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6 votes
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Internet giants to staff: Plan to work from home for the year
9 votes -
Wink smart home users have one week to subscribe or be shut off
16 votes -
What’s new with Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS
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Leaving Amazon - Tim Bray (former VP) on whistleblowers, climate strikes, sexism, and racism at Amazon
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Firefox Private Relay - Generate unique, random, anonymous email addresses
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Playing devil's advocate: Is there any possible reason Apple is gluing parts in instead of using screws in newer devices other than "greed"?
Inspired by the news of the new 13" MacBook Pro and Surface Book 3, I was thinking about just how much I hate not being able to replace the RAM, SSD or even battery in newer MacBook models. It...
Inspired by the news of the new 13" MacBook Pro and Surface Book 3, I was thinking about just how much I hate not being able to replace the RAM, SSD or even battery in newer MacBook models. It seems like such an extreme decision and I wonder why.
The obvious answer is to make the devices less repairable thus forcing people to upgrade sooner.
But Apple isn't really dependent on devices breaking. Hardware is vastly improving every year and their customer base happily upgrades just for that. Also it could be argued that their most profitable product line – iPhones – have, despite all of that, some of the healthiest life cycles in the smartphone marketed with people happily using 5+ year old devices which still are supported in the latest releases of iOS. Few other devices hold their value in resale like Apple products, their sturdiness is quite remarkable and clearly factored into pricing and consumer decisions. They pride themselves with a reliable repair program and I have to imagine their repair geniuses (their term, not my sarcasm) don't like messing with glue.
So, all things considered, is there an argument for fucking gluing in batteries other than petty greed? Like, is it cheaper? That doesn't seem a motivation behind any other major design decision on their part. Is it it lighter? Easier to cool? Does it make for a slimmer chassis?
I tried searching the question but couldn't find anything (in fact, I wouldn't even know what terms to search for). Is there any good analysis or reasoned speculation? It somehow makes less sense the more I think of it and it would give me some head peace to at least know of some arguments for it other than Apple being assholes.
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A state-of-the-art open source chatbot
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Reddit removes new chat room feature after one day in the wake of moderator protests and bugs
33 votes -
The pathetic state of Youtube advertising
15 votes -
Microsoft's GitHub account allegedly hacked, 500GB stolen
11 votes -
This video has 16,905 likes (that's 689,333 fewer than Tom's!)
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SCOPETREX vector gaming on your oscilloscope!
@tubetimeus: announcing the SCOPETREX -- the vector gaming console for your oscilloscope or XY monitor! ever wanted to buy a Vectrex, but can't afford the high prices on auction sites? well now you can build your own! full design files at https://t.co/hHAbFwwePE
4 votes -
The people who are keeping the internet running during COVID and how they're doing it
11 votes -
Costs/funding in open-source languages
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Riot Web 1.6, RiotX Android 0.19 & Riot iOS 0.11 — E2E Encryption by Default & Cross-signing is here
9 votes -
How Apple reinvented the cursor for iPad
6 votes -
Microsoft launches Surface Book 3
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The saga of Apple’s bad butterfly MacBook keyboards is finally over
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Apple updates 13-inch MacBook Pro with Magic Keyboard, double the storage, and faster performance
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Home network support: Setting up a network switch
I moved into a new apartment and was surprised to see that all my rooms have CAT 5 Ethernet ports in the wall. However, cue my disappoint when I try to naively plug my router and machine in two...
I moved into a new apartment and was surprised to see that all my rooms have CAT 5 Ethernet ports in the wall. However, cue my disappoint when I try to naively plug my router and machine in two separate ports to find that the ports don't actually work. After searching various forums, I found that I have to:
- Locate the panel where all the ethernet ports connect
- Wire them to an ethernet switch.
I found the panel but all the wires look like this:
https://i.imgur.com/Qzm72g0.jpg
I'm not sure what I need to do from here to plugging into my network switch. Any guides or advice would be extremely helpful. I don't need every port connected to the switch, only one or two. None of these look labelled so I might have a difficult time isolating which cable runs where.
And about the network switch... Any qualms about using an old router that has the AP turned off?
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Inkscape 1.0 has been released - Free and open source vector graphics editor for GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS X
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Face ID doesn’t work when you’re wearing a mask—Apple’s about to address that
12 votes -
Polish sound postcards (pocztówka dźwiękowa)
9 votes -
Twitch steamer Dr Disrespect's shtick takes a dangerous turn into spreading coronavirus conspiracy theories
8 votes -
Love Bug's creator tracked down to repair shop in Manila
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Why do I pay Adobe $10K a year? Reviewing video production software alternatives
14 votes -
How to use your DSLR or mirrorless camera as a webcam
8 votes -
The safety boat: Kubernetes and Rust
6 votes -
The Russian doll of Putin's internet clampdown
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How I built a $100 drive-in movie theater to hang out with friends while social distancing
6 votes -
ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the Public Interest Registry (PIR) | The ICANN board withholds consent to transfer .org to Ethos Capital
27 votes -
Why is TV 29.97 frames per second?
10 votes -
Four essential Jenkins plugins
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Exam anxiety: How remote test-proctoring is creeping students out
9 votes -
Reddit introduces new "Start Chatting" feature across many subreddits, AskHistorians goes dark for 1 hour in protest to broken promises
57 votes -
Intel's flagship 10th-gen desktop CPU—the Core i9-10900K—has 10 cores, reaches 5.3GHz
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The real impact of an open redirect vulnerability
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The anti-Amazon alliance
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I sing the airplane electric—Until now, an airplane was never a cheap date
6 votes -
Apple COVID-19 mobility trends reports
6 votes -
This is a web page
37 votes -
Organizing and running a developer room at FOSDEM
3 votes -
Google Meet premium video meetings—free for everyone
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Hyperdome - the safest place to reach out
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Michael Reeves builds a surgery robot
19 votes -
Why the An-225 Mriya is such a badass plane
7 votes -
Utah Attorney General will suspend use of a massive surveillance system after reports that the founder of the company was once a participant in the KKK and was involved in a synagogue shooting
16 votes -
Oracle wins cloud computing deal with Zoom as video calls surge
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Are we simple yet?
4 votes