Comment on Anon is incompatible

• blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  compatibility issues with some USB cables

  I’d like to hear more about this. I have a theory that as great as USB-C is for consistency, the fact that it shares a connector with Thunderbolt (to say nothing about the different versions of Thunderbolt) introduces a level of uncertainly when looking at a USB-C connector.

  • it can be a “charge-only” cable (USB 2.0)
  • it can charge slowly, or quickly
  • it can be a USB-C cable
  • it can be Thunderbolt 3 / USB 4.0
  • it can be active, or passive
  • it can be Thunderbolt 4
  • it can be Thunderbolt 5

  I’m certainly not trying to discount your experience. I’m sure you ran into significant problems. But in general I continue to believe that the general public may not have the right “flavor” of USB-C cable to do what they are trying to do in a given situation.

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  • auzy1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s nothing to do with the standard I believe

    The same cables and adapters all worked when I used them on my nuc for the same devices, and they wouldn’t even work with my mouse on the Mac studio.

    My suspicion is that the shell of the case is a bit thick (as the port is recessed behind it), so some cables just failed to touch fully. As, some cables felt more snug and clicked into the port better

    For the cost of the computer, it damned sure shouldn’t have that issue

    Even worse, for the price of the computer, the power button should be on front, not buried on the back. That’s overcomplicating things for the sake of doing so

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    • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Reminds me of the original iPhone and the 3.5mm audio jack that was too “deep” for normal headphones.

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• Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Butterfly keyboards. so saying apple is the pinnacle of hardware is stupid. They make dumb decisions just like everyone else.

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  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Apple does honestly make good hardware. Their transition to ARM had a near zero chance of being successful but Apple managed to pull it off anyway. It’s truly impressive.

    But when they fuck up, boy do they go big. The butterfly keyboards were absolutely insane. And don’t get me started on the last years software releases. I can’t practically multitask on my iPad anymore, screen space is wasted on the MacBook in Tahoe and the finder is worse than it’s ever been. Competition is supposed to save us but Microsoft is so smitten with AI they still can’t even get their start menu to work reliably. Meanwhile linux is gaining faster than anyone thought possible. Valve is doing to gaming on Linux what Ubuntu did to teaching neurotypicals how to use Linux.

    Western tech gave up.

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    • auzy1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Windows was mostly the same with ARM too for most people honestly.

      In our industry, lots of people got ARM surface laptops (and didn’t even know it was an ARM CPU, except that the software we used had an old version of OpenVPN, which caused a specific issue unless they manually installed as it was a kernel module). The reason the ARM changeover might have seemed seamless, is that developers were likely given priority access to hardware (as what happened with PPC -> Intel)… On Windows there was special hardware for it, and I suspect there was a Arm development kit on MacOS too probably.

      People also seem to compare Apple hardware against PC hardware which costs 1/2 the price too. I owned a Power MAC, Mac Pro and Mac Studio. The Mac Pro ram alone cost more than a FASTER PC as the first gen used Fully Buffered ECC RAM.

      Developers can optimise for Apple based on whats available though . The other big advantage Apple has is that they mostly control the service process, and, you can’t bite the hand that feeds if you are one, which controls bad press too.

      And when they use another architecture, nobody seems to cross compare gaming performance as much, etc, as the biggest MAC sites also tend to be apple “exclusive” sites, and I’m willing to bet the people that operate them are shareholders… Apple have always been behind in graphics performance (and, still are. The M1’s and M2’s didn’t even have hardware raytracing as an example, whilst even the Intel Iris chips did).

      However, by the way people talk about Apple, you’d think the M series CPU’s were absolutely smashing PC performance and they were even expecting the M5 chips to compete with the GTX 4080’s a few months ago.

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