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It's 'innovative' because smaller is good apparently, despite what my girlfriend says 😂
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Koolstr27908yWhy would you subject yourself to such needless suffering? The solution is to just not buy the new MacBook pro at all
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The next step: screw ports altogether; wireless peripherals and inductive charging with proprietary hardware and protocols.
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@capnross that actually wouldn't be a bad thing. No more keyboard layout problems. Plus i always wanted a keyboard that adapts to the size of you hands
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capnross298y@DarkMukke sounds great from that perspective, but I like the tactility of a physical keyboard.
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capnross298yLOL! Of course not, but for my main development machine, I'd hate to have a non-tactile keyboard.
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Grumpy28878yJust give it some time. In a year or two, you'll miss that large USB port like you miss the parallell printer port.
But how can you live without an escape key? -
@loumorgsy smaller is always better, unless we're talking about monitor size, bank accounts, storage space or that other thing we shamelessly can't keep our hands off of
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kamen69848y@DarkMukke I don't think that phones need a physical keyboard as of today. For me, a phone is a device for consumption, not for creation, and if most of what you type is in your keyboard's dictionary, you should be fine.
@alistairkb Even if an Esc key is on the touchscreen, it would be awkward to press it as a part of a key combination. I haven't tried it, but I suspect it wouldn't be nice. Try holding down Shift and tapping the flat area next to the Esc key on a normal keyboard. -
Grumpy28878y@kamen That's precisely my problem with recent phones. The old Xperia Pro I used 3 years ago could be used for creation because it had a keyboard. I took notes and wrote emails on it. My present Nexus is useless for that, so it's just a device for consumption, as you point out.
I really miss that physical keyboard. -
kamen69848y@Grumpy I meant that if I were to code on my phone, I'd really miss a full size physical keyboard. But [for me] it's fine for writing mails and messages since most of the words I'm using can be guessed (thus input easily) by a software keyboard. Swiftkey for example is fine with guessing words, but it would be terrible with punctuation (in code).
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@kamen forget the phones, they were just a reference, we are talking about laptops with touch screens for keyboards
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r0bb4238yI like how the comments emphasize dongles when there's actual USB C products out there. Get some real USB C devices and tell the dongles to fuck off, you'll have a better time
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@r0bb I actually agree with you. The shape of usb has never changed. And i mean on the pc side. Its about time it dies. It's huge. Look at the evolution of firewire 400 to 800 to thunderbolt. Much better.
Apple? Why? 😠😠😠😈
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