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"Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds

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Re: "Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds

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Post by roody15 »

exogen wrote: post #70

Before reading the background info, I was going to recommend a much simpler fix, but they actually already mention it in there: "Also the mouse cursor size can be changed." This was going to be my suggestion because it also fixed a similar CPU/GPU related issue many years ago: Apple's own TV.app would have minuscule color handling differences whenever subtitles would show during a movie. This was driving me nuts whil…

I have found this to be true. I manage an organization with around 600 Apple laptops and now when setting them up I always increase the cursor size slightly. No one complains and it does appear to be a smoother experience.

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Post by jorvi »

arghwhat wrote: post #107
jorvi wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Desktop GPU designs did not focus on tiny efficiency gains I'm not sure they're all that tiny if you can squeeze out 70% of top end performance for 25% of the power draw :)

TL;DR: Low power draw for laptops and phones is about who can reduce to the lowest performance, with the most hardware turned completely off while still just barely performing the task at hand. Completely different ballgame. Peak performance happens at peak power draw and is a matter of having as much hardware as possible pushing as many operations as possible at any given point without spontaneously combusting. Thos…

I meant peak performance vs peak performance though. An M1 Ultra uses 25% of the energy of an RTX3090 but gets 70% of the FPS. And in synthetic tests the M1 Ultra can get as close as 95% (!).

Nvidia (and AMD and Intel) just suck at efficiency. There is no excuse for such a performance-per-watt delta. The same is true in CPU land.

Once the first ARM Steam Deck launches gamers will realize they've been had for a decade.

Re: "Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds

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Post by vardump »

thewebguyd wrote: post #80
vardump wrote: post #29

Embedded Swift in a script. That seems like a useful concept for small scripts on macOS. I will definitely steal this idea.

Swift also has an interpreted mode, you can just #!/usr/bin/evn swift import Foundation print("Hello, world") and chmod +x hello.swift and execute it. Instead of doing swift in bash and calling swiftc, you can always shell out to Process() from inside a Swift script instead.

Thanks! I think both approaches have their uses, neither fully replaces the other.

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Post by gorfian_robot »

ramses0 wrote: post #89
gorfian_robot wrote: post #83

reminds of a prank we pulled on a coworker back in the xterminal days. every time he hit a certain key it would invoke the 'melt' screensaver briefly. he was fairly unobservant though and we had to escalate to invoking it for 1s every minute before he finally noticed. the follow on prank was having all the xterminals 'moo' whenever new code was deployed to prod.

That’s amazing! I am just imagining a room full of programmers with slightly divergent crontab start times all playing a "moo" sound effect, seemingly at random... not a bad ambient information radiator, actually!

ambient information radiator. I like that term and have always been interested in it. for a while we had a system monitoring connected to a speaker that produced fairly consistent tonal patterns. when it started sounding 'weird' it usually meant something was off.
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