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Re:Problems with MacBook butterfly switch keyboards by kn0where on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @01:54AM (#15497170)
A twist on the old if-a-tree-falls-in-the-forest riddle: If a hidden gesture exists but nobody knows it, does it really exist?
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Re:Problems with MacBook butterfly switch keyboards by JSONwebtoken on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @02:20AM (#15497259)
How is it a hidden gesture? It's literally shown in every marketing video and advertisement since demo day.
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Re:Problems with MacBook butterfly switch keyboards by kk_cz on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @03:27AM (#15497502)
And yet somehow you still have someone (who I assume is a poweruser) who doesn't know about its existence.

But to answer your question: It's hidden because it doesn't have a graphic representation on the device itself. Nothing on the volume button indicates that it's somehow a hidden slider.

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Re:Problems with MacBook butterfly switch keyboards by ambulancechaser on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @11:12AM (#15499752)
its as hidden as control-alt-delete.
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Re:Problems with MacBook butterfly switch keyboards by kamaal on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @11:53PM (#15505356)
>>It's literally shown in every marketing video and advertisement since demo day.

The whole point of a good UI is you shouldn't be reading a manual and watching videos to do X, Y and Z.

Apple used to be a pioneer at things like this.

Sad things have come down to this.

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Re:Problems with MacBook butterfly switch keyboards by vsipuli on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @02:14AM (#15497241)
You know now.
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