So what if my screen time was up last week?
      • dunyol@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        5 months ago

        It’s their Magic Mouse. You can’t use it while it’s charging (since its port is on the bottom) and it also has questionable ergonomics since it’s very flat and thin (but most mice also have questionable ergonomics as well so there’s that)

        • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          5 months ago

          If you want comfortable, you don’t get a mouse. You get a trackball that fits your hands well. I use an Elecom Huge and I love it. Especially having 7680 pixels of horizontal resolution (1080p side monitors and 4k center screen). Going from edge to edge with a single flick is so damn satisfying.

          • june (she/her)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            5 months ago

            As someone who dailies a trackball, mouse, and trackpad: it depends on the setup. Trackpad is nice for when I’m on my laptop with just one screen. Mouse is nice with two high resolution displays and gaming. And at work I exclusively use a trackball across a triple monitor setup.

        • anlumo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Apple always tried to have their mouse fit tiny children‘s hands and adults, which of course means that they’re uncomfortable for both.

          Their dedication to small product portfolios forbids them to have two different devices for this.

      • tobogganablaze@lemmus.orgEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Ok, I’ll bite.

        Now I’m not an apple fanboy, I have a macbook and this mouse, but no iPhone, iPad or even an apple ID. I’m also not claiming that this is good design.

        But there is also nothing wrong with that mouse. The previous model used two AA batteries, which I think is worse. I do still have some of them around, but I use them rarley and sometimes forget to restock. So with it being rechargeable, at least for me, there is less risk of ever running out of battery. And the battery lasts like 3 months on a full charge. It also charges quite fast so it’s really hard to get that thing depeleted. Just plug it in everytime you take a shit and you’re good. You can charge it for like 2 minutes and you’re good for 2 days. The issue is a meme only.

        The only real problem I have with it is that it uses the stupid lightning port. If they’d just make it USB-C then I could ditch my lighting cable all together.

  • sunbeam60@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    5 months ago

    What’s even worse is that screen time for children is actually, directly, flagrantly broken. It resets itselfs regularly. This is a known thing for parents who get into habits of re-enabling it twice daily to ensure it’s likely to be on when their kid exceed a quota. Apple, of course, ignores it. I doubt a single person on the team that owns the feature actually uses it OR they are under instructions to leave it broken to ensure digital habits get built in children. Get them started in the crack early.

  • _pete_@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I’m currently using the iOS 18 beta and - during an earlier beta (3 I think) - Screen Time was broken in that it didn’t let you change the settings or extend a session, it would just crash.

    This actually made the feature useful! You could no longer just click a button to skip the warnings, you had to actually stop when the time was up. Sure it was a bit annoying but that’s the whole point.

    So yea, I’ve been thinking of getting my partner to change the PIN for it so I can’t skip the warnings in the future.

    It’s not a bad feature, it’s just often poorly configured and badly implemented.

    • Lucy :3@feddit.orgEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Us students (16 yo) managed to circumvent Apples MDM restrictions multiple times. Finding each way took us maybe a minute on average. That’s just pathetic.