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by bitsandboots 2y ago
I suspect only the apple laptops. It was a pain for me to find an arm64 build of linux that'd run in normal vm software for example. Most were compiled for particular SBCs. Pretty much was left with only debian & opensuse. So I agr
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
I suspect the short answer is "no", and the long answer is "if battery life is good enough who will care?" My amd laptop from 3 years ago varies from 5-10 hours depending on workload. Compared to my mac its usually half
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
But as you point out, apple does have fans and in the m-series laptops they're done in such a way that they're nearly silent, or off. So, they really do not contribute meaningfully to noise, energy, or failure. They help with the
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
ALL interfaces are learned, CLI or UI makes no difference. What's intuitive is how much previously learned interactions are reusable. This is a big reason why macos sucks for example - it does everything its own way. The keyboard, the
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
I've been telling others much the same, but additionally: - You can see debian's maturity even in the ARM landscape. Out of all the distros that are compiled for ARM64, I could only get 2 (debian and opensuse) to run in the contex
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
There's nothing unfair about fans. They're not new technology and apple is allowed to use them too. And they do, in a way that is barely noticeable. If you do it right it's fine.
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
You can't just dismiss it as being invalid because it is 4 years old. I counted 9 of the 15 items as still present issues on current macbooks. Most of the things not solved are design decisions. It's not like people needed more ev
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
I know, I've nearly forgotten all compatibility woes! When I made my linux vm, I actually just took a real linux system's drive and told vmware to just use the drive as-is. So, it was really convenient to no longer have to deal wi
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
Sadly, vmware, which scares me now that broadcom owns it. It's had the best balance of seamless + good-enough graphics performance (for media, not games) My personal rank is vmware virtualbox qemu I never tried hyper-v by itself. vmwa
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
When elite dangerous was new I asked a friend if they wanted to join me in playing it. They said no, they were waiting for star citizen (why either-or?) Anyway, that was 2 US presidents ago. Still waiting huh?
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
I agree with your point on how slow star citizen development is going, if it's even going anywhere at all But, > they [bioware] did all of that to AAA standards What do you mean by 'AAA standards'? You seem to imply it as
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
>don't power themselves back on when you close the lid Huh? I wish. The thing is periodically blocked throughout the night on my pihole as it continues to send network requests even after I click the "sleep" button in the
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
Windows host, because I play VR games and GPU passthrough would be inconvenient. I just fullscreen the linux VM and it feels native for all the non-3D tasks I do with it. Even media viewing is a breeze.
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
I feel the author's grief over lack of time, but it has lead me to very different solutions. All around the idea of the OS should not interrupt, should not change rapidly, and my interaction with programs should not be much different f
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
Most laptops are bad intentionally. Less effort, more profit, and replaced sooner. But that's not to say good non-mac laptops dont exist, nor that mac laptops are the best. I currently have an m1 mbp and an asus zephyrus g14 They'
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
For sure the author is missing the point, but that doesn't mean macOS is normal. By most definitions normal in the consumer, non-mobile space would be whatever Windows does. And, there's things Linux & macOS share in common (u
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by bitsandboots 2y ago
I've learned it's rather irrelevant whether macOS could become better by being more like other platforms. Because there's enough of the users who will defend obviously bad UX, and I guess apple doesn't do UX studies that
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
I met online but not through dating apps. Any place you talk to strangers is a chance to find someone. People have been known to meet through World of Warcraft. I met through Discord. Lots of LGBT activity on VRChat. All this chart is sayin
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
As an interviewer it is the opposite to me. If there is a link showing your open source work, I want to review it to see if it indicates anything good or bad, and could be a topic for discussion. Too few people have good content there, so i
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
>Sounds like the professionals are actually having a say You think they're trying to make "Pro" mean professional, instead of its current meaning, profit?
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
keyboards that are pleasant to type on and better functioning trackpads shouldn't be hard when even asus laptops do it better.
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
Not sure I can tell one way or the other. Apple design has always seemed like a lost cause. Typing from a macbook pro with edges everywhere sharp enough to hurt, and which promotes fingerprint smudges all over the screen even when simply op
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
For what its worth, the website itself also isn't great. Had to turn off Enhanced Tracking Protection mode to not get text that scrolled off the screen, and then was met with weird fonts.
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
webp is perfect for serving images but not perfect as a source. jpeg at 100% quality is less lossy than webp lossy version. webp lossless is fine, but then not very small. taking photos at 100% jpeg can be a good middle ground for that reas
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
That sounds self-imposed. Why are you using safari when it's version is locked to your outdated OS? Current Firefox works on catalina.
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
It hurts most because it was one of the few open source projects I regularly donated to.
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
Sure the performance isnt hindered. The microwaves will keep microwaving. The food will just be blasted into an inedible state. Dealing with this right now; At someone's place with such a dial microwave and they work around its incredi
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
I stopped trying to understand why people don't use firefox. It's been the only browser worth using since opera died. Vivaldi is a fun toy, but it's still got chromium baggage that keeps it from true greatness. Now, where&#x2
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
so, KDE 5 or KDE 3? Yeah, both are superior to even modern windows and mac UIs, what's the problem?
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by bitsandboots 3y ago
> It's blazingly fast Why do people always say this as the reason for why they use a particular browser? They're ALL blazingly fast. I'm not going for a coffee break to load a page.

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