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Cool we should do more subtervising here on the States!

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They also go to great lengths to further separate themselves from the masses geographically, such as Zuckerberg building a massive compound/bunker on Kauai and Peter Thiel's Libertarian man-made islands project in International Waters

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Same. I am really getting tired of Pop_OS! v22.04 and wanting to switch to something more up-to-date, like Fedora or Arch for Wayland and VRR

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Hey just chiming in that I did exactly this on my 2011 i7 MBP (p
Probably circa 2018) and had the same experience, terrible battery life on the new battery, MacOS would stutter, etc. Not worth it. Interesting to read that that's all we should've expected!

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Seems baffling

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Of course this already exists lol

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Is this quote from The Dispossessed? Or another of her many works?

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Thanks! What a great speech! Her voice shines through as always

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The base model chips only support 1 monitor.

Apple artificially limits the base model chips to only support 1 monitor FTFY

EDIT: revised statement based off my learning about frame-buffers below:

Apple intentionally builds base-level MacBooks without adequate frame-buffers to force users to buy upgraded and more expensive products.

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TIL, thanks! 🌝

I use a Plugable docking station with DisplayLink with a base-level M1 MacBook Air and it handles multiple (3x 1080p) displays perfectly. My (limited) understanding is that they do that just using a driver. So at a basic level, couldn't Apple include driver support for multiple monitors natively, seeing as it has adequate bandwidth in practice?

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Thank you for taking the time to reply, and for further sharing your expertise to our conversation! I understand different resolutions, that the docking station has its own chipset, and why the Plugable is more expensive than other docking stations as a result. I now have a more nuanced understanding of frame-buffers and how DisplayLink interfaces with an OS like MacOS.

Allow me to clarify the point I tried to make (and admittedly, I didn't do a good job of expressing it previously). Rather than focusing on the technical specs, I had intended to have a more general conversation about design decisions and Apple's philosophy. They know that consumers will want to hook up a base tier MacBook Air to two external displays, and intentionally chose not to build-in an additional frame-buffer to force users to spend more. I sincerely doubt there's any cost-saving for the customer because Apple doesn't include that out of the box.

Apple's philosophy has always been that they know what's best for their users. If a 2020 M1 MacBook Air supports both the internal 2K display and a single external 6K display, that suggests to me it should have the horsepower to drive two external 1080p displays (that's just a feeling I have, not a known fact). And I'll acknowledge that Apple has improved this limitation for the newer MBAs, which allow you to disable the built-in display and use two external displays.

My broader point is that Apple "knows what's best" for their users: they want customers to buy an Apple display rather than to just stick with the 1080p LCDs they already own, because they're not Retina®. Which do you honestly think is a more common use-case for a MacBook Air user: wanting to connect to two monitors (home office, University classroom system, numerous board room settings I've worked in, etc), or to connect their $1200 MBA to a $1600-$2300+ Studio Display? For that, anyone with an iota of common sense would be using a MBP etc since they're likely a creative professional who would want the additional compute and graphics power for photo/video-editing, etc.

I don't disagree with your explanation of the thought-process behind why Apple may have made this hardware decision for MBAs, but it is effectively an arbitrary, non cost-saving decision that will certainly impede customers who expect two displays to just work, since they can do that on their 10-year-old Toshiba Satellite or w/e.

Thanks, and have a great day

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"I'm the meat chef." 👨‍🍳

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Yup I max out 32GB building librewolf from source

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Maybe just initially download everything into one "To be sorted" folder first ;)

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Will give this a try later, tysm! Apparently it also works with Android Auto?

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You mean like us all dabbing at the same time in Fortnite?

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Meanwhile I can't even get my boomer mom to switch to Google Messages from Samsung Messages because she'd "have to relearn how to use it." Then she just continues to complain that she can't send messages over WiFi, and that when she sends or receives pictures over SMS they get compressed... 💢

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You can send rcs messages over Wifi even if you don't have a cell signal, like iMessage. You can also get iPhone emoji reactions to messages instead of getting a text message saying "X hearted this," or w/e

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Supposedly it tastes like Cinnamon

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The atreides family atomics are da bomb

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I got a Blu-ray player just because I had an extra 5.25" bay. Flashed the open source firmware for it so I can rip and burn Blu-ray with it.

That was a year ago; I've never used it once

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Exactly, I'm like "that's redundant"

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Damn that's crazy I did not know that! I saw Tarika Barrett speak at a conference several years prior and at that time Girls Who Code seemed like a pretty good org! Sad that they're selling out/supporting a defense contractor.

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Ticketmaster came under increased scrutiny in this regard when scalpers crashed the site buying all the tickets to her Eras Tour.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Taylor_Swift-Ticketmaster_controversy

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I use Linux because when I encounter an issue there are numerous helpful forum posts and KB articles that cover it, even for really uncommon glitches. Whereas on Windows for even slightly obtuse errors, you just get the same base-level troubleshooting suggestions and AI listicles. Windows obscures actual useful information from end users which makes troubleshooting issues harder.

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How do you block shorts entirely? I used to be able to x them away in YouTube Desktop for 30 days but I can't find that option anymore. And can they be blocked in ReVanced as well?

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Email was already ubiquitous and generally standardized by the time Gmail released in 2004.

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I've also heard "mall terrain vehicle"

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Yup or Dell SupportAssist, or Lenovo System Update, etc

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Ask Joe mama

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Too busy pretending the $0 in my bank account is $1 million

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I thought I read that they weren't going to outright delete the dataset, instead they were going to anonymize the data

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Checking this out now, ty! I was using Aliucord on mobile and loving it but recently Discord updated how they process messages and so Discord bot commands broke on Aliucord. I just confirmed they are still broken. Is there a different/better Discord mobile app with this functionality?

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Nice I recently borked PAM on my headless fedora server host while attempting to set ssh to require 2fa using Google Authenticator. I still haven't gotten that process figured out - I follow the instructions but each time it won't accept any 2fa otps from my Google authenticator app

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Holy cow that's weird as hell!

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Cymothoa_exigua

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    I agree that they sound good, but man do my m50xs hurt my head! Can anyone recommend a comparable headphone that's actually comfortable?

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    "My Rattata is in the top percentage of Rattatas."

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    https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/8be040a6-b417-4d0c-81b3-be67308b147f.jpeg

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    Some people online were speculating due to the description of it being an abdominal surgery and the timeline that perhaps she got a BBL

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    So I totally agree, the game just getting harder every level made it rather unenjoyable grinding my character to lvl 100 last season. How else could Blizzard have done an open-world Diablo game, though?

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    Plus the removal of previous seasons mechanics also makes eternal realm characters weaker than they were when you played them originally, so not really any point to play them again.

    196 Stands with Palestine, but those of you in the US should still vote in the general election.

    I've been seeing a lot of anti-voting sentiment going around. Can't believe I have to say this, but you need to vote. Not only is there more to the election than just the president. (State policy, Senate, house), but not voting is not an act of protest. C'mon guys

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    I'm voting for a 3rd party in the general bc my state is a staunchly blue state (every presidential election since 1972) so my vote counts more that way. If I lived in a swing state like WI, PA, GA, AZ, CO, etc, I would definitely vote Dem.

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    Came for the memes, stayed for the inclusivity and positivity. Peace and love to all LGBTQIA+ memesters!

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    It's probably even better for your gut microbiome than Tom Brady's!

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    Big ups to uBlock Origin ma fadaaaa

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    My AI girlfriend just dictated your post me to in 2049

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    True 😄

    @memes

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    🤢🤮

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    Weird guy stuck his johnson in a hot dog bun at the grocery store, hence why he's the defendant pictured in a criminal hearing

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