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Post by imlina »

wishinghand wrote: post #202

The Macbook Pro chassis before the OLED touchstrip. I'm a web developer and learned on MBPs. The touchpad was the right size, the keys had the right amount of travel, the form factor and weight were perfect. Right now I'm considering moving to developing on a Galaga Pro and using Windows/WSL. I've got most things setup on my desktop how I like using HyperTerm (I had too much trouble with Cmder), VS Code, and ZSH. I c…

The macbook pro 2018 keyboard makes me want to cry. My fingers don't flow the rate my brain does anymore :(

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Post by walterbell »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #838

Aardvark was the best Q&A system I've ever seen, felt like the most miraculous thing I've seen in my life. Sadly I've only learnt about it from the news when Google bought it and in just about a year Google closed it. It worked like this: you just write (on the website or in ICQ) an question (in whatever a form on whatever a subject, no limitations or rules, just avoid offence), it gets routed to a number of semi-ran…

What was their business model?

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Post by cpeterso »

DamnInteresting wrote: post #736
function_seven wrote: post #296

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple has ditched so many cool things in the MacBook line. 1) MagSafe. I know they really want to go all in on USB-C, but the original MagSafe connector was awesome. Even the weaker 2.0 version was nice. There were two instances where that connector saved my laptop. 2) The laser-drilled power indicator. That was so cool. It looked like the light magically appeared through the aluminum. Now there's no indication whats…

I could have written this ^^^ comment myself; I've been very disappointed with my 2017 MacBook Pro. They keyboard keys feel unpleasant, and now my H key has become unreliable (about 50% of the time it works, about 25% of the time it fails to register, and 25% of the time it types 2 characters). Dealing with dongles is not worth the headache. The touchbar is a step back in UI. The new trackpad is so large I bump it al…

For all the same reasons, I upgraded from a 2012 MacBook Pro to a 2018 model and returned it right away. I bought a lightly-used 2015 model on eBay instead. 2015 was the last model with a real keyboard. It feels just like my 2012 but with a small bump in all the specs.

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Post by nil_pointer »

wishinghand wrote: post #202

The Macbook Pro chassis before the OLED touchstrip. I'm a web developer and learned on MBPs. The touchpad was the right size, the keys had the right amount of travel, the form factor and weight were perfect. Right now I'm considering moving to developing on a Galaga Pro and using Windows/WSL. I've got most things setup on my desktop how I like using HyperTerm (I had too much trouble with Cmder), VS Code, and ZSH. I c…

I completely agree about the 2015 gen MBP. Unfortunately the Galaga Pro is disappointing in it's own way: only 2-3 hours battery life.

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Post by walterbell »

CosmicShadow wrote: post #611
renegadesensei wrote: post #512

I miss variety in smartphone design. Everything looks the same these days. Samsung and Apple endlessly copy each other and virtually every smartphone has the same phablet aesthetic now. I miss the variety in shapes, sizes, physical keyboards, gaming features, operating systems, etc.

I agree, I own a BlackBerry Passport which my wife just stopped using and every time I touch it I fall back in love with the design, it's just so damn cool, I wish more phones were weird and comfortable like that. I had a Priv, which was a bit different, but now that I have an S9+ I see every 2nd person with the same fucking phone I have, when before I was so much more unique and different.

Blackberry KEY2 has a good design and gets monthly security updates, https://crackberry.com/blackberry-key2-review

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Post by snuxoll »

fegul wrote: post #569

The Palm Pre (and WebOS) When it first came out I thought it was kinda cute so I got it for my gf but I ended up loving it. The slider mechanism was solid, the OS was a breeze to use, and it was years before Android and iOS fully caught up with the "cards" concept. It revolutionized the mobile experience in many ways for me.

I had a Palm Pre Plus the moment they launched on AT&T, WebOS was amazing - and ironically ahead of its time with all the popularity technologies like React Native have these days.

I'm actually kind of pissed at the new Palm device TCL launched, what a waste of the brand.

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Post by client4 »

gonational wrote: post #691
client4 wrote: post #13

Westwood Studios. I loved their games including their final game C&C Renegade, even though EA rushed Renegade out the door and shut the studio down.

OMG, I’m so glad somebody mentioned Westwood Studios... Check this out btw (Red Alert 2): https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA C&C Red Alert 2 and C&C Generals were the best RTS games ever made, hands-down. Much of my life was spent playing these games.

Nice! I've tried OpenRA and enjoyed it, but for whatever reason Tiberium Sun captured my attention the most :)
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