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  • The A13 chip in Apple's cheapest iPhone SE beats the most expensive Androids

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    tmay said:
    gentooguy said:

    blahblahblahblahblahblah

    Your arguments would sell better if you used fucking paragraphs for readability.

    Just for the heck of it, I reformatted all that for myself last night, just to see if it made any more sense if it were prettified. In Pages, Times Roman 12-point, standard margins, it filled well over a printed page.  As DED pointed out already, tripe is still tripe.
    Beatsp-dogStrangeDaystmaywatto_cobra

  • Who should upgrade to the new iPhone SE

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    henrybay said:
    Millions of people still use iPhones with TouchID and prefer it to FaceID - especially now that we’ll be wearing face masks for the next few years. 
    Except that, if you're in a public situation where you'd be wearing a mask, you probably ought to be wearing latex gloves too.  Oops.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple unveils new iPhone SE priced at just $399

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    macgui said:
    The SE is dead. Long live the SE.
    As a long-time SE owner (and 4S owner before that, an even smaller form factor), I grew impatient and went full-bore 11 Pro a little over a month ago.

    The size/bulk delta barely moves the needle for me.  Both models fit equally well in my pant pockets.  I'm not in the habit of treating my phone roughly, so I got Apple's leather case for it (like my SE)... plenty of protection, just the right grip without a lot of bulk (e.g., Otter, etc.).

    I moved some of my more-used icons lower in the screen layout, so as to maintain single-handedness as much as possible.  Other things just have to be double-handed, and I've grown accustomed to that.  I'm willing, because I really needed the larger screen; these eyes are not getting any sharper.

    And yes, I would have been satisfied with an SE2... but I'm blown away by the 11 Pro (camera, display tech).  There's just something about a flagship.
    webweaselBeatschristopher126asdasdspock1234watto_cobra

  • Best alternatives to Apple TV's Siri Remote

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    I'm not in love with the Harmony 650 (yes, the cheapest of the Harmony line), in fact it's incredibly buggy depending on the devices you must configure.  I have two of them (different rooms), and in order for certain things to work, I have to either traverse its help menu, or give up altogether and use the "real" remote for whatever device is misbehaving.

    Also, Silverlight as a device-programming UI in the current decade is just embarrassing.

    Yes, I know, you get what you pay for...
    FlaSheridn

  • U.S. Senate, Google ban Zoom days after its launch of 'security council'

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    I found it to be less responsive, more cumbersome to access and use, and its UI was far less intuitive. Basically the same issues I find with most Microsoft products. It also didn't appear to have similar functionality, but that could have been dependent on features the host had not enabled.
    That's really interesting.  My company uses both systems, and between the two, Teams tends to have higher audio quality and a few nifty options I haven't seen elsewhere... such as auto background blur for video conferencing.  A real godsend for folks with less-than-pristine home offices.

    I normally hate Windows with the best of them, but Teams "feels" different.  I don't agree about the comparative intuitiveness of the two systems (I've also used GoToMeeting and WebEx), seems like a toss-up to me.
    watto_cobra