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GSimon commented on OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer obsproject.com/blog/obs-s... · Posted by u/aizk

zamadatix · 3 months ago

I think the point extends well beyond the specific app/OS example though, even though the article talks to macOS exclusively. For macOS and Windows there are built in tools which offer direct recording functionality. To trigger on macOS Command+Shift+5 (or launch it via QuickTime as jasonlotito noted), on Windows Win+Shift+S. Both of these utilize the same OS APIs OBS Studio uses to get the screen content, but they skip the step of needing a renderer at all.

GSimon · 3 months ago

You need to install a 3rd party software Blackhole to even get desktop audio for screen recording with QuickTime. After about an hour of troubleshooting settings I gave up and used OBS, esp since I was in a public space at the time and the Blackhole config disabled my headphones and for a moment you could hear a loud YouTube tutorial playing through my Mac speakers. Also the shortcut to stop screen recording on QuickTime sucks, it’s like CMD+CTRL+ESC and you need to have it memorized because there’s no “Stop Recording” button option

GSimon commented on Walmart begins selling the Mac for the first time: M1 MacBook Air for $699 9to5mac.com/2024/03/15/wa... · Posted by u/ksec

nateb2022 · 2 years ago

In response to the comments regarding its "excellent value" at $699, Lenovo is currently selling its 14" ThinkPad P14s Gen 3 for $699. It comes with a Ryzen 7 6850U that roughly matches the M1 in performance[1], 16GB of LPDDR5 and a 512GB SSD. In terms of what the everyday consumer will want/need, having 8GB more RAM and 256GB more storage is arguably going to be more valuable both now and going forward.

Edit: There have been a number of comments linking to reviews suggesting really poor battery life, however these reviews clearly mention 12th gen Intel processors, with an onboard nvidia GPU in one instance. None of these reviews pertain to the laptop I mentioned above, which features a Ryzen 6850U.

[1]: https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/apple-m1-vs-amd-ryzen-...

GSimon · 2 years ago

MacBook: better screen, keyboard, speakers, battery life, milled aluminum unibody, has airdrop/App Store.

GSimon commented on The day I canceled my Spotify subscription blog.raed.dev/posts/goodb... · Posted by u/Raed667

akudha · 2 years ago

Didn’t Louis C.K sell his standup stuff direct to fans for 5$ for a DRM free downloadable mp3, from his website?

Why don’t more artists do that?

GSimon · 2 years ago

I bought it when he released it. It was good for him but arguably he lowered his worth and took a pay cut, and it also set a bit of a price ceiling base rate for comedy specials at 5$, which if you aren’t the #1 comedian at the time like Louis was you can’t bring in the same sales volume.

GSimon commented on What we learned making a plastic injection mold with a Chinese mold maker airgradient.com/blog/less... · Posted by u/ahaucnx

asdff · 2 years ago

I had a different sort of event looking at the plastic in my life. More like, whats the point of this, other than to save the manufacturer costs? I'm convinced there's nothing I own thats made of plastic that my grandparents didn't have a much nicer all metal or wood version. Not to mention its unrepeatable and tends to get brittle with age. So much plastic stuff I have is straight up junk that's just going to fall apart in a few years. Meanwhile you can have a metal can opener thats 80 years old and works as good as new.

GSimon · 2 years ago

> I'm convinced there's nothing I own thats made of plastic that my grandparents didn't have a much nicer all metal or wood version.

Agree mostly unless it's for something that needs to deal with water in some way.

GSimon commented on Threads, an Instagram app apps.apple.com/us/app/thr... · Posted by u/Xeophon

GSimon · 3 years ago

For those racing to call this an end to Twitter, remember which platform allows you to post spicy pics.

GSimon commented on The UX Research Reckoning is Here medium.com/onebigthought/... · Posted by u/azhenley

GenerWork · 3 years ago

Can you go into some more detail as to how "UX has become universally terrible"? I'm a UX person, so I'm always intrigued when I hear people say that UX has become terrible.

GSimon · 3 years ago

From my experience the terrible experience is pretty often because of bloated features (and the bad UI that comes with it) that are shipped quickly in order to be first to market and capitalize on the novelty of some new technology. Move fast and break things. Then hardware technology improved so bloated UI etc got a pass because no one needed to optimize anything unless you're developing for 3rd world with outdated hardware and poor internet speeds.

GSimon commented on Goodbye, CSS-Tricks geoffgraham.me/goodbye-cs... · Posted by u/tagawa

GSimon · 3 years ago

CSS-Tricks was and likely still is a great resource for web developers, congrats on your time working there! I once reached out for a position and heard back from Chris Coyier, ultimately I wasn’t quite motivated enough to start but in hindsight sounded like a great opportunity and appreciated the tentative offer

GSimon commented on Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/staplung

mandevil · 3 years ago

A lot of the teams support advertisers (the actual customer, not the users). They would be either a) keeping conversations such that advertisers want to have their brands next to them b) keeping relationships with advertisers or c) running machine learning to match ads with users.

If your advertisers go away, then a whole lot of the iceberg of complexity underneath the bird app goes away.

GSimon · 3 years ago

A leaner organization could reduce reliance on advertising as payrolls go down, and if traffic increases (as Elon is claiming, who knows if true) than advertisers would pay more for greater exposure. Also FB using AI or target marketing to the extreme for their ads just ended up turning people away from the platform by sterilizing it of any actual content you’d like to see.

GSimon commented on Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/staplung

gambiting · 3 years ago

I very much doubt that. Twitter must have had some bloat, but there's no way that 80% of the workforce was bloat. I'd be extremely surprised if Twitter(as in, the website/app, not the registered legal entity) still exists and works by the end of this year.

GSimon · 3 years ago

80% imo could so very easily be bloat. Features/services that are underutilized and haemorrhaging money don't need to be upkept, teams dedicated to curating content like twitter headlines and moderating content don't need to be there (at the scale it's currently at). Staffing for hospitality services at Twitter HQ and all the ancillary services that are unnecessary or under-utilized. As long as the servers are running, people will be able to post 240 chars of content and some rich media images, the Twitter platform is not ground breaking tech

GSimon commented on USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021) overengineer.dev/blog/202... · Posted by u/sneakymichael

c_o_n_v_e_x · 4 years ago

Just curious.... why?

GSimon · 4 years ago

Amazon Basics logo (or other generic company) looks a bit tacky