Not the Correct Squircle

**Casey Liss** (0:00)
I have monthly FaceTime calls with a handful of good friends, one of whom is our good friend Underscore, and once a month, we'll get on FaceTime for like an hour or two and just chitchat and catch up. And when I was talking to Underscore the other day, I was mousing around for a moment, and I noticed my Magic TrackPad, which is my mouse of choice, was sliding a little bit on my desk. And so what I do is I turn off the trackpad, I pick it up, I flip it over, and the four little feet or whatever they're called, the little rubberized things that it rests on, you just rub on them for a second with your hand or with your finger and it gets all the gook off, and then you put it back down, everything's good for another few weeks, what have you. I turned it off, I rubbed the bottom, and I went to turn it back on, and the little nubbin that I used to turn the thing back on isn't there anymore. Apparently, it's sure off. It's a little power slider, because it's a slider, right? Just like on the keyboards.
The little nubbin for the slider fell off when it was in the off position, and so...

**John Siracusa** (0:52)
Is it metal, like on the keyboards?

**Casey Liss** (0:54)
Yes.

**John Siracusa** (0:55)
So how does it fall off? Isn't it like trapped in there?

**Casey Liss** (0:58)
You would think, but I have it between my fingers right now, and it is itty bitty, and I should send it to Dr. Drang to do like a forensic analysis.

**John Siracusa** (1:06)
Oh, does it look like it broke? Like is there a fracture?

**Casey Liss** (1:09)
Yeah, I think it like shore off.

**John Siracusa** (1:11)
You're so powerfully turning it on and off.

**Casey Liss** (1:13)
You know, I work out, John.

**John Siracusa** (1:15)
Your fingernail works out.

**Casey Liss** (1:16)
Right, exactly.
But so that was very annoying and frustrating, but I have good news. I have then used that as an excuse to upgrade my Lightning Magic TrackPad and Keyboard to not only a USB-C Magic TrackPad and Keyboard, but the black USB-C TrackPad and Keyboard. So I am living a great, grandiose black life. I've got my BlackBook Pro over here with my black keyboard and my black mouse, and I am loving life. Just call me MKBHD.

**Marco Arment** (1:46)
To be clear, like I think almost every nerd wants that excuse to replace the perfectly fine lightning version of these peripherals with the much more convenient USB-C version.

**Casey Liss** (1:58)
Exactly.

**John Siracusa** (1:59)
And here I am with a giant supply of Microsoft precision mouses, all which have a micro USB port on the front.

**Marco Arment** (2:08)
Oh no.

**Casey Liss** (2:10)
Oh, that's not desirable at all.
I do have a couple of quick lamentations though.
I got my fancy pants Magic Keyboard, right? My black Magic Keyboard, and it looks so good. It reminds me of the iMac Pro 1, which I loved, and would actually probably still be using if it wasn't for the case, there wasn't for the problem that it doesn't have Touch ID, that the iPad Pro 1 doesn't, or excuse me, iMac Pro 1 doesn't. And so what kind of animal lives without Touch ID, right gentlemen? Anyway, I got this new keyboard. However, there's a difference from my old lightning version of the keyboard. And that difference is if I look at the lightning keyboard, other than being blinded by how bright it is, because the keys are all white or something like that, the control key in the bottom left hand corner spans roughly two thirds of the width of the shift key above it, right? So in the bottom left corner, there's basically every Mac keyboard, control, option and command. And so I don't know when this started, but I have in the last couple of years started control clicking to right click. I know that you don't have to do that. I know there are a million other ways to do that, including two finger taps and so on and so forth. I could set the trackpad to click in the bottom right, and that's how I could do it. I'm aware. For whatever reason, I don't know why, I started doing control click like I'm a damn 80s Mac user, right John? And that's how I've done it.

**John Siracusa** (3:27)
There was no right click on the Mac in the 80s.

**Casey Liss** (3:29)
Well, fair, fair.

**John Siracusa** (3:31)
And for a while there wasn't a control key.

**Casey Liss** (3:33)