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sflocal said: Regardless of it being either a Mac or Windows (and Linux), I'm surprised that displays work as well as they do considering the myriad of different sizes, resolutions, formats, etc... I'm not surprised. GPUs (and many old non…
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charlesn said: shamino said: Better not use alkaline batteries or they'll leak and corrode all the circuitry in that AirTag. Is this really a known thing with alkaline batteries? Because THAT would explain a lot for me. I have had …
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Better not use alkaline batteries or they'll leak and corrode all the circuitry in that AirTag.
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Whoa! I just read this incredible bit of great news: https://www.ifixit.com/News/104302/all-hail-the-return-of-upgradeable-storage-mac-mini-2024-teardown The new 2024 Mac mini still has soldered-in RAM, as is the new norm with the Unified Memory …
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melgross said: I’m sure that if they think it’s warranted, OWC could figure out how to do this. ... the only problem would be as to whom would remove and replace the board? That's the big deal. In addition to the work to open and physically …
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Xed said: I wonder if this is more for removing storage to properly destroy it so the rest can be recycled in the normal fashion at EOL v making it upgradable or fixable. To date, Apple only replaces modules for repair service, and when th…
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YP101 said: I don't think user upgradeable for storage anyway. This was same for Mac Studio. Apple coded each storage for specific unit so user can't upgrade. Unless Apple change the way. Except that, as the hacker community discovered, …
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Yep. I built a Google Cardboard (this model no longer sold, but I paid $6 for it in 2021) device for my iPhone. It works great (as great as you can expect for $6) and is conceptually not very different from this patent application. Yes, the Apple …
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jallison said: shamino said:Land-line voice calls (that are digitzed to 56 kbps without compression) are actually 8kHz samples, with 7 bits per µ-Law sample. I thought this was the G.711 codec and was 8kHz (NarrowBand) at 64kbps and 8b…
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jallison said: 125kbps is indeed sufficient for voice - many voices in fact. Addressing quality of a VoLTE call first - although the spec for Enhanced Voice Services goes up to 48kHz (FullBand) - Most 'Classic' Bluetooth headphones only sup…
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Unfortunately, automakers have decided to integrate the "infotainment" features into the car's main computer. There is no longer a radio you can replace - it's all integrated with the rest of the computer's interface. If there's a discrete radio a…
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jallison said: There are also two levels of 'long range' in Bluetooth 5 - Coded Phy S2 and S8. They increase the range between handsets to ~100m. Yes, but as with all things, there are tradeoffs. The Coded Phy systems gain greater range …
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AppleZulu said: I would be willing to bet a dollar to a donut that the devices would link directly using the iPhones' WiFi radios. The article and the abstract of the patent say just that. The devices establish a connection over an ad-hoc …
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blastdoor said: The realistic goal for a weather app is to be right the fraction of times it claims. So for all the times the app says there’s a 70 percent chance of rain, it ought to rain 70 out of 100 times. That's not what the term usu…
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I've also found Apple Weather to be pretty inaccurate. I much prefer to use AccuWeather, but I don't trust their app - the privacy lists location and usage data as "data used to track you". I understand that a weather app needs my location, but the…
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Hreb said: DisplayPort has absolutely not been eclipsed by HDMI in modern usage. As I understand it, every USB-C and Thunderbolt is actually using a DisplayPort profile on the wire. HDMI is more popular for TVs, but for any computer monitor…
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Just a nit to pick. The DIP switches on an Apple RGB-VGA adapter are not because of the sync mechanisms. Apple RGB provided sync in the same way that most analog monitors at the time do - either with separate pins (VGA style) or by multiplexing sy…
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asus389 said: With the later, such as with PWM dimming, the light source itself is turning on and off and your brain is supposed to interpret that as either a dimmer or brighter screen. In the case of an OLED screen, the pixels are both the l…
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All dimmers flicker the signal. A traditional dimmer switch uses a triac to flicker the AC current. But incandescent bulbs don't flicker (much) because they produce light by heating a wire until it glows (incandesces). So if the current flickers,…
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AppleInsider said: Most of the apps built into visionOS cannot be deleted, but Apple does make an exception for two of them. You do have the option to delete Keynote from the Apple Vision Pro, as well as Encounter Dinosaurs. I am surpr…