Apple Thread - The most overrated technology brand?

[Gar For Archer]

because we live in technology hell where total number of pixels is what's always used in marketing, so manufacturers can cheap out on HDR and refresh rates

I'd love to use my old Macbook Pro as a monitor for my Windows desktop but there's just no way to do that, and that really sucks because aging Macbooks and iMacs would be some of the best bang-for-your-buck computer monitors out there

I tried looking up a way to use my old 2011 iMac as a display but it’s one generation behind what’s supported for the native feature that lets you use an iMac as a monitor. It‘s slow beyond belief now, but I wonder if it would be improved by installing an SSD?

 

[AnOminous]

because we live in technology hell where total number of pixels is what's always used in marketing, so manufacturers can cheap out on HDR and refresh rates

I'd love to use my old Macbook Pro as a monitor for my Windows desktop but there's just no way to do that, and that really sucks because aging Macbooks and iMacs would be some of the best bang-for-your-buck computer monitors out there

Have you considered using VNC? It's a trifle sluggish on wireless, reasonably decent on wired, probably shouldn't be used to play games, but would actually work. I've been able to play video with reasonable quality. Audio is a trifle problematic.

 

[Pissmaster]

Have you considered using VNC? It's a trifle sluggish on wireless, reasonably decent on wired, probably shouldn't be used to play games, but would actually work. I've been able to play video with reasonable quality. Audio is a trifle problematic.

Huh, never heard of it. Thank you, but I meant something I could just plug right into my desktop and bypass OS X entirely. I'm also very reliant on a wireless connection for the time being, but I appreciate it nonetheless

 

[AnOminous]

Huh, never heard of it. Thank you, but I meant something I could just plug right into my desktop and bypass OS X entirely. I'm also very reliant on a wireless connection for the time being, but I appreciate it nonetheless

"Screen Sharing" is basically a built-in VNC client in MacOS itself. Improved versions are available, though.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Huh, never heard of it. Thank you, but I meant something I could just plug right into my desktop and bypass OS X entirely. I'm also very reliant on a wireless connection for the time being, but I appreciate it nonetheless

Use OBS to stream your desktop to Twitch and then watch the stream on the Macbook.

 

[DoubleD]

Apple awards $5 million in "innovation grants" to historically Black colleges and universities.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/17/apple-awarding-grants-to-black-universities/

But it gets worse:

as part of Apple's wider $100 million Racial Equity and Justice Initiative that was announced earlier this year.

The article used to have a forum thread attached to it. But because the comments got way too based for a run-of-the-mill tech blog, Macrumors moderators decided to nuke the entire thread because dissent against the Correct Opinion cannot be allowed to stand - reminding me of why I hate Macrumors.

Oh well, it was pretty good thread while it lasted.

Spoiler: The only parts of the thread I was able to save.

Google cache doesn't show the reactions for some reason, but the posts criticising the scheme tended to get more positive votes than negatives, and the posts that made the tired old 'equity' argument got more negative reactions than positive.

Some of the highest rated comments even mentioned it was the bigotry of low expectations.

The problem here is not MacRumors members, but the moderators, who have shown themselves to be instituionally racist.

Well, thank fucking Christ there are places like KF where that kind of racism would not be tolerated.

 

[Least Concern]

The article used to have a forum thread attached to it. But because the comments got way too based for a run-of-the-mill tech blog, Macrumors moderators decided to nuke the entire thread because dissent against the Correct Opinion cannot be allowed to stand - reminding me of why I hate Macrumors.

Not too much of a surprise. As a regular reader of MacRumors, the comment threads on contentious topics have always featured political diversity that defies the stereotype of Apple fags like myself. This is the first time I can recall them actually closing a comment thread, though. Usually just keeping them on the quarantine board is as far as they go.

 

[Dick Justice]

Use OBS to stream your desktop to Twitch and then watch the stream on the Macbook.

Make sure you implement that "Twitch Plays Pokemon" API in case you need to control the desktop.

 

[Night.Raider]

If anyone knows about Apple Music Lossless, it's quite ironic how none of their latest audio peripherals can take full advantage of it because of their ridiculous vendetta against the 3.5mm Jack. Yes, even their new $550 headphones can't work with it.

 

[Finder]

I bought one of the new M1 Macs, to replace my i3 Mini. Sold the Mini for almost what I paid for it no problem, one of the big upsides of Apple hardware.

M1 MacBook is due in a few days, not really sure what to expect from it, though finally all the software I need is fully compatible. Hopefully I don’t get too bitten buying the first generation of Apple ARM based computers, but I probably will.

I’m sort of naively hoping I can relive the PPC days, I remember them pretty fondly.

 

[Never Scored]

I’m sort of naively hoping I can relive the PPC days, I remember them pretty fondly.

It's not the same company anymore. They used to be a computer company, now they're a mobile device & cloud services company.

 

[Finder]

It's not the same company anymore. They used to be a computer company, now they're a mobile device & cloud services company.

True enough, at least the cloud services work well I guess. We’ll never get old Apple back, that’s how things go I guess.

 

[WhoIsSutterKane]

I owned an iPod once, it was a piece of trash. Have never bought another Apple product since.

 

[Pissmaster]

I owned an iPod once, it was a piece of trash. Have never bought another Apple product since.

based

 

[Least Concern]

M1 MacBook is due in a few days, not really sure what to expect from it, though finally all the software I need is fully compatible. Hopefully I don’t get too bitten buying the first generation of Apple ARM based computers, but I probably will.

The first time you try to launch something which isn't built for Arm, you'll be prompted to install Rosetta 2. Once that's done, the whole transition experience is pretty seamless, even more than I remember the Intel one being.

The only software that I've noticed not running as well as it does on Intel is Minecraft of all things - the FPS just chugs. I'm not sure why that is - it seems like it'd have something to do with the integrated graphics, but all my other games run better than they did on the old Intel iGPUs, so maybe it really is the crusty old JVM not able to get data to the graphics card in time. Hopefully it improves once further work is done on an M1 port of the JVM. Besides that,, though… I never really notice the difference.

 

[Bins]

New emojis are coming out and...

Eerrr, hold on, something is off. Let's zoom and enhance

The Unicode Consortium is now working on the list of emojis that will be added in the Emoji 14 update, and Emojipedia has details on what we can expect with mockups of what the emoji might look like.

New face emoji include melting face, face with open eyes and hand over mouth, face with peeking eye, saluting face, dotted line face, face with diagonal mouth, and face holding back tears.

There are several new skin tones that are proposed for emoji like palm up hand, heart hands, handshake, person with crown, pregnant person, and more, along with several miscellaneous items.

Troll, coral, lotus flower, empty nest, nest with eggs, beans, pouring liquid, biting lip, jar, playground slide, wheel, ring buoy, hamsa, mirror ball, low battery, crutch, x-ray, bubbles, ID card, and heavy equals sign may all make it into the next iOS emoji update after the final candidates are decided upon in September.

via MacRumors, comments closed. I know Unicode controls what is added but, well, get ready!

 

[Kosher Dill]

I can't wait for the pregnant black man emoji.

"The Unicode Council will now come to order to discuss the addition of U+1F945 BROKEN BUCK."

 

[Never Scored]

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via MacRumors, comments closed. I know Unicode controls what is added but, well, get ready!

So much repetition. Why not just make one version of each emoji and make it green like a little cartoon alien and call it a day?

 

[Pissmaster]

Clown world crap aside, I'm happy that there's finally a proper saluting emoji that's not the stupid Star Trek one

 

[Finder]

The first time you try to launch something which isn't built for Arm, you'll be prompted to install Rosetta 2. Once that's done, the whole transition experience is pretty seamless, even more than I remember the Intel one being.

The only software that I've noticed not running as well as it does on Intel is Minecraft of all things - the FPS just chugs. I'm not sure why that is - it seems like it'd have something to do with the integrated graphics, but all my other games run better than they did on the old Intel iGPUs, so maybe it really is the crusty old JVM not able to get data to the graphics card in time. Hopefully it improves once further work is done on an M1 port of the JVM. Besides that,, though… I never really notice the difference.

I had to install Rosetta almost immediately, but only for a single program. Everything else is working natively, which is nice. Machine is nice and responsive, but I'd expect nothing less from a Mac.

The battery life though? Oh man is it good. When the laptop arrived yesterday It was at 75% out of the box and 12 hours later I still had battery life to spare. The laptop also hasn't even gotten warm to the touch, even when doing things that would make my previous intel MacBook a toaster.

This whole M1 thing is great so far.