Continuing the discussion from Circuit City on the Edge of Forever - #2026 by Felix.
Previous discussions:
almost did âLive Free or Die Hardwareâ but that should probably be part 4 if any
no idea how to use this but it might behoove youse to know that Australiaâs #1 electronics magnate was for some time one Dick Smith
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this should just be the thread title imo
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In light of Felixâs Will I/Wonât I upgrade dilemma please name thread
Circuit City Edging Me Forever
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just call it ânerdsâ cuz yâall are nerds
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the macbook air doesnât playback movies as smoothly as I like but itâs the same not completely smoothness whether itâs playing an 97gig 4k remux of lawrence of arabia or a 2gig brrip of superbad over the network or a 4gig episode of true detective season 2 copied over to its drive. I was using vlc. what could be the issue here
or wait, this version supports HDR GitHub - iina-plus/iina: The modern video player for macOS with HDR support.
I havenât used VLC on Mac in a while, IINA is their mpv frontend
I donât even know what Iâm looking at here
I still donât know what Iâm supposed to doing at any of this github shit and I know in the event I somehow successfully pull off this immense achievement of installing a video player on a mac, outputting the audio and video to a 2nd display is probably going to be a whole other ass thing, probably involving editing text files or some command line shit.
Iâm taking this back to costco and buying a ps5 or some lifetime subscriptions for streaming sites or some shit, congratulations, You win!! I Lose!!!
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thereâs no way for me to tell you that you can scroll down and the readme has a link to a page with prebuilt binaries without sounding snarky but Iâm telling you anyway
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(it does say that, but it is a little confusing actually parsing whatâs going on the Actions tab for someone whoâs not seen it, and also it is non-obvious that you have to be logged in to actually click and download the artifact links)
(always an option: refuse being felix-pilled and just use the official version)
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I made it that far, to where it said âyou may download binaries on the action pageâ and I was on the action page and not seeing anything downloadable, just peoples checklists or some shit. so apparently I need an account to see the secret knowledge
well, you bought into macOS
youâre a unix user now
time to learn terminal
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is there a knuckledragger version how-to for that somewhere
everyone told me macs were easier to use and didnât require any of the weird workarounds and dumb fussiness of a windows machine
but this is literally the opposite of the truth. i havenât opened a command line in windows in years except for the dumbest of reasons, but i have to do it to change basic settings on a mac.
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the short explanation of this is that thereâs no âmiddleâ category of âpower user, non-developerâ on Macs, because Apple doesnât respect them â itâs either, âuse this exactly as it comes and youâll spend less time thinking about it to make it work nice than you would with Windows,â or âlearn developer shit.â
not the best philosophy but there it is
if you like computers as a hobby but donât like terminals at all, you shouldnât get a Mac
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btw my post was a post of sympathy for this, and i wish i could help you but opening a terminal makes me see red immediately so i cannot help you despite having used a macbook for nearly 3 years now and working at a tech company that uses macbooks exclusively. sry