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  • New York State Senate passes right to repair legislation

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    tstump said:
    Silly.
    If I bought some beautiful pieces of Marano glass in Italy, would I or should I be able to sue the manufacture if they don’t make it really easy for me to repair that glass should I drop it or break it?
    That art glass cannot be fixed with just simple glue and tape. It takes years of training and experience, a special kiln, years of experience in a special kind of person to do the work.
    If it were legislated that everyone should be able to buy some silicone glass sealer repair or whatever you wanna call it, and a microwave kit to fix that piece of art,… Well like I said, that’s just silly.
    No One in Marano would want you saying that you’re broken and did repaired piece of art glass was from there historically famous little islands.
    Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

    Wow. I mean... just... wow.


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  • New York State Senate passes right to repair legislation

    swineoneswineone
    The average Apple tech is much less knowledgeable and skilled than quite a few independent technicianS. I would trust e.g. Louis Rossmann with my hardware over ANY Apple technician. I mean ANY. There is no technician working at Apple that could do their job as well as Louis does. BTW: I’m an electrical engineer, I design portable electronic devices, and I’ve spent quite a few hours watching Louis’ videos. He displays impressive skills. And often he has to fix a crap job done by, guess who, Apple technicians.
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  • The bell is tolling for Intel Macs with the arrival of the first Apple Silicon specific fe...

    swineoneswineone
    Look, it’s nice and all that people are mentioning the neural engine. It’s quite likely it’s being used for some of these features.

    However, assuming Apple has decent software engineers that actually follow best practices in the field (something you can no longer be sure of since they’re so worried about the newest “racist” hire or pressuring Apple into taking sides in middle eastern wars), they have a machine learning API that can and should have multiple computational backends. So the code is the same regardless of where it is executed. One of these backends, sure enough, is the neural engine. But GPUs were there long before there was a neural engine, and even CPUs can handle simpler workloads in real-time — assuming real-time is even a constraint, which it certainly isn’t in some of these scenarios.

    So yeah, this reeks of a marketing strategy to get people to upgrade.
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  • The bell is tolling for Intel Macs with the arrival of the first Apple Silicon specific fe...

    swineoneswineone
    StrangeDays said:
    swineone said:
    many of the best new macOS Monterey features will only work on Apple Silicon. And so they should.

    Planned obsolescence much? Indeed that's the case as will be clear from the breakdown below.

    [pretend engineering snipped]

    Conclusion: yeah, it's all marketing, and Apple pressuring us into an upgrade we don't really need. So much for being so "green", it's all about the greenbacks (as well it should be, but let's not pretend Apple is a saint).
    Nah, you just made up a bunch of crap and claimed it as fact.
    Do you have any counterarguments, or only lame attempts at disqualifying my well reasoned arguments? Protip: that’s how you lose, not win, arguments.

    As for “pretend engineering”, I do happen to be an engineer, and quite well qualified to speak on the matter. But let’s not turn this into an argument of authority. Just point out precisely where I am wrong. I’ll be happy to eat crow if you’re right.
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  • The bell is tolling for Intel Macs with the arrival of the first Apple Silicon specific fe...

    swineoneswineone
    many of the best new macOS Monterey features will only work on Apple Silicon. And so they should.

    Planned obsolescence much? Indeed that's the case as will be clear from the breakdown below.

    You may or may not like blurred backgrounds in FaceTime calls, but if you do like the effect, you'd better buy an Apple Silicon Mac.

    Google Meet has done that for a while already. On a web application, no less.

    M1 Macs will be able to use Live Text in macOS Monterey. With any image, whether it's on a website you're browsing or your own photos from five years ago, M1 Macs can read the text there.
    That's intensive pattern recognition that's done on-device. 
    Intensive but, from my understanding, not real time. Even an old PPC G4 could do it given enough time.

    For some reason the editor won't let me quote the next paragraph properly, so I'll just wrap it in double quotes.

    "Doubtlessly, Intel Macs will be able to show you directions and the same level of detail we get now. But all of the tremendous extras like rendered elevations and city exploration we're getting with macOS Monterey won't be on Intel."

    More of a GPU than CPU issue. Anyway, PCs can easily render ultra-high-resolution photorealistic games in real time, but hardware of similar caliber (with a less powerful, but still extremely powerful GPU) on an Intel Mac supposedly can't render some simple 2.5D scene with simple, almost schematic-level, assets? Give me a ******* break.
    You can currently dictate into Siri on a Mac for up to around one minute. From macOS Monterey onwards, there will be no time limit at all -- so long as you're on M1 or later.
    That's partly because dictation will now be done on-device instead.
    Ooh, sounds like a super-complicated thing that would be impossible to do on-device in an Intel Mac. Wait, not really. Probably Intel hardware was what Apple used to transcribe conversations behind the scenes on their cloud servers.

    Conclusion: yeah, it's all marketing, and Apple pressuring us into an upgrade we don't really need. So much for being so "green", it's all about the greenbacks (as well it should be, but let's not pretend Apple is a saint).

    Either way, I don't care, my hardware is still quite new (2018 MBP) and it'll have to last long to recoup my investment in it, even if Apple is forcing my hand on this by not allowing me to make a FaceTime call with a blurred background -- and, as mentioned, if I really need that feature, I'll just use Google Meet which miraculously is capable of doing that in my supposedly underperforming Intel Mac.

    I'll probably stay out of the market for another 3 or 4 years, and in the meanwhile I'll be monitoring whether someone decides to tackle the Windows virtualization issue (hell, there was Virtual PC back in the PowerPC days, you're telling me Apple Silicon is so underpowered it can't emulate the supposedly low-performance Intel Macs?) If nobody does, this will probably be my last Mac.
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