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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by matt_kantor on Monday March 03, 2025 @11:14PM (#43250219)
My favorite is how when I close my macbook with an external display plugged in, the laptop screen remains on (and lit up!) with seemingly no way to configure this behavior. Sometimes a window will end up on that (non-visible) screen which can be very confusing.
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by GuinansEyebrows on Monday March 03, 2025 @11:37PM (#43250347)
That seems like a misconfig or a broken lid sensor or something. I’ve been using MacBooks with a single external monitor as my only display (MacBook closed) for over a decade and I’ve never had the laptop display stay on when closed with an external display. Maybe time to visit the Genius Bar?
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by matt_kantor on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @08:47AM (#43254507)
My M1 has been like this since I got it so assumed it was by design, but perhaps not. My old macbook doesn't behave this way.
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by jcgrillo on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @09:17AM (#43254882)
Huh.. maybe that's why it always runs out of battery on the rare occasion I put it in a backpack and take it somewhere...
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