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That's an incredibly useful trick and now I wonder if there is a small Windows utility that makes it easy to recover similar ghost data?
gdb is a general-purpose debugger. The equivalent tool for Windows is windbg [0] which is free and extremely powerful, though famously arcane. You can certainly do this with it. [0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...
A reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most
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Re: A reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most
#82Interesting the author says “other manufacturers don’t bother”.
Unsurprisingly the real reason is “Apple was granted a patent on this over a decade ago and no one is risking an Apple patent infringement lawsuit over laptop speakers”.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20130329898
EDIT: I say granted because that’s how most people understand patents and when they take effect. What really matters on the timeline here is the filing (priority) date and the grant (publish date).
It’s patents so it gets really complicated but essentially the later grant (after patent office/authority “review”) more or less makes the effective date the priority date - which to complicate matters even further can actually be the filing date of a referenced provisional patent that (in the US) can be as long as 12 months before the non-provisional (real) patent filing.
Clear as mud, right?
Re: A reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most
#83This 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…
To go the whole distance the wrong way, you could make nearly all of it external.
All the peripherals, wifi and Bluetooth on a USB dock, and run the monitor off a thunderbolt GPU. Think you’d then just be using the two ports and the CPU. The ultra non-portable laptop.
Re: A reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most
#84Off topic: it's such a breath of fresh air to read this content without 1) having to close half a dozen popups and 2) all in a single post and not painfully spread out across multiple messages.
Doesn't do targeted ads, so doesn't have to have an EU cookie popup. Doesn't have an app, so doesn't have to try to make you install the app. Doesn't do registered users growth hacking, doesn't have to have sign-up dialog. The problem is, if and when they decide to monetise this thing they will have to have all of these because the money people and the analytics will tell them they have to. Everything is much more fu…
> Everything is much more fun when it's paid by someone else, that's why the old web was so nice.
What are you talking about? The old web was filled with ads. They just weren't tracking you every nanosecond of your life.
Google's AdWords was launched in 2000. DoubleClick that Google acquired in 2008 was launched in 1995. Ad exchanges are from 1998. And so on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_online_advertising
Re: A reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most
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#86Off topic: it's such a breath of fresh air to read this content without 1) having to close half a dozen popups and 2) all in a single post and not painfully spread out across multiple messages.
Doesn't do targeted ads, so doesn't have to have an EU cookie popup. Doesn't have an app, so doesn't have to try to make you install the app. Doesn't do registered users growth hacking, doesn't have to have sign-up dialog. The problem is, if and when they decide to monetise this thing they will have to have all of these because the money people and the analytics will tell them they have to. Everything is much more fu…
Distributing a static HTML page content does not need a VC. Nginx on an RPI on my home connection does provide sufficient level of performance and availability. If I need more because my content is way popular, I guess a monetization scheme (asking for a tip) might cover it ?
Re: A reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most
#87I still don't get it why, because they drive them past the nominal volume limit? MacBooks definitely sound much better than anything else I've tried. Just bought a new ThinkPad P14s and despite featuring the Dolby logo, speakers there are just unusable - I can barely understand words in YouTube videos sometimes, and it's not related to volume. (Still using T430 for bedtime YouTube.)
MacBooks have margin so there is room for engineering time. Also, companies like Lenovo care about their primary customer - enterprise. Apple designs for the end user first.
Is there anything that’s made better for the enterprise market?
Network switches and wifi access points come to mind, and that’s it?
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#88Off topic: it's such a breath of fresh air to read this content without 1) having to close half a dozen popups and 2) all in a single post and not painfully spread out across multiple messages.
Doesn't do targeted ads, so doesn't have to have an EU cookie popup. Doesn't have an app, so doesn't have to try to make you install the app. Doesn't do registered users growth hacking, doesn't have to have sign-up dialog. The problem is, if and when they decide to monetise this thing they will have to have all of these because the money people and the analytics will tell them they have to. Everything is much more fu…
No, all the bloggers I was reading on the old web were paying for their hosting a few bucks a month and no VC were involved.
Some of them included ads but they were mostly in a sidebar.
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#89My Mac speakers sound like shit because running a loud filter sweep in VCV Rack will break them and make them sound buzzy forever.
That sounds like something a warranty repair should cover.
It's so frustrating even pursuing that with Apple for these very common issues. They'll gaslight you with the friendliest of words and nicest of smiles until you just give up and bugger off for good.
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#90Meta comment: the UI of mastodon is really bad.