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Post by reasonabl_human »

girvo wrote: post #102
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Awesome to see a jail breaker here on HN. It has been my experience that when you mention the benefits of jailbreaking the HN crowd really looks poorly at it and shuts it down.

Whats the current status of jailbreaking on iPhone 12s and iOS 15? I've been out of the game for a very long time, I assume even if I wanted to have a look at it I'm out of luck. What are the major benefits you yourself get from it? My major reasoning used to be emulators, but I have a hacked New 3DS which runs everything I want it to these days with better controls. Firewalls like the grandparent comment seems quite…

The jailbreak subreddit has a solid sidebar with info on devices / iOS versions supported, and by what jailbreak method. Any current gen device is off the table at the moment, as is iOS 15.

Also- recently ordered a Japanese New 3DS and am glad to hear you are enjoying it, looking forward to having a great emulation machine- maybe one day I’ll get around to installing a modchip in my switch lite too

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by GhettoComputers »

antihero wrote: post #290
GhettoComputers wrote: post #170

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Try the galaxy buds plus they’re much better at everything for me. This firmware update probably kneecapped the pros too, either a patent issue or worries about people walking into traffic. https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/17/21069953/apple-airpods-pr...

How slick is the GB integratation with iOS devices in comparison to the AirPods. Been considering getting some AP3s because I keep forgetting my ATH-M50Xs as they are large.

Never had AirPods but comparing the Powerbeats I had, not much of a noticeable difference. Touch controls work, I hold to change volume, they fit and don’t fall out, it’s got 11hr batteries on a single charge. It turns off when you take them off, pipewire connects to them automatically on Linux.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by GhettoComputers »

72deluxe wrote: post #238
sundvor wrote: post #179

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The keyboard replacement was the biggest improvement to me in the latest MacBooks. I'm not an Apple person but I do like to keep tabs. Tried the butterfly keyboard and hated it so, so much - and that's not even touching on the function key row. (As a Streamdeck user it would have been awesome if they had kept the touch screen strip _and_ restored the missing row of keys. Missed opportunity there.)

The touch strip turns off if you don't use the keys for a few seconds. So if you are programming and thinking during debugging, you might want to press a function key to step into/over/continue. But the touchbar has turned off, so you need to press another key on the keyboard to wake it up (fn perhaps) and then look down at the touchbar to find the F key because it is impossible to locate as there's no tactile sensat…

Just use an external keyboard

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Post by raffraffraff »

larkinrichards wrote: post #200
kiwijamo wrote: post #175

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Funnily enough the exact same thing happened to my work Macbook. Display just stopped working one day. Work sent it back to Apple to repair which took them a few weeks. I once owned a iBook (back in the PowerPC days) that had to go back to Apple on no less than four different occasions to fix faults. All repaired under AppleCare as I fortunately had the foresight to pay for it at the time of purchase. I've also owned…

during a delivery once, i caught a curb, flipped upside down on a bicycle, landed laptop down, bent the frame of my 2014 macbook pro, and the screen survived undamaged. still using the same laptop today, no issue. anecdotal evidence… is anecdotal.

Hah, I did also the same thing, except I was cycling home in the rain. Just got to my house and clipped the curb. Landed on my back, and all I had in my flimsy backpack was my 2015 MBP. The base had a large dent in it - but when I opened the lid, it just prompted me for my password. Had that machine for years afterwards.

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Post by ascottAtSlync »

GhettoComputers wrote: post #170
nunez wrote: post #134

I think the AirPods Pro were a regression from the OG AirPods for four reasons: - Idle life took a huge dive from the originals. My OGs haven't been charged in something like six months, and the case is still at something like 20%. Meanwhile, the case holding the APPs would die in less than a week and the buds inside of them a week after that. My wife's APPs have been lost for a while because of this. - Noise cancell…

Try the galaxy buds plus they’re much better at everything for me. This firmware update probably kneecapped the pros too, either a patent issue or worries about people walking into traffic. https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/17/21069953/apple-airpods-pr...

Just a personal note on the galaxy buds plus, I have a pair and while the sounds quality is good when it works, I've had a lot of problems with desyncing between the two earbuds, audio breakup, and the touch sensors are sensitive to a fault where they're not really usable. The case is also pretty flimsy feeling. Overall, I'm not incredibly impressed by them but YMMV

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Post by GhettoComputers »

kataklasm wrote: post #258
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My friend uses an M1 as a power user for about a year. Great battery life, almost never uses the fan, super fast, no battery issues, no Linux support with graphics acceleration yet and he cracked his screen and Apple care fixed it. I don’t think the butterfly keyboard is around anymore. It’s fabulous but so is my much worst Lenovo x250 with 16GB I got, and a new 1080p screen on recently, still very happy with it.

Same here! Running an X250 with 8GB of memory and an i3 for engineering in university. Of ciurse I'm not doing any simulations or computations with it but for everything else it's an absolute dream. One of the last ThinkPads to have the hot swappable battery system and it's highly repairable. 12" screen size is perfect for an on-the-go laptop in my opinion. I'm running Fedora with i3 on it to maximize the screen real…

I regret getting the 12.5in screen, it’s terrible for posture. The t460s is about the same weight with a 14in screen. I am sure it will perform fine, but the screen is really small and bad for posture I hope you’re using the dock and not using it too often as a laptop. I love it as the epitome of the best half netbook/ultrabook with excellent performance with a few tradeoffs like 1 ram slot.

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Post by GhettoComputers »

kaladin-jasnah wrote: post #262
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You should have complained more, I never would get that service, and my friend has had his screen replaced and never had problems as long as he had applecare or was under warranty. >I keep buying because the alternatives are very weak in comparison and outdated, but really, if you get a bad product from Apple you are fucked. I think the M1 is great but I wouldn't use a normal x86 from them.

Telling someone in effect "they're holding it wrong" after being severely scalded by a company and then recommending their products probably isn't going to get them to switch back.

> I keep buying because the alternatives are very weak in comparison and outdated, but really, if you get a bad product from Apple you are fucked.

I didn’t try/need convince them to continue buying Apple, I wouldn’t buy an x86 from them.

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Post by jquery »

stouset wrote: post #154
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Their latest laptops barely if ever turn on their fans. Your link references the prior Intel generation.

I’ve run my M1 Max all night blasting every core doing heavily vectorized math computations and when I come back in the morning the small room it was in isn’t even noticeably warmer than ambient temperature and the fans aren’t even on.

Meanwhile I can use my desktop as a personal heater if I max it out (Threadripper Pro 64 cores).

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Post by illegalsmile »

woutr_be wrote: post #264
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They’re pretty variable depending on your ear shape. For me the pros are the only option since the others fall out immediately (same for mkbhd).

For me it's the other way around, the original AirPods stay in my ear at all times. With the pros, I constantly need to adjust it, and they've fallen out of my ears multiple times whilst in the gym. I'm a bit reluctant to by the 3rd gen Airpods, since my two other pairs are still in perfect working condition.

I recently picked up a pair of 3rd gen airpods after my first gen died. I also have air pod pros. I didn't even leave the parking lot before I returned the 3rd gen and replaced them with new 2nd gen airpods. The fit was horrible and unlike the APP that have the flexible and size-adjustable ear tip the 3rd gen offered nothing to change fitment. I don't even find that the APP fit as well as the 2nd gen airpods.

If I were you and you find the originals to stay in your ear and the APP to not be great you definitely do not want 3rd gen airpods. I wish they would not have changed the form and fit of the airpods to be more like a "cheap" version of the pros.

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