cute little anecdote I've been meaning to share for a good while now regarding the iPad Pro's dedicated, proprietary, not-compatible-with-fuck, THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLAR keyboard attachment:
typefully.com/NeoYokel/sigN8Yz
using the little USB-C port on the side, you can choose to run charging power through the attachment and its Mystery Teatsβ’ rather than directly plugging into the device itself which...
- is noticeably slower (for better or worse)
- is also sortof nice if you're someone like me who's always falling into things/dropping the pad/bleeding on the pad/etc and have to worry about fucking up the who-knows-how-much-to-repair charging port on the device, itself.
...HOWEVER...
something (pointless to even begin troubleshooting) about this process fucks with the already in-a-stupidly-broken-state hardware keyboarding support *in the OS, itself* and can cause the touchpad to just stop working!
and yeah, it happens enough (probably a dozen times in my ~year with this thing) that it does lend one to avoid it, especially because it sometimes requires a whole device reboot to resolve.
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