Does that mean MacBook microphone cannot work while operating in Dock mode?
Imagine how terribly it would work, given that the mic is adjacent to the speakers.
Hardware microphone disconnect (2021)
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#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
>developer-unfriendly This is where you lose me. Go to any tech company with pockets deep enough to afford whatever hardware its employees want and the vast majority will have MacBook Pros running macOS.
Sure, and I've seen it. I've also been responsible for writing the Mac-specific workarounds, and it's not very fun sourcing the correct version of bash from the incorrect install location, or fighting Homebrew consistency across different arches. MacOS is simply shit for development. Even garbage proprietary Unix like Oracle Linux come with uniform packaging and up-to-date coreutils. MacOS had it's chance to be a dev…
I do agree with you that pretty linux is the only sane developer environment, but it’s not exactly rocket science to make proper linux available for OSX, while still benefiting from the all-around apple ecosystem.
Re: Hardware microphone disconnect (2021)
#243Does that mean MacBook microphone cannot work while operating in Dock mode?
Yes, and it's incredibly annoying.
I guess this fits the situation: https://xkcd.com/1172/
It probably wouldn't work well due to the obstruction anyway.
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I was surprised by needing to do this when switch to MacOS. So many things don't "just work" despite all that I've heard about it.
Overwhelmingly, it does "just work" as Apple intended. However, it's often quite opinionated. So Apple's intended functionality may or may not jive with your preferences. This is neither a defense nor criticism of Apple, and it's not a defense or criticism of your preferences either. I will point out that anecdotally, I don't hear too many people wanting their mouse's scrolling to work in the opposite direction as th…
>I think Apple's probably got well over 99% of the userbase covered with the defaults and opinions here.
The vast amount of MacOS apps built by the community to undo Apple's terrible and backwards UX choices, and the amounts of sales those apps get, disproves your theory that over 99% of people are fine with the defaults Apple forces on its users.
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#245In general they should finally open source the operating system. A close source system should not be called safe, private or secure.
First, Apple does open source the core OS as Darwin. I appreciate your perspective, but I am curious why anyone would think that open sourcing the rest of it is even a remote possibility?
As far as closed source being safe, I don't think open source is safe either. We have seen some horrendous exploitable bugs which lived in open source code for years. Just because something can be thoroughly audited, doesn't mean it is.
I've personally been around a lot of years, and I'm just no longer convinced that a handful of sincere and enthusiastic volunteers can be better at security than a highly motivated, well paid, staff of competent engineers. These systems are just too complex nowadays. I get the concept of open source and having the ability to review the code, etc., but in practice stuff happens anyway in either case. Sorry for the rambling, but I guess I'm just not so convinced any more about the absolutist arguments concerning the relative merits. Maybe I'm just getting too cynical...
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#246Too bad your phone doesn't have a privacy feature like this! The advertisers are always listening.
Anyone claiming that is just not familiar with the processing requirements that would entail.
Especially that you leave more than enough data for advertisers by simply using facebook/messenger and interacting with other people, or just searching google, it simply wouldn’t make economic sense to create such a software/hardware which would drain batteries like no tomorrow, and open them up to serious backlash.
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#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unsure if I would love or hate that, but it might be more natural than the iphone/airpods/mac "incoming call" fiasco I face regularly. Airpods/MacOS - listening to background music. Phone call comes in... VERY LOUD facetime 'ring' announces on mac that I'm getting a phone call. Pick up phone to answer it... holy tamole - it's minimum 8 seconds between clicking 'answer' and... eventually airpods switching over to phon…
Honest question: Why don’t you answer the call from the Mac? Or do you have that continuity feature disabled?
I feel many objections to Apple’s products behavior are responded with “a suggestion “ to just follow Apple way.
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#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honest question: Why don’t you answer the call from the Mac? Or do you have that continuity feature disabled?
This was one of the first things I disabled with Continuity. As for why, it's not that complicated. 1) It's a distraction. I am also one of those people who turned on "Silence unknown callers" to send everyone I don't know to voicemail. If it's important, you'll get a message there. My phone either lives in my pocket or is on the desk next to me, so it's very unlikely I'd miss something. 2) At least with AirPods, alt…
Idk how you live without silence unknown callers. I get an upwards of 20 spam calls a day interrupting me otherwise while using the phone.
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
im gonna disagree with this take. I've seen thousands of MacBooks come and go from early 2016 all the way through current models and screen burn in is just not something I've ever seen. hardware/firmware bugs, bloated batteries, keyboard keys rubbed onto the screen, etc sure, but display defects from normal usage? not once.
I may not have been clear and you may have misunderstood. If you use the laptop as apple intends, there is no issue usually. But the problem is what apple intends is very rigid and there is no room for edge cases at all. So, to replicate you only need to ensure the laptop stays on while the lid is closed. In my case I was using the laptop as a white noise machine for months. A few weeks in I opened the lid and notice…
They are not good at being suicidal given that they have a blooming second/third-market and many people happily use them for years-on-end.
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can’t they just touch the sensor like 3 times and then make you tell the password?
I think you got this backwards. The 5th amendment means that the state can not force you to share information you have in your head, e.g. you can not be forced to give a password. But the state can force you to give a physical key, harware token, or a biometric read.
Can they force you to give up the post-it on which you wrote down your password? If yes, are there any real limits to how much pressure they can apply before they give up? If no, what's stopping them from giving you a pencil and a stack of post-its, and letting you know they'll keep applying pressure until you produce a post-it with the password on it, which they "know" you have "somewhere"?
Point being, I feel this is getting into xkcd://538 territory.