Dave
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Post by Dave on Apr 12, 2023 1:33:52 GMT -8
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Post by Dave on Apr 12, 2023 1:42:09 GMT -8
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Post by CdnPhoto on Apr 12, 2023 4:17:40 GMT -8
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Post by CdnPhoto on Apr 12, 2023 4:50:05 GMT -8
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Post by chinacat on Apr 12, 2023 5:55:06 GMT -8
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Post by CdnPhoto on Apr 12, 2023 9:03:43 GMT -8
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Post by zebrum on Apr 12, 2023 9:35:40 GMT -8
Well the solid state trackpad on the Macbooks works amazingly well and I even use it on the light and silent click settings. And although I don't use it, the force click setting (i.e. the second deeper click) feels like magic.
The sold state iPhone 7 home button wasn't as nice feeling and sometimes didn't respond (e.g. if Springboard was crashing) but I bet it would feel better with a modern more powerful taptic and dedicated circuit.
It was looking like the Pro phone was going to have one long button that combined vol up and down. That worried me because I often feel for the buttons through my pocket to adjust airpods volume and I thought they were going to force me to have to use my watch crown or talk to Siri (she's a nightmare over a Bluetooth mic!). However then I thought maybe it is going to be a touch surface where you can swipe up and down, similar to how you can drag the voume HUD that appears on the left since around iOS 15 I think, and I figured that would be a cool feature.
Overall I was in 2 minds about the whole thing so personally not that bothered it is cancelled. If the new rounded chassis design can stop cases falling off the square edges since iPhone 12 then that will be enough for an upgrade. Drives me nuts my cases fall off at the corners every single time I take it out of my pocket. Never had this problem with the rounded chassis.
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Post by duckpins on Apr 12, 2023 11:04:38 GMT -8
Apple to invest another $200 million in carbon removal fund
A better idea. Buy the ranches and farms in the central valley and restore the Tule lake and marsh system. There is no draught in CA. Just years of bad water management that the government has used to make ranchers and farmers super wealthy. Cotton grows in TX where it rains nearly every day in the summer. Thunderstorms. Yet it became and is CA largest cash crop. A total waste of water on 1 very wealthy family who drained entire lakes to make themselves super wealthy. This has been ongoing for nearly 200 years. They keep a low profile.
The entire water infrastructure needs to be rejuvenated to stop the fires and end the forever draught.
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Post by Ted on Apr 12, 2023 12:02:56 GMT -8
I didn't know you were a hydrologist, duckpins and I don't see how this relates to Apple . . .
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Post by duckpins on Apr 13, 2023 10:13:31 GMT -8
"I didn't know you were a hydrologist, duckpins and I don't see how this relates to Apple . . ." Not a hydro... but I have the ability to reason. What it has to do with Apple is Cook and all are spending money on "the environment". As shareholders we can say whether it is wise or not. Perhaps Cook is doing what is so often done here in the Bay, virtue signaling as the kids say. Maybe other policies would have a greater impact. FYI Russian ecologists blame the Neanderthals and ice age humans for hunting the Wooly Mammoths to extinction. These beasts made Sib aria into a grassland not a forest. They say the forest keeps the heat in and are trying to bring back the Wooly beasts to trample them and thus ease global warming. That would be a fun project for Apple and Spielberg. Could work for Apple TV as well.
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Post by 4aapl on Apr 13, 2023 15:07:17 GMT -8
Apple to invest another $200 million in carbon removal fund A better idea. Buy the ranches and farms in the central valley and restore the Tule lake and marsh system. There is no draught in CA. Just years of bad water management that the government has used to make ranchers and farmers super wealthy. Cotton grows in TX where it rains nearly every day in the summer. Thunderstorms. Yet it became and is CA largest cash crop. A total waste of water on 1 very wealthy family who drained entire lakes to make themselves super wealthy. This has been ongoing for nearly 200 years. They keep a low profile. The entire water infrastructure needs to be rejuvenated to stop the fires and end the forever draught. My rough understanding is that Apple, doing so well financially that they have the luxury of trying to do the "right thing", is trying to offset what they do and use. Solar/wind/etc are great for offsetting energy you use at factories and offices, though sometimes you don't create the energy at the site, while other times you have the added benefit of putting solar on a roof to block excess heat and thus have less cooling. But currently planes and most delivery vehicles use oil based fuel. So Apple it trying to find ways to offset that carbon dioxide production. If instead they were in an industry that used a lot of water, then they'd likely be more interested in that. It looks like the Federal government will get into the "paying farmers not to farm" business, at least as far as the Colorado river basin. In some ways it seems crazy to do that but at the same time it makes sense, even if it is probably better to just buy out the area or partially buy it and deed restrict the crops to not be water hogs (supposedly rice, cotton, almonds, etc). I'm reading a book by a theoretical astrophysicist about the probable ends of the universe, likely long after the white dwarf we call the sun goes big and fries earth while absorbing Mercury and Venus, in about 4 billion years. "The end of everything" by Katie Mack might not be for everyone, but sometimes it's fun to push the boundaries of your own knowledge and understanding. You can also do energy and chemical balances on the earth as a whole (water too). On those balances, it's a completely different view, with the real problem being that we are converting things from one form to another too quickly and using the resulting energy, without the time for plants and sunlight to convert the products back to something that in the long run gets changed into a carbon based fuel that sequesters the energy (and carbon). FWIW, it's not quite a perfect energy balance, since sunlight is coming in, and then things like CO2 or methane or even con-trails (not chem-trails) keep more of the heat on the planet. But in the short term part of life is cleaning up after yourself. Leave the place as good (or better) than it was when you got there. Not everyone manages, and we get plenty of trash left on the beaches, but that is and should be the goal (even if glass beaches like in Maui look kinda cool). Apple is trying to do this, and while some might see it as a greenie thing to do, in the short to mid timeframe of this planet it is what should be done. (FWIW, my understanding is that more water into the groundwater in the central valley isn't likely to change most fires in CA, in the higher forests or in the annual grassy hillsides. Temperature change moderation would probably do better with both, causing things to dry out less, but that's not a quick fix even if it's more in line with what Apple is investing in with this)
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