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Counterpoint: your neighbors don't want to hear the crap on your laptop speakers
I’m confused - are you suggesting that people use headphones instead of small laptop speakers to not annoy their next door neighbors?
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But that's not what this subthread is about. It was about different people having different priorities. fsociety remarked (quite correctly) that there are a large number of people who constantly feel the need to denigrate Macs, no matter the context—and you came in and said, basically, "That's not true. I have a Mac, and I don't like it very much." Were those your words ? No, but it sure sounded like it was your impl…
> fsociety remarked (quite correctly) that there are a large number of people who constantly feel the need to denigrate Macs And in response I remarked (very accurately) that there's an even larger number of people who constantly feel the need to always gush over anything Mac. This very thread is full of such examples. > "That's not true. I have a Mac, and I don't like it very much." Misrepresenting much? I said it's…
Now stop trolling. Your other obnoxious comment about this was flagged and killed. Do better.
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M1 Air user here too. I am convinced there must be some kind of ‘spatial’ processing going on, even though I’m as certain as I can be that I’m listening to a plain stereo source, Spotify web version on Firefox. Why does it sound like a particular instrument is up in the air to my right? I’ve found myself getting up and looking for the source of a sound before realising it was in the music.
On the M2 Air (and new design MBP), speakers bounce the sound off the screen. I think if you were to remove the screen and listen to those speakers in open air it'd sound quite odd. Probably they're pre-distorting the sound so it's correct only after bouncing off the screen, kind of like how VR distorts the image to account for headset optics undoing that distortion. I had an M1 Air before the MBP release. The sound…
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GDB and grep but built for windows. Or you could use Cheat Engine if you have a fear of terminals.
> GDB and grep but built for windows Beat me to it. Windows would be intolerable for me without MinGW/MSYS[0]. (Sure, there's WSL2, but that's not quite the same, and I was using MinGW and friends long before it existed.) [0] https://www.msys2.org/wiki/MSYS2-introduction/
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M1 Air user here too. I am convinced there must be some kind of ‘spatial’ processing going on, even though I’m as certain as I can be that I’m listening to a plain stereo source, Spotify web version on Firefox. Why does it sound like a particular instrument is up in the air to my right? I’ve found myself getting up and looking for the source of a sound before realising it was in the music.
On the M2 series laptops (Air and Pro) they tout "Support for Spatial Audio when playing music or video with Dolby Atmos on built-in speakers", but it's not on the M1 laptops.
This becomes apparent when people join calls with others who are using MacBooks and iPads. Why does everyone else sound better? Why is my company-issued Dell/HP laptop equipped with terrible speakers and microphone? This can be fixed by giving them a headset. It sounds dumb but one thing that keeps me from dropping my Mac for a Lenovo 100% is the speaker quality. It's nice enough to play music at a moderate level on…
Until you plug in an external monitor and the MacBook Pro overheats and fans up so you have to close the lid which muffles the mic.
[1]: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/hardware-microphone...
> This post brought to you by gdb and grep -a, because after typing all that out as a quote toot and deciding that nah, I wanted it standalone, I clicked the "x" next to the quote box (which implies removing the quote association) and that didn't just cancel the quote, it deleted all the text.
> So I attached gdb to the Firefox content process hosting this tab, took a core dump, and grepped it for the lost text. I wasn't about to write all that again from scratch.
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Isn't it for Linux? I thought Macs use MacOS. Again I feel like I'm reading something out of context.
Some people like to run Linux on their Apple hardware because they like the quality of the hardware but don't like Apple's software decisions.
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If you are not getting paid for your servers you are the VC/Angel.
A bit of a difference in motivation between a hobbyist and a VC.
Although the Angel investor expects a few shares of a company, I like the analogy of an 'angel sponsor'.
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Is there anything that’s made better for the enterprise market? Network switches and wifi access points come to mind, and that’s it?
Lwkl summed it up well. A great example is an HP z laptop - good build quality, sort of the equivalent to an old T series thinkpad. With two Phillips screwdrivers, you can disassemble and replace most parts within 15m. When I did this work, the other key thing was OEMs would guarantee image/driver compatibility for 4 years. I don’t think they do that anymore, but the hardware is very stable - consumer PC hardware wil…
Last year I abandoned a low spec z laptop day one of getting given it at work. The trackpad alone was so poor that the laptop wasn’t usable without a mouse. I am a longtime Mac user but I don’t think I was being snobby or difficult.
I use a MacBook and have windows in a VM when needed.