Eldandan

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by Eldandan 11mo ago
I'm newer to iOS (first iPhone was 15 pro) and macOS (M2 Air) so have tried to keep an open mind - only excessively irritating bugs will get me back to android and windows, as the back and forth transition is a soft barrier. So far, ac
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by Eldandan 1y ago
Second hand as in used from this generation? Or second generation? I can't wait for windows on arm to finally fully get there.
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by Eldandan 3y ago
> try and prevent Yeah, good luck with that. If there's one thing remote teaching during covid taught me it's that you can't stop someone from cheating during an online assessment.
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by Eldandan 3y ago
I was seriously considering an m3 pro for the space black color until I confirmed it wasn't passively cooled. An extra monitor would be nice at work but the air is just too great as a laptop.
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by Eldandan 3y ago
Same here. 15 pro max and all is smooth sailing. Worst I had it was tethered to a laptop running zoom and a pc running another zoom with the phone charging. It had to stop charging at 80% for thermal protection. When the biggest complaints
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by Eldandan 3y ago
You and I have been living under a lint-free rock, apparently.
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by Eldandan 3y ago
I just switched over to IPhone after a solid three years on a Pixel 4a 5g and am having some adjustment pains with iOS related to lack of these features. Live transcription is another super useful feature I truly value during long, annoying
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by Eldandan 3y ago
Ah, yes, the renowned bz4x, or busy forks for the initiated.
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by Eldandan 3y ago
Everything here is accurate. I still chose an EV because I can deal with the caveats, but this helps clarify to me why others wouldn't want to bother. This doesn't even mention access to charging; much easier for homeowners to jus
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by Eldandan 3y ago
I like walled garden. Everything appears nice and flowery except for the fact they want to hold you in. You can admire its beauty but can't really trust anything in it due to its darker purpose. Reminds me of the Stepford Wives. What i
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by Eldandan 3y ago
Never Combine and Only Combine when Full. Two missing features that were literally keeping me from upgrading to 11.
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by Eldandan 3y ago
Either mistook the photo of Napoleon Chagnon as the author or has a very dry sense of humor. Too bad it wasn't the latter.
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by Eldandan 4y ago
Hear, hear. M2 MBA 16/512GB here after buying Thinkpads exclusively since 2010 and even modding to get 51NB X62 and T70 boards installed into X61 and T61 Thinkpads. The mba wipes the floor with them all and I wish it was close. I want
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by Eldandan 4y ago
I've been a diehard Thinkpad user for over a decade now (X201 my first back in 2010). Apple M2 Air is on another level despite not having a trackpoint. Just to add to your list: the aluminum shell feels nice too. Paired with the cpu it
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by Eldandan 4y ago
The X1 Nano is my dream device with the form factor, keyboard, trackpoint, and 16:10 hd+ ips display all rolled into an incredibly portable package. I used mine from gen 1 release until this summer. I now have an m2 macbook air as daily dri
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by Eldandan 4y ago
Taught me not to open Evil Urns in the Crystalline Passage without proper preparation. >:(
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by Eldandan 4y ago
The blog is all but done. Or, ABD, if you will.
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by Eldandan 6y ago
Found this out the hard way with Changeling (1980) and Changeling (2008).
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by Eldandan 6y ago
I regularly transition from Thinkpad/laptop and 60-75% standard boards to a 60% split Ultimate Hacking Keyboard, 40% ortholinear planck, and split planck (Let's Split). The only thing that ever messed me up was using split spaceba
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by Eldandan 6y ago
> There's still one cool granular synthesis app I can think of for Mac OS 8/9 (th0nk) which was never updated for anything newer, for example. If they no longer plan to sell or update the software, I wonder what's to stop
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by Eldandan 6y ago
Well today I learned. I always thought they called it 4K because doubling the dimensions of a rectangle causes the area to quadruple. No wonder "2K" display resolutions confuse me...
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by Eldandan 6y ago
I suspect it's due to competing with the Dell XPS 17 2020. I prefer Thinkpad due to their keyboards and I am a trackpoint user, but if I really needed 16:10 then I would get something from Dell's XPS line. With the LG I'd be
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by Eldandan 6y ago
That's part of what makes it such a rich subject. Even something as simple as writing y=sin(x) has so much more embedded into it than the "input x output y" notion of functions. Parametrization of the Unit Circle, right trian
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by Eldandan 6y ago
Not to mention the "old 'bento box' models where the screen release lock also allows you to lift up the keyboard to access all of the internals." https://imgur.com/a/sbMiIRG https://forum
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by Eldandan 6y ago
>I can't really stay productive on anything less than 15". Agreed. Without a dock/external monitor 13" and 14" are really not the sizes one should focus on for productivity, except in short bursts. 16:10 really m
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by Eldandan 6y ago
I've been able to make the adjustment by buying something with a slightly larger display. A 13" 16:10 display is comparable to 14" 16:9. At 1080p/1200p you lose some vertical pixels and a very tiny amount of physical ver
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by Eldandan 6y ago
I always thought maroon was actual slang for "idiot", when in fact it was just a cartoon rabbit ironically mispronouncing the word moron.
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by Eldandan 6y ago
Here, here! I love Xubuntu. Of all the lighter flavors like Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Mint/xfce, Xubuntu has been the one I had the best experience setting up for others on old thinkpads. And lately my go-to distro.
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by Eldandan 6y ago
Oof! 16:10 display in a 13" chassis is tough to beat. Those extra vertical pixels make coding on it that much nicer. Way to go Dell! If only I could get 16:10 in a ThinkPad; I'm a sucker for their keyboards and trackpoint.
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by Eldandan 7y ago
I'm under 35 and consider myself very 'digitally native'. It wasn't until I helped my 19 year old niece set up her laptop that I realized exactly the same thing. They're fine with youtube and spotify from a tablet o

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