Apple Thread - The most overrated technology brand?

[Gar For Archer]

because we live in technology hell where total number of pixels is what's always used in marketing, so manufacturers can cheap out on HDR and refresh rates

I'd love to use my old Macbook Pro as a monitor for my Windows desktop but there's just no way to do that, and that really sucks because aging Macbooks and iMacs would be some of the best bang-for-your-buck computer monitors out there

I tried looking up a way to use my old 2011 iMac as a display but it’s one generation behind what’s supported for the native feature that lets you use an iMac as a monitor. It‘s slow beyond belief now, but I wonder if it would be improved by installing an SSD?

 

[AnOminous]

because we live in technology hell where total number of pixels is what's always used in marketing, so manufacturers can cheap out on HDR and refresh rates

I'd love to use my old Macbook Pro as a monitor for my Windows desktop but there's just no way to do that, and that really sucks because aging Macbooks and iMacs would be some of the best bang-for-your-buck computer monitors out there

Have you considered using VNC? It's a trifle sluggish on wireless, reasonably decent on wired, probably shouldn't be used to play games, but would actually work. I've been able to play video with reasonable quality. Audio is a trifle problematic.

 

[Pissmaster]

Have you considered using VNC? It's a trifle sluggish on wireless, reasonably decent on wired, probably shouldn't be used to play games, but would actually work. I've been able to play video with reasonable quality. Audio is a trifle problematic.

Huh, never heard of it. Thank you, but I meant something I could just plug right into my desktop and bypass OS X entirely. I'm also very reliant on a wireless connection for the time being, but I appreciate it nonetheless

 

[AnOminous]

Huh, never heard of it. Thank you, but I meant something I could just plug right into my desktop and bypass OS X entirely. I'm also very reliant on a wireless connection for the time being, but I appreciate it nonetheless

"Screen Sharing" is basically a built-in VNC client in MacOS itself. Improved versions are available, though.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Huh, never heard of it. Thank you, but I meant something I could just plug right into my desktop and bypass OS X entirely. I'm also very reliant on a wireless connection for the time being, but I appreciate it nonetheless

Use OBS to stream your desktop to Twitch and then watch the stream on the Macbook.

 

[DoubleD]

Apple awards $5 million in "innovation grants" to historically Black colleges and universities.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/17/apple-awarding-grants-to-black-universities/

But it gets worse:

as part of Apple's wider $100 million Racial Equity and Justice Initiative that was announced earlier this year.

The article used to have a forum thread attached to it. But because the comments got way too based for a run-of-the-mill tech blog, Macrumors moderators decided to nuke the entire thread because dissent against the Correct Opinion cannot be allowed to stand - reminding me of why I hate Macrumors.

Oh well, it was pretty good thread while it lasted.

Spoiler: The only parts of the thread I was able to save.

Google cache doesn't show the reactions for some reason, but the posts criticising the scheme tended to get more positive votes than negatives, and the posts that made the tired old 'equity' argument got more negative reactions than positive.

Some of the highest rated comments even mentioned it was the bigotry of low expectations.

The problem here is not MacRumors members, but the moderators, who have shown themselves to be instituionally racist.

Well, thank fucking Christ there are places like KF where that kind of racism would not be tolerated.

 

[Least Concern]

The article used to have a forum thread attached to it. But because the comments got way too based for a run-of-the-mill tech blog, Macrumors moderators decided to nuke the entire thread because dissent against the Correct Opinion cannot be allowed to stand - reminding me of why I hate Macrumors.

Not too much of a surprise. As a regular reader of MacRumors, the comment threads on contentious topics have always featured political diversity that defies the stereotype of Apple fags like myself. This is the first time I can recall them actually closing a comment thread, though. Usually just keeping them on the quarantine board is as far as they go.

 

[Dick Justice]

Use OBS to stream your desktop to Twitch and then watch the stream on the Macbook.

Make sure you implement that "Twitch Plays Pokemon" API in case you need to control the desktop.