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My first 4K screen was a 24" computer display and let me tell you, the difference between that and a 24" 1080p display is night and day from 1-2 feet away. Those pixels were gloriously dense. Smoothest text rendering you've ever seen.

I didn't use it for gaming though, and I've "downgraded" resolution to 2x 1440p (and much higher refresh rates) since then. But more pixels is great if you can afford it.

It's one thing to say you don't need higher resolution and fewer pixels works fine, but all the people in the comments acting like you can't see the difference makes me wonder if they've ever seen a 4K TV before.


I still use 4K@24", unfortunately they're getting scarce. 4K@27" is where it's at now unfortunately. But I'll never go back to normal DPI. Every time at the office it bugs me how bad regular DPI is.

Especially when the alternative is "type the company name into google" where the top 3 results are ads and they've previously been seen to stick malware distribution sites above the legitimate company pages

This was happening for months with blender in 2022/2023, previously collected links about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34917701


Top 3 are ads? Usually it’s more like 1. D-tier AI Slop Overview 2. Shopping ads 3. A bunch of AdWords ads 4. A bunch more Google-specific content (maps etc) 5. 1-3 organic results (Or sometimes 0 unless you click a “More results” link)

Heck just skip the website and ask the AI to make some text for you to read

> I don't think the idea that they could lose access to their accounts occurs to most people.

"It just works" was practically a mantra for Steve Jobs, now we turn around and blame users for thinking that it will work


For #2, OWC puts a screw hole above their dock's thunderbolt ports so that you can attach a stabilizer around the cord

https://www.owc.com/solutions/thunderbolt-dock

It's a poor imitation of old ports that had screws on the cables, but should help reduce inadvertent port stress.

The screw only works with limited devices (ie not the Mac Studio end of the cord) but it can also be adhesive mounted.

https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/CLINGON1PK/


That screw hole is just the regular locking USB-C variant, is it not?

See for example:

https://www.startech.com/en-jp/cables/usb31cctlkv50cm


Looks like it! Thanks for pointing this out, I had no idea it was a standard.

Apparently since 2016 https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/documents/usb_type-c...

So for any permanent Thunderbolt GPU setups, they should really be using this type of cable


Note that the locking connector OWC uses is a standard, not the standard. This is USB we're dealing with, so they made it messy: the spec defines two different mutually-incompatible locking mechanisms.

Of course they do.

Now that’s one way to enforce not inserting a USB upside-down.

A few days ago I was trying to see if a anything new had taken over a vacant restaurant space yet, previous occupant had closed in July.

When I zoomed in, it would still only show me the Permanently Closed business listing for the old restaurant.

Searching by address, they do have a listing for its replacement. But they were prioritizing the dead restaurant on the map because why would I want to know current info from a map when they can be useless instead?

And it's not like this is a restaurant in the first floor of a tower with a bunch of businesses stacked on top of it competing for map space. It's a single floor, there's only one occupant.


The crappy apps that replaced parking meters are the people who disrupted the existing market with tech


The App Store is the walled garden that doesn't allow anyone else to ship a browser engine, except in certain markets where they have been forced by law to create a "Web Browser Engine Entitlement" that non-WebKit browsers can use with super special permission from Apple.


And so many strings attached that they don't really do so in practice :(


LLM "hallucination" is a pretty bullshit term to begin with


Have you looked into burrito parachutes?


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