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And yet people have been impressed by my bespoke toaster

I've always wondered if this was the secret motivation behind it. I hated this bit of design when I switched from a smooth edged Thinkpad ~15 years ago. But I changed my typing pos…

> to mask loading times and ease from one state into the other I'd expand on this: used well, they show the user than a state change is happening directly because of a particular a…

You can't deny it, mass is much more stylish in Latin ;)

My experience studying 'Computing and Electronics' - a combined degree - was that we could get practically any extensions or leniency we wanted by blaming the other specialism. To …

My work laptop is M3 and it needs to be because the security crapware makes some things literally 10x slower. Meanwhile my personal M1 is more than adequate for normal work.

This often tells you a key has been invalidated due to updated security logic.

Definitely don't make it too shallow either. People are forever jamming oversize books in ours and damaging the doors/hinges/catch.

In fact, the real crime of the Magic Mouse is how awkward it is to switch it between machines.

It's called the Action icon, a generalisation of its original Share meaning. It's used throughout the Apple ecosystem so knowing that's where actions live is not a big expectation.…

Honestly, as a user of the mouse, I think the main reason people talk about the mouse is bike shedding. Charging isn't a problem in actual use, but everyone sure has an opinion on …

I personally like the status quo that PNGs don't encode orientation. I can dump PNGs when I'm debugging and I know I'm looking at the bits the same way up as the code is!

> Home and End are mapped to C-a and C-e literally everywhere in Cocoa. Even in iOS, if you have a hardware keyboard attached! But Ctrl-a/e have come in with BSD, the more common M…

Not having to think about it is just a nice little win every time. Abort is really very different from copy.

Indeed they do, as they did 25 years, in OS 9. And they have F1-12, though you need Fn to use them unless you invert their function in settings. And they have a numerical keypad, a…

Well, I won't cover all the same things the replies do there! I can empathise, as I always used a full size keyboard on Windows/Linux, and I chose Thinkpads and decent Dells where …

> reduced key availability Genuine question, what do you think is missing? I wish it was slightly easier to type a #. But OTOH it's /way/ easier to type accented characters (in eit…

When I see someone calling the keyboard things like 'inane' I read 'not what I'm used to'. Personally I found the keyboard a breath of fresh air when I switched from Windows/Linux.…

We had dozens of 2013 MBP with discrete GPU mux where I worked. I bought one afterwards and used it until the M1 laptops came out, for pretty much everything you can use a laptop f…

This list isn't really selling it to me! Mmm, aluminium, yummy propylene glycol. The things you need from that list are Wheat flour (white), corn flour (starch), Sugar, Cocoa, Baki…

We are all vulnerable at some point. I'd even go as far as saying we all fall for something at some point. Even if it's something small the psychological effect can be large, and t…

To be fair, we had a keyboard setup like that at school in the nineties. I can’t remember using it more than a handful of times though.

I had a couple of these over the years. I ended up using specialist graphics cards to use them with a PC. The crude scaling built into the cards made old PC games and NES games glo…

Yup. I worked for a media company that made IP part of the access token for media playback. An absolute PITA for the mobile app, and made (reliable) background downloads impossible…