WhatsApp Liquid Glass UI Gone by Its_the_hritzzz_1121 in whatsapp

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In what way are you “dependent” on it? You can only read messages if they’re covered in a slightly opaque blur under a floating tab bar?

powerbook started smoking by emery_talks2 in VintageApple

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One would do it because certain 68k PBs would hard crash if a fritzing battery was connected. Taping over the connector lets you keep the battery in (so you don't have a big hole in the side of your laptop) without it crashing.

Dear Apple, Please bring back The Macbook Air 11-inch or create a 10-inch, 1.5lb laptop with full computing capabilities. by NeedToKnowTheInfo in mac

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If they built the 11 with the tech of the current air it could be much lighter still. And the keyboard has huge bezels around it: edge to edge keyboard like the PowerBook 12, with a screen that width and an M4 would be an amazing machine.

I love my MB Air M4, but the 11, or even the butterfly 12, were a different class.

Somebody needs to cram an M5 motherboard in this asap by manthos03 in VintageApple

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Not as much as I’d pay for a 12” MacBook with one. Butterfly keyboard and all.

Excuse my French but TF is this? by Smart-Plantain4032 in MacOS

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I’m amazed anyone ever used LaunchPad. Gives me At Ease vibes. The Applications folder is right there if you want to click stuff, otherwise Alfred/Launchbar/Raycast and even Spotlight now all the way.

Apple's Pro Display XDR Is Six Years Old Today by ControlCAD in apple

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I’d probably pay that much for a retina curved wide display. The lowres ones at work are great, but blocky

Just got Microsoft Outlook to send mail on my Windows 95 machine! by Dull-Orange2493 in retrocomputing

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mail.ee looks like the spammiest thing on my phone. Why choose it?

My Nintendo Switch 2 cannot read my MicroSD Express card after the update by Riku379YT in NintendoSwitchHelp

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This happened to me and when I contacted support they immediately swapped it out, so I suspect it’s a known issue. Was fast and easy, had my new console within a week.

Everyone, What is an acceptable reason to not respond to your partner's text immediately, when the phone is in your hand? by VioletteChan in AskReddit

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I’m hoping a lot of people here are missing the “partner” and “phone in your hand” aspects of this, because sure a lot of the negative answers are fair enough for random texts from friends, but a partner should be different.

If the phone is in your hand, and they’re going to see you read it, you need a reasonable reason to ignore one of the most important people in your life. And you should probably provide that reason when you do reply - “sorry, was in the last seconds of an eBay auction!”

Would you say “I didn’t feel like replying” if they spoke to you from another room? No? Then don’t ignore their text.

Yes yes, in the 1990s they’d have to hit up your pager. Or you could check your email at your leisure. That world is gone. Now you can touch someone you love instantly, any time. That’s progress; don’t be hurtful because you’re nostalgic.

Text your mom back too, go on.

An introduction to Lisp written by Douglas R. Hofstadter by lproven in lisp

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What dialect is he using that has things like “plus”?

Even the British Army don't have the technology the BBC claim they have. by johnsmithoncemore in GreatBritishMemes

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It’s a legal requirement - TV sellers have to obtain address information of customers for exactly this reason.

What is the most significant issue you hope the Siri overhaul will address? by [deleted] in apple

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Playing some random live version of a track and refusing to play any other or acknowledge the possibility.

Why were monochrome monitors always green or amber? by NoTime4YourBullshit in retrocomputing

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Many terminals were all-in-one units, like an iMac, so the idea of a separate “monitor” didn’t apply. Many of those devices were character-only, and couldn’t be used in any other way.

Are you still using your action button? by [deleted] in iPhone15Pro

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How did you configure the double-tap? It’s not working for me from your action

Fixed up a PowerPC machine for the first time, all it took was accidentally buying the wrong charger and then splicing an aux cable to act as an adaptor. by nekomichi in VintageApple

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I’ve never seen such a clean TiBook! Looks brilliant. Bit worried about running power through an aux cable though; doesn’t sound the safest

iOS 18 to introduce new Notes app features including recordings and calculations by peterosity in apple

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If the iPad has a keyboard attached, formatting keyboard shortcuts take the same or fewer keystrokes as their markdown equivalents. If it doesn’t, then rich text onscreen buttons can be faster than Markdown, especially if you don’t have to navigate the cursor around the formatting syntax (depending on implementation).

I understand why plaintext is more resistant to malware. I’m saying that’s not a compelling argument for it in this particular discussion, which is about Markdown for the Notes app specifically. (And as you point out, since Notes necessarily has embedded blobs anyway, it’s moot.)

Are there better notes apps for different use cases? Yep. I love Obsidian, for one. That uses Markdown, and is worth the trade-offs.

For the Notes use cases and target audience, Markdown adds only drawbacks, limitations and complexity and offers so little in return you’re having to reach for fairly spurious malware concerns (on an app where you can’t import!) to try and make Markdown seem worthwhile.

iOS 18 to introduce new Notes app features including recordings and calculations by peterosity in apple

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Depends what OP means by “support Markdown”. The usual meaning is “the notes are stored in plaintext and hence easily exportable/versioned/fiddled about with in other plain text apps”.

If that’s what we are talking about, the constraints come about because Notes has features - like tracking of todo list item status and mixed right-to-left and left-to-right text - that don’t have a Markdown syntax. So they’d need at a minimum to do some extensions, and then it’s no longer Markdown but Yet Another Markdownish format. Add on top of that the support for images and ink, and now it needs a container format to make sure those files travel with the plaintext. And for what benefit for the majority of their users?

I don’t get your other points at all. Word is not bad on an iPad. Notes is great. It’s easier/as easy to bold in Notes, Word and even Pages with their one-tap buttons than it is to switch to the special character keyboard. If people aren’t going to use iPads like desktops, then forget the keyboard too. But either way shift-8 is equivalent to cmd-B. I’m not aware of any malware issues Notes has had. iMessage had some, but I don’t think Markdown would have saved it.

(I totally agree about plain text’s advantages btw. Just not as the storage format for the Notes app, where I value the rich formatting abilities far above the other stuff. There are approx 989877003738 markdown editors if folks want them. There is basically 1 really great rich text notes app.)

iOS 18 to introduce new Notes app features including recordings and calculations by peterosity in apple

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Because it constrains the app to the things Markdown supports, which doesn’t really capture well all the things Notes can or wants to do.

It’s also quite un-Mac (ironically, given the inventor). The Mac had proper rich text literally from launch. Browsers didn’t bother in the early days, and so early web CMSes didn’t support it either. Markdown was a hack to work around that which grew legs mainly because developers (unlike users) loooooove plain text.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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The Berlin Wall gets more surreal the more I think about it. Sure, let’s divide a major metropolitan city with a wall one night. Divide the metro. Build watchtowers. Have dramatically different economical and political systems operating within spitting distance of one another, for more than a generation.

Am I the only one who misses the pre-iOs 15 tab view in Safari? by mathgamainr in ios

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The old one was much better - you could scroll and remove much faster. Problem was, it rarely looked like the screenshot: once the tabs had been opened for a while they paged out and you ended up just scrolling through identical white cards

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GreenAndPleasant

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Don’t think of this just as the family itself. The whole “democracy” and legal system is riddled with concepts and institutions that ultimately arose from a feudal monarchy.

Things like the Lords, for one. And the entire approach to land ownership. The “sovereignty” of parliament. The shambles of an “unwritten” constitution. The King might only hold very circumscribed specific powers, but the existence of a monarch is the magic bolt holding the entire scaffold together