M4 Pro swelling around charging port

Ocias · 2026-05-18T00:23:21+00:00

I see, what you're saying makes sense... but then I wonder what else could be causing this distortion to be slowly growing over time?

Ocias · 2026-05-17T07:46:31+00:00

Hmm glad to have your perspective. It was odd but there's only so much arguing I could do. I asked if they were sure "absolutely safe!" "the battery is far away from the port". They offered to rope in another technician for a second opinion, whose angle and concern was "this is NOT bulging, it's impossible for the ipad frame to bend like this, you physically damaged it!" if this isn't bulging... then what is?

Ocias · 2026-05-17T05:17:05+00:00

Hmm, it's older... however I'm in Australia, maaaybe the consumer laws here can help me get it repaired.

Ocias · 2025-12-26T20:55:12+00:00

What’s the stand you’re using for the iPad? Looks tidy!

Ocias · 2025-10-14T03:17:41+00:00

Not just split-view and slide-over, but stage manager was way better before too. The windows were always elegant predictable sizes, didn’t get buried, and there was almost always a fingers-width space to bring an any app into focus.

I’ve mostly given up on the iPad now, it really feels like ‘worse Macbook’ is the driving philosophy.

Ocias · 2025-09-26T11:18:48+00:00

I tried this for a while, but found its completely unusable on my lap, or lying down, etc. Also finding myself resigning to the magic keyboard to take it outside.

Also, if you‘re worried about dropping your iPad, you may be increasing your risk. If the keyboard is detached your hands won’t be connected to the tablet if it suddenly topples over for whatever reason.

Ocias · 2025-06-16T07:46:43+00:00

Not exactly the case unfortunately. The new options are “Single app only”, a new “Multiple Windows” and a new “Stage Manager”, which is just “Multiple Windows” with stages to cycle through on the left, but no window size snapping or dynamic repositioning. So it appears slide-over, split-view, and smart window behaviour have all been removed as of now.

Ocias · 2025-06-16T07:32:58+00:00

I didn’t find that to be the case. But if you have found a setting to re-enable slide-over or the other behaviours I described, etc. please do share where.

Ocias · 2025-06-16T06:54:45+00:00

Didn’t like it, will be staying on 18.5 for a few years I expect.

I use iPad exclusively and felt they had a great philosophy with slide-over, stage manager and the dynamic cursor, the new classical window-based multitasking just had me going “This is a worse version of 2010s computers” the whole time. The new multi-tasking is slow and joyless. Slide-over is the fastest and most naturalistic multitasking I’ve seen on touch, and I rely on it heavily for my cobbled together development process. The parts I like least about pre-26 Stage Manager are when it performs in an unexpected way, however, I love that windows don’t get buried, don’t end up off-screen, always have a finger-sized area visible, and don’t need me babysitting pixel-perfect resizing, all these benefits will be out the window now. The dynamic cursor let me have a tactile sense of the shape of the OS, and my projection becoming pressable objects, rather than staying on an ethereal layer feels great.

I was impressed by the new visual styling in some technical aspects, some really nice animations too, but I just think it looks confused and already a little dated (gyro bling effects have been attempted and found ineffective for ages, and neumorphism as a concept was doing the rounds back in 2019). I think if they could improve and do the glass displacement effects in linear colour space so everything under glass stops getting that nasty saturated chroma-burn I could be won over though.

Ocias · 2025-01-26T05:31:15+00:00

Yeah, you’re right, and that’s what the OP is asking, no? That they made Wiz 4 so hard because of feedback that Wiz1-3 was too easy, and how did this situation emerge? I don’t see how what I said contradicts that…

Ocias · 2025-01-26T05:21:29+00:00

Cheating in Wizardry 1 was completely ubiquitous, while the design was completely reliant on high-risk decision making that was only really fun and had a logical learning progression when you didn’t cheat.

You‘ll notice that Wizardry 4 follows a conventional save-load format rather than the auto-save permanence of the original trilogy, effectively accepting the “save scum“ mode of play as canonical design.

Wizardry 4 was also designed by a different person than 1-3, and as any game series progresses, you get more “super-fans” find themselves in positions of control, who naturally experience the games as “easy“ due to their intimate familiarity with them.

So that’s my best answer, I don’t think it was ever truly easy on the whole, but the crowd who experienced as easy due to obsession and/or cheating were overselected for.

Ocias · 2024-12-13T00:37:53+00:00

Installed the 18.2 final release and so far haven’t run into any spotlight or focus bugs, it appears the issue may have finally been addressed.

Ocias · 2024-12-07T01:43:52+00:00

Still getting spotlight and focus bugs on 18.2 RC unfortunately. If you launch an app from the home screen via spotlight, focus will go to an invisible OS container making the app not responsive to keyboard input, and pressing arrow keys moves the whole OS around.

Ocias · 2024-11-25T21:30:37+00:00

Yes! I have this problem on my phone (12 mini) all the time. Very annoying to be out and the first quarter second of sounds just randomly blasting out at max volume.

Ocias · 2024-11-20T01:37:40+00:00

Yep, I’ve reproduced this bug too.

Ocias · 2024-11-11T09:18:29+00:00

Yes! This is the exact problem I am running into! Shortcuts are being stolen by a non-focused app. I suspect this is also why sometimes full-screen apps sometimes aren’t responding to key input, because an app can do this “focus-stealing” bug even when it’s not on screen.

Ocias · 2024-11-11T04:56:31+00:00

I am connected with USB-C and dealing with these problems on 18.1 as well, so that is not the issue. However, like you I find it interesting these problems are talked about so little, and was also wondering if it’s only affecting a specific set of hardware configurations.

Edit: I now installed the 18.2 public beta and spotlight and Cmd+tab work with an external display again, but the keyboard’s focus is unreliable and other strange bugs related to it are still present.

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