please go ahead and explain how it’s incorrect. You’re gonna want to explain how you can easily watch twitch streams from people on other continents in full 4k and how you can pirate 4k movies through VPNs on other continents as well. If what you say is accurate then those 4k downloads wouldn’t show up in 4k and pirating through a VPN literally wouldn’t function at all.

absolutely not… you can travel literally a thousand miles without hitting a router if you’re traveling transcontinental, whereas if you’re in a dorm in college and you live right next to an T1 node you can be hitting 15 different routers because your college actually uses a virtual network provider from the other side of town.

Hops absolutely does not correspond to distance in any reasonable sense. Youtube also buffers to avoid that transcode quality issue, so no you’re getting the quality you ask for, but the bitrate might be different depending on your physical internet speed. The distance has jack shit to do with it.

latency and ping has absolutely nothing to do with video quality. the quality as it’s received by the client is going to be the exact same. You’re not losing data in the process. it’s not like a container ship that’s traveling across the ocean and for every 100 miles it travels it loses a container. If you’re getting buffering then sure, maybe you’re calling that ‘quality’ but it absolutely is not what anyone else means when they say quality.

Wut. Quality has absolutely nothing to do with distance to the cdn server. That makes no sense whatsoever.

Well yeah, you don’t care about either side of the issue, you just care about inclusivity. The meme is making a point that most people that make these comments aren’t caring because they actually care about both sports (which would be the opposite of your situation), but because they are just bigots.

Ken Chang on linked in is clearly a reference to the original Ken M who trolled any and every comment section on the internet. The true original master.

It a university hospital

The one on the right had five people in it and it imploded and killed them all. I don’t get the left one, unless it’s a sex joke. But I’m guessing it’s some news story I haven’t read yet.

Edit: I misread your message and thought you were saying the opposite. Sorry.

Gotcha. Thanks for explaining.

I had no clue what the problem was until you pointed it out. I’m so tired of people purposefully misreading shit to make it seem bad.

I think people are just happy that OpenAI is getting shit on, even if the reality isn’t really what is being portrayed. For example I’ve been trying to use r1-32b and it’s really no where near as good as Claude sonnet 3.5 has been.

I stopped using openai so I can’t comment on the performance comparison there, but clearly the benchmarks are all just made up bs.

That doesn’t allow you to stop them from showing up in search results entirely, unless you’re somehow blocking just Pinterest results and in that case you’re just going to get empty pages of results.

Is that the same for the ones with the C wire or any of the other crazy wires?

Windows shortcut is win shift s to take an equivalent of Mac (print screen is not the same thing). But to be clear you’re not really talking about specifics, you’re generalizing. On windows you get a specific list of shortcuts that are only possible with the windows key (and alt if you need to type special characters). And that list is exceedingly small. You need to use something like autohotkey to get others, and I’m not talking about for remapping. I’m talking about simple stuff like “toggle dock hiding on/off” or “adjust the screen brightness” (literally impossible on windows to change this without an external program). On Mac you have hundreds just to start with and then if you want you can jump into AppleScript or Automator which is built in. And if that doesn’t cover it, you use karabiner then. If you don’t like using multiple keys then map caps lock to cmd shift and then you’ve got an even shorter keyboard shortcut than windows.

You can believe that the defaults are illogical, but you can literally customize any of the default keyboard shortcuts on Mac, while that just isn’t true about windows. And on top of that you have shortcuts available that just aren’t there on windows (I literally chose the first two I saw in the Mac settings and then verified that they weren’t possible on Windows, I’m sure most of them aren’t even possible on windows without an external program).

I only have one key remapped with karabiner, and it’s transferable with a single JSON file so /shrug, sounds like maybe you just don’t understand Mac as well as you think you do. And I wasn’t just talking about system settings, like through group policy, I’m talking about anything that can be installed with a package manager. Yeah windows has scoop and winget, but they’re a pale imitation of brew, apt, yum, etc.

It’s a lot simpler to say Linux to keep the conversation going than it is to say Mac is BSD based and therefore is a Unix system and has all the exact same benefits of a Unix based system. There is no joke here, maybe you just like correcting people when they’re trying to have a conversation.

Harder to fix completely depends on which manufacturer you bought your laptop from, but yeah Macs aren’t easy to fix hardware issues. But finding them is just like other platforms, there’s nothing different there.

I’m also looking to switch to Bazzite or SteamOS as soon as they make it available for non-steam decks

For me an os needs to do basic stuff by default, not by adding a billion 3rd party apps that inevitably break the next os update because they were using undocumented apis

So you make up a strawman

Sure, you can do that with (mostly paid) third party apps, but I don’t like wasting 3 days on setting an operating system in an usable state

And then add another strawman onto it, in order to make your argument make any sense. None of the programs I listed are paid, they’re all open source, and it’s just as normal as doing any of the apt installs you have to do on Linux.

Setting up my Mac is literally as simple as running dot from my dotfiles, which sets up every Mac setting, including things like making hidden files visible by default, hiding the Mac Dock by default, and more. On the other hand dealing with windows setup is a pain in the ass.

Half the people in this thread just have learned helplessness. They think that just because the OS doesn’t support what they want in the very first few seconds of using it that it doesn’t support it at all, yet those same people will spend hours fixing driver issues in Linux no problem. With karabiner-elements, hammerspoon, UnnaturalScrollWheels, and AltTab, you literally get everything you have on Linux and windows and you don’t get any of the jank from the other systems.

Mac is still terrible for gaming, and you don’t want to be running servers on it, so I actually use all three systems daily, but people consistently complain about Mac like it isn’t a Linux system.