worth noting the mbp video out via the “thunderbolt” port is display port over usb-c, which you can also get a bidirectional adapter for, so a cable from your desktop GPU’s DP 1.4 port that terminates in USB-C operating in DP mode
the closest thing i’ve used to this was a dell monitor with an integrated kvm handling power, video, and usb over a single cable to my mbp which was nice
I have a dell monitor like that from work and it’s okay except my (old, intel) macbook is prone to absolutely losing its mind and getting stuck in a loop where it goes to sleep, the monitor goes to sleep, the macbook gets a usb disconnect event and wakes up (why apple??), wakes up the monitor, idle-sleeps, and repeat
If you use it with an os that isn’t trash it’s probably fine. Maybe apple silicon macs behave better but the IT guy I talked to recently didn’t seem to think it would change anything
all oses are trash, unfortunately
i haven’t ever had that with my m1 pro but iirc it’s more of a problem when the built-in display is closed? so that’d be why
@Mokushka try a big brain move and just use one of the computers through local video/input streaming (this is no joke how i do windows stuff because i hate my thinkpad)
I asked what the policy is on using personal machines, since if I’m allowed to do that, Ill probably just do what I did last job and use my desktop, with the laptop on the side for zoom calls and *nix scripting. Then I won’t have to worry about any of this, I guess.
Oh yeah, I’m in clamshell mode 100% of the time
I really think audio is the one space where we’re still seeing largely positive AI innovations and I’m not just saying that because I work for an audio AI company
I think it has a bit to do with the expectation that most people aren’t supposed to see or hear a full audio graph in the first place so there’s more room to play with the margins of it without it being perceived as overly novel or overly inauthentic
“omnizart” is a weirdly awful name though
i think it’s mostly researchers from chinese universities making this one but it was the #1 midi transcription i saw on github
it’s been a ride installing it though – i love a python library that wants 9 GB of visual studio first and then there are little things like “this vamp plugin only supports 32-bit on windows but you’re using tensorflow so it’s docker time”
you might not need the visual studio build tools, that’s a weird default assumption that native windows python has always had:
“Omni who?”
“Zart.”
sonible and izotope’s lazyboy automix profiling is almost always the best possible starting point, at this point
Image generation has been really useful at several companies I’m at for the past year in surprising ways, I remain very excited about it.
I’ve only ever had bad experiences with KBMs, so until this year I handled this by arranging my workspace to make it really fast to rewire. When I needed to switch I disconnected and reconnected one USB cable and toggled my monitor source from Displayport to HDMI, would take about 5 seconds. (With 2 monitors it would be messier, which is one of the reasons I preferred one large monitor.)
I had a mini USB hub with my keyboard and mouse plugged in, always within easy reach. And to make that reachability possible I had 2 other USB hubs permanently plugged into my desktop and MBP (with this hub).
I got a USB-C-capable monitor this year so I don’t need to do this anymore, but honestly it’s only a marginal quality of life improvement.
Hm, yea, sounds like the play is just to make it easy as possible to switch my peripherals about physically. Thanks all.
I have a couple of usb hubs with two upstream ports you can press a button to switch between and they work surprisingly well. Just don’t lose the super special A-to-A cables!
No particular product recommendation, it’s one of those same thing sold under a zillion nonsense brands kinda deals
same, but it’s just a switcher I plug the hub into, and it’s B on upstream USB 3.0 Sharing Switch - Sabrent
Okay I hate computers but I have deep respect for this level of masochism
Using the TPM header is just :chefskiss:
I keep trying to install the newest reshade to pcsx2 and it keeps telling me I have an old version. I even tried it on a completely blank fresh portable install of pcsx2.
It never ends. I’ll never have peace in this world.
Well I don’t know what pcsx2’s deal is but I got the newer reshade installed in a bunch of other things including dosbox staging and tried to mess around with the sony megatron shader and copy the pc monitor preset they have in retroarch for it to the reshade version and I got it working identically, so that’s good. they both even have this weird glitch where sometimes the bottom of the screen lights up for just a second. the shader is intended for hdr so I wonder if that has something to do with. it is almost like the couple of times I turned hdr on and tried watching a movie and in dark scenes where there’s a lit object going across a fourth of the monitor would light up at a time as it moved across, but it’s the bottom center here and taking a screenshot while it’s happening doesn’t reproduce it. I’m just going to pretend it’s quirk of the imaginary crt monitor I’m using, must need a degaussing or something. I even got it working in max payne, had to turn off triple buffering in the options and the mouse stopped skipping around if I installed a reshade newer than a certain old version (the same version pcsx2 seems to be stuck on??), and it lets me use the mouse in the reshade menu now. but trying to use the autohdr addon you’re supposed to use with the megatron shader seems to crash a lot of these games that are using dgvoodoo to pretend to be a newer directx version than they really are, the sdr version looks good to me though.
