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   by argsnd 3y ago

   After 5 years you might...
2. 122.▲
   by argsnd 3y ago

   Pretty sure they mean a 14" MacBook Pro, not a 2014 one
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   by argsnd 3y ago

   One thing I've never understood is the FSF opposition to microcode and loadable firmware blobs. You're running proprietary hardware that clearly uses some firmware, what do you get out of insisting that the firmware is burned in a
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   by argsnd 3y ago

   I did jump the gun a little on posting this here, there's a WWDC session on it that's meant to start at 8AM PDT[1] (about half an hour from now) so hopefully there's a lot more information in that. [1] https://deve
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   Apple Game Porting Toolkit(github.com)

   5 points by argsnd 3y ago|3 comments
6. 126.▲
   by argsnd 3y ago

   Apple seems to be bundling Wine and a D3D12 translation layer(?) to help game devs bring their titles to macOS. Seems like quite an interesting development to me.
7. 127.▲
   by argsnd 3y ago

   You're not wrong that the RTX 4090 will be much more powerful than an M2 Ultra, but you don't have any idea what you're talking about when you're comparing specs. You might be able to compare the number of CUDA cores to
8. 128.▲
   by argsnd 3y ago

   Why are you excluding iOS devices?
9. 129.▲
   by argsnd 3y ago

   It can't be though. The kernel itself can't include anything requiring floating point maths, so it needs to be able to permit userspace to unlock any restrictions in order for those calculations to happen there. And Asahi is inten
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    by argsnd 3y ago

    I believe it is essentially to replicate macOS behaviour. Part of the reason MacBooks have great audio is because instead of setting a hard volume limit they model the coil temperatures and modify limits on the fly. That’s something which i
11. 131.▲
    by argsnd 4y ago

    It’s silly enough that you did this but rather annoying that you posted it here
12. 132.▲
    by argsnd 4y ago

    What about them? Have you been there? Noticed anything problematic?
13. 133.▲
    by argsnd 4y ago

    It’s not true. That guy doesn’t really know what he’s talking about.
14. 134.▲
    by argsnd 4y ago

    Fourth behind the SNP in some cases.
15. 135.▲
    by argsnd 4y ago

    Seems like it but the Steam Deck touch screen is horrendously bad though, so that wouldn't be very useful.
16. 136.▲
    by argsnd 4y ago

    I mean that thread is looking at pre-release software
17. 137.▲
    by argsnd 4y ago

    Your definition of entry level is different from Apple’s.
18. 138.▲
    by argsnd 4y ago

    Seems like a lot of the cheapest ways to do this might introduce significant latency though.
19. 139.▲
    by argsnd 4y ago

    Yeah just hand over any territory anyone ever makes a weak claim to just to avoid conflict despite the wishes of the people who live there. Has your "Z" bumper sticker arrived in the mail yet?
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    by argsnd 4y ago

    Literally nobody on YouTube, certainly not Linus, has attempted to upgrade the storage modules with a supported configuration that the machine is shipped from the factory with. There isn't a single other SSD controller on the market th
21. 141.▲
    by argsnd 5y ago

    I don’t think this has any effect on speed even in post-2015 Intel Macs
22. 142.▲
    by argsnd 5y ago

    I just created a second user on my MacBook, enabled the built-in VNC server, switched back to the first user, and was able to access the second user's desktop remotely with a VNC client on Windows while the MacBook itself displayed the
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    by argsnd 5y ago

    My bad - I noticed that the screen becomes brighter than it is possible to manually set it to when it's in harsh sunlight, so I assumed that this was a result of it increasing the SDR brightness limit past 500 nits, I didn't know
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    by argsnd 5y ago

    The ambient light sensor on MacBooks will raise the limit past 500 nits when it detects bright sunlight.
25. 145.▲
    by argsnd 5y ago

    All of their phones take HDR videos and images.
26. 146.▲
    by argsnd 5y ago

    Your 12" m3 MacBook is likely at least twice as fast as a Raspberry Pi 4. The BCM2835 isn't a remotely powerful chip.
27. 147.▲
    by argsnd 5y ago

    You know macOS has a built-in bog-standard VNC server right?
28. 148.▲
    by argsnd 5y ago

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S15740... Start here.
29. 149.▲
    by argsnd 5y ago

    GDP yes, per capita unlikely.
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    by argsnd 5y ago

    I am willing to bet that the GDP per capita of neither China nor India will surpass that of the United States within this century or the next.