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   fluffy 💜 (fluffy@plush.city)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 13:55:33 JST fluffy 💜

   Fuckin hell the Touch Bar on my MacBook no longer lights up. Which means i have no way to control the brightness or volume (at least not accurately, it still responds to touch). At least this is one of the models with a physical esc key but still

   Previous MacBook had a different stupid Touch Bar failure too and I’m so glad Apple has dropped this stupid idea

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     fluffy 💜 (fluffy@plush.city)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 13:55:27 JST fluffy 💜

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     I mean all it takes is a complete disassembly including removing the screen from its hinges and a lot of fiddly little connectors that are easy to break and a million specific tiny screws, what could possibly go wrong

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     fluffy 💜 (fluffy@plush.city)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 13:55:28 JST fluffy 💜

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     hm, replacement touch bars are like $45 and the process doesn't look *too* bad as far as things iFixit labels "difficult" are concerned

     https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Two+Thunderbolt+Ports+2020+Touchbar+Replacement/142585

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     fluffy 💜 (fluffy@plush.city)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 13:55:30 JST fluffy 💜

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     oh right the volume and brightness control is at least still available from the Control Center on the menu bar, so I'm not totally screwed

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     fluffy 💜 (fluffy@plush.city)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 13:55:32 JST fluffy 💜

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     anyway this is a 13" M1 MacBook pro (2020), time to see if I can find any repair parts for it or whatever

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 14:08:05 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @fluffy
     Me before getting wrist pain: I need a decent physical layout.
     
     Me once I got wrist pain: Great, now I really wish things like actuation force would be on tech sheets of anything with a keyboard, it's likely just a matter of filling that stuff out anyway since manufacturers typically give out this info.
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     fluffy 💜 (fluffy@plush.city)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 14:08:06 JST fluffy 💜

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     which isn't to say the macbook keyboard is *good*, it's just less bad than other laptops in my experience

     but maybe someone else with similar chronic pain issues knows of a more comfortable laptop that also doesn't break down after two years?

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     fluffy 💜 (fluffy@plush.city)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 14:08:09 JST fluffy 💜

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     i mean the main reason I stick with macbooks is because they have the least-shitty keyboards of any laptop I've used, like they don't have a ridiculous actuation force but also don't have a trauma-inducing hard bottom-out on them

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     fluffy 💜 (fluffy@plush.city)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 14:08:10 JST fluffy 💜

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     sorry if you think the thinkpad keyboard is good

     it isn't

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     fluffy 💜 (fluffy@plush.city)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 14:08:11 JST fluffy 💜

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     unsurprisingly I'm getting lots of people telling me I should get a thinkpad, to which I should have mentioned that my Windows dev machine is a Thinkpad and I keep it on my desk specifically so I don't have to use its shitty fucking keyboard that gives me almost instant wrist pain

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     fluffy 💜 (fluffy@plush.city)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 14:08:13 JST fluffy 💜

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     okay yeah $1050 for an actual working laptop is more than I want to spend right now

     does anyone know of any good inexpensive Linux-friendly laptops with keyboards that won't put me in agony after 5 minutes? (like I already have an HP netbook that I use for random Linux shit but the keyboard is *agonizing*)

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     fluffy 💜 (fluffy@plush.city)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 14:08:14 JST fluffy 💜

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     ok though it gives me a really bad taste in my mouth where the framework laptop prices are like "starts at $850" but that price doesn't include RAM or storage

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     fluffy 💜 (fluffy@plush.city)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 14:08:15 JST fluffy 💜

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     this has me seriously considering getting a Framework laptop, especially since this laptop is just my tooling-around-on-the-couch one and I don't use it for music or art or whatever, I just do Internet shit from it

     really anything that can run linux would be fine, although most laptops' keyboards are fucking awful, and macbook keyboards are at least not *total* shit

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 14:26:05 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @fluffy I don't mean alternative layouts since you can just do that software-side quite fine.
     
     I mean like, not missing a bunch of keys (like I've seen having to use fn+numbers to reach F1…F12 in such a conflicting way you'd get no TTY access in linux), half-size arrow keys (I wonder how their designers edit text), …
     
     But it is a quite a shallow thing compared to just typing comfort or even outright accessibility, which we have various means to measure and describe, except most vendors just don't care.
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     fluffy 💜 (fluffy@plush.city)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 14:26:07 JST fluffy 💜

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @lanodan yeah unfortunately alternate keyboard layouts aren't all that useful for my particular thing either