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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:I'm gonna chime in with my very important opinion that everyone cares about, just for discussion's sake I don’t understand. If you don’t have any webcam then why would you be showing your butthole to your computer monitor?
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, it's not that I believe I'm important enough to be spied on, but that I understand mistakes(mine or some random programmer's) can happen and I don't want my butthole on the internet because I activated some command or someone figured out my password. 
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Can someone recommend a good USB hub for this new M1 Mac Mini I just got? Something like one of these https://www.amazon.com/Satechi-Type...aps%2C90&sr=8-3 But there are so many different sellers I'm not sure which one is worth it? Just looking to add some more USB ports and the ability to throw more storage at my M1.
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Mar 24, 2022 21:38
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So, if anyone bought the new Apple Studio Display, Apple has just released a firmware update for it.. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213110 Apple posted:Studio Display Firmware Update 15.4 Don't know if it fixes the horrible camera quality or not.
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Mar 24, 2022 21:46
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So I went to Costco to be a heretic and get a monitor. Came to find that all of their monitors are stripped down models with no USB C ports. HDMI or DP only (yes, yes, pin compatible yada yada). But seriously, a 35" widescreen with only two HDMI ports? gently caress that bullshit. Back to RTINGS I go....
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Mar 24, 2022 22:36
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Ultimate Mango posted:So I went to Costco to be a heretic and get a monitor. Came to find that all of their monitors are stripped down models with no USB C ports. HDMI or DP only (yes, yes, pin compatible yada yada). But seriously, a 35" widescreen with only two HDMI ports? gently caress that bullshit. not surprising really but how many things you connecting to that monitor at a time
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Mar 24, 2022 22:41
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Ultimate Mango posted:So I went to Costco to be a heretic and get a monitor. Came to find that all of their monitors are stripped down models with no USB C ports. HDMI or DP only (yes, yes, pin compatible yada yada). But seriously, a 35" widescreen with only two HDMI ports? gently caress that bullshit. just get whatever Dell fits your needs they got their 20% off semi-annual sale going right now
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mediaphage posted:not surprising really i would pay $2k for an unimpressive 5 year old panel in a monitor if it had 4 displayport inputs and a convenient way to switch between them
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mattfl posted:Can someone recommend a good USB hub for this new M1 Mac Mini I just got? I do like the look of those but apparently they can block the bluetooth/wi-fi antenna on the bottom of the Mac. In any case I've been using this for a few weeks with various hard disks and SSDs, a webcam and a microphone and it's been absolutely rock solid: https://basic-tutorials.com/reviews/peripherals/corsair-usb100/
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Mar 24, 2022 23:18
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:I'm already pretty uncomfortable with my iphone and suspicious ads showing up after discussing something with my friends (might be their phones, or ???) Good news is it's not phones listening or watching you. Bad news is that it's remarkably trivial to do the same stuff without needing to do that.
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Ok Comboomer posted:just get whatever Dell fits your needs The monitor rabbit hole is deep indeed. Rtings also likes the 32” 4K Gigabyte. Might be good for the studio. But it’s too tall for my secondary monitor spot. So maybe the magical dell ultrawide that is under 21” tall. The LGs with height adjustable stands seem to squeeze that low. I’ve had iMacs for so long I had no idea what’s been happening in the world of monitors and now I need an advil and some scotch.
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Ok Comboomer posted:people talking like there weren’t tons of people doing this kind of work for school or business or personal reasons on loving iMacs and dual-core MBPs, and just struggling through it, killing hours of time if need be.
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Ultimate Mango posted:The monitor rabbit hole is deep indeed. Rtings also likes the 32” 4K Gigabyte. Might be good for the studio. But it’s too tall for my secondary monitor spot. So maybe the magical dell ultrawide that is under 21” tall. The LGs with height adjustable stands seem to squeeze that low. i have the 32" 4K gigabyte, its extremely needs suiting, especially after the firmware update that you need windows to install i also highly recommend getting monitor arms, they're great, i can move these monitors around anywhere i want edit: it does occasionally restart for like, no reason though? idk
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Ultimate Mango posted:The monitor rabbit hole is deep indeed. Rtings also likes the 32” 4K Gigabyte. Might be good for the studio. But it’s too tall for my secondary monitor spot. So maybe the magical dell ultrawide that is under 21” tall. The LGs with height adjustable stands seem to squeeze that low. Many ultra wides are arguably kinda pointless these days cause they're usually just chopped down 4K or 1440p screens. Some of the exceptions are "5K2K" ones (...which is chopped down 5K) or the few remaining 3440x1440 ones which give some extra width vs the usual standard resolutions. There's also huge double wide ones, but resolution/density tends to be crappy. Like the Dell 49" one is 5120x1440, cause it's basically two 2560x1440 displays. But yeah whatever the hell you get, just remember that monitor arms are awesome.
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https://youtu.be/rqnHYZUeV-I CodeWeavers says they’re aiming for Dx12 in CrossOver 23 
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Not sure if this is the right thread, but does anyone else have an issue with bluetooth being disabled when computer wakes up from sleep? I'm using a 16" M1 Pro MBP running 12.3 and most (but frustratingly not all of the time) bluetooth is straight up disabled and I have to go enable it on the menu bar before I can use my mouse/keyboard.
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anothergod posted:Did anyone in this thread actually pony up $1600 for the Studio Display? *raises hand* I have more money than sense, and I _really, really_ like how macos looks at 5K on a 27" display. I have a Very Good 4K 27" monitor that I had both my Mac and my Windows rig hooked up to and liked that "fine enough", but I knew the minute Apple released a decent 5K monitor (and it is beyond decent) I was buying it. This will trigger OK Cornboomer or whoever the gently caress, but the stand alone, I've reclaimed like 2 sq ft. of usable desk space from the weird insanely wide big plastic tripod the other monitor uses. I like that. The screen is nicer for 99% of what I use it for which is: staring at text. The 4K/144hz monitor is now on a side desk with just the Windows machine hooked up to it, and it's great for what I use that machine for (gaming, nothing else). I'm happy with the split solution. My main work desk is all Apple poo poo that "just works" together quite well, with a minimalist look to it all and I've vastly reduced the cabling nonsense needed to make that desk work (replaced an MBP with a Mac Studio as well, so what cabling there is is easily tucked or hidable). Yes, it is an expensive-assed solution, but the 4K 27" ASUS ROG wasn't exactly cheap, either, and I will spend money to make minor annoyances in my workflow and lifestyle go away. I'm too old to deal with that poo poo anymore.
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smr posted:*raises hand* Also, the webcam isn't great, but it's beyond adequate for my co-workers to stare at my stupid mug on zooms. I like not having a thing stuck on the top of the monitor with a cable dragging behind it, and I'm reasonably confident Apple will fix the issues, which, again, do not prevent using it already today. Annoying, but also: whatevs. I do not use the speakers as this is also my audio production rig and it outputs to two studio monitors that are like little kisses on my eardrums.
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smr posted:and I will spend money to make minor annoyances in my workflow and lifestyle go away. I'm too old to deal with that poo poo anymore. this is why i will irrationally spend more for an older intel-based 5K imac all-in-one editing machine than save with the latest, M1 mac mini that requires cabling solutions and a surge protector for all the peripherals.
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Wheres Wallace posted:this is why i will irrationally spend more for an older intel-based 5K imac all-in-one editing machine than save with the latest, M1 mac mini that requires cabling solutions and a surge protector for all the peripherals. I had the 5K Intel iMac and even an M1 Mini VASTLY outperformed that thing. And I have a coupla ipadOS apps I like to run on the Mac, which is not possible on the Intel ones. That said, I dearly loved that machine, it was a great AIO computer and did provide the neatest possible desktop experience. I tried the M1 iMac and it was lovely but the screen was too small so back it went.
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sleepwalkers posted:Good news is it's not phones listening or watching you. Bad news is that it's remarkably trivial to do the same stuff without needing to do that. To elaborate on this for anyone wondering, the key thing is that a ton of sites all feed marketing info to each other and/or use embedded trackers (like Facebook/Twitter scripts), and this combined with the geolocation info that's constantly supplied by people leaving Facebook/Google location tracking on all the time makes it easy for those companies to then cross-reference people who are physically near each other and use that for marketing. On the upside, it's pretty easy to avoid this with iOS. Just turn off "always on" location sharing, turn on all the privacy settings, and add a good adblocker extension and you've already covered 99% of it.
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I just want to reiterate that for all of the features apple has added to their machines over the years, sidecar is the first one that has really floored me. For the most part Macs and PCs have the same basic feature set. Yeah I can unlock my MBP with my watch, but I can also unlock my Surface Pro with my face. A horse a piece. But sidecar is pretty much unrivaled. I’m trying to teach myself davinci Resolve, being a lifelong Premiere Pro user who hates adobe and their licensing structure. I was watching the tutorial videos on the davinci website and following along by alt-tabbing between Resolve and Safari, when I realized I had my iPad right next to me. I kicked the safari window over to the iPad and worked in Resolve on the MBP screen. It’s such a simple, kind of dumb little thing, but having a second (wireless!) monitor everywhere is so, SO good. Sorry for going on a about it but sidecar is one of those things that when I learned about it I went “huh, neat” and it’s since become a thing I can’t live without.
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as far as the 8gb thing for like a year my mba 8gb was my main computer and i had like my daw, final cut, pixelmator, safari with lots of tabs etc open all the time. it runs great as long as memory pressure is in the yellow on activity monitor, then it gets into the red and like the whole thing tanks. but that almost never happened. powerful computer
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Ultimate Mango posted:So I went to Costco to be a heretic and get a monitor. Came to find that all of their monitors are stripped down models with no USB C ports. HDMI or DP only (yes, yes, pin compatible yada yada). But seriously, a 35" widescreen with only two HDMI ports? gently caress that bullshit. Costco has a great TV selection and terrible monitor selection.
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Ultimate Mango posted:The monitor rabbit hole is deep indeed. Rtings also likes the 32” 4K Gigabyte. Might be good for the studio. But it’s too tall for my secondary monitor spot. So maybe the magical dell ultrawide that is under 21” tall. The LGs with height adjustable stands seem to squeeze that low. just type “Dell UltraSharp” “4K” and “USB C” into Google and make sure it’s recent the one I linked during my entirely justified meltdown the other day is the newest, supposedly much improved/higher end version of the display I got last year which has been pretty great so far. It came out in Feb. last I checked the one I got is still available (p2721q) for like $400 and it’s excellent at that price IMO. I paid $900 for two of them last year and I’ve been satisfied I’ve never had a good or fruitful time monitor shopping at Costco
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I have this 27" Dell 4K and it's great https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/ultrasharp-27-4k-usb-c-monitor-u2720q/apd/210-avjv/monitors-monitor-accessories
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smr posted:The 4K/144hz monitor is now on a side desk with just the Windows machine hooked up to it, and it's great for what I use that machine for (gaming, nothing else). If the Studio Display was available when I bought the Ultrafine back in 2020 I'd have paid the extra and bought it instead because the LG's casing is cheap garbage and the webcam isn't really very good.
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My theory is the Studio Display and Mac Studio just exist so they can significantly undercut that combo with a new 27" 5k iMac and say "see you're going to buy a new display from us every time you need a new desktop and you're going to like it."
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Mercurius posted:This is basically what I do. 27" 5K LG Ultrafine hooked up to my MacBook next to a 27" LG 144Hz 1440p monitor hooked up to my Windows PC which like yours is used only for gaming. Works great. Just a FYI, you can connect the 5K LG display to a Windows machine also. Just need a bidirectional cable. Has some caveats but this is how I use it in a pinch. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081VK7Q94/?coliid=I127A5KEGWNN79&colid=2SUF4SG159G0L&psc=1 BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Mar 25, 2022 |
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Still want a nice 24" (or even 22") 4K monitor. 24 is the right size for my desk, I get weirded out by people talking like 24 is nothing and "obviously" they're going to eventually move past it. I think I settled on finding one of the Dell 24" ones, maybe gently used.
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BlackMK4 posted:Just a FYI, you can connect the 5K LG display to a Windows machine also. Just need a bidirectional cable. Has some caveats but this is how I use it in a pinch.
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zachol posted:Still want a nice 24" (or even 22") 4K monitor. 24 is the right size for my desk, I get weirded out by people talking like 24 is nothing and "obviously" they're going to eventually move past it. Apple has an iMac for you Edit: and apparently they want you to use the LG UltraFine 4K if you’d like to expand it trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Mar 26, 2022 |
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smr posted:*raises hand* Have you noticed any of the poor response time/smearing that people reported on the MacBook Pro screen? Have you tried doing anything fast paced on it, like playing a game?
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anothergod posted:Did anyone in this thread actually pony up $1600 for the Studio Display?  Yeah I grabbed a couple. They're quite nice. Unfortunately the Mac Studio doesn't arrive for another couple weeks. If you want a 5k display, they're great.
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There's something very appropriate about pairing Bose speakers with the display
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Splinter posted:My theory is the Studio Display and Mac Studio just exist so they can significantly undercut that combo with a new 27" 5k iMac and say "see you're going to buy a new display from us every time you need a new desktop and you're going to like it." (Also it’s something they can sell to the main chunk of Mac users that have a notebook)
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The Lord Bude posted:Owning Bose speakers is never appropriate. Yeast already showed what kind of consumer they are
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I'm waiting for them to die to replace them. 12 years so far.
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Ok Comboomer posted:Yeast already showed what kind of consumer they are Yeast is a person of culture.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Yeast is a person of culture. and the Apple Studio 5K Display is the Bose speakers of computer monitors
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