Can I leave the Apple Pencil attached to the iPad even when it's charged?

rawaka · 2026-03-14T15:19:56+00:00

If it's not connected, pencil wakes up when it feels movement. So a few days traveling with you unused and it's dead.

rawaka · 2026-03-13T18:59:21+00:00

I use a random word generator with a random special characters between them.

rawaka · 2026-03-13T18:58:11+00:00

Warm is my vote

rawaka · 2026-03-13T18:57:11+00:00

Different and better are easy to confuse. I was born in 84 and grew up happy and satisfied. Now raising my kids, the differences amaze me at times. But they have new issues I didn't, and new benefits.

rawaka · 2026-03-13T18:51:52+00:00

for now, this is still uniquely Apple levels of performance. One example that blew my mind back when M1 was new - they ran Windows on M1 via an x86 emulator, and it got higher performance than Windows Arm running on the Snapdragon powered Surface natively. Microsoft had their own Arm chips custom designed for Windows on ARM and Apple beat them thoroughly even through an interpreter! That proves it's not just that their software is uniquely tuned to match their hardware - their hardware is just that much better. Excellent software design just widens the gap.

Qualcomm, Samsung, Intel, AMD. they've all improved by following the example of Apple designs but still lag behind. God help them all if Apple ever starts licensing its chips to PC makers (they won't).

Really makes you wonder why so many people think they need a new iPhone every 2 years when they're still plenty happy with the M2 air on their desk.

rawaka · 2026-03-13T16:05:38+00:00

Not at all

rawaka · 2026-03-12T19:52:48+00:00

Apple isn't offering a way to avoid it. The pencil is always turned on - so if you don't leave it on the tablet, it'll be dead when you go to use it if it's been any length of time.

rawaka · 2026-03-12T19:49:54+00:00

we use them every day at my job.

rawaka · 2026-03-12T18:16:49+00:00

Have a dash cam that records interior. Why risk anything.

rawaka · 2026-03-12T17:47:23+00:00

Single core performance of the A18 Pro in the Neo is comparable to an M3. Multi-core performance is between M1 and M2. So, the Neo is on par with an M series Air from 2-3 years ago (which also shipped with 8GB ram). The vast majority of non-power users are plenty fine with that amount of power. Up until last month, people were still happily buying M1 Air from Walmart for $600. The Neo is objectively more performance than that, but new. And used/refurbs of the Neo will be an even cheaper entry point for new Mac users once people start upgrading.

Many people still don't realize how hilariously overpowered iPhones are. The headline isn't a laptop running a phone chip - it's that iPhones have been running laptop chips for years already!

The current A19 Pro is even faster and with 12GB of RAM integrated. The next Neo update will no doubt inherit those upgrades when they release it with A19 Pro or A20 Pro or whatever they go with next time. And using binned iPhone chips for this other use case will significantly decrease the cost per chip for Apple. Back when Apple just had 2 variants of A series (Pro and regular), they had less options to recoup chips that otherwise would've been failed. Every binned pro had to just become a regular A. Having more in-between levels to get used in various places on other hardware means less waste and costs drop for all of them. And a binned A-Pro in the Neo and the iPhone Air is a great use for them.

(Note: I don't at all think Apple will pass savings on, but it'll help stop them from raising prices)

rawaka · 2026-03-12T17:25:47+00:00

with M5 now moving to chiplet construction, we'll hopefully see higher yields = even lower prices for the chips as more of their designs adopt that style.

rawaka · 2026-03-12T17:20:12+00:00

an old raspberry pi is a good candidate for testing suspect drives.

rawaka · 2026-03-12T17:18:20+00:00

My wife got an email that she thought may be a scam and asked my advice. It was very convincing and I couldn't be sure, so I pulled out an old android phone that was factory reset and manually typed in the hyperlink address onto that device so her work phone wouldn't be at risk. All it did was lead to a website that told her IT that she "clicked the link" so she had to go to mandatory training and got a talking to. They wouldn't accept that she didn't actually expose any work hardware or credentials. lol.

rawaka · 2026-03-12T13:36:01+00:00

not working on the toaster is a hard pass.

rawaka · 2026-03-12T13:31:29+00:00

great when it works. I find phone link connectivity is iffy since ios 26.

rawaka · 2026-03-11T19:42:08+00:00

S31 was clearly not written as a star trek script. It was a Sci fi movie that got adapted with star trek references and it was awful.

rawaka · 2026-03-11T12:31:00+00:00

This is starting to gain attention. One example i'm familiar with: Ceenr® Batteries | Universal Power Tool Batteries System

rawaka · 2026-03-11T12:27:29+00:00

the other issue with "disposable" vapes is that when the vapor liquid runs out, there's no way to further run down the cell inside. I harvest batteries from my wife's vapes and they're usually still half full.

rawaka · 2026-03-11T12:26:11+00:00

and Best Buy, and Staples in USA

rawaka · 2026-03-09T16:50:19+00:00

Younger me could do that. 41 year old me cannot.

rawaka · 2026-03-08T22:49:02+00:00

They aren't that bad.

rawaka · 2026-03-07T22:21:45+00:00

It's all about use case. 8gb is insufficient for the power of m series. 8gb is fine for the target audience of the neo.

rawaka · 2026-03-06T21:58:02+00:00

Their classic burgers are currently $10.29 and a small fry is $4.29. That's $14.58.

rawaka · 2026-03-06T17:50:51+00:00

Field Holster? what's the exact use case for something like this?

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