• unalivejoy
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      114 months ago

      It’s a mysterious third thing.

    • Snot Flickerman
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      84 months ago

      I always honestly equated Mac nerds with Linux nerds.

      Hear me out…

      For starters, macOS is certified UNIX, so it can actually be fairly CLI-friendly and has relatively decent interoperability with Linux.

      I’ve known several Linux nerds who swore by Macs for audio/video production. They all used Linux primarily but had a decent Mac around for A/V stuff.

      Anyway, Linux users (in my experience) are often artsy and weird and different, honestly a lot like the target demographic users for Apple products, except Linux users have less emphasis on the Corporate Memphis aspect of their personalities.

      • Katlah
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        124 months ago

        equating linux nerds to proprietary software created by a trillion dollar conglomerate? does not compute

      • @ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social
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        64 months ago

        macOS is good. Mac hardware, not so much. I work at an AASP so I’ll tell you that if your shit is fucked on a Mac your wallet is too.

        • unalivejoy
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          124 months ago

          It really used to be the opposite. Now they’re convincing you 8GB is actually 16GB.

            • unalivejoy
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              94 months ago

              They released the MacBook pro with only 8gb of memory and tried to convince everyone that with memory compression, 8gb on a Mac was equivalent to 16gb on a Windows system.

              • roadkill
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                74 months ago

                While also reducing the amount of that 8GB that is available to the system with the “unified memory” bullshit because they’re too cheap to give the GPU dedicated ram.

                • @tsonfeir
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                  24 months ago

                  Unified memory architectures can offer significant performance benefits by reducing latency and increasing efficiency in data transfer between the CPU and GPU.

                  I do think their statement is a bit off-putting. That’s a terrible way to describe it. However, I can’t really imagine anyone who knows they need more RAM, not buying more RAM.

              • @tsonfeir
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                14 months ago

                They probably should t have said that lol. I understand what they’re trying to say, but that sounds way too much like SoftRAM (1995).

    • Arthur BesseOP
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      124 months ago

      you’re not entirely wrong, but, fwiw this image was created 11 years after he was fired from Apple (and 5 months before he returned).