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Nope, Kirsten Gillibrand was a senator from NY who led the charge in calling for Franken’s resignation
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/26/al-franken-kirsten-gillibrand-2020-1014697
Nope, Kirsten Gillibrand was a senator from NY who led the charge in calling for Franken’s resignation
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/26/al-franken-kirsten-gillibrand-2020-1014697
OMG this happened to a colleague of mine and they deleted the files from OneDrive without realizing they weren’t on their hard drive anymore 🤦
It’s most profitable to have both sides in your pockets apparently
"Might as well not bother patching this actively-exploited security vulnerability, there’ll just be another one in the future, " LMAO
Lol same had to read it 2x 😂
I had the bending iPhone. Used it for five years, never bent. At the time, I really wished it was slightly thinner lmao
I just watched The Truth vs. Alex Jones (2024) on HBO and I’ve gotta say Alex Jones is pretty much the biggest, most vile, piece of shit ever. Yes there are people who have done more harm than him, but he’s just as evil as the worst figures from modern history imo
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Damn, that is badass!
Some ppl used the Twitter integration to export screenshots from their Nintendo Switch since it didn’t require USB or MTP
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Article from 2019
And fuck Erik Paulsen too
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Seems baffling
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
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?
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.
Yup I max out 32GB building librewolf from source
He was also the only senator who truly understood the perils of big tech and was willing to stand up to them
https://www.wired.com/story/al-franken-just-gave-the-speech-big-tech-has-been-dreading/