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- Comment on What are some good, solid cables for charging and data transfer? 1 day ago:
I’ve never had issues with Anker cables, but I’ve also never had to deal with their support.
For a DisplayPort cable the best I’ve found is the “Club3D CAC-1060” my GPU/monitor has signal integrity issues that leads to getting black screens as gsync turns on and off. This cable has gotten me the least black screens.
But outside of edge cases like mine a DP and an HDMI cable is a DP/HDMI cable. They’re not doing crazy things like USB C does. They either work or they don’t.
- Comment on Distro for upgrading a 15 year old Mac? 3 days ago:
Pretty much only the very first year of Intel Macs had 32 bit EFIs. Coincidentally the only 2007 machine with a 32 bit EFI was the Mac Pro. But the 07 Mac Pro was basically identical to the OG 06.
- Comment on Which wired earbuds do you recommend? 4 days ago:
What’s your budget?
- Comment on Is a video streaming co-op a useful idea? 4 days ago:
So sharing your plex library, but you’re paying for access? That’s probably more illegal than just letting your friend access it.
- Comment on When you send old camcorder cassettes to a digitising service, do they watch the contents? 4 days ago:
Depends on the service. There’s a lot of really bad ones that just seem to dump the video to a file and call it a day. Any good service will be monitoring the tape, but not sitting there watching the whole thing.
- Comment on Why is stack overflow so horrible? 6 days ago:
Anyone who unironically says just google it, and doesn’t google it themselves and provides a link to a concise answer should be shot on sight.
Same for the RTFM crowd. So many manuals are filled with so much fluff that just gets in the way of actually being useful.
- Comment on How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us? 1 week ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Depends on how long you plan on ignoring them.
Gonna use it once a month? Yeah 40-60%s a good range to keep it in. More than a few months? Depending on the idle discharge, but probably want to charge it higher so it doesn’t go flat. 0% charge is a lot worse than 100%, especially for LiPo batteries.
- Comment on Is 71° F (21° C) the ideal weather to wear shorts? 1 week ago:
As long as it’s above 0F I’ll wear shorts. My legs don’t get cold unless it’s really windy.
- Comment on not so free thinking now are we? 2 weeks ago:
Jokes on you, I don’t have that reaction.
- Comment on Why is Windows still bloated 2 weeks ago:
I mean in terms of disk space sure it takes up a good bit. From what I can tell winsxs takes about 10 gigs of space. But the actual wow64 subsytem only takes a 1-2 hundred MBs of RAM which is nothing for giving you that much backwards compatibility.
Rosetta 2 is going away in the next Mac OS, but that’s not going to have a massive impact on anything. The biggest impact will be the installer will be half the size since it doesn’t need twice the executables. You can download an Intel or Arm specific installer of Mac OS and it’s already half the size.
why doesn’t Microsoft treat Windows in a similar vein?
Because then nobody would use Windows. People use windows because it runs all of the programs they love. If it didn’t people wouldn’t put up with their bullshit.
- Comment on In the age of electronics, when is go to vote can I request a paper ballot instead of a machine? 2 weeks ago:
When I vote on the machine it fills out a paper ballot for me, then I just check it and turn it in.
It all depends on your state, city, and county and how they have it set up.
- Comment on Why is Windows still bloated 2 weeks ago:
Windows’ bloat isn’t because they have to maintain backwards compatibility. It’s because they keep adding more shit, and the shit they add isn’t exactly hyper optimized.
If something like Windows 11 requires specific hardware in order to install it, why does it need to accommodate compatibility for archaic devices/software?
Because my computer from 2024 doesn’t run software made in 2024 or newer. I use a mixture of the latest and greatest™️, and old stuff.
Apples transition to arm was not a rewrite, nor is the software any better. It’s the hardware that’s better and makes using Mac OS on an M1 MBP so much better than an Intel one.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 weeks ago:
Back to the ol pysx GPU days. Except physx made the game cooler.
- Comment on Is there a software method to "rotate" music around my head? 3 weeks ago:
On iOS with AirPods there’s spatial audio which does this.
- Comment on I was wondering why the €40k printer at work was choking with "simple" Canva PDFs 4 weeks ago:
Our printer at work is fancy and has a haswell based pentium and a whole 4 gigs of ram. It’s only a little over 10 years old hardware.
The printer also supports vnc for some reason. I haven’t figured out why.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
What post is on your profile that’s deleted?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Pretty much every modern laptop runs on 20v internally so USB Cs 100w was super easy to switch to. To get 240w you need to intake 48v and then convert that down to the 20v ish that laptops crave.
The framework 16 is the only laptop I know of that runs on the new spec. MacBooks will do 140w via MagSafe, and the new ThinkPad P1 does it over actual USB C. But almost nothing uses the new spec yet. Given more time I’m sure it will be more popular.
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 4 weeks ago:
Try a touch of salt.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
A keep difference is arm machines will get a full days worth of battery life and perform well. X86 machines only can get a day’s battery life.
X86 CPUs must race to idle to get decent battery life. If they don’t idle they’re guzzling power. Arm CPUs seem to handle the light but constantly active loads much better. My m1 MacBook gets me 10-15 hours of battery life no problem. My ThinkPad gets idk like 4 at best. Even factoring in the battery capacity difference they’re nowhere close.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
To be fair the firmware situation ain’t great on arm. The second thing your computer does after it turns on is hands off from firmware to the OS and that process ain’t exactly great or super standardized on any ARM system.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 5 weeks ago:
Tell them the landing was real, because if it wasn’t then how would the aliens on the dark side of the moon have told us not to come back?
(This is something my co worker unironically believes)
- Comment on Is "dark humor" generally acceptable or is it just my parents/culture more sensitive towards jokes? 5 weeks ago:
Dark humor is how I live my life.
- Comment on Google Pixel 10a review: cheaper Android is great, but no real advance 5 weeks ago:
Welp I’m glad I didn’t wait. I kinda wanted to spring for the 10 but no camera bump is a big bonus to me. This is a secondary phone for me so no bump means the two phones sit flush against each other in my pocket.
Not having qi2 sucks, but a case fixes that. I just wish the phone was a bit smaller.
- Comment on Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash 5 weeks ago:
Oh boy, can’t wait for people to post microslop comments even more.
- Comment on How does genital nomenclature change as a person transitions? 5 weeks ago:
Depends on their personality. My co worker is trans and she DGAF so I purposefully say stuff like that for the memes. But that’s just how we talk.
You can always ask.
- Comment on Earbud question: Does anyone actually like to silicone tipped earbuds over the solid plastic ones? 1 month ago:
I have met a single digit number of people who prefer hard plastic earbuds over the soft tips. There’s a reason why they’re pretty much the only thing you see in “nice” earbuds.
Have you tried different tips? Apple offers like 5 different sizes because it’s so important to have the right fit. Initially they didn’t fit my ear well, but after a while of trying my ear adapted and now they fit perfectly. Foam is also worth a shot, but they get gross fast.
- Comment on Is it rude to go through the car wash with a bunch of snow on your car? 1 month ago:
Just buy a leaf blower if you’re that lazy. Works infinitely better and will be cheaper after a year or two of snow.
Plus you can use it to dry your car after washing it in addition to any host of uses.
- Comment on Is it rude to go through the car wash with a bunch of snow on your car? 1 month ago:
The heat from your defrost is more likely to crack your windshield than their washers. That shit blows out some hot ass air when you have it cranked to full heat. I really doubt the water touching your windshield is warmer than 120f. Probably not even 100f if it’s outside.
- Comment on Is it rude to go through the car wash with a bunch of snow on your car? 1 month ago:
If you’ve removed 95% of the snow and it’s just the ice left then yeah you’re pretty fine to drive.
The car wash should have heated water which should melt the ice/remaining snow pretty quickly as long as it’s indoors.