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Put differently: "I've never studied advertising, psychology, or the history of consumerism."

> The way to "sell" Mastodon to power users and super influencers is that you tell them they can run their own instance and have greater control than what they have through twitter

I am not a salesperson, but I did work in advertising for a while and this strikes me as an excellent pitch. I still think easy onboarding and a rebrand would be necessary to reduce friction, but I think you're onto something.

I disagree, but most importantly you're confusing the difference between exciting people who already vote vs. mobilizing non-voters. The Democratic Party is a tad more sophisticated than that.

Regardless Twitter's history, if you want to compete with Twitter then you are shooting yourself in the foot if you refuse to let branding people handle the branding. It would have been such a simple step to take, and the the only reason it wasn't taken is the same ignorance exhibited in your comment.

Mastodon was absolutely doomed from the start due to the name alone.

I despise the superficiality of our society at least as much as anybody else, but I worked in advertising for 6 years and I'm under no delusions about what happens when you willfully ignore the repercussions of such a superficial society.

It would take shutting down Twitter.

> Biden was going for a Hail Mary on this one.

Not a chance. Look at the timing. He was going for driving young college educated voters to the polls for the midterms. It worked exactly as planned.

Since the Democratic Party has abandoned the working class as a whole, they rely on mobilizing the college-educated minority, which is loyal in spirit but unreliable when it comes to actually placing votes. Until something changes, the Democratic Party will drum up a new cause every 2 years (based on their available resources at the time) targeted at this demographic, and it won't always work, but it did this time.

Specifically which part of "record the variables" do you not understand?

The amount of variables simply has no impact on the difficulty of running a benchmark. The amount of variables will impact the relevance or use value of the benchmark, but interpretation and application is the user's problem. The amount of variables has zero impact on the process of performing or recording the benchmark, and this matters because interpretation and application is easier with more benchmarks covering more cases, but your insistence that it's "hard" could only reduce that number, making you the only variable that is actually a problem.

Solar energy cannot be harvested "24/7 just about anywhere." Not even close. Not even half. And it's unpredictable on top of that.

> I suspect the goal there is being able to stop/disrupt those groups without going all the way through the legal system.

In other words: a loophole

I have no side in this debate because I don't support any of the potential candidates, but since US politicians are not effectively disciplined by their base but rather by their donors, it's quite reasonable for the base to seek evidence of past commitment to issues they prioritize. It's a very poor heuristic, but it's all they've got. As you said, the politicians are doing a job, but they don't take their orders from the voters. The system is utterly ruined.

Variables don't make benchmarking any more difficult. You should always record the variables.

The Dell 6k has the buttons on the back so this is not a problem.

The boss is always whoever controls the capital, hence why it's called capitalism.

I think displays with built-in KVM switching is your only option right now.

If you want unified switching, you need to go through USB ports AFAIK.

> Who defines inappropriate?

The boss.

A lot of so-called "conspiracy theories," including this one, are quite rational once you replace the conspirators with the profit motive under capitalism.

I hope you get sleep at night. When I worked as a video editor years ago, I unfortunately had a boss who I needed to please and this kind of rabbit hole obsession would have added a significant barrier to doing so. More resolution, on the other hand, made me straightforwardly much more productive.

My day job is software development for creativity/art related software and I do a lot of visual creative work on the side, both personally and professionally. I use the PC for 3D rendering.

My macbook is my work laptop and we're encouraged to minimize installing extra software.

I wish my personal was a mac as well, but I had to abandon macs when they abandoned me by not upgrading the mac pro for like a decade then kept me away by later ending support for eGPUs.

If I were just using text editors, I would do something similar. However, many people do other things with computers besides edit text. DCC applications are obnoxious on displays larger than 32" and reducing the window size just leaves you with little border areas for multitasking. It's just sloppy. So 2x 32" is a pretty obvious choice here.

I think I misunderstood this question earlier so here's another go at it...

Aesthetically, no. I am grateful that there aren't any gamer aesthetics involved, but my desk is not a showroom; it's a workspace. However, the cloth that wraps the speaker cluster seems cheap, like it could rip or get pilly over time. That is the only aspect that bothers me. I like that the cameras are attached because they are very nice cameras and support Windows Hello and I prefer not having a corded camera balancing on my displays.

Sorry I haven't tried and not near them atm, but I am quite confident it does not.

Oh OK sorry but yeah I wouldn't use that. If this is usually supported on Dell monitors, I would bet it works on these.

Personally, I rarely adjust brightness on my desktop displays and my ZMK keyboard volume buttons work reliably cross-platform.

This is more or less how it works. If you want to install software then you can control it with keyboard shortcuts, but the shortcuts respond much slower than just pressing the button so I doubt anybody actually uses them after trying them once.

Sorry, I am not quite sure what that is. Sleep works great with my PC (motherboard is ASRock WRX80 Creator) and M1 MBP, but I can only adjust brightness through the OSD.

The built-in kvm feature is very basic and I don't even setup the keyboard shortcuts because that requires software to be installed on the computers. Basically it just lets me switch between computers with 2 quick button presses on each monitor. I use an additional usb 3.0 switch from CableMatters so my peripherals can be switched between each display incase I want to have both computers up side by side.

If you only need 4K, there is this extremely badass TESmart KVM switch that I have used before and would highly recommend. It also has a cycle mode. It's $700 but the thing supports 3 4K monitors and 4 computers and works exactly as described. https://www.tesmart.com/products/4-port-triple-monitor-hdmi-...

Have you tried that? How does it actually work? Does it not add lag?

I use a USB switch connected to both displays for my input devices so I can switch between screens/computers: https://a.co/d/ckNXGpt

Admittedly, I haven't worked as a video editor since 2011 and never edited telecined footage, but my understanding from friends is that little had changed. Specifically I have heard them complaining about it. That streaming platforms specifically want progressive scan makes plenty of sense to me of course, but conflicts with what I've heard for whatever reason.