Metriacanthosaurus

1st said:

"Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced new legislation Thursday to cap credit card interest rates at 15%, a move that they said will help protect consumers from the "greed" of the credit card and banking industries."
They should cap interest rates of those dollar mart or similar outfit ads for "20 dollar for 1000l payday loan instead. Barking on the wrong tree IMHO. 

Christ those two are just insufferable. WAHHH FAIRNESSS WAHHH.

The problem with their whole act is there are tons of pathetic people who actually think like this.

How about: Personal Responsibility. GASP! Don't fucking use a credit card and not pay it off assholes!

1. Very glad that it is OLED black. Wonder what it will look like on LCD.

2. Will they please please start showing Reminders on the Calendar. Then I can finally ditch Fantastical.

Apple's external keyboards they make right now are the best I've ever used. They're not skyscraper keys, but they feel much much better than the MacBook keys.

javacowboy said:

The preference of typing on physical keys is changing however, along with the physicality of computers themselves. 

Really?  So why are companies making custom mechanical keyboards, such as Ergodox EZ, doing so well nowadays?  Looking around my own office, admittedly populated with software devs, I see tons of mechanical keyboards.  People who spend all day typing demand tactile feedback.

Yes, you could argue this is a niche market, or that those of us who prefer mechanical keyboards somehow pine for the glory days of Blackberry.  This is not true.  Texting or replying to emails on your phone is quite different from writing code, articles/blogs, or documentation all day.

And, yes, I typed this on my 2016 MacBook Pro butterfly keyboard and did not enjoy the experience at all

He's wrong. No preferences have changed anywhere. The situation with physical keyboards is one in the same as the situation with laptops/desktops themselves today. The only reason the market for them has shrunk is because there used to be millions of laptop users who had no other alternative. That was the way to use a "computer"...to write a document, to use the internet. The iPad and iPhone both have done their part to shrink that market, by replacing laptops for people who never needed them in the first place.

The people who today need laptops and physical keyboards are the same people who have always needed them.

Doesn't matter in this case. The media is always wrong and is always misleading people, and it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference.

What matters is reality. And here it is:

With the MacBook keyboard from 2016 to present, users themselves are fully aware of the problem and most of them (not some, not many... most of them) have experienced the issues in one way or another. This is not some small issue that affects a limited group of people. This is an inherent design flaw that can and will affect every single user, depending on their usage. My lightly-used 2016 MacBook Pro has only just now started to show the first signs of these problems...but that's because its my secondary machine and doesn't get pounded 8 hours a day everyday like my iMac's keyboard.

There is no pretending otherwise. Every single MacBook and MacBook Pro sold in last 3+ years is waiting for this issue to happen to it, if it hasn't already. Apple has tried no less than 4 times now to revise the keyboard design to mitigate the problem and has failed 3 times. Time will tell if the 4th time is a charm or not.