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  • The Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro is well implemented, but serves no useful purpose

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    Adding extra functionality to the FN keys has been tried over and over in the past, the keys IMHO are too far out of the way for anything useful. As such, shortcuts using the keys which are a part of the alphabet and number set just work better. A commonality of success in enhancing the function key row is for volume and brightness control, it seems that those things are well suited for being positioned where they are. 

    What may work nicely (i would like to try out) would be if the old keyboard layout were restored and the touch bar moved to be situated below the space bar and command keys, ie. between the keyboard and touchpad. At least on my older mac book pro there would be room. This changed would mean no functionality is removed; esc, and F keys do and more imporrtantly feel like the should, while the touch bar can truly be used to add extra functionality. I think by being close to the touchpad it would feel a lot more natural to use as your fingers would be much closer to the touchbar and the hand would not have to wander all the way across the keyboard to access.
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  • Apple Australia airs four wedding-themed 'First Dance' ads for iPhone X

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    slurpy said:
    This thread should be interesting.. And by interesting, I mean a shit-fest.
    slurpy said:
    This thread should be interesting.. And by interesting, I mean a shit-fest.
    slurpy said:
    This thread should be interesting.. And by interesting, I mean a shit-fest.
    slurpy said:
    This thread should be interesting.. And by interesting, I mean a shit-fest.
    anome said:
    racerhomie3 said:
    montrosemacs said:
    racerhomie3 said:
    Idiotic activism.
    Does love scare you?
    No but putting out ads that leave 50% of people triggered is not a good thing for Apple.

    At best it's 38% triggered, and probably substantially less than that, since even the front person for the "No" campaign went to his sister's wedding (to another woman, just to be clear). Most people who responded against gay marriage in the survey (not a vote, a survey) probably won't have PTSD flashbacks to a time they were forced to participate in a gay wedding, anyway. The word "triggered" gets bandied about a lot by people, usually trying to devalue it, when it means a specific thing relating to Post Traumatic Stress, and doesn't just mean seeing something you don't want to see.

    Anyway, next there'll be complaints about the Apple Employees for Sexual Freedom float in the parade.


    (Note: I don't know if there's actually an "Apple Employees for Sexual Freedom" float in the Mardi Gras this year. I kind of hope there is, just because it will annoy a certain type of person, and I also think it's something Apple would support.)

    slurpy said:
    This thread should be interesting.. And by interesting, I mean a shit-fest.
    slurpy said:
    This thread should be interesting.. And by interesting, I mean a shit-fest.
    slurpy said:
    This thread should be interesting.. And by interesting, I mean a shit-fest.

    philboogie