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Filing the corners off my MacBooks

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Post by flkiwi »

LiquidPolymer wrote: post #552
duxup wrote: post #533

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When I got into photography, I used to baby my camera equipment a lot. After all, I spent a lot of money I wanted to take care of it. Later on the topic came up online and someone noted something to the effective of: “If I saw a group of photographers taking pictures, I bet I could pick out the best photographer just based on how beat up their equipment is.” I realized based on my own experience, that was probably tr…

I’ve made my living as a pro photographer for over 30 years. These days I consider most cameras to be disposable. I also keep any older bodies as hazardous duty remote cameras. Once you get into the mindset it opens a certain amount of creativity.

The number of times I find myself saying to beginning photographers that babying their camera is the surest way to hate photography, whether as a hobby or a profession… I get particularly testy about handwringing about weather sealing or protecting the finish on their kit. Just take the camera places and use it. It’s probably going to be fine. It’s going to get scars. That’s just stories.

Re: Filing the corners off my MacBooks

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Post by bigyabai »

Rekindle8090 wrote: post #488
wraptile wrote: post #310

I used a macbook for almost 2 years and genuinely don't understand how people can tolerate these machines. My wrists would be cut up all the time to the point where I looked like I was self harming myself and the glary screen is entirely unsuable anywhere but a darkest basement. Not to mention the terrible keyboard. To this day I'm perplexed how macbooks have such high desirability by full time developers when they'r…

Do you also have glass bones and paper skin?

No? The Mac current chassis has objective problems, you can feel the laptop grounding to your body when you touch it with any bare skin.

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Post by throwaway290 »

swiftcoder wrote: post #528
throwaway290 wrote: post #455

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all my EU/UK macbook plugs I got from apple are always grounded, metal prong and metal side pins so what I mean is maybe house electricity grid is not grounded.

> all my EU/UK macbook plugs I got from apple are always grounded, metal prong and metal side pins The short version, where you remove the extension with the 3-prong plug and attach the plug directly to the charger brick, is only available in 2-prong in the EU/US (the UK thankfully still gets all 3 prongs in this configuration)

yes true the short one has no grounding.

Anyway as I replied to the other guy (and got downvoted for it) if the plug was grounded there would be no issue. Apple chargers have ground pins.

But sure it's bad if they stopped including grounded versions by default in EU...

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Post by toxik »

html5cat wrote: post #46

Not all heroes wear capes. This is excellent and can't wait to get aluminium mac next to try it – don't think Space Black is a good way to go. Author's another post on "The Seasons are Wrong" [0] is excellent too and I fully support both approaches. [0] https://kentwalters.com/posts/seasons/

Great post. Also, we celebrate "midsummer" on the summer solstice in Sweden and other countries. I see the author noted that.

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Post by jeffrallen »

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kpil wrote: post #538

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How the f are you supposed to type? Ideally I'd like full support for my arms from the elbow to the wrist. In my first job - i think it was in 1997, I had my own small room with an L-shaped desk with a rounded corner. That gave a few inches of space for resting my arms - both when typing on a quite reasonable Pentium laptop, and especially when using the mouse. Since then, the desks and the chairs has become shittier…

A more concrete way of putting it is if you are putting so much weight on your wrists that the edge of the MacBook is making you uncomfortable, you're probably doing it wrong.

If your comments on HN end with "you are probably doing it wrong", you are probably doing empathy wrong.

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Post by swiftcoder »

starkparker wrote: post #532
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> dead battery? mac wont start for 15 min on connecting power Having just received an M4 in the mail with a completely flat battery, I can confirm this is nearer 10 seconds on Apple silicon (you are correct it used to be this way on Intel Macs)

Having an M1 and an M2, no it isn't. Takes at least 5 minutes on the 65W charger to get bootable from a full drain. Maybe something changed with the newer models but it isn't a benefit across all Apple Silicon.

Have never tried the 65W charger, but have had no issues booting from fully discharged with the 96W brick

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Post by elAhmo »

wraptile wrote: post #310

I used a macbook for almost 2 years and genuinely don't understand how people can tolerate these machines. My wrists would be cut up all the time to the point where I looked like I was self harming myself and the glary screen is entirely unsuable anywhere but a darkest basement. Not to mention the terrible keyboard. To this day I'm perplexed how macbooks have such high desirability by full time developers when they'r…

I have also been using Macbooks for around 10 years, Airs and Pros, and usually my wrists are on the flat part, when docked I used a keyboard.

Keyboard on Macs is pretty much good, other than the early butterfly version, rest is definitely above average and it just feels good. Glare is a problem, but darkest basement is an overstatement.

It might not fit your workflow or you might be expecting super niche, but it is the worlds most popular laptop for both regular users and developers for a reason. Input devices and screen are significant part of the Macbook appeal, so definitely not almost unusable.

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Post by Cort3z »

I can see Apple doing something similar in the future. Just like how they are pivoting away from flat design in their ui, perhaps the time is ready for a more "organic" design. Wonder what marketing term they would use

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Post by calmbonsai »

Hey man, you keep doing you and let the haters wash off your shoulders. I'm left-handed and remove the pocket clip from all of my knives.

The power to personalize should not be underestimated--even at the cost of durability and overall functionality.

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