I'm gonna flip your message over ti a different perspective that I think more people will understand.
What Facebook allows on Facebook's site is Facebook's speech. You posting something on Facebook is merely you asking Facebook to display that speech on your behalf. If Facebook were forced to say anything you asked them to say, well, that's compelled speech; Facebook choosing not to say what you've asked is not censorship, it's Facebook exercising Facebook's right to not be compelled to speak.
What Google allows on Google's site is Google's speech. You posting something on your website and allowing Google to scrape it is merely you asking Google to display that speech on your behalf. If Google were forced to say anything you asked them to say, well, that's compelled speech; Google choosing not to say what you've asked is not censorship, it's Google exercising Google's right to not be compelled to speak.
Censorship is always bad, it's just that sometimes the alternatives are worse.
Indeed, and the alternative to private censorship is compelled speech, which is much worse.
the plants that make those "green" solar cells are themselves belching toxins into the environment
But they're doing it in China, which is like more than a few miles from here, so that makes it okay.
No, really, that's how some of these people think... the rest genuinely don't realize that solar cells pollute during the production phase and at the end of their useful life; hell, I'm sure many don't realize solar cells have a finite useful life, and some probably think they grow on fucking trees.
I was gonna post something like this, but then I read the last paragraph of the post and that's sort-of the point I think was being made.
On the Internet, though, everything is global. The big players can afford to bid on every single opportunity, so a small stream service will likely never find a open niche for growth.
I miss my Accord; the valve cover was held down by two bolts in the center, which screwed into posts in the head. Easiest design I've seen; there was a single EGR hose attached with a spring clip, I could have that thing off in 2 minutes with a hand tied behind my back, including figuring out how to prop up the hood one-handed.
They're putting more thought into this than you think, though; they know most people don't want to spend an hour figuring out how to do something; they know that most people can't track how to do something that took an hour to figure out without making a major (and in a lot of cases, expensive) mistake; they know that most people who were appropriately motivated could easily wrap their heads around how to fix and maintain stuff they used to make; and they know most of those people can't maintain or fix the stuff they're making now. That just means more repair and maintenance billables for them, and they're happy to take that money.
With a little creativity and engineering, you can work around the need for an engine lift (and most specialized tools); I've only had access to one once and it didn't fit the workspace so it didn't get used. Fortunately, I possess that creativity and engineering ability, and I'm guessing you do as well; people like us, who can tear into and fix damned near anything, are extremely rare, though. I don't know about you, but the only things I take my car into the shop for are tires and alignment.
I'm not sure what the hell they're thinking with the tight clearances, though. And engine sits on RUBBER MOUNTS! It moves in the engine bay! I've seen some on mounts that let the damned thing push back twice as far as its clearance from the firewall. Now that is a case of 0 thought design.
Aside from boneheaded "conflicted design" issues like that, though, I believe a lot of thought actually goes into how to make things as unrepairable and unmaintainable as possible for the lay consumer, simply to sell repair and maintenance plans at inflated prices. When a dealership sells an extended powertrain warranty for $2000 and the fine print requires all maintenance and repair to be done at a certified shop, they've just netted an additional $10k or more over the life of that extended warranty (or snagged an extra $2k for nothing if the buyer voids it by having work done elsewhere) and, well, here's the thing: anything that's gonna break is gonna break in the first year or will be the result of a bad run of parts and be included in a recall.
Everything is a cash grab these days. The better the deal looks on the surface, the worse it's likely to actually be. Sadly, that's not even fake news.
It wasn't about saving a few bucks, actually; it was about building the best system I could build for my needs. I built the system before any OEM was selling anything similar; in fact, they're still not selling anything similar.
Shall I point out that anyone who assumes people who build their own computers must be trying to save a buck is, absolutely, a wanker?
Hah. Tell me about it. There are a handful of lunatics on here who just ruin the experience lately. UnknowingFool still comes at me every chance he gets with his "multiple people have called you a liar so you must be a liar and I don't need evidence for that claim" bullshit, the the point where I straight up called him a child rapist with the intent of getting two more people to make the same claim... because, you know, then it'll be true and he'll have to willingly face prison time for it... right? By his own logic, at least. At least I did warn him it was coming.
But at least now he has a lie to point to next time he calls me a liar.... or does he? It depends, if I can get you and one other person to jump in, by his own standard it'll become truth, if it's not already.
It took over a decade and a half for someone to push me to near-libel on here. I say near-libel because, if I'm the liar he claims me to be, nobody could possibly take my words seriously and, thus, my words cannot harm his reputation; he'd have to admit I'm not a liar to prove any damages caused by my words and, in doing so, would have to admit what I said to be true.
He's just learned the dangers of consistently calling someone out as a liar, though, and hasn't said a single word to me since. So there's that, I suppose. Maybe Slashdot will start getting better now.
On a Mac, use Logic. Period. And there is now a Freeware VST-Wrapper (which also has a 32-bit to 64-bit Wrapper, too!) by the same guy. Can't remember the name; but I've got it bookmarked at home. That will get you out of the VST conundrum.
Wrapper or none, I'm not so sure a.dll VST will run on a Mac, know what I mean? Last I checked, Logic will use VST natively, but they have to be compiled for Mac.
BTW, is there a Ryzen Kernel now? (I assume that you mean a version of Darwin recompiled for AMD, right?)
I would assume so by now, obviously not with Apple's blessing, though.
Shitty WIndows-centric Coders.
They've got ports on PS4 and XBox One that run fine, so I'd hold off on that assessment.
Even with Games that are "Metal"-based?
Couldn't tell you. Got any examples of such games? Metal, though, is just the graphics layer and, as I said, the MacBook Pro had no issue keeping up with graphics; the stalling was the entire system freezing when the CPU p-state changed due to thermal throttling, so I'd guess Metal wouldn't help much.
That's just poor-ass coders. Nothing intrinsic to the Mac is causing that. Sorry.
And you bloody-well know that.
I never said it was anything intrinsic to the Mac, actually... I did, however, say the following:
Like most people, my wife and I derive value from our systems by using them for the things we want (or need) to use them for; some of those things are just better on Windows.
Whether that's Apple's fault or not, it's still true. If it's not Apple's fault, that's actually even worse for Apple, because it means Apple can't fix it. Honestly, I'd rather it was a problem with the platform.
And don't apologize for the autocorrect, it made me smile. Never apologize for making someone smile;)
I keep forgetting our prior discussions about device repair. I do seem to recall you having some experience in the field now. What that said, if you can avoid touching anything Apple or Samsung have made in the last 2 years, consider yourself lucky. I have no love for either of them at the moment.
Got it, sorry for the overreaction. There are a handful of people on this site who have just been ruining the experience lately; but I do still learn a bit on this site so it's not yet enough to drive me away. I momentarily lost sight of the fact that you're not one of them.
But yeah, the glue around the iPhone 7 (and 8 and X) screen is a critical component. Horrible design, IMO, when a 0.1mm silicone gasket could serve the purpose just as well and improve serviceability immensely (keeping it at iPhone 6 levels, maybe even improving it). That's not to say Samsung is any better; and I have both an iPhone 8 and a Galaxy S8 in my household, so I've got firsthand experience with both. I will say that, at least, the iPhone has screws and removing them gives a clear starting point for screen removal, which does put it a hair above Samsung's current flagship in terms of repairability.
The driver code will show how to talk directly to the hardware; you'll be able to reverse engineer this driver much more easily now that you'll have the code, and bypass it entirely for certain operations. That's as "right down on the metal" as it gets, and you won't be limited to just graphics, even though this driver might be, because you'll have access tot he entire lexicon, courtesy of a cursory read through the source code.
If that's something you actually care about and know how to make proper use of, reading through driver source to learn it won't be so onerous of a task.
They are among the brands, yes. I still hold they're a bigger pain than the 6S and prior for the reasons stated, by both of us.
I suppose if you lack the proper tools, yeah, they're kind of a pain to work on. When you can get a passable set of watchmakers' tools for under $100 (you have to buy a couple individually, but the total should still be well below $100) and piecemeal replace the ones you actually use frequently enough with better ones... well, there's no excuse not to have the right tools if you're a collector and actually wish to maintain them yourself.
I've only had one give me a problem; a Movado ESQ (their cheaper line, which I've since avoided) with a pressed-on back that was slightly oversized, which needed a new battery in October. Almost couldn't get the fucker apart, never did get the fucker back together and it went missing when I had to evacuate due to wildfires later that same week. Mind you, that's in an entire lifetime of owning and servicing watches -- yes, I was replacing my own watch batteries and even taking apart and swapping parts between multiple watches to customize them (something I no longer do now that I'm better able to afford nicer ones) when I was 7; so I do have nearly 3 decades of experience with this (I'll be 36 in less than a week), which may be why I find it so easy. But, then, I never broke one back then either, so maybe it's literally so easy a child can do it.
So you didn't read past the post where sabri mentions an iPhone 6 repair as an example of retaining water resistance, yet you replied to my post pointing out that the iPhone 6 does not have water resistance as a listed feature (because it wasn't water resistant) but the iPhone 7 (a more current model) does. Yet you replied to my post... which you just said you didn't read.
Again, we're talking about retaining water resistance. To retain a feature, the phone would have to have come from the factory with that feature in the first place. That started with the 7. I'm guessing, since you supposedly read at least as far as the end of sabri's post where he mentions the iPhone 6, yet you were still unaware that we were discussing water resistance (so you claim, as you admit that nothing before the 7 is water resistant to begin with, yet you seem to believe those devices are still relevant to the discussion), I'm going to guess you simply skim my posts for keywords, jump right to the Reply link, and pound out a flimsy argument.
You know, sometimes I actually am wrong and, were you to actually read my posts before replying to them, you might be able to correct me once in a while. In fact, I'd actually appreciate it if you did.
Yes, there is a section there to start a build, which will more or less guide you through the process of picking parts, as well as a section of build guides and a place to post your completed builds. You can also just browse individual parts and find lists of compatible components for each part (which is what the "start a build" option on the homepage uses to guide you, by the way). It's been a while since I've used the site but it doesn't look like a whole lot has changed in that time, definitely a good resource.
Are you running that as a Hackintosh? If not, you are losing a significant "hidden value" right there, IMHO.
No, as unmodified macOS install images don't run on AMD and there was no Ryzen kernel available the day I built it. Add to that, some of the software I built that machine to run simply doesn't exist on a Mac. My DAW, for example. Even if I were willing to adjust my workflow to a new DAW, many of my (expensive) VSTs don't have Mac versions; even if I were willing to spend the money to replace those, the replacements wouldn't provide the same functionality or sound, so it's not even an option.
Then, there's gaming... even my "I'll never use a PC" wife now maintains a Windows laptop for gaming because Mac ports of games, when they even exist, just simply suck. Take Fortnite as a recent example; not only is the macOS version roughly twice the size of the Windows version (I can't imagine why and won't speculate, I'm simply stating it as a fact), it barely runs on a brand new MacBook Pro. And I'm not talking about low framerates at the lowest quality settings; that's what I've come to expect from a Mac when gaming is involved and I would have accepted that just as well... No, I'm talking about 1-5 second stalls. Amazingly, when it's not stalled, it has no trouble keeping up on more or less medium quality settings, but the stalls kill it.
What prompted my wife to seek a PC for gaming was, of all the simplistic crap a Mac could possibly have trouble with, The Sims. Even her 2016 5k iMac with 32GB of RAM struggles to run it at 1080p with moderate quality settings. I was in a state of utter disbelief when she told me, so I spent a couple hours working with her, tweaking the settings, insisting that she must have messed the settings somehow to make it so slow and unstable but no... Mind you, she does have a lot of mods and expansions, so my next move was to blame those. No, she hadn't gotten it running satisfactorily enough to have bothered installing them by that point. When I built my workstation, I ended up giving her the Windows laptop I had been using and, despite having half the RAM and an older-gen i7 than the iMac, she's managed to get all of her mods and expansions installed and working and it runs fast and stable at 4k.
Like most people, my wife and I derive value from our systems by using them for the things we want (or need) to use them for; some of those things are just better on Windows. For my primary work tasks, the MacBook Pro w/ Touch Bar that I'm writing this post on currently (a machine I swore, when it was released, I would never buy, mind you) is more than sufficient; for the things I built that workstation for, the Mac platform isn't even an option. Perhaps if Apple sold systems with that kind of power, developers of applications that need that kind of power would bother dedicating resources to maintaining (or creating; many simply don't exist) their Mac ports?
Then there's the little matter of no warranty
No warranty? Every part I bought has a warranty, many of those are longer than the 1 year I'd get from an OEM. Sometimes it's hard to take you seriously.
That autocorrect made me giggle a bit, tho... I'm assuming you meant "consider"?
So... that will play out one of two ways. Either the work will be garbage, proving the ineptitude of Mexican construction workers and failing to keep them out; or the work will be good, proving the value of Mexican construction workers, and we'll forever regret erecting an additional (literal) barrier to their entry into our workforce.
There's no winning scenario for them, there. Or for us, it would seem.
in this case, I'm going to have to disagree with you. Popping out the screen and digitizer is a 5 min job, tops. As long as you don't squeeze it with pliers or use a metal chisel, the chance that you're going to screw up that seal is minimal.
There is no headphone jack in the 7 and the speakers, mics, and lightning jack are all sealed. Provided you don't remove those parts (a goal post planted by the person I was replying to), you don't have to worry about them leaking. The seal around the screen is the glue you're removing when you take it out and, well, phones tend to get a little warm (understatement of the year) internally so wax wouldn't really hold up; why do you think they don't use it from the factory? Have you ever actually had one of these things open? Don't answer, you've already made it clear that you don't.
This is no more and perhaps less challenging than opening up a watch and cleaning it or replacing a battery in one.
Having done both, I must disagree, at least since they started sealing them with glue.
Try opening one of those middle to high class waterproof watches to replace a battery and see if you can seal it up again while maintaining the waterproof rating.
Try reinstalling the winding weight on an automatic, then we'll talk. You can carve 6 of the screws that hold those things on out of a single grain of rice; installing said screws (made of steel, not rice, obviously) is real precision work and I do it by hand. They're easy to mistake for dust if you're not careful, and even easier to permanently lose inside the workings (though I've never lost one, personally). With a few dozen watches in my (still rapidly growing) collection, I do change the odd battery a few times a year; I'll wear any of them that are marked "Water Resistant" while swimming and have never had a problem. You do have to keep fresh seals on hand for some of them, but the tiniest dab of silicone grease goes a long way if you must reuse one. We're talking Bulova, Movado, Skagen, and the like; are those what you had in mind?
I'll second the recommendation made by the AC above me and throw in that it's a lot easier today than it was a couple decades ago; not that it was too difficult back then, either.
Slashdot Mirror
Wonder how long those news agencies will take to change their minds?
Historically, about a week.
What Facebook allows on Facebook's site is Facebook's speech. You posting something on Facebook is merely you asking Facebook to display that speech on your behalf. If Facebook were forced to say anything you asked them to say, well, that's compelled speech; Facebook choosing not to say what you've asked is not censorship, it's Facebook exercising Facebook's right to not be compelled to speak.
What Google allows on Google's site is Google's speech. You posting something on your website and allowing Google to scrape it is merely you asking Google to display that speech on your behalf. If Google were forced to say anything you asked them to say, well, that's compelled speech; Google choosing not to say what you've asked is not censorship, it's Google exercising Google's right to not be compelled to speak.
Censorship is always bad, it's just that sometimes the alternatives are worse.
Indeed, and the alternative to private censorship is compelled speech, which is much worse.
the plants that make those "green" solar cells are themselves belching toxins into the environment
But they're doing it in China, which is like more than a few miles from here, so that makes it okay.
No, really, that's how some of these people think... the rest genuinely don't realize that solar cells pollute during the production phase and at the end of their useful life; hell, I'm sure many don't realize solar cells have a finite useful life, and some probably think they grow on fucking trees.
On the Internet, though, everything is global. The big players can afford to bid on every single opportunity, so a small stream service will likely never find a open niche for growth.
I miss my Accord; the valve cover was held down by two bolts in the center, which screwed into posts in the head. Easiest design I've seen; there was a single EGR hose attached with a spring clip, I could have that thing off in 2 minutes with a hand tied behind my back, including figuring out how to prop up the hood one-handed.
They're putting more thought into this than you think, though; they know most people don't want to spend an hour figuring out how to do something; they know that most people can't track how to do something that took an hour to figure out without making a major (and in a lot of cases, expensive) mistake; they know that most people who were appropriately motivated could easily wrap their heads around how to fix and maintain stuff they used to make; and they know most of those people can't maintain or fix the stuff they're making now. That just means more repair and maintenance billables for them, and they're happy to take that money.
With a little creativity and engineering, you can work around the need for an engine lift (and most specialized tools); I've only had access to one once and it didn't fit the workspace so it didn't get used. Fortunately, I possess that creativity and engineering ability, and I'm guessing you do as well; people like us, who can tear into and fix damned near anything, are extremely rare, though. I don't know about you, but the only things I take my car into the shop for are tires and alignment.
I'm not sure what the hell they're thinking with the tight clearances, though. And engine sits on RUBBER MOUNTS! It moves in the engine bay! I've seen some on mounts that let the damned thing push back twice as far as its clearance from the firewall. Now that is a case of 0 thought design.
Aside from boneheaded "conflicted design" issues like that, though, I believe a lot of thought actually goes into how to make things as unrepairable and unmaintainable as possible for the lay consumer, simply to sell repair and maintenance plans at inflated prices. When a dealership sells an extended powertrain warranty for $2000 and the fine print requires all maintenance and repair to be done at a certified shop, they've just netted an additional $10k or more over the life of that extended warranty (or snagged an extra $2k for nothing if the buyer voids it by having work done elsewhere) and, well, here's the thing: anything that's gonna break is gonna break in the first year or will be the result of a bad run of parts and be included in a recall.
Everything is a cash grab these days. The better the deal looks on the surface, the worse it's likely to actually be. Sadly, that's not even fake news.
It wasn't about saving a few bucks, actually; it was about building the best system I could build for my needs. I built the system before any OEM was selling anything similar; in fact, they're still not selling anything similar.
Shall I point out that anyone who assumes people who build their own computers must be trying to save a buck is, absolutely, a wanker?
He'll just hack the city's smartlock!
Personally, at the top of my list I want 4-8 core low-power minis and a real Mac Pro.
I'm not holding my breath, but yes, please!
Hah. Tell me about it. There are a handful of lunatics on here who just ruin the experience lately. UnknowingFool still comes at me every chance he gets with his "multiple people have called you a liar so you must be a liar and I don't need evidence for that claim" bullshit, the the point where I straight up called him a child rapist with the intent of getting two more people to make the same claim... because, you know, then it'll be true and he'll have to willingly face prison time for it... right? By his own logic, at least. At least I did warn him it was coming.
But at least now he has a lie to point to next time he calls me a liar.... or does he? It depends, if I can get you and one other person to jump in, by his own standard it'll become truth, if it's not already.
It took over a decade and a half for someone to push me to near-libel on here. I say near-libel because, if I'm the liar he claims me to be, nobody could possibly take my words seriously and, thus, my words cannot harm his reputation; he'd have to admit I'm not a liar to prove any damages caused by my words and, in doing so, would have to admit what I said to be true.
He's just learned the dangers of consistently calling someone out as a liar, though, and hasn't said a single word to me since. So there's that, I suppose. Maybe Slashdot will start getting better now.
On a Mac, use Logic. Period. And there is now a Freeware VST-Wrapper (which also has a 32-bit to 64-bit Wrapper, too!) by the same guy. Can't remember the name; but I've got it bookmarked at home. That will get you out of the VST conundrum.
Wrapper or none, I'm not so sure a .dll VST will run on a Mac, know what I mean? Last I checked, Logic will use VST natively, but they have to be compiled for Mac.
BTW, is there a Ryzen Kernel now? (I assume that you mean a version of Darwin recompiled for AMD, right?)
I would assume so by now, obviously not with Apple's blessing, though.
Shitty WIndows-centric Coders.
They've got ports on PS4 and XBox One that run fine, so I'd hold off on that assessment.
Even with Games that are "Metal"-based?
Couldn't tell you. Got any examples of such games? Metal, though, is just the graphics layer and, as I said, the MacBook Pro had no issue keeping up with graphics; the stalling was the entire system freezing when the CPU p-state changed due to thermal throttling, so I'd guess Metal wouldn't help much.
That's just poor-ass coders. Nothing intrinsic to the Mac is causing that. Sorry.
And you bloody-well know that.
I never said it was anything intrinsic to the Mac, actually... I did, however, say the following:
Like most people, my wife and I derive value from our systems by using them for the things we want (or need) to use them for; some of those things are just better on Windows.
Whether that's Apple's fault or not, it's still true. If it's not Apple's fault, that's actually even worse for Apple, because it means Apple can't fix it. Honestly, I'd rather it was a problem with the platform.
;)
And don't apologize for the autocorrect, it made me smile. Never apologize for making someone smile
I can't say I've ever actually seen one of these tamper resistant outlets in the flesh. I'm guessing this is a UK thing?
I keep forgetting our prior discussions about device repair. I do seem to recall you having some experience in the field now. What that said, if you can avoid touching anything Apple or Samsung have made in the last 2 years, consider yourself lucky. I have no love for either of them at the moment.
Got it, sorry for the overreaction. There are a handful of people on this site who have just been ruining the experience lately; but I do still learn a bit on this site so it's not yet enough to drive me away. I momentarily lost sight of the fact that you're not one of them.
But yeah, the glue around the iPhone 7 (and 8 and X) screen is a critical component. Horrible design, IMO, when a 0.1mm silicone gasket could serve the purpose just as well and improve serviceability immensely (keeping it at iPhone 6 levels, maybe even improving it). That's not to say Samsung is any better; and I have both an iPhone 8 and a Galaxy S8 in my household, so I've got firsthand experience with both. I will say that, at least, the iPhone has screws and removing them gives a clear starting point for screen removal, which does put it a hair above Samsung's current flagship in terms of repairability.
He tried to drop the mic but he dropped the ball instead.
Come on -1, Funny moderation! We can do this!
Indeed, even when I buy Intel I'll strive to buy AMD. I don't have use for an APU, but if I ever do, Intel is back on my list of possible buys.
The driver code will show how to talk directly to the hardware; you'll be able to reverse engineer this driver much more easily now that you'll have the code, and bypass it entirely for certain operations. That's as "right down on the metal" as it gets, and you won't be limited to just graphics, even though this driver might be, because you'll have access tot he entire lexicon, courtesy of a cursory read through the source code.
If that's something you actually care about and know how to make proper use of, reading through driver source to learn it won't be so onerous of a task.
They are among the brands, yes. I still hold they're a bigger pain than the 6S and prior for the reasons stated, by both of us.
I suppose if you lack the proper tools, yeah, they're kind of a pain to work on. When you can get a passable set of watchmakers' tools for under $100 (you have to buy a couple individually, but the total should still be well below $100) and piecemeal replace the ones you actually use frequently enough with better ones... well, there's no excuse not to have the right tools if you're a collector and actually wish to maintain them yourself.
I've only had one give me a problem; a Movado ESQ (their cheaper line, which I've since avoided) with a pressed-on back that was slightly oversized, which needed a new battery in October. Almost couldn't get the fucker apart, never did get the fucker back together and it went missing when I had to evacuate due to wildfires later that same week. Mind you, that's in an entire lifetime of owning and servicing watches -- yes, I was replacing my own watch batteries and even taking apart and swapping parts between multiple watches to customize them (something I no longer do now that I'm better able to afford nicer ones) when I was 7; so I do have nearly 3 decades of experience with this (I'll be 36 in less than a week), which may be why I find it so easy. But, then, I never broke one back then either, so maybe it's literally so easy a child can do it.
So you didn't read past the post where sabri mentions an iPhone 6 repair as an example of retaining water resistance, yet you replied to my post pointing out that the iPhone 6 does not have water resistance as a listed feature (because it wasn't water resistant) but the iPhone 7 (a more current model) does. Yet you replied to my post... which you just said you didn't read.
Again, we're talking about retaining water resistance. To retain a feature, the phone would have to have come from the factory with that feature in the first place. That started with the 7. I'm guessing, since you supposedly read at least as far as the end of sabri's post where he mentions the iPhone 6, yet you were still unaware that we were discussing water resistance (so you claim, as you admit that nothing before the 7 is water resistant to begin with, yet you seem to believe those devices are still relevant to the discussion), I'm going to guess you simply skim my posts for keywords, jump right to the Reply link, and pound out a flimsy argument.
You know, sometimes I actually am wrong and, were you to actually read my posts before replying to them, you might be able to correct me once in a while. In fact, I'd actually appreciate it if you did.
Yes, there is a section there to start a build, which will more or less guide you through the process of picking parts, as well as a section of build guides and a place to post your completed builds. You can also just browse individual parts and find lists of compatible components for each part (which is what the "start a build" option on the homepage uses to guide you, by the way). It's been a while since I've used the site but it doesn't look like a whole lot has changed in that time, definitely a good resource.
It has to do with the number of 4k and 5k displays that can be driven
You didn't outright say it, but you sure implied it.
You used to have such good arguments for the Mac; what happened?
Are you running that as a Hackintosh? If not, you are losing a significant "hidden value" right there, IMHO.
No, as unmodified macOS install images don't run on AMD and there was no Ryzen kernel available the day I built it. Add to that, some of the software I built that machine to run simply doesn't exist on a Mac. My DAW, for example. Even if I were willing to adjust my workflow to a new DAW, many of my (expensive) VSTs don't have Mac versions; even if I were willing to spend the money to replace those, the replacements wouldn't provide the same functionality or sound, so it's not even an option.
Then, there's gaming... even my "I'll never use a PC" wife now maintains a Windows laptop for gaming because Mac ports of games, when they even exist, just simply suck. Take Fortnite as a recent example; not only is the macOS version roughly twice the size of the Windows version (I can't imagine why and won't speculate, I'm simply stating it as a fact), it barely runs on a brand new MacBook Pro. And I'm not talking about low framerates at the lowest quality settings; that's what I've come to expect from a Mac when gaming is involved and I would have accepted that just as well... No, I'm talking about 1-5 second stalls. Amazingly, when it's not stalled, it has no trouble keeping up on more or less medium quality settings, but the stalls kill it.
What prompted my wife to seek a PC for gaming was, of all the simplistic crap a Mac could possibly have trouble with, The Sims. Even her 2016 5k iMac with 32GB of RAM struggles to run it at 1080p with moderate quality settings. I was in a state of utter disbelief when she told me, so I spent a couple hours working with her, tweaking the settings, insisting that she must have messed the settings somehow to make it so slow and unstable but no... Mind you, she does have a lot of mods and expansions, so my next move was to blame those. No, she hadn't gotten it running satisfactorily enough to have bothered installing them by that point. When I built my workstation, I ended up giving her the Windows laptop I had been using and, despite having half the RAM and an older-gen i7 than the iMac, she's managed to get all of her mods and expansions installed and working and it runs fast and stable at 4k.
Like most people, my wife and I derive value from our systems by using them for the things we want (or need) to use them for; some of those things are just better on Windows. For my primary work tasks, the MacBook Pro w/ Touch Bar that I'm writing this post on currently (a machine I swore, when it was released, I would never buy, mind you) is more than sufficient; for the things I built that workstation for, the Mac platform isn't even an option. Perhaps if Apple sold systems with that kind of power, developers of applications that need that kind of power would bother dedicating resources to maintaining (or creating; many simply don't exist) their Mac ports?
Then there's the little matter of no warranty
No warranty? Every part I bought has a warranty, many of those are longer than the 1 year I'd get from an OEM. Sometimes it's hard to take you seriously.
That autocorrect made me giggle a bit, tho... I'm assuming you meant "consider"?
So... that will play out one of two ways. Either the work will be garbage, proving the ineptitude of Mexican construction workers and failing to keep them out; or the work will be good, proving the value of Mexican construction workers, and we'll forever regret erecting an additional (literal) barrier to their entry into our workforce.
There's no winning scenario for them, there. Or for us, it would seem.
WYP?
"You can get more for less"
It was pretty clearly stated in the post I was replying to, actually.
in this case, I'm going to have to disagree with you. Popping out the screen and digitizer is a 5 min job, tops. As long as you don't squeeze it with pliers or use a metal chisel, the chance that you're going to screw up that seal is minimal.
There is no headphone jack in the 7 and the speakers, mics, and lightning jack are all sealed. Provided you don't remove those parts (a goal post planted by the person I was replying to), you don't have to worry about them leaking. The seal around the screen is the glue you're removing when you take it out and, well, phones tend to get a little warm (understatement of the year) internally so wax wouldn't really hold up; why do you think they don't use it from the factory? Have you ever actually had one of these things open? Don't answer, you've already made it clear that you don't.
This is no more and perhaps less challenging than opening up a watch and cleaning it or replacing a battery in one.
Having done both, I must disagree, at least since they started sealing them with glue.
Try opening one of those middle to high class waterproof watches to replace a battery and see if you can seal it up again while maintaining the waterproof rating.
Try reinstalling the winding weight on an automatic, then we'll talk. You can carve 6 of the screws that hold those things on out of a single grain of rice; installing said screws (made of steel, not rice, obviously) is real precision work and I do it by hand. They're easy to mistake for dust if you're not careful, and even easier to permanently lose inside the workings (though I've never lost one, personally). With a few dozen watches in my (still rapidly growing) collection, I do change the odd battery a few times a year; I'll wear any of them that are marked "Water Resistant" while swimming and have never had a problem. You do have to keep fresh seals on hand for some of them, but the tiniest dab of silicone grease goes a long way if you must reuse one. We're talking Bulova, Movado, Skagen, and the like; are those what you had in mind?
I'll second the recommendation made by the AC above me and throw in that it's a lot easier today than it was a couple decades ago; not that it was too difficult back then, either.