In other news today...
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
last I heard, the ruling in Switzerland was only for assemblies with >= 1000 people.
And I was spared from going to a trade show because of this. Thank you, Corona!
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
prohibition on spectators at sporting events (primarily indoor and stadiums)
A lot of happy residents near said stadiums.
A lot of un-happy fans.
And me, I'm wondering whether someone starts selling cheap hazmat suits soon. You know; "stadium access only to IP64-suited and above".
Well, I'm also wonder if spritzing oil in it works for this kind of fan too? But that's way beside the point.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
I wonder if there are ponies. 'Cause I know a guy that... never mind
There was going to be pets in Hypatia. Never got to the drawing board on what we wanted them to do though...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
There was going to be pets in Hypatia. Never got to the drawing board on what we wanted them to do though...
You could have done virtual stick insects. Then they'd have never visibly done anything and it would have been just like the real ones!
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
There was going to be pets in Hypatia. Never got to the drawing board on what we wanted them to do though...
You could have done virtual stick insects. Then they'd have never visibly done anything and it would have been just like the real ones!
For that players already have the ability to draw 3d meshes.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
There was going to be pets in Hypatia. Never got to the drawing board on what we wanted them to do though...
Not being able to get them to do what you want them to do...well, doesn't that make them just like real pets?
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
There was going to be pets in Hypatia. Never got to the drawing board on what we wanted them to do though...
Not being able to get them to do what you want them to do...well, doesn't that make them just like real pets?
Well, yeah, but we assumed players would want their pets to be more than, say, a static picture...
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Well that escalated quickly: Australia is apparently experiencing a shopping frenzy of toiletpaper:
Seems like disaster is also helping a hand:
Some are getting agitated:
Luckily this tabloid is there to help by adding a few extra empty pages:
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@JBert Why toilet paper. Are they wrapping it around their heads as a substitute for face masks?
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Australia is apparently experiencing a shopping frenzy of toiletpaper:
well, shit!
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Free CPU replacement on the horizon?
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"Most Intel chipsets released in the last five years contain the vulnerability in question," said Positive Technologies in a report published today.
Oh good, I'm not affected
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@TimeBandit So the abstract says CPU, but the text suggests this is actually about the chipset. Those typically aren't mounted in swappable sockets, so it'll be tricky for intel to provide replacements.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
the abstract says CPU, but the text suggests this is actually about the chipset.
Modern journalism
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Free
CPUchip replacement on the horizon?Either that or a huge number of people need to have their ability to consume DRM-protected resources revoked. Which would be possible, but would make for a huge number of extremely upset people.
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@dkf Maybe it could get a much-needed conversation started on why DRM is a fundamental violation of our rights and needs to be treated as such. Sometimes it seems like "a huge number of extremely upset people" is the only way change for the better happens these days.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@dkf Maybe it could get a much-needed conversation started on why DRM is a fundamental violation of our rights and needs to be treated as such. Sometimes it seems like "a huge number of extremely upset people" is the only way change for the better happens these days.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@dkf Maybe it could get a much-needed conversation started on why DRM is a fundamental violation of our rights and needs to be treated as such. Sometimes it seems like "a huge number of extremely upset people" is the only way change for the better happens these days.
Nobody listens to RMS, so no, thatâs not going to happen.
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@TimeBandit It is bananas how good the Apple trackpads are and yet how bad the Apple mice are.
edit: having said that, this is the same Apple who had some of the best laptop keyboards and then produced the 2016-2019 Macbook keyboards, before then producing good laptop keyboards again.
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Apple has always prided itself on function following form. If it hadn't of hurt their sales, they would of kept their more aesthetic keyboards as well.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Apple has always prided itself on function following form. If it hadn't of hurt their sales, they would of kept their more aesthetic keyboards as well.
Yeah but no.
The terrible ones look the same as the good ones.
It also doesn't explain the trackpads.And that's the point. There isn't the evidence to say "everything is form over function" and there's not the evidence to the contrary.
There's justbothneitherApple.
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You are looking at the individual item, the keyboard, and not the whole system. The reason for the thinner keyboard was to make a thinner laptop. Which they valued more than the usability of the keyboard. The track pad isn't anything special, it just hasn't run afoul of the aesthetics gods yet, but give it time and it to will be turned into a heap of garbage all in the name of "but it looks cool"
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The Apple trackpads aren't particularly good anyway; they can't even right-click!
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
You are looking at the individual item, the keyboard, and not the whole system.
Well yeah because the linked article was about terrible Apple mice despite good trackpads. Besides that ignoring screen size that's the only real usability difference between the last 2 generations of Macbook Pro.
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
The track pad isn't anything special
They're the best laptop trackpad I've used compared to several HP, Lenovo and Dell models and it's a consistent experience.
Unless you're using Windows on Bootcamp then the Apple drivers are terrible. Just don't do that.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Well yeah because the linked article was about terrible Apple mice despite good trackpads. Besides that ignoring screen size that's the only real usability difference between the last 2 generations of Macbook Pro.
You had noted that the keyboards looked the same, I was merely opining that the reason for the change in keyboard design was to make the entire laptop smaller (and thus look better) and it was not directly related to the aesthetics of the keyboard. So function still follow form, just for the entire package and not necessarily any particular component.
They're the best laptop trackpad I've used compared to several HP, Lenovo and Dell models and it's a consistent experience.
Unless you're using Windows on Bootcamp then the Apple drivers are terrible. Just don't do that.
You had stated "it doesn't explain trackpads" I was merely stating that the fact that they haven't be "appled" is simply because they haven't gotten in the way of the designers yet. I was not commenting on the quality of the trackpad itself.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
I was merely opining that the reason for the change in keyboard design was to make the entire laptop smaller (and thus look better)
Except... smaller machines don't look better. They look fragile. They look like something that would bend or break if you poke them too hard.
Oh, wait. Apple.
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Apple has this obsession with overly thin products, I don't understand it either.
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@Dragoon Sounds like someone has a bad case of anorexia electronica...
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
and it was not directly related to the aesthetics of the keyboard.
You said they would have kept their more aesthetic keyboards and I was pointing out that aesthetically they're all the same.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit It is bananas how good the Apple trackpads are and yet how bad the Apple mice are.
Most likely because they acquired FingerWorks which were specialized in trackpad technology (and which had a whole bunch of patents related to them), whereas the mice are "easy enough" to design themselves.
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Fair enough, I was thinking in my mind of the larger aesthetics of the laptop, but that is not what a said.
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@JBert Huh. TIL.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@dkf Maybe it could get a much-needed conversation started on why DRM is a fundamental violation of our rights and needs to be treated as such. Sometimes it seems like "a huge number of extremely upset people" is the only way change for the better happens these days.
Nobody listens to RMS, so no, thatâs not going to happen.
LOL, come on @Mason_Wheeler, I didnât even disagree with you.
Oh whatever.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Makes you wonder how it happened. I mean, besides their religious idiocy that right buttons are for suckers with bad UI (ignoring that command+click is worse), I imagine if Steve Jobs wouldâve had to use the hockey puck for one hour, heâd have strangled the designer with its cord. Guess this never got dog-fooded?
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
good laptop keyboards
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D'Adrien
Was he named after his F'Ather?
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
and which had a whole bunch of patents related to them
Founded 1998, acquired by Apple in 2005, so most of the key patents should be either public domain now or close to it. Things done after acquisition won't be yet.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
right buttons are for suckers with bad UI (ignoring that command+click is worse)
A two-finger tap is reasonably intuitive too.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
I was merely opining that the reason for the change in keyboard design was to make the entire laptop smaller (and thus look better)
Except... smaller machines don't look better. They look fragile. They look like something that would bend or break if you poke them too hard.
Oh, wait. Apple.
I remember thinking the same thing when I turned in my fat PS2 under warranty and the replacement was the thin one.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/us/electric-shock-fda-ban.html
"Nice job ruining it for everyone else, Judge Rotenberg Educational Center! You just had to take it too far, now nobody can zap children anymore."
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
It is bananas how good the Apple trackpads are and yet how bad the Apple mice are.
It's obvious. You're doing it wrong. Mice are bad. Trackpads are good. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED!
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
heâd have strangled the designer with its cord
Maybe that's why they're wireless?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
I imagine if Steve Jobs wouldâve had to use the hockey puck for one hour, heâd have strangled the designer with its cord. Guess this never got dog-fooded?
It was in the Jobs era so he presumably signed it off.
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Google, Samsung, whoever. Nobody seems to be able to figure out how to do face unlock effectively:
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Google, Samsung, whoever. Nobody seems to be able to figure out how to do face unlock effectively:
IME FaceID works very well but I don't doubt that other people have had issues with it.
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@loopback0 Indeed. It's even reasonably capable in the face of "Bleargh, is it morning already?!"
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@hungrier I remember in high school, one of my friends was super excited to have installed Vista on his terrible laptop, and was super excited to tell us about the face unlock. He tried to use it for the next year or so, where every day he'd stare at it and make faces and it wouldn't let him in. We would just look at him strangely as he took 8x as long as he could have if he just logged in normally.
I bet it's improved since then.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
"Nice job ruining it for everyone else, Judge Rotenberg Educational Center! You just had to take it too far, now nobody can zap children anymore."
Reminds me of the electro-shock diapers I was wondering if I should attempt to patent...