xp re. kernel panics, not re. arm processors, but yeah, I could afford to wait a bit if that timeline emerges.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Saturday, 20 June 2020 15:08 (three years ago) link
If I needed a new machine today I would get a maxed out MacBook Air, no question
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Saturday, 20 June 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
Or a pc laptop tbqhMaybe just one of these https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Saturday, 20 June 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
I love my MBP16 for the most part, but I never use it with the lid closed. Seems like a waste of a screen!
― DJI, Saturday, 20 June 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
yeah I might go for a pinebook if someone else weren't gonna buy me a new box. it's easily sufficient for my needs (though I love the look & feel of mac os still).
it is a waste of a screen but my 4k monitor is super gorgeous and I'd like to get another for the new office I'll have in another town this fall, in addition to my home office. then I can just bring the laptop back & forth without having to bother with syncing.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Saturday, 20 June 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
Definitely getting a pinebook once the manufacturing stuff is figured out (which might be a while with covid) https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/pinebook-pro-review-a-200-foss-to-the-hilt-magnesium-chassis-laptop/?amp=1
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Saturday, 20 June 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
I spend most of my days switching between a MacBook Air and a cheap HP Elitebook and I would not, repeat not, go for a pc laptop at this point. They're better than they used to be but still only OK, while the MBA is great.
The MacBook Pro my employer gave me stays in its pouch under the desk, because it is a simultaneously over- and under- engineered brick.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 20 June 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
I have a 13" touchbar MBP. it's a piece of shit and I hate it
― scampo simmonite (||||||||), Saturday, 20 June 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
half of the keyboard only works half of the time, and even when it's 'fully functional', it's a chore to type anything beyond a sentence on it. I'm sure the newer ones are better
― scampo simmonite (||||||||), Saturday, 20 June 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
'how bad can a keyboard really be' I always thought. welp jokes on me
Euler what monitor do you have ?
― calstars, Saturday, 20 June 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
thanks for input! yeah, i've been waiting for the news on Monday, but i'm assuming that i'll just be waiting til fall or going with an Air a bit sooner.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 20 June 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
The best PC laptop Iβve owned was by... Toshiba, strangely. I donβt think they make them anymore.
― brimstead, Saturday, 20 June 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
iirc when I used to meet semi-regularly with Japanese folks as part of my job they all had Toshibas
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 20 June 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
I have a 2013-ish HP Elitebook for work (finally wiped and upgraded from W7 to W10 late last year) and it's ok but the screen could be from the '90s compared to any MacBook. My switch to eternal WFH happened too quick to sort out peripherals, so I've been borrowing my gf's 24" monitor and grotesquely clunky gaming keyboard (she was furloughed in early April after getting this stuff from her office). As the day goes on and I get drawn into more multiple maddening parallel Slack chats, my fingers hit the edge of the keys more and more frequently. I gotta get something else.
I've never used the Mac for work-work, just fun-work, so I've never been moved to shout at the thing. Except maybe in Numbers.
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 20 June 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link
Gaming keyboards for work ftw
― calstars, Saturday, 20 June 2020 19:03 (three years ago) link
I have a LG 27UD58-B. It was like 300 β¬.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Saturday, 20 June 2020 21:23 (three years ago) link
I have my MBP13 on a stand next to my 27β 4K Screen boosting it up makes it work much better as a companion screen. Magic keyboard and trackpad. TBH it might as well be a desktop now given I donβt take my laptop out any more. Iβm pretty sure that thereβs not much I do that isnβt covered by what an iPad can do except working on the big screen (and the occasional stuff I do with R).
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Saturday, 20 June 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link
caek if that MBP is using a spinning-disk hard drive, an SSD is a no-brainer two year life extension, you seriously won't believe the improvement. A pretty easy job too - buy a 2.5 SATA SSD ($50-80), external case ($15 off eBay), Carbon Copy Cloner (free), a couple of hours to do a complete clone, 10-15 minutes of careful disassembly to switch drives, then you have an external backup drive along with a revitalised laptop.
― assert (MatthewK), Saturday, 20 June 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
Eh? Someone else?
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Sunday, 21 June 2020 01:51 (three years ago) link
I have an encrypted external drive with a user set up on it. I can log in as that user but only if i log in as a user on the main drive first and then switch user. I have the drives password in the keychain but it must be the regular drive users keycahin rather than anything in system.
Is there a way around this so I can log in directly as external drive user first? Its not super important and I can live with it, but good to know if there's a simple way around it
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 21 June 2020 04:19 (three years ago) link
I have a user on the *internal* (encrypted) drive in the same situation - have to log in as someone else first. Curious is anyone knows.
― lukas, Sunday, 21 June 2020 04:38 (three years ago) link
xxp sorry caek that was intended for table
― assert (MatthewK), Sunday, 21 June 2020 07:04 (three years ago) link
Thank you Matthew! really appreciate itβ i might just try that.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Sunday, 21 June 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
CURSED IMAGE CURSED IMAGE pic.twitter.com/IbyTglQCjR— assigned goth at birth (@mycoliza) June 23, 2020
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 14:39 (three years ago) link
waaaiiiit so iβll be able to use Opera as default now??
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 14:56 (three years ago) link
So is it a good idea to wait for an arm laptop, or should I continue as planned to buy an intel one in September ?
― Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
Iβm waiting at least until I know whether theyβre doing the pro stuff first or last.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 15:00 (three years ago) link
I guess the new iMac is gonna be the arm iMac?
― calstars, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
Seems like it would be crazy to use this new architecture for their Pro-series hardware, since there is a huge lift needed on the part of all the pro app-makers.
But I just recently got a MBP so this could be the upgrade malaise talking.
― DJI, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
I have an encrypted external drive with a user set up on it. I can log in as that user but only if i log in as a user on the main drive first and then switch user. I have the drives password in the keychain but it must be the regular drive users keycahin rather than anything in system.Is there a way around this so I can log in directly as external drive user first? Its not super important and I can live with it, but good to know if there's a simple way around it
is the user account FileVault enabled?
― beard papa, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
ahhhh thanks beard papa that ("some users can't unlock this disk") solved my problem
― lukas, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link
So I can sync my phone wirelessly using the Finder, great. Love it. Weird, but okay.
But I can only import photos into Photos by plugging in a wire? Do I have that right?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 28 June 2020 14:07 (three years ago) link
All my photos synch wirelessly via iCloud I think?
― Joey Corona (Euler), Sunday, 28 June 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
i donβt use icloud for photos. it takes up too much room on my phone. hence the need to pour them into my computer!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 28 June 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
or is icloud for photos better now at conserving space, only downloading them to your phone as and when you want?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 28 June 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
i use dropbox's camera upload feature to get photos from my phone to my computers but that's because icloud gives me the fear. afaict icloud photos is actually very good and will solve your problems tracer.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Sunday, 28 June 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
man it always used to just eat up room. i fear icloud too. itβs not like the wireβs a hassle, itβs just.... why?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 28 June 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
I'm pointlessly old school and manual about photos; I don't enable iCloud because I figure it's going to immediately wipe out my free storage allowance and I'm going to start paying (even if it's only 79p/mo) for storing a load of crap, and what if I need something a week later and can't get online? Instead, every few months I connect the phone to the Mac + external HDD, open Lightroom and let it import everything it doesn't already have in its catalog. I then filter by device (i.e. if the metadata says it was something wifi'd off a proper camera, I can get rid, as it's elsewhere anyway), and wipe all the non-iPhone stuff. I then clear out the camera roll up to about three weeks back, great swathes at a time.
I figure anything I really want to access is in the online storage I already pay for (Lightroom CC, Flickr) and maybe quicker to find too. I feel a bit weird about absolute junk (Funny screenshots! "Which of these brands of chickpeas did you mean?" My gas meter reading! etc) sitting on some permanently-on server farm in Virginia, hastening our species' demise. Better to just...stick that in a drawer.
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 28 June 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
I do what caek does for my phone but what MJ does for my camera.
― DJI, Sunday, 28 June 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
Me too
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Sunday, 28 June 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
Dropbox camera upload is just a way to get phone photos onto my computer so I can treat them like camera photos (and to back them up while theyβre not yet on my computer)
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Sunday, 28 June 2020 19:52 (three years ago) link
Thereβs probably even a way to have Lightroom watch that folder and Hoover up photos as they appear.
― DJI, Sunday, 28 June 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link
Very n00b question maybe but...if I wait for one of these new ARM laptops, I'm concerned that some apps that I run won't be supported. Knowing Apple, I'm wondering if y'all have any sense of whether open source tools (basic shit like the OpenOffice suite) will be okay?
Sorry for possibly stupid question, thanks!
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 12:28 (three years ago) link
it looks like it's going to be pretty much OK β the boxes run intel software at reasonable speed, and Apple is working with some open source projects to help them move across. OpenOffice isn't on that list, I don't think (but you do get Pages etc for free with a new Mac now too)
― stet, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 12:31 (three years ago) link
i'd be surprised if there weren't working ARM ports of those open source projects within six months. but yeah, you do get Pages/Numbers/etc. for free with a new Mac
― Nhex, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 12:44 (three years ago) link
Lol I hate Pages so much, will never work with it. I might actually buy one of these current machines that will be mothballed in 2-3 years because the new ones look so bad for applications I've been using for much of my adult life and don't want to stop using.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
Iβve got a pretty strong stomach for badly done weird European open source desktop software and even I use google docs rather than open office.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
ha yeah my kids have used LibreOffice in school for years & I have...stayed away from it
― Joey Corona (Euler), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
So last night I put my new iPhone SE on one of those wireless charging pads and this morning it was on 72%, hot to the touch, and was giving me a temperature warning, saying it couldn't be operated until it cooled down.
Yikes?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link