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- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 18 hours ago:
Is it really that stupid though. And is it any worse than flush with the back of the computer so you can never tell if you’ve hit it until you’ve really pressed the button or it bongs?
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 18 hours ago:
There’s no reason to turn off a Mac Mini. It uses about a watt of power in sleep. The idle draw from the power supply in your desktop probably uses more power than the Mac Mini in sleep.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 18 hours ago:
Gotta get the Apple haters to be their #1 advertisers for free.
Keep it up people. Apple did almost nothing to advertise this computer. You’re the advertisement.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 18 hours ago:
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They’ve used the same symbol since before we standardized on the RJ45 connector, or 10baseT. Back when ethernet was the wild west.
God I miss these abortions. The OG dongles.
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Back when men were men, and ethernet cables were an inch thick and needed heavy equipment to use.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 18 hours ago:
I only program in HTTPS
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 18 hours ago:
These machines draw 1 watt in sleep. There’s no need to turn them off.
You’re probably using more power shutting down your PC every day than if you just put it in sleep. A minute of chugging away booting and loading all your junk at 100 watts vs 1 watt, and no waiting.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 18 hours ago:
This mac mini on uses less power than your desktop in sleep.
Your desktop also doesn’t use 0 watts of power when off. If you have a gaming computer with a full power supply it’s probably using a couple watts completely off. Vs an M1 Mac mini that uses about 1 or less watts in sleep.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 18 hours ago:
And how exactly am I supposed to wake up my computer from sleep if the power button is inaccessible?
Poke your finger under the corner and push up. It doesn’t take a rocket surgen to figure out how they want you to hit this button. You can tell from their promo images that they designed the base to make the computer sit up enough for this.
I know macs can be configured to wake up on keyboard/mouse activity, but that makes them too easy to wake up on accident.
Why does it matter? It’s just gonna go back to sleep in 30 seconds if you don’t mess with it.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 18 hours ago:
Why? This isn’t 1998 anymore.
Well unless you have my shitty ass Thinkpad that can’t reliably go into S0 standby to save it’s life.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 18 hours ago:
Then people would complain there’s no sign of a power button.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 18 hours ago:
I would be impressed if a cat could hold the power button in for several seconds on my tower, you have to depress the button about a 1/4 inch.
My friends cats do this all the time. Their paws are small enough to be able to push the button down easily.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 18 hours ago:
Not even 0.5% of the time you’re interacting with the computer would you even think about the power button. Maybe in the first week because “lawl it’s on the bottom, Apple so stoopid.” Then you’d just get used to poking under the bottom of the computer and it turns on.
IMO this is infinitely better than on the back like the old Mac mini. My mini is behind my headphone amp, and under a monitor so any time I need to hit the power button it’s a LONG awkward reach.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 18 hours ago:
A hub costs $10 if you really need all those ports.
Most people buying these machines don’t, which is why it lacks the ports.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 18 hours ago:
Startup power consumption is a LOT depending on how much needs to open.
For work my i9 laptop spends about 3 minutes chugging down 60-100 watts. An M1 Mac mini draws 5 watts fully powered on and idle. Sleep the machine draws less than a watt. The idle power of the power supply just being connected to the wall is going to use more power than that.
- Comment on Microsoft just paused Windows 11 24H2 update for many PCs due to crashes and freezes 1 day ago:
Between shit like this, Crowdstrike, and Microsoft Recall I wonder why anyone even bothers with Windows anymore.
Or think about it differently. People hate Linux and Mac OS so much that they’d rather deal with this than deal with them.
- Comment on Microsoft just paused Windows 11 24H2 update for many PCs due to crashes and freezes 1 day ago:
Rose tinted glasses.
Xp was almost a nightmare on launch. But got fixed (security not withstanding) switching everyone over from DOS to NT was no simple feat, and there were a lot of issues.
Vista wasn’t great, but the change to drivers made it a nightmare.
7, 8, and 8.1 were fine.
But 10 was a nightmare for the first 5 years. Every other update would break things. And those came out about twice a year.
Windows 11 has been surprisingly issue free for me. 24H2 seems to be the buggiest update since so I’ve been holding back. But I updated to 22 and 23 and I never had any issues, nor did I hear too much complaining. Every major update has some minor issues, and that’s largely why MS staggers their releases.
I’m honestly surprised MS took this long to pause the rollout with how bad it’s been.
- Comment on Microsoft just paused Windows 11 24H2 update for many PCs due to crashes and freezes 1 day ago:
Good thing they fixed the ipv6 vulnerability first.
- Comment on What would tools/services would you recommend for hosting without self hosting? 1 day ago:
The worst laptop you can find could probably be better than even a reasonably specced VPS. Low end VPS are dire, and you can get some pretty decent laptops for almost nothing. If it’s pre 8th Gen. Intel they’re basically worthless on the used market. But they’ll still easily get the job done.
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 1 day ago:
Decentrilization is both a blessing and a curse.
If there’s an issue you can make your own community with blackjack, and hookers.
- Comment on Why are laptop adapters so much larger than phone adapters of same power rating? 2 days ago:
Don’t forget safety. There’s a LOT of of sketchy ass gan (and non gan) chargers I wouldn’t even let in my house. Gan chargers being by so compact dont have enough space to safely insulate things.
- Comment on what's stops one from scavenging the best parts of old phones and putting them into a new one? 3 days ago:
Modern phone cameras are 99% software at this point. If you took one phones camera and put it onto another phone without adapting the software then the photos will look like ass.
You can’t just unplug something from device X and connect it to device Y. The connectors aren’t standardized. And even if they were they wouldn’t fit because the placement is different. In theory you could take the CPU off of one device and plant it onto another. But have fun with that BGA micro soldering. Plus the connections will be different unless you picked a phone with the exact same CPU. Ram is the only thing you could potentially upgrade. But like good luck.
You’d legitimately have an easier time making a new phone from scratch than trying to piece together 3 different phones.
- Comment on What OS/ OSs for a core2 quad? 3 days ago:
I’d stick with XP. Most software written for windows 95 and up will run on XP, and it’s still new enough to connect to modernism file shares to download files. There’s a ton of games and hardware that works best with XP.
As soon as you install Linux on a machine like that it becomes just an old boring PC.
- Comment on Google plans AI browser assistant "Jarvis" to automate web tasks. 3 days ago:
Can it solve captchas for me?
- Comment on if you quit a job you didn't like or was toxic, didn't the financial hit scare you? 3 days ago:
If you need the money then start looking for jobs now, and quit when you’ve got something.
- Comment on Lexar doubles up the NM790 series SSDs max capacity to 8TB — new drives spotted at retail for approx $1,000 6 days ago:
Was that a 2280 M.2 drive?
That’s what makes this bleeding edge since those drives are so tiny. 15tb in a 2.5" drive is nothing special.
- Comment on Lexar doubles up the NM790 series SSDs max capacity to 8TB — new drives spotted at retail for approx $1,000 1 week ago:
That’s the cost of high end bleeding edge tech.
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 1 week ago:
It’s a self managed QOS. If the customer knows they can only use X data they’re going to be a bit more cautious about using it. Vs if they have unlimited data then they’ll just download that 50 gig file on their phone because “fuck it why not”. The less data each individual customer uses the less infrastructure they have to build, and the faster/more consistent their existing stuff will be.
Cell tower time is a LOT more expensive than time on a fiber optic cable. Your ISP installs a few boxes to serve your neighborhood, a cell carriers tower might go 20 miles.
- Comment on “I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock 1 week ago:
If it’s a small buisness (10 people) the “business” is you.
- Comment on “I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock 1 week ago:
That’s why I spent 2k to import an iPhone from Canada instead of buying one locally. I travel to Costa Rica often and I keep my tmobile esim for most other tasks, but I can pick up a sim for $5 and that will last me most of my trip as long as I’m smart with my data usage.
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 1 week ago:
and there’s no option to turn it off permanently.
Did you actually try looking this up. Turn it off in settings and it’s off forever until you turn it back on.
