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"There will be some bullshit but how bad can it be?" - clueless

I can't do my job because the embodyment of KKKalifornia chose to unnecesarily make the most braindead FUCKING KEYBOARD possible and all you fucking yanks just rolled with that imbecile shit instead of throwing bricks at that slimy bastard

That shitstain dying of hubris was too merciful

Anyways I'm looking into that Karabiner shit

Great bit tho, I feel PPBed in real life

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[–] Snort_Owl@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah the keyboard and shortcuts are silly business but where I work the windows devices are practically unusable so it's the compromise I choose to make. Our VPN and ms teams on windows uses like all of the ram then reduces the battery life to 10 minutes and for reasons unknown to anyone the same applications on Mac don't do that.

Soon you'll be doing CMD shift 4 like the best of us and deprogram cut and paste from your mind you won't need it where we're going.

My favourite keyboard bit from Mac is plugging in a new one and it pops up with "press the key next to blah so we can configure it" quite literally hasn't worked once for any keyboard I have and I have loads. Ended up getting one that has explicit apple mode and support but the ergonomic one that has apple keys doesn't work xD. Wait until you get to multi monitor scaling and the fact 1440p is basically just non existent to apple. Fractional scaling? Nah. Integer scaled super resolution

Conversely I really do like the trackpad three finger swipe and full screen window things but using a mouse is pain. The magic mouse is also meme hardware.

Also for some reason where I work your choices are a HP windows laptop with 2 bytes of ram and a 1 core CPU and gods chosen 1366x768 res TN panel for the same price as a M5 Mac pro and I literally do not understand what's going on