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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago

Given that the world of high art is basically entirely used by rich people as a way to launder money and dodge taxes?

Yes. It absolutely should. It should have been like 30 years ago.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

S Tier:

  • Milwaukee
  • Bosch
  • Makita

A Tier:

  • DeWalt
  • Porter Cable

B Tier:

  • Ryobi
  • Rigid

C Tier:

  • Black & Decker
  • Craftsman
  • Master craft
  • Skil
  • Other store brands

All of them will get you a passing grade, C Tier feels a little flimsy like it might let you down, B Tier works perfectly fine and feels normal, A Tier feels a little better, and S Tier is noticeably rock solid and nice in every way.

Atleast, this is ballpark what I remember from when I was contracting...

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Read up to the part of the comment where I set the context as "in addition to their internal one".

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Agreed, I typed quickly before bed and meant MST not alt mode.

But otherwise you're just arguing that it's not a big deal because 'you don't need any of these fancy features if you throw out your monitor every three years and buy new thousand dollar ones'.

For everyone who doesn't want to contribute to massive piles of e-waste, we still have 1080p and 1440p, 60Hz monitors kicking around, and there is no excuse for a Mac to only be able to drive one of them with crappy looking text. It could easily drive 6 within the bandwidth of a 4k, 120Hz signal. Hell it could drive 8 or more if you drop the refresh down to 30.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You need to reread my comment where I point out that it's only the Max chips that can drive more than two external monitors.

And bro, a cursory Google search would also bring up this page from Apple which confirms everything I wrote. A base M3 mac can only drive two monitors if the internal display is closed, i.e. it can only drive one external monitor and one internal.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (13 children)

Nope. All base Mx Series Macs can only support a single external monitor in addition to their internal one.

Pro Series are professional enough that Apple deems your work worthy of using two (2) external monitors.

Max Series are the only ones that have proved their Maximum enough to Apple to let them use 3 monitors.

It's honestly absurd. And none of them support Display Port's alt mode so they can't daisy chain between monitors and they max out at 3, whereas an equivalent Windows or Linux machine could do 6 over the same Thunderbolt 3 connection.

Windows and Linux machines also support sub pixel text rendering, so text looks far better on 1080p and 1440p monitors.

I have to use MacOS for work and while I've come to accept many parts and even like some, their external monitor support is just mind numbingly bad.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (16 children)

Let me know how many multiple thousands of dollars it's going to cost for a MAX variant of the chip that can run three external monitors like it's 2008.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My cousin's buddies asked him to build the website for their new ride hailing app but he didn't feel like doing some rinky dink thing, apparently Travis and them took it in stride though.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

How do you know there's not a fun nightclub?

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fine, it's a dumb article by an author who had a temporary moment of dumbness while they were writing it, but might not be completely dumb all the time.

Who is the Xbox for? People who want a console to play video games. Like wtf are you even talking about? You, like the author, are just falling for console war nonsense where somehow having a dedicated living room video game machine needs to be justified by someone else not getting to play a game.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago

Like I know that's baffling in a satirical way, but this article does not seem aware of the corporate villainy satire and just seems to be corpo pilled and fully bought into the idea that Xbox is somehow worse when it's games come out on PlayStation.

I've long bought Xboxes because I prefer their controller and software, I do not give a flying fuck if their games come out on PlayStation. Games that are exclusive without an underlying hardware reason (like motion controls), should be illegal, but I'm not going to be a console wars dipshit and demand that PlayStation players don't get to play Microsoft game just because Xbox players don't get to play Sony games.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

But since closing the Activision deal last fall, Xbox has made a series of moves that have left fans and analysts baffled about its overall strategy.

[citation needed]

This is a dumb article by a dumb author. There is nothing baffling about a video game publisher, publishing video games.

Oh no it doesn't fit into a simple black and white, Xbox vs Playstation, narrative, that must make it baffling 🤔🤨🤔🤔🤨🤔🤨🤔🤨🤔.

Like Jesus Christ, grow the fuck up.

Console exclusives are inherently an example of market distortion and illegal anti-competitive tying. Stop acting confused when a company behaves normally. Sony music songs still come out on Apple Music, that is the norm for virtually every competitive business around the world. Stop treating video games differently.

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