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Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by artursapek »

CodeWriter23 wrote: post #167
Jerry2 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They removed the jack, and all ports from laptops. What are you on about? Audio jack is there. > They placed the charger for their wireless mouse under the mouse so you can't use it while charging And? Mouse lasts MONTHS on a single charge. It notifies you 12 hours ahead that it needs charging. A 5 min charge can last you an hour. I think this is a lot better than having a hole on the side of your mouse at all time…

I presume we’re talking about the Magic Mouuse 2 here. You must not use your mouse very much. I get about 3 weeks on a charge. What baffles me about the MM 2, why didn’t they put a notch at the top so you could plug the Lightning cable in and use it while it is charging?

> why didn’t they put a notch at the top

The next one will, to match the new phone

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by robtaylor »

As there are a few mac gurus on this thread - an OT question... colleague has 2014 rMBP and used HDMI out and a DVI adapter via thunderbolt port to have two external displays.

Sierra update killed that - only one display will work at a time.

prams zapped, settings fiddled with, cables tested in millions of combos and even playing with AppleGraphicsControl.kext

Any other ideas? Seems nuts an update can kill such a thing!

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by paulddraper »

gowld wrote: post #37
bdcravens wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps they were busy testing header font sizes in iOS?

Engineers couldn't see the bug because the code was displayed in Narrow Light font weight, color grey

Their only mistake was not making it an ever lighter grey.

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by nkkollaw »

freedomben wrote: post #129
Steeeve wrote: post #89

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I also decided against another macbook. Apple quite obviously sees the notebook market as secondary. I don't blame them. i-device sales far outpace notebook sales. But not everybody feels that way. I can get a pretty damn impressive linux box for the same cost.

It's become a bit of a joke that every year is "the year of the linux desktop," but seriously I've been amazed at how awesome machine I can get with linux for half the price of a macbook. Linux UX has come a long way. Both Gnome and KDE these days have a pretty complete and nice experience.

Every time I go back to desktop Linux, my experience is a nightmare.

It usually includes updates (or myself by mistake? not sure) making my system so broken that I have to reinstall and start again from scratch.

This year I thought I'd try with the Pro after the MacBook Air wasn't upgraded with retina, but if I have to spend almost EUR 2,000 and have faulty hardware and a broken OS that shows my password in clear text, might as well spend 1/3 to get a just-as-good laptop with elementary OS on it.

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by nkkollaw »

gowld wrote: post #57
nkkollaw wrote: post #42

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Sure, but at least they don't charge premium. I paid 275 for my Moto G5, and it's about 10 times better (IMO) than the last iPhone I owned, which cost 3 times as much.

Amen. You can pay a lot for an Android phone too!

Yes, but you don't _have to_. My phone is absolutely perfect. It's got a fingerprint sensor, 4K camera, nice screen, and even an phone jack which I use very often.

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by lederhosen »

cjsuk wrote: post #43
nkkollaw wrote: post #24

Apple is really going downhill, in every field. I have a MacBook Pro, and the keys no longer work reliably. I also barely get 2 hours of battery life. High Sierra keeps restarting by itself. They removed the jack, and all ports from laptops. They placed the charger for their wireless mouse under the mouse so you can't use it while charging, and the list goes on and on--particularly with software. It's just not premiu…

Annoyingly even with those problems which I agree with I find it’s the least shit thing. Note that I didn’t say the best because nothing has earned that title. This week I have lost a whole day of my life to printer problems on windows 10. Apple stuff in the house just prints!

At work PCs just work. Macs can not print and a colleague of mine is a forced email printer for the UX people that _think_ they must use hardware they do not know how to use. All the time they complain about PC and how wonderful the macs are, but they can not even attach the computer to an external screen or projector.

So experiences do differ...

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by nkkollaw »

hellofunk wrote: post #146
nkkollaw wrote: post #24

Apple is really going downhill, in every field. I have a MacBook Pro, and the keys no longer work reliably. I also barely get 2 hours of battery life. High Sierra keeps restarting by itself. They removed the jack, and all ports from laptops. They placed the charger for their wireless mouse under the mouse so you can't use it while charging, and the list goes on and on--particularly with software. It's just not premiu…

Well, my MBP is 10 months old, the 2016 model (not the touch bar model) and I get 15 hours battery still, after daily rigorous development use since buying it. Just as I don't think there is such a thing as a perfect place to live, a perfect person to spend your life with, a perfect food to eat every day of your life, I also don't think the perfect computer company exists, the perfect laptop exists... But when I weig…

Mine is the 2016 13".

I guess the 15" has a bigger battery.

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by hellofunk »

nkkollaw wrote: post #197
hellofunk wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, my MBP is 10 months old, the 2016 model (not the touch bar model) and I get 15 hours battery still, after daily rigorous development use since buying it. Just as I don't think there is such a thing as a perfect place to live, a perfect person to spend your life with, a perfect food to eat every day of your life, I also don't think the perfect computer company exists, the perfect laptop exists... But when I weig…

Mine is the 2016 13". I guess the 15" has a bigger battery.

Mine is 15". It does depend of course what you do on the machine. I'm typically just running emacs all day, which is lightweight.

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by nkkollaw »

Alex3917 wrote: post #160
nkkollaw wrote: post #24

Apple is really going downhill, in every field. I have a MacBook Pro, and the keys no longer work reliably. I also barely get 2 hours of battery life. High Sierra keeps restarting by itself. They removed the jack, and all ports from laptops. They placed the charger for their wireless mouse under the mouse so you can't use it while charging, and the list goes on and on--particularly with software. It's just not premiu…

> High Sierra keeps restarting by itself. Reset the SMC. It was doing this multiple times per day for me also, but it hasn't been an issue since I did this a couple days ago.

Sure, but I thought these guys were making fun of Windows for having to reinstall every couple of years.

I have to reset the SMC or the computer will restart by itself while I'm in the middle of programming..?

This is a EUR2000 laptop we're talking about, not a Game Boy.

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by nkkollaw »

aphextron wrote: post #46
nkkollaw wrote: post #24

Apple is really going downhill, in every field. I have a MacBook Pro, and the keys no longer work reliably. I also barely get 2 hours of battery life. High Sierra keeps restarting by itself. They removed the jack, and all ports from laptops. They placed the charger for their wireless mouse under the mouse so you can't use it while charging, and the list goes on and on--particularly with software. It's just not premiu…

Their software quality really has become atrocious. Just try recovering your iCloud password from the web. It takes (literally) weeks to do so.

Well, now you can just click on the password hint button—2 seconds.
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