Posted by leephillips 5 days ago
Theremin Mode: https://twitter.com/samhenrigold/status/1964464940049453153
In older versions of macOS you can simply try two things:
* Press Esc in locking screen, or * Press "Sleep" from the menu bar icon and then press Esc immediately
If the machine crashes/reboots, the sensor is bad and it needs to be replaced. Apple Store replaces the whole display assembly.
15 inch and M3/M4 models are not affected, AFAIK.
Author can submit this to the AppStore.
What it says is (emphasis mine) “it’s not exposed as a public API”. In other words, Apple doesn’t provide official documentation and hooks for you to interact with the feature, like they do e.g. with Bluetooth. Even then, while they provide public APIs to interact with paired devices, interacting with the Bluetooth controller itself (e.g. turning it completely off or on) requires private APIs.
I wouldnt mind but I was 95% of the time clamshell, and still the keyboard made from butterflies wings lasted next to no time, and the battery put on too much weight after only 30 something cycles. After all these years I never understand how they produce such lemon models some years, just trying to save a few cents here and there. The one before was thermal paste nvidia meltdown.
I work in the automotive industry, and for volume products the price-cutting is really brutal. If you can save a cent somewhere you will, because that cent multiplied by 8 million cars a year is a sizeable amount of money.
This seems to be generally true for most OEMs of hardware products, but not for Apple. Apple could have cut costs by just using a magnet and a reed switch/hall effect sensor, because it is not using the exact angle of the screen anyway (afaik?), but they chose not to.
They could have implemented their "3d Touch" by using a simpler circuit which just indicates if the press was really hard or soft. But again they chose not too.
And they sell over 20 million Macs per year, so they really sacrifice a sizeable amount of profit
I had thought that the MBP (an Intel one) had used magnets to detect lid closure but alas that's when I learned of the lid angle sensor and all the symptoms I was experiencing made sense. Basically the laptop would wake up when shut and the screen would stay on the entire time thus draining the battery.
Ended up getting the LAS replaced which was not DIY'able unfortunately... but was a relatively cheap fix (~$90).
https://source.android.com/docs/core/interaction/sensors/sen...
I’m curious what you do with this information. Can you share?
'Cause if not, it makes perfect sense for nostrademons to be doing it themselves.
The bigger issue is that there's always a long-tail of product considerations that need to be different on foldables and aren't covered by just feature-detecting the available screen resolution. Logging is one: PMs are very interested in how the category as a whole is performing, if only to direct future hardware plans, and that requires that it actually be categorized as a separate category. Backend requests are another: you can (and should) optimize your bandwidth usage on phones by not shipping to the client information that is only going to be displayed on large screens, and you can (and should) optimize your screen usage on large screens by displaying more information that is not available on phones, but foldables represent the union of the two, and you usually don't want the latency of additional backend requests when the user fold/unfolds the device.
(The irony is that the app in question is Google Play, and I personally know most of the PMs and several of the engineers on Android SysUI.)
Probably a nicer interface for anyone who wants to play with this :)
There was a sensor where it would detect when you slapped the side of the screen, and a guy wired it up so when you did that it shifted to the next space (virtual desktop).