It is lower audio quality, higher latency, less reliable, causes more interference for wireless networks and other devices. It's also less secure. Those are just the reasons I can think of right now.

Why not go further and hardwire?

You're passionate about something you don't understand and have never tried.

Tap to click you remove your finger and press it back down to click. That's why it's called tap to click and not press to click.

With haptic touchpads you keep your finger where it is and apply more force. It's a completely different gesture and is very similar to mechanical clicking touchpads.

Why it's better is because it is consistent across the whole touchpad surface versus mechanical typically don't work towards the top of the touchpad. Mechanical touchpads normally feel loose to me and you can't change the actuation force. With a haptic touchpad you can change the actuation force since it's a force sensor with a software defined threshold.

It also doesn't feel anything like phone haptics. It feels more like a press than a vibration like a phone does.

These are also higher quality touchpads in general that have more resolution. Theoretical even better than the Apple force touch devices I have used.

Walk into an Apple store and try one of their devices before you complain again.

Have you ever actually tried a haptic touchpad? I have and honestly they are so much better everything else feels like a joke in comparison.

Also no it won't have a physical click, that defeats the purpose. It's also not the same as tap to click, it uses a force sensor.

What’s a z+redditor? I also don’t fully know what counts as niche. I think I am in a couple of these and there are still assholes, some of which are the most active users or even mods. Some groups are okay but these are the exceptions and not the rules.

Actually I think being a difficult bastard, stubborn, or an arsehole is actually needed in certain contexts. Sometimes people are stubborn just because they can, sometimes it’s because they are defending themselves or someone else.

I can’t imagine thinking redditors are cool. Not even redditors think redditors are cool.

They literally cut a quarter of the disk. You can literally see the center spindle where the cuts end.

Also that’s a size used for modern hard drives.

You ain’t good at this are you?

You mean lemmy.world? Nowhere else bans it to my knowledge. Pretty sure Lemmy itself doesn’t and can’t ban anything.

Have you tried updating the kernel? If it’s been rated to work with a certain Linux distribution and it doesn’t work on yours then chances are that the distribution they tested with is using a newer kernel.

That being said new hardware can be quite problematic on Linux. I personally haven’t had issues with Huawei Matebooks provided I installed the newer kernels, but Apple Silicon was a nightmare.

And since when do I care about the law? Also there are laws about repair in my country.

As in a company cannot disallow you from doing anything you want with you’re device, because you own it! I guess they can try and make it more difficult by the way they design the product, but that’s actually illegal in some countries and states. For example my country has right to repair legislation for certain types of applicances.

Right to repair isn’t a law yet in most places. You seem have have missed that whole debacle.

Edit: my country actually has right to repair laws: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57665593

It means you can use the property in any way that isn’t violent. Completely the wrong meaning of peace you are using. They have go say peacefully so that hitting someone with a hammer isn’t covered by property rights.

Yeah nah. There are more reasons why Apple TrackPads are great not just glass.

Have a look at the Sensel haptic touchpad used in the X1 Titanium Yoga. It’s a touchpad that’s actually better than Apple’s. It’s a shame it only got used in like 2 devices so far.

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You talking about “crushing” the Apple laptops is missing the point. Performance isn’t the main reason people buy them, it’s things like the TrackPad, software, battery life, and overall usability.

He never said the government guarantees a peaceful state of mine. Stop misinterpreting other people’s arguments just because you can’t make a valid one yourself.

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