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by astafrig 1y ago
> I own this iPad, as in: it's mine. Why should I, and why would I want to put MY device's access and security on the whims of company? Great question! You did configure it that way, so it might be worth asking yourself.
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by astafrig 1y ago
The 10th and 11th generation iPads work with _both_ the Lightning Apple Pencil and the USB-C Apple Pencil. The Lightning Apple Pencil was sold at a time when you could plug it directly into the compatible iPad, and it *came with the adapter
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by astafrig 1y ago
Glad to know I was correct. They didn’t claim it was new or “never thought of before” at all—they even specifically pointed out how they already did it on their other products. I’m pretty sure they almost spent more time talking about the c
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by astafrig 1y ago
> assistive access only works for the standard apps Other apps can offer a proper Assistive Access mode [0], but when most developers these days put writing a real app in the ‘too hard’ basket, getting them to actually use platform featu
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by astafrig 1y ago
> then Cook will go on stage to showcase what an awesome idea they had that nobody thought of before: “standards!”. Wait no, that’s usb c. That never happened.
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by astafrig 1y ago
Including in authoring all their other frameworks, which are used by many, many apps.
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by astafrig 1y ago
Repair State isn’t a feature that you need to know about unless you’re having your phone repaired or traded in, at which point you’ll learn about it. It’s a perfect example of a feature being surfaced exactly as it should be, when needed. Q
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by astafrig 1y ago
It is the case, but people pointing this out like some kind of gotcha are intentionally omitting that the reason they call them ‘bladeless’ is because almost all of the airflow generated by the fan doesn’t come from the pedestal, but from t
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by astafrig 1y ago
Could easily dismiss those concerns by looking at the source code instead of snooping around their profile, especially if you’re on GitHub anyway :)
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by astafrig 1y ago
Ideally it’d actually be RFC 8910 detection (and subsequently RFC 8908 API) but standards usage is generally incompatible with giving POs something to do
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by astafrig 1y ago
Not always on networking; any WiFi passwords are on the data volume too.
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by astafrig 1y ago
I’m confident that people watching porn on suburban trains isn’t the problem.
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by astafrig 1y ago
Cool to see very real-world usage of Swift outside the typical platforms. Author notes this isn’t the first Swift thing on Playdate, but just the first published to the console’s first-party store.
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Four Corners: The first Playdate Catalog game written in Swift(news.play.date)
3 points by astafrig 1y ago|1 comments