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It's film_girl, but on Mastodon. I'm a Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub, a podcaster, a journalist turned developer and someone obsessed with tech, OSS, and pop culture.

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KingShawn, to random
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Next up for Apple focused faux-rage?

“New iPads won’t include stickers in the box”

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/07/new-ipad-pro-ipad-air-apple-stickers/

film_girl,
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@KingShawn I’m not going to lie, this does make me irrationally angry. I know it doesn’t matter but it just feels like such a dumb thing to cut. The stickers are part of what made buying Apple products special. I’m not going to make a huge deal out of it but it does make me sad.

film_girl,
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@KingShawn not even remotely. To me, it’s all greenwashing. Like removing power bricks from $1500 iPhones but then having them pushed by sales associates at the Apple Store during checkout (extra packaging used for those separate bricks). Or getting rid of leather from cases and replacing them with plastic fabric that is poor quality and also, plastic.

film_girl, to random
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The problem with the iPad as as many have pointed out is that the software hampers what it can do unless you’re willing to contort yourself into a very specific workflow. For most casual users those limitations aren’t an issue and the advantages of the form factor outweigh the deficits. But when you charge MBPro money for a device the trade-offs sting. As @jsnell says, the best solution would be to just let us virtualize macOS on an iPad Pro when using it in certain modes https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/05/the-ipad-pro-is-no-longer-the-future-so-whats-next/

film_girl,
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@john @jsnell honestly, Apple loves to ignore these kinds of edge cases on the preposition that every app will use only Apple frameworks and APIs so I don’t think it would be a blocker at all. The reality would be that some apps might only work in one mode or the other. And as I said, default to iPadOS. Make that the primary. But for Pro users on a Pro device with connected accessories, allow macOS mode to work.

film_girl,
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@a40yostudent I think a lot of people would! I understand Apple is probably worried about cannibalizing their respective product lines but they are already doing that. And if I’m honest, Apple could charge MORE for an iPad Pro if they did that. Want to convince me to get a 16GB of RAM iPad Pro? Let me run a containerized or virtualized version of macOS and I will give you that $2000. And I’ll still keep my main MacBook Pro!

film_girl,
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@john @jsnell I mean, virtualization allows pass-through access to network and storage components. So you’d just approve permissions to access stuff stored locally to your iPad. But in the case of Procreate, the default for both Mac and iOS of those is iCloud anyway. And the VM wouldn’t be using a separate storage device. Again, there might be some edge cases and limitations but that’s why this would be an option, not the only solution.

film_girl,
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@markv @a40yostudent I would pay for that so hard. Fuck, give me cloud-based macOS I can use on my iPad seamlessly (so not just via a VNC) and I’ll pay for that!

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Love this from @ismh - I haven’t written much about the new iPads yet because if I buy one, it will probably be so I can hand my 2022 M2 Pro to my mom (since trade-in is less than a 10th gen iPad with 256GB and cellular costs…which is insane. Not for the trade-in but the iPad 10th gen price) and not b/c I need to upgrade. B/c the software means I still use my iPad primarily as a media consumption device. No matter how great the hardware, the software is the rub. https://512pixels.net/2024/05/the-problems-never-the-hardware/

film_girl,
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@johnhood @ismh sadly, I agree with Stephen that we should expect that trajectory. Look, I’m of the opinion that they should have added touch support to the Mac years ago. And frankly, now that you can run iOS apps on Mac, I don’t understand why they don’t just make iPad OS as we know it as the default launcher for iPad Pro that you can exit and then use standard macOS with a mouse and keyboard. But that is clearly not what Apple wants to do.

film_girl,
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@luis_in_brief I use mine for writing too — and pre-Apple silicon, it was the best Teams/Zoom device I owned. People can use it for more than content consumption, I’m just saying I don’t right now. I hope that if the new keyboard is too much, there will be third-party options.

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@luis_in_brief pre-Apple silicon, using a non-desktop Mac for video calls was a nightmare b/c of how poorly Zoom and especially Teams ran on macOS. That’s a combo of bad software engineering on Teams’ part (I didn’t have a choice. Most users have no choice of what meeting software they can use. Apple employees have to use fucking webex I think) but also the state of the late-model Intel Macs. Apple silicon changed that so that my laptop doesn’t overheat on a call or run out of battery.

film_girl,
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@luis_in_brief I mean, I agree. But almost no one has the luxury of choosing what meeting software they can use. Very few of us are in a position to refuse to use the solution our employer chooses. My employer at the time (Microsoft) obviously used Teams. My current employer (GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft but run independently) uses Zoom. I still have to use Teams for some intra-team collabs but at least now my laptop doesn’t overheat when using it.

film_girl,
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@luis_in_brief ohhh gotcha yeah no, sorry for not being more clear. I think @jsnell nailed it when he wrote about the Mac’s renaissance putting iPadOS in a tough spot. Pre-AS, even with the extreme limitations, I could make more of an argument to spend $1200+ on an iPad Pro with accessories, just b/c it did some non-consumption tasks so much better. For me, it’s harder to do that now. I still love my iPad but the great hardware doesn’t overcome the software limitations.

film_girl,
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@luis_in_brief @jsnell I think for the group of people who consistently buy iPad Prod and accessories, we’re probably a lot closer to being representative than the people Apple shows in its announcements. I think the average iPad user is an iPad Air user. And the new iPad Air is basically the old iPad Pro. But for iPad Pro, I think we’re probably fairly representative. But even yourself, you still own both an iPad and a Mac b/c of limitations you run into.

film_girl,
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@luis_in_brief @jsnell now, Apple might lose a future MacBook Air sale for you if they did what Jason and I want. But they’d also potentially get you to spend more on an iPad Pro, which might negate that lost income. And I said this in a reply to someone else but if they did this, I think they could absolutely charge another $100 or $200 for the iPad Pro just for that feature. B/c as Jason pointed out, the beauty of the iPad is the flexibility. But the software limitations hinder that beauty.

mgs, to random
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Currently banned on Threads. No idea why. So, hello.

film_girl,
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@mgs this is so dumb. What Apple fanboi did you piss off?

rmondello, to random
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I just didn’t go and make things so complicated. They were complicated to begin with and I accurately described the complexity.

film_girl,
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@rmondello life's like this

film_girl,
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@johnelamb @rmondello Honesty and promise me, I'm never gonna find you fake it

christianselig, to random
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Any recommendations for USB-C to C charging cables over 10 feet/3 meters long? USB 2.0 speeds are fine, no video transmission needed, just want 100W of power delivery and ideally not as thick as a garden hose

film_girl,
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@christianselig Belkin

film_girl,
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@spinny42069 @christianselig yes!

film_girl, to random
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film_girl, to random
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film_girl, to Rabbits
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OK, this is a walkthrough of the weird VNC thing #rabbit #r1 uses for connecting accounts. Again, I'm not saying there is anything necessarily wrong with doing this. I am saying there are way better ways to do this. And the clipboard button workaround is very funny.
https://mastodon.social/

film_girl,
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@rcarmo fully agree. I’m def going to change my Spotify password lol

film_girl, to random
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OK, so you know the so-called "source code leak" from Rabbit for the last week? It wasn't a real leak, but what it showed was different than what I was expecting. So Rabbit Hole, the way you configure your R1 -- it only works on desktops, which I thought was rather odd. And then I went to manage my connection and I figured out why. This whole thing is a fucking VNC session in the web browser served as if it is a modal login

film_girl,
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@ernie at least with beeper I had some trust in the ceo but fundamentally, you’re not wrong.

film_girl,
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@matdevdug thanks! I saw it and did a spit-take and then had to document it. Because it was one thing to know the apps themselves were running as playwright scripts in a vm. But I stupidly just assumed they’d be passing oAuth tokens or something and not actually using that AS the login method.

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