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EVERYTHING has more latency these days. Phone calls. TVs. Radios. Computer keyboards. PROFESSIONAL WIRELESS MICROPHONE SYSTEMS. It blows!
by spoonjim 5y ago
EVERYTHING has more latency these days. Phone calls. TVs. Radios. Computer keyboards. PROFESSIONAL WIRELESS MICROPHONE SYSTEMS. It blows!
- ratsmack 5y agoFor an old timer like me, cell phones are about as functional for voice communication as the toy walkie-talkie's were that I played with as a kid.
- spoonjim 5y agoThe sad thing is even a landline isn’t available anymore at my house. It’s a VOIP shitshow
- eloisius 5y agoIt really is awful, and it seems like most people just don't care, or don't even know that they could care. Perceived latency was a bit motivation for me to ditch macOS last year and go back to Linux. I haven't got benchmarks to prove how it felt to me, but it felt like everything has become spongy and asynchronous. Even with a decked out iMac and fast SSD, it feel like applications don't launch immediately. There's enough lag time that I sit for a second thinking 'did I double click or not? Did it launch and then crash? Oh, here it comes'. Keyboard input feels laggy. I hate that more and more things are becoming software controlled. "What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away" is not a law that I want to apply to machines that can and should continue to function instantaneously.