> Apple introduced control keys (separate left and right ones) because companies writing terminal emulators needed it.
I'm not sure that's the correct reason.
The Apple II/III had the control key from the start. The Mac keyboard originally did not have control (nor escape.) When Apple introduced the external Apple Desktop Bus keyboard designed to be used with both the Apple IIgs and the Mac, it needed the full complement of keys to be used with both systems.
The open and closed apple keys first appeared on the Apple ///, initially next to each other on the left of the spacebar. On the Apple /// plus, the closed apple then moved to the right of the keyboard, which is what the Apple IIe inherited.
The closed apple key then appeared on the Lisa keyboard alongside an option key (both on the left of the spacebar), but the Lisa's closed Apple key acted like and is what became the Mac's command key.
The latter just reads the the HO SQLite config on your Mac and converts it to JSON and CSV files. It doesn't currently export automations but it took Claude Code about 10 minutes to add automations export for me.
I'm contemplating a move to HA and didn't want to have to do it manually.
"Citing the book of Genesis, Carlson asked whether the modern state of Israel had a right to the lands promised in the Bible by God to Abraham, stretching from the Euphrates River to the Nile, covering much of the Middle East. In response, Huckabee said: “It would be fine if they took it all. But I don’t think that’s what we’re talking about here today.”
> make sure it is factory sealed and not counterfeit
Hah. I bought an Apple Pencil from BB. Shrink-wrapped in the box. I get home, the battery won't charge. I figured out from the S/N that someone had bought a new pencil, put their dead one in the box, shrink-wrapped it, returned it, BB put it back into stock, and I ended up with it.
Fortunately, BB replaced it for me, but I've never had this issue with a single Amazon item I've purchased and I've done a lot more shopping from Amazon than BB.
Counterpoint: People do this on Amazon all the time. One time I ordered a kick drum stand on Amazon. All I got was the foot of the stand and a brick in the box.
I suspect the wildly differing experiences for this depend on the number of bad actors doing this in the pools feeding into whatever warehouses, versus total churn.
For me, living first in Baltimore then NYC, places where there's quite a few people buying quite a few things up and down the cost scale, I never saw a counterfeit anything come up.
That's not to say I think it doesn't happen, just that I think that's why some people have wildly different experiences here.
Not for nothing, but I can’t remember the last time I purchased anything computer related that was shrink wrapped. It’s all single-use-obvious-if-opened tape
You know, that's a very good point. Everything I can recall purchasing from Apple has tamper-resistant tear-open tape. This was a first gen pencil purchased in April 2020 when BB was doing order pickups in the parking lot. Maybe Apple wasn't using the single-use tape yet?
Quinn the Eskimo, no doubt. I'm convinced he or she is the only actual human being providing developer technical support at Apple. Certainly the only one I've ever successfully communicated with. Support tickets go to robots who are incapable of providing relevant answers. Maybe Quinn is an alias with a team of humans behind it, but I don't think so. I've had him or her take forum posts to private e-mail and it does seem like a single person.
Unfortunately, even Quinn is fully at the mercy of Apple's internal bureaucracy, which is quite formidable.
It's not much of a giveaway. Quinn is the most likely respondent to questions on https://developer.apple.com/forums/ for years now, including this one about sandbox-exec in 2019:
I'm not sure that's the correct reason.
The Apple II/III had the control key from the start. The Mac keyboard originally did not have control (nor escape.) When Apple introduced the external Apple Desktop Bus keyboard designed to be used with both the Apple IIgs and the Mac, it needed the full complement of keys to be used with both systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_keyboards#Discontinued_k...
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