require a screen would have been too simple for you brave genius types in cupertino lol no. TPM doesn't work if you allow users to install third party apps that aren't secure. you know, like Microsoft word or flash player or other things people install on desktop machines. or drivers for their hardware. and it requires the os and apps to be resistant to local and remote exploits. but if you trust windows / macos / linux to hold your biometric data and also not to show you it's charging you $1 for a song when in reality your biometric approval is being used to authorize $1000 from Russia, go right ahead.
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The Management posted:lol no. TPM doesn't work if you allow users to install third party apps that aren't secure. you know, like Microsoft word or flash player or other things people install on desktop machines. or drivers for their hardware. and it requires the os and apps to be resistant to local and remote exploits. imho $1000 for some russian music sounds like a good deal since you still come out with some spare cash and function key row in the end
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The Management posted:but if you trust windows / macos / linux to hold your biometric data and also not to show you it's charging you $1 for a song when in reality your biometric approval is being used to authorize $1000 from Russia, go right ahead.
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Oct 4, 2017 15:00
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my credit card is in the keychain, yes
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Fiedler posted:Do you trust windows, macos, or linux enough to type in your credit card number when shopping online? with tokenized cards and biometric identification you don't need to do that, meaning that hopefully I will never need to trust them for it anymore.
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Oct 4, 2017 15:14
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anyone else having alarm issues since updating to iOS 11? before if my ringer was off (which it always is) the alarm still sounded at full volume. now it only vibrates if the ringer is switched off. I go into work at slightly different times each day so I've come to rely on it. cool!
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Oct 4, 2017 15:26
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:I replaced the Siri button in the upper right with a lock button which is nice but why doesn't OSX have a Win+L shortcut equivalent because its a toy not a tool
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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 cool, now explain replacing the hardware esc key with an empty bezel and a shifted-over soft key with no force feedback
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Oct 4, 2017 16:27
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butttouchbar should definitely have haptic feedback. it would be sick if it made little light clicks as you dragged on the playback bar
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:that's cool, now explain replacing the hardware esc key with an empty bezel and a shifted-over soft key with no force feedback it's very dumb and bad
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[quote="“The Management”" post="“477047905”"] it’s very dumb and bad [/quote]  They told me it was going to be cool... they had a video...
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[quote="“Comfy Fleece Sweater”" post="“477048117”"] They told me it was going to be cool... they had a video... [/quote] It isn't. as a vim user I am constantly annoyed by it. they should have left a physical escape key but designers don't use escape apparently.
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Oct 4, 2017 16:49
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The Management posted:It isn't. as a vim user I am constantly annoyed by it. they should have left a physical escape key but designers don't use escape apparently. They sent out this survey asking for feedback on mice and keyboards and I'm pretty sure they just gave up because the actual page to fill it out died after 3 hours.
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cis autodrag posted:They sent out this survey asking for feedback on mice and keyboards and I'm pretty sure they just gave up because the actual page to fill it out died after 3 hours. here's a picture of PD reading user feedback: 
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Fabricated posted:I have yet to meet anyone IRL that likes the touchbar nobody in yospos likes it either, they're trolling if they say they do just fyi
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:I replaced the Siri button in the upper right with a lock button which is nice but why doesn't OSX have a Win+L shortcut equivalent i always used a hot corner to do that 
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:I replaced the Siri button in the upper right with a lock button which is nice but why doesn't OSX have a Win+L shortcut equivalent osx has deliberately bad keyboard shortcuts so they can claim the mouse is faster and then remove more keys from the keyboard
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how is a british keyboard different from a US english keyboard and more importantly is it funnier
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bump_fn posted:how is a british keyboard different from a US english keyboard
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[quote="“bump_fn”" post="“477051661”"] how is a british keyboard different from a US english keyboard and more importantly is it funnier [/quote] keys are crooked, yellow
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