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jessie char
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Is there a manual, immediate, reliable way to make a phone vibrate remotely? This would be in the context of theatre, being able to cue the illusion of a text coming through. Actually texting it might work sometimes but the lag would be an issue.
Submissions are open for the hmtl review, one of the loveliest corners of the internet ✨
Do any indie devs wanna disrupt the theatre industry and make a QLab replacement? Please help
One challenge is that the MacBook Air, iMac, and Mac mini all max out at 24GB ram which is cutting it pretty close for me— even though I don’t need much power for cpu and graphics, upgrading those are the only way for me to access options with more memory.
I primarily use Logic Pro with some intense plug-ins. Currently my most important plug-in is Spitfire Audio’s BBCSO pack which is officially compatible with M1 chips now but not supported on Ventura yet (I do have it running fine on 13.2.1).
Really for me it’s memory and storage that I need maxed out- my sound library is ~700GB (that’s just like instrument samples, not even the work I’m making and saving). It’s running off an external SSD and I feel the lag there.
Let’s figure out what computer I should get next! Here’s what I have now, plus a desk setup with two 24” LG UltraFine 4K displays, an Anker thunderbolt docking station, and a Scarlett 4i4 audio interface.
The original plan was to dock the MBP and use it like a portable desktop machine, but perpetual clamshell mode destroyed its performance. I used to have an M1 MBP and had the same issue- it’d get WAY too hot, fans on blast, felt weirdly stressful. So a backup Mac mini became my main computer.
Matt Godden@Jessiechar …Let’s talk about The Notch, and how it destroys the most important utility areas of a display (menubar on Mac, and status indicator space on iOS), for no benefit except the *decorative*, ornamental value of having equal top and side bezels.
Or, about FaceID on an iPad Pro, and how you can’t use it flat on a desk, because the angle to your face is too extreme, so you have to keep picking it up to look at it, whereas your fingers are right there (and not wearing finger-masks).
Like are the new iMacs cute? They’re fine but so mid. When iMacs came out in 1998, the design the idea of what a computer even was. It was genuinely profound industrial design that lent both more function *and* more form to home computing.
Now they just take away features so they can thin it down—and why? Because the millimeters of space behind your desktop monitor are too precious? They’re basically unrepairable now and can no longer be used as an external display. It’s ~bad design~
And it just keeps happening over and over again! They took away magsafe, made keyboards that don’t work, got rid of function keys, got rid of ports, made a mouse that you can’t actually plug in and use—
And they have to keep on redoing all of it! Because their design is an actual shit show right now, and the computers are so difficult to repair that Apple has to cover more technician labor, replacement parts, and shipping fees while we’re out of a machine for days—
Bad design!