Post ASRd74Xppcw6CQ5jJw by dylanbeattie@hachyderm.io
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 (DIR) Post #ASRd74Xppcw6CQ5jJw by dylanbeattie@hachyderm.io
       2023-02-07T17:10:17Z
       
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       Another day, another conference presentation where everything worked perfectly except the M1 Macbook Pro. It's a real shame. It's fast, it's light, it's mostly very good. But when it's connected to HDMI and running Powerpoint, it develops all sorts of horrible little bugs. Embedded video doesn't play reliably. Audio is a mess. Clicking 'next' on the Logitech clicker goes into 'fast forward' and flicks through every slide to the end of the presentation.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASRd75MslplkkjyUt6 by olisturm@mastodon.world
       2023-02-07T17:31:34Z
       
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       @dylanbeattie Sounds like a PowerPoint issue... and who would be surprised by that?
       
 (DIR) Post #ASRd75rMwU9iHIEqPI by pgv@omglol.fun
       2023-02-07T18:37:03.484325Z
       
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       @olisturm @dylanbeattie I mean, microsoft stuff barely works on processors they’ve had decades of experience with – I’m not even trying to by hyperbolic either. I don’t imagine they’re going to have a magically better time on a “new” architecture.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASS70RytIKUlU3VNMO by dylanbeattie@hachyderm.io
       2023-02-07T23:57:59Z
       
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       @pgv I'm curious as to why you believe that (a) "Microsoft stuff barely works on processors they've had decades of experience with" and (b) why you believe that saying as much is "not even trying to be hyperbolic".Given I'm typing this on a Macbook Pro which sometimes won't run Quicktime if you connect it to the wrong kind of TV, I really don't think Microsoft is the problem here.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASS70SP7inTknPmKFU by pgv@omglol.fun
       2023-02-08T00:12:01.367702Z
       
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       @dylanbeattie For me, I the laptop i’m typing this on I bought from dell a year ago. For the first 5 months I had it was an unending parade of BSOD, not waking from sleep, dead battery over a much shorter time than I would have expected (2-3 hrs instead of 8 – while not doing anything other than light web and MS Office type work). Installing linux fixed the basic stability issues (not that linux doesn’t have its own sharp edges). But, given that Dell designed their thing to work hand-in-glove with MS Win – but the basic soundness of the machine seems evident with a different os running on it, what conclusion should I be making about MS? I don’t mean to belittle the challenge of wrangling all the different platforms that’s in front of them – and it’s certainly impressive that it does “work” in the first place – it might even be the best possible world. But it still felt like it only ever barely works.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASS8CoC4dODnnv7zw8 by pgv@omglol.fun
       2023-02-08T00:24:53.967851Z
       
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       @dylanbeattie And for sure, if you have had a different experience with it that’s totally fine. I just find myself feeling unsurprised when MS stuff doesn’t work or works poorly.