too positivethe lust object thread is thataway
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 1 March 2019 15:23 (five years ago) link
you're right, i am shamed
― Backdoor Pathway To Making Human Penis Started With A Wallaby (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 1 March 2019 15:24 (five years ago) link
GAWD
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 1 March 2019 15:25 (five years ago) link
so uh what are the best windows laptops : /
― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Saturday, 16 March 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
after 19 years (!) on apple laptops I'm not sure I could make the switch but I should at least consider the options
― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Saturday, 16 March 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link
The MS Surface laptop is nice. My wife has one. The Dell XPS13s are pretty nice, esp. now that they moved the nostril can. If I was going to buy a new laptop, I think I’d do either one of the Razer ones. The stealth plus their external GPU enclosure is a pretty sweet combo.
― DJI, Saturday, 16 March 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
Or just get the 15” Razer with the built-in GPU.
― DJI, Saturday, 16 March 2019 17:53 (five years ago) link
Dell xps is probably closest to the appple experience
― calstars, Saturday, 16 March 2019 19:23 (five years ago) link
yeah the new xps13 looks nice
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 16 March 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link
My work surface 3 was the absolute worst computer I have ever owned, and I had an Apple Mac Centris 660av in the 90s. My Wife’s surface gave up on talking to the keyboard and is unrepairable. She’s going to replace it with a Lenovo or an HP.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 16 March 2019 20:31 (five years ago) link
lol the centris could not have been the worst!!!!
― j., Saturday, 16 March 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
except for its storage space issues (which could have been avoided or mitigated with foresight) i do like my lenovo ideapad, despite having zero need to turn it on since i got a new mac.
― j., Saturday, 16 March 2019 21:24 (five years ago) link
the XPS13 and 15 are a beaut, and moving the webcam to the top p much makes it the perfect laptop imo. I've played w them a little bit too and they're real nice.
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 17 March 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
I use the XPS 13 at work, and it keeps taking ages to unlock. It’s got so bad, I have to carry it unlocked to meetings - otherwise I risk wasting 10 minutes waiting for it to unlock and not being able to access the relevant papers.
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 17 March 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link
That...seems odd
― calstars, Sunday, 17 March 2019 20:06 (five years ago) link
My colleague thinks it could probably be fixed if we were allowed access to the full settings, but alas... IT support seems unable/uninterested in fixing it.
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 17 March 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
as an IT adminstrator the unlock issue is almost certainly a fault of your company's IT settings/policies and not the XPS 13 itself
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 18 March 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
how do I block twitter dot com on mac ? editing hosts doesn’t work ?
― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Monday, 18 March 2019 15:58 (five years ago) link
there's an app called Freedom, dunno if there's an easier way to do it
― lukas, Friday, 22 March 2019 04:19 (five years ago) link
every single week apple music puts something called “group therapy” by “above & beyond” in my new releases, every single week i marked it as disliked, every single week it’s back there again. what the fuck.
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 22 March 2019 04:42 (five years ago) link
My new music often thinks I am either:
a) a middle aged woman from Galwaya) a middle aged woman from Missouri who things thy are descended from someone from Galway.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 22 March 2019 04:56 (five years ago) link
good summary of the current hardware situation for switchers https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/guidemaster-the-best-windows-ultrabooks-you-can-buy-right-now/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 23 March 2019 19:06 (five years ago) link
If they cost as much as an Air then what’s the point
― L'assie (Euler), Sunday, 24 March 2019 02:10 (five years ago) link
better keyboards
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 24 March 2019 02:33 (five years ago) link
They’re faster, the keyboards work, the batteries last longer, they run an operating system that isn’t abandonware, etc.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 24 March 2019 05:07 (five years ago) link
"how do I block twitter dot com on mac ? editing hosts doesn’t work ?"
you must have done something wrong because this will work on any computer, it changes how the computer interacts with the network. maybe file didn't save?
― akm, Sunday, 24 March 2019 17:14 (five years ago) link
Question: are airpods total garbage? I want some wireless headphones and don't want to spend $300 on them.
yeah it worked after I restarted
― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Sunday, 24 March 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link
I love mine fwiw xp
― Mordy, Sunday, 24 March 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
My airpods work fine they’re not entirely seamless but they work and Apple earbuds are the only ones that have ever been comfortable in my ears
― moose; squirrel (silby), Sunday, 24 March 2019 18:45 (five years ago) link
Airpods as the budget option wow.
― Alba, Sunday, 24 March 2019 21:04 (five years ago) link
airpods aren’t perfect but they’re one of the best things apple has done in the past five years
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 24 March 2019 21:45 (five years ago) link
low bar
― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Sunday, 24 March 2019 21:48 (five years ago) link
exactly
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 25 March 2019 02:38 (five years ago) link
give me proper IEM Airpods and i'm sold. I've been using the wired Apple ones for 10 years and they're pretty good.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 25 March 2019 08:58 (five years ago) link
xp Nice guide to Ultrabooks. I am investing in a nicer laptop when my clunky Acer bites it. I like my missus's MacBook Air... when I'm not using it.I'm dual booting Linux and Windows for now. Years ago there was an ok market for bare laptop cases so you could put in whatever you want. But I came up just about empty searching for these yesterday. Is there anything ultrabook quality available without a disk/OS at least?
― maffew12, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:29 (five years ago) link
xp There are surprisingly decent Bluetooth earbuds around for around $50, if you don't mind a wire connecting them, sitting on the back of your neck
― maffew12, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link
I still use 3.5mm jack stuff, but I find Bluetooth buds less alien looking than the earpods. There's single bud stuff too, though bad for music of course
― maffew12, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
lmao
Two years ago, Desmond Hughes heard so many of his favorite podcasters extolling AirPods, Apple’s tiny, futuristic $170 wireless headphones, that he decided they were worth the splurge. He quickly became a convert.Hughes is still listening to podcasters talk about their AirPods, but now they’re complaining. The battery can no longer hold a charge, they say, rendering them functionally useless. Apple bloggers agree: “AirPods are starting to show their age for early adopters,” Zac Hall, an editor at 9to5Mac, wrote in a post in January, detailing how he frequently hears a low-battery warning in his AirPods now. Earlier this month, Apple Insider tested a pair of AirPods purchased in 2016 against a pair from 2018, and found that the older pair died after two hours and 16 minutes. “That’s less than half the stated battery life for a new pair,” the writer William Gallagher concluded.Hughes, who is 35 and lives in Newport News, Virginia, has noticed a similar thing about his own set: At first, their charge lasted five hours, but now they sometimes last only half an hour. He frequently listens to one while charging the other—not optimal conditions for expensive headphones. He’s now gearing up to plunk down more money on another pair. “I just wish they would increase the battery life,” he told me.
Hughes is still listening to podcasters talk about their AirPods, but now they’re complaining. The battery can no longer hold a charge, they say, rendering them functionally useless. Apple bloggers agree: “AirPods are starting to show their age for early adopters,” Zac Hall, an editor at 9to5Mac, wrote in a post in January, detailing how he frequently hears a low-battery warning in his AirPods now. Earlier this month, Apple Insider tested a pair of AirPods purchased in 2016 against a pair from 2018, and found that the older pair died after two hours and 16 minutes. “That’s less than half the stated battery life for a new pair,” the writer William Gallagher concluded.
Hughes, who is 35 and lives in Newport News, Virginia, has noticed a similar thing about his own set: At first, their charge lasted five hours, but now they sometimes last only half an hour. He frequently listens to one while charging the other—not optimal conditions for expensive headphones. He’s now gearing up to plunk down more money on another pair. “I just wish they would increase the battery life,” he told me.
― i'm w/ tato, super hot AND weird!! (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:40 (five years ago) link
oh yikes! I guess that's going to happen if they are your all-purpose thing! Battery tech was enough of a reason to leave the headphone jack alone.
― maffew12, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
Every time something new gets batteries we get a new story about how battery life degrades after many charging cycles.
Also “plunk”
― moose; squirrel (silby), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
the easy way around battery degradation is by making them replaceable
― koogs, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
you got it. That's my top criteria for phones now. My last one was tricky... my current one, there's not even visible screws on the casing.
― maffew12, Monday, 25 March 2019 16:00 (five years ago) link
podcasts are famously demanding of high-fidelity reproduction, who can fault this guy for plunking down $340 on earpods with no guarantee the second set's batteries will las any longer than the first's
― i'm w/ tato, super hot AND weird!! (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 25 March 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link
Replacing the EarPods that you bought because of podcasts about EarPods with new EarPods to listen to podcasts about EarPods on. We’ve all been there.
― One Eye Open, Monday, 25 March 2019 16:11 (five years ago) link
from the same article quoted above:
Hughes told me that he and his girlfriend upgrade their iPhones every two years, as they do their iPad. “I guess we don’t keep our technology super long,” he told me. And why should he? Every few months, new tech products come out boasting substantial updates and better batteries. A German environmental agency found that the proportion of products sold to replace a defective appliance grew from 3.5 percent in 2004 to 8.3 percent in 2012.
These people are the worst
― silverfish, Monday, 25 March 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
waht is all this extraneous shit
― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Monday, 25 March 2019 18:10 (five years ago) link
wow, this is all spectacular garbage
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 25 March 2019 18:17 (five years ago) link
uh I guess hopefully the tv service is better than Directv Now?
i've got nothing here
― mh, Monday, 25 March 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
unveiling your original video content with a bunch of celebrities, none of who are under the age of 40, is a thing
― mh, Monday, 25 March 2019 18:19 (five years ago) link