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Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug

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Post by meestaahjoshee »

chongli wrote: post #206
8fingerlouie wrote: post #192

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But still no (physical) escape button. I know regular consumers probably have no use for it, but as a die hard Vim user, it's kinda annoying.

I'm a die hard neovim user with a touch bar MacBook pro. I remapped caps lock to control and use control-] to escape in nvim. I'm used to it and it works just fine for me. Other people like to map caps lock to escape, which makes it even easier. I have even heard of people doing this that have a physical escape key on their keyboards.

You can have the best of both worlds - tap capslock for escape, hold for ctrl.

I currently use karabiner-elements to get this functionality, it's pretty good.

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Post by anthonybsd »

jerrysievert wrote: post #273
anthonybsd wrote: post #246

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>By all accounts the XS is a great phone. If I had anything other than the X, I would have upgraded. I upgraded to XS Max from 7+ and I regret it. LTE issues due to Intel modem are bad enough to launch a class action lawsuit.

did your 7+ not have the intel model? my 7 does, and it has many more issues than my 6 did with the Qualcomm modem.

My 7+ had a Qualcomm one and it was pretty seamless. XS Max is pretty much my first exposure to Intel ones and it's practically unusable in NYC subway.

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Post by 4ec0755f5522 »

graeme wrote: post #217
SamuelAdams wrote: post #208

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iPhone SE was released in 2016 and still runs the latest version of iOS. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_SE

It never cost anything close to $180 though. That was my point: a phone that cost that little in 2016 was probably an older android and is unlikely to have current software support.

I got burned by Android being out of date (insecure) because my phone had to be updated by the carrier. I was royally pissed that neither the manufacturer of the phone nor my phone provider was taking ownership-- of the thing they took ownership of by not supporting vanilla Android to begin with-- and leaving me with an insecure device on their network.

Total BS.

I switched to iPhone now.

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Post by 4ec0755f5522 »

jedberg wrote: post #70
savanaly wrote: post #54

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>Apple is the richest company in the world, and instead of paying their engineers top wages... If that sentence caught anyone else's eye, know that it caught mine too and I did a quick sanity check. [0] It does seem that Apple is falling a bit short of other top companies, especially for the upper levels. [0] https://www.levels.fyi/SE/Google/Facebook/Apple

Anecdotally, everyone I know who works for Apple is paid below market rate. They justify it by reminding you that “you get to be part of the mission”. I know one guy making market and he’s in the video streaming product group.

LOL what mission? Making fancy phones? Seriously what mission does Apple do? The mission to make money? Like every other company? LOL who would ever fall for this????????

I think this explains why Apple products-- software and hardware-- have fallen in quality: they hire people dumb enough to think working for Apple matters somehow.

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Post by komali2 »

rienbdj wrote: post #87
komali2 wrote: post #7

That's a weird glitch, and generally I'm not a fan of apple hardware (I think it's overpriced, that their keyboards suck, that they don't have enough ports, and I don't enjoy working in osx), but this article comes off as almost biblically haughty. Apple should have tests around clock updates affecting external audio quality? I mean, maybe after this bug being discovered, sure, but before, was that a connection that…

with Linux you have chosen to step outside of the mainstream, and for support that means figuring it out yourself. the fact that lenovo released the patch actually goes beyond what we would expect. when you go with Apple, you are paying a premium so that everything "just works". they should be held to a higher standard.

The difference is Lenovo markets it as an "Ubuntu-ready" machine.

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Post by rusk »

bunnycorn wrote: post #270
rusk wrote: post #250

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So the answer is “no” then ...

As bad as iTunes is, its still better than adb

That’s a poor excuse

EDIT I would add that at least with adb its not the only option. Android is a reasonably open and flexible and open experience and there are lots of different ways you can manage your device. The iPhone for better or worse is locked down, the least Apple could do is provide something better than the lousy piece of crap that is iTunes.

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Post by StreamBright »

8draco8 wrote: post #144
StreamBright wrote: post #113

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>> I'm surprised to hear a need for 512GB storage How should I store my lossless audio files then? I have a 6s and I am continuously having issues with space but I won't give up the jack port and nothing can change that. HiFi audio needs additional 10 years before it becomes viable on wireless (battery times, quality, etc.).

The big question is do you really need that high quality of audio on the go? Is spotify/mp3 quality really hurts your ears that badly? I would rather spent money on home audio setup or highend mp3 player rather than pump all that money into iPhone. Plus listening lossless audio on the go in non silent environment seems pointless to begin with because of all the noise around interfering with music.

I use a hifi headphone that has amazing sound quality. Why should I give that up and move over to something worse? I think we as a society are responsible to reject if a company tries to push down something that is worse than the previous version. Capitalism and supply/demand works only if the purchasing power is smart about quality.

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Post by StreamBright »

tobylane wrote: post #130
StreamBright wrote: post #113

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>> I'm surprised to hear a need for 512GB storage How should I store my lossless audio files then? I have a 6s and I am continuously having issues with space but I won't give up the jack port and nothing can change that. HiFi audio needs additional 10 years before it becomes viable on wireless (battery times, quality, etc.).

I looked into audio quality with minimal tech, ie just a smartphone and earphones. Those two together can’t outperform mp3. If anything can, it needs an amp and headphones. So I bought an adapter and mid range earphones.

iPhone 6s has amazing DAC, I have an amazing earphone and I use ALAC. This setup certainly outperforms mp3 + external DAC + mid range earphone.

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Post by blacksmith_tb »

bunnycorn wrote: post #270
rusk wrote: post #250

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So the answer is “no” then ...

As bad as iTunes is, its still better than adb

Well, Android never went through an evolution like ipod+itunes > iphone +/- itunes, so the tools for managing it from another machine never needed to attempt to be friendly.

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Post by StreamBright »

saiya-jin wrote: post #122
StreamBright wrote: post #113

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>> I'm surprised to hear a need for 512GB storage How should I store my lossless audio files then? I have a 6s and I am continuously having issues with space but I won't give up the jack port and nothing can change that. HiFi audio needs additional 10 years before it becomes viable on wireless (battery times, quality, etc.).

Well you most probably don't need all of that collection in your phone. Phones are generally lousy primary storage for, well anything including photos and music. Easy to lose, drown or destroy. You also most probably wouldn't hear the difference between high bitrate mp3 and flac, unless you are genetically gifted with superior hearing and use expensive headphones on top of that. But I guess its easier to shell tons o…

I have my primary storage on my laptop (+ secondary backups). I sync music from my laptop to my phone. you are suggesting I should convert the music to lower quality because most people cannot distinguish between lossless and mp3? I should compromise because companies refuse to deliver what I want and what I would pay for? That is the really lousy argument. Btw. you do not need to be genetically gifted to hear the difference. Also you do not need an _expensive_ headphone you need one with great sound quality. There are plenty of hifi headphones with reasonable pricing.
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