The_Mixer_Dude @ The_Mixer_Dude @lemmus.org

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Who said fire?

There aren't regulations on security systems to my knowledge. Fire alarms work independent but they can optionally operate with a security system. Security systems are consumer devices, you can buy them yourself anywhere without any licensing or regulation.

Why alarm systems???

If your fine want updates you can literally just... Duane them through group policy. But that's not a good idea. What they are forcing are security updates. You really want those. They don't take very long at all and their effectiveness increases based on how many people are up to date. The more people who are up to date the more difficult and expensive it is to create malicious software, it also becomes more difficult to spread malicious software to begin with.

Yeah when I was saying "Chromebooks have more functionality than macbooks for a lot less" I was literally saying "Chromebooks have more functionality than macbooks for a lot less". I was not saying "Chromebooks can run resource intensive programs faster than macbooks for a lot less" as performance doesn't mean function and anyone wanting to play games will be better suited with a Windows gaming laptop than a MacBook or Chromebook no matter how you slice it and it the hope is for extended battery life while gaming you are going to be better suited streaming games anyhow. And as I noticed in that guys video he was having to use an SD card so we know that storage limitation is a factor.

As far as video goes I can't say as I haven't tested it but I did do some quick poking around and it appears that the Celeron chip in the Chromebooks I use does support Intels quick sync so that leads me to believe it's not gonna be too bad, especially in the area of rendering final output. I'm not all that knowledgeable as far as video goes but I do work in the production world and as far as video goes I have only seen macbooks used for video a handful of times and I've never actually seen a Mac used on a large scale production. This is coming from a live production and broadcast perspective (think music festivals, concerts, sporting events, political functions, high profile streaming events) so the use of gaming spec laptops and desktops are likely chosen for their higher performance, stability, and support cycle. Which is likely similar logic behind why PC's are used for professional non-linear video editing as well.

I did see you slipped back a little bit on the 2in1 situation though. I think there might be a misunderstanding here in that clamshell vs. Convertible is a matter of usage and need, in reality there isn't actually a situation aside from outliers in not aware of where having touchscreen or convertible would be undesired (you mentioned some people may want matte screens but there are matte screen protectors you can get for very cheap that work great with touch).

Thing is there are so few things to count against Windows compared to MacOS or Linux, they need to make the most minor of inconveniences seem astronomical by comparison. "Haha you have to install a security update you can delay for 5 weeks that takes 4 seconds to install"

I have 3 windows machines in my house that are over 50 days running right now

"does more" means more functional, I think I explained that up above. I think you have again sort of glossed over touchscreen functionality and the ability to flip your screen around into tablet mode. A laptop is a portable computer, touchscreen and screen flipping allow for the Device to be even more portable and functional for the user who had decided to purchase a laptop as opposed to a desktop.

This is all very important stuff to be aware of as for a lot of industries and use cases can't make use of a laptops form factor as it is just too cumbersome. This is why they are so popular in stem and creative fields, not to mention healthcare, education, and service industries. This may not be as large of a factor for someone working in graphic design or software development but at the same time it really makes just as much sense as a typical laptop.

I could go on about the functional benefits of having a touchscreen and having a tablet but really that list is just so massive and everyone who uses one of aware of that which is why the market is shifting over that direction so quickly. Helped in part by the fact that they are popular purchases for companies to buy for their employees and anyone who uses a 2in1 at work is typically going to end up buying one for themselves as it's really not a great experience going back to how things used to be.

Now you mention running AAA game titles and I'm finding that pretty hard to track down titles getting mentioned unless they are games of some serious age or you are trying to qualify games like baldurs gate 3 and the Sims 4 as AAA titles which is rather disingenuous. As far as I see people talking about with Mac gaming they tend to suggest people use Xbox cloud or other game streaming services. Obviously you get a much wider selection of games than the Mac available library when going that route especially with something like a MacBook Air where storage comes at a premium and typical AAA titles are coming in above the 100gb mark now. This would make things even more difficult for someone doing video editing as well especially if they are working in 4k resolution. You could go the route of using an external drive as well but that sorta saps the portability when you have all the extras hanging off your computer at which point if I was serious about doing either of those things I would be using a desktop anyhow to gain the benefits seen there. As for where our Chromebook stands in this situation, well, they can stream cloud service games and even stream games locally from a desktop gaming PC (as I commonly do) just the same as a MacBook Air can.

(Btw I got curious and tried using blender on one of the Chromebooks and I'll be damned if it didn't run surprisingly well, loaded a bunch of demo projects and it was pretty great. I also discovered that using touchscreen with blender was pretty awesome, made sculpting super easy as well as animating and modeling, camera controls are actually really intuitive, ran great in Evee and workbench, cycles was a little sluggish , but with evee in viewport render mode it was actually pretty smooth, definitely workable, material preview and solid were both pretty great as well)

You forgot digital mixer, SMT assembly systems and gas generators

I'm not just making up demands of the market, touchscreen and convertibles are some of the highest driving factors in laptops right now and their demand is growing, I'm not talking about personal preference whatsoever here lol, I'm coming from an objective view on the subject. Yes Apple's specs haven't lived up to the hype they generated and sales have been falling for a bit now.

For some reason you seem to be telling me the performance and capabilities of Chromebooks running Windows which I do find very strange as it's obviously a subject I have a great deal more experience as you can do a pretty large amount of anything you need to do on one. Gimp, SketchUp, YouTube, word, Excel (any office suite anything is going to run perfectly obviously) web browser with any movie streaming site you want. You still have a huge selection of games to choose from. And if I'm getting into the personal area of things I come from the audio industry (where Linux and MacOS aren't practical options) and my little fleet of used $50 Chromebooks running Windows can do anything without day to day usage. Honestly I think people have forgotten that common programs and software have not really be increasing in system demand but CPU's, even on the low end have gotten far more powerful.

Websites need to generate revenue. If you run a torrent site you are probably well aware that those who visit your site are craftier than your average web user. If people are using ad blockers then you aren't able to generate revenue to pay for hosting and your own time maintaining things. Your option then is to try your best to make the ads on your site even craftier to try and bypass adblockers so you can monetize. Your other option is to let all the ads get blocked, get no revenue, make the website become solely your financial burden.... Or you know. Your users disable the adblockers when on your site and the ads won't have to be so aggressive and your site can monetize.

Insightful doesn't mean you learned something from it. If you say something is insightful it means... It's definition really "having or showing an accurate and deep understanding; perceptive." You can understand something and still say it's insightful.

We are talking about Chromebooks running Windows. Not Chromebooks running ChromeOS

I never said "any gaming Windows laptop has good battery life" I literally said "any non gaming laptop I've used in the past whothehellknowshowlong has had great battery life". Nice attempt at trying to twist things but that's pretty bad.

As far as "a chromebook running windows can do alot more for cheaper" that is factually true. To my knowledge there isn't a MacBook of any type that is convertible or contains a touchscreen, regardless of your personal feelings on that matter those are massively important features to a lot of users and the market demand reflects that in a very big way. Not to mention a Chromebook running Windows supports a much larger amount of software which, again, may not be important to you personally, but it's massively important to a lot of people especially with Apple ending OS upgrades going further. And before you run off trying to say "oh but what about boot camp" well you still don't have a convertible or a touchscreen.

I have spent the last 15 years of my life as a Linux user, and I spent 4 years of my life as a Mac user. The*nix community really needs to get over Windows and stop trying to pretend that Windows users are morons and are somehow completely oblivious to the existence of Linux. It's an insane obsession

It means a great deal for their market value and hardware reputation. With Risc-V having so many benefits over ARM, especially when looking at core footprint, licensing costs, capable efficiencies, more capable instructions (Risc-V can do division) and manufacturers having so much more flexibility in design and manufacturing the market stands to pass them by rather quickly. Apple doesn't own ARM, they only license it, even if they did own ARM they would still not benefit much because there is a huge amount of reverse work to be done to get it to stay competitive 5-10 years down the line. This is already something Apple is aware of which is why they have already started investing into Risc

Please tell me where the anti-Apple circlejerk is, because lemmy is a sea of anti-Windows and Google circlejerking the likes of which have never been seen

Touchscreen, tablet mode.

Touchscreen, tablet mode.

Touchscreen, tablet mode.

It's been a crazy couple of years starting with articles and videos that confidently explained why Risc-V will never be seen on cellphones let alone an existence as a desktop system.

Fast forward to today there is official Debian support, the first batch of Risc-V laptops are getting delivered to customers, online retailers are full of high powered desktop development boards, Qualcomm, NXP, Bosch and others teaming up to start a Risc-V joint venture.

Microsoft's .net runtime just showed an early start on Risc-V. The Indian government themselves just announced a bunch of funding and long term planning into Risc development. We just saw the first 10g open source Ethernet switches.

Heck you can go on YouTube and watch videos of people testing $100 development boards on Debian and I'll be damned if they are doing everything that your average computer user wants without issue from basic office suite things like weird processing and spreadsheet work to Photoshop style image editing, 4k video playback, and 3D rendering.

Maybe it's because I can see an open architecture make a huge positive impact on the industry I work in or maybe because I love the concept of compute modules but I'm just so excited to see what Risc-v is doing right now, it's so cool