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> It’s exactly this. “Audiophiles” are a weird bunch. Much of what they claim to hear is scientifically proven as total nonsense. Audio Science Review is a great place where they scientifically analyse audio equipment. The quality of speaker wire for all meaningful measurements is utterly irrelevant for instance.

You are talking about the extreme kind of audiophiles that aren't really representative of the community, which covers a wide spectrum of people. It's like saying all developers are socially awkward loners. Merely a stereotype.

> I often make the point to people that a terrible movie will be terrible no matter how you watch it - HDR, 4K, Atmos won’t make a difference. A crappy movie, will always be a crappy movie.

Of course. Noone would argue against that. However a great movie really shines on good equipment. Imagine watching Blade Runner 2049 on a laptop display. No amount of convenience is making that experience worthwhile in my opinion.

Why wouldn't you connect the PS5 to the receiver?

Are you talking about the same thing? Mutual, consenting sexting between two teenagers can't possibly be illegal, can it?

I think the grand parent comment is talking about leaking those images to other people without permission. That absolutely has to be illegal.

The problem with the hybrid approach is that I’d still have to live in the area. However I want to be geographically independent from my employer and prefer a quiet, low cost of living area as my home.

I like your idea. Promoting willing users to local guides and showcasing their routes makes sense. I'd love to participate in that.

However I think Strava's route planning features are too basic. Unless I'm very familiar with the region I will always prefer Komoot for route planning as it allows me to get detailed information about the surface (which is very important for a road bike). Strava's surface information are too limited and heatmaps don't make up for it.

Interestingly enough Komoot allows you to publish and present your routes but they don't have the user base to make it worthwhile. At least in my circles it seems as if everyone just uses Komoot in private. It doesn't really feel like a social network or community.

Just use a bike computer - it's the superior tool for the task in every way. Wahoo, Garmin, Hammerhead - there are excellent options out there.

While true I think a more structured way of planning group rides seems very useful and like low hanging fruit for Strava.

> Initially it was for tracking all sorts of gear you use in your activities (because strava only tracks bike or shoes)

That doesn't seem to be true anymore. These days I can add any kind of gear to my bikes in Strava and track its usage over time. I use it for tracking tire or chain mileage in particular.

There's also Veloviewer which offers some great additional data and reports: https://veloviewer.com

That's not the point. What I was trying to say is that a bad app doesn't have to be a scam and that pricing or rating isn't a reliable indicator for that.

Again, the fundamental question at the root of this issue is who's to decide what things should cost? Since when is it illegal to offer bad products that cost too much? That's a negotiation between creator and potential customer. Not buying a product that doesn't meet your expectations or budget is perfectly fine. This doesn't need to be regulated.

Exactly. Who’s to say what’s a scam app and what’s not? Where to draw the line between fraud and an app that just doesn’t meet my expectations?

The author mentions an audio editor that costs $125 per year as if that in itself is a scam. It might be considered one, I don’t know the app. However audio software can be expensive and value is a very subjective measure. In any case pricing alone shouldn’t be the deciding factor.

Neither should it be up to Apple to decide whether an app is worth whatever it’s asking for - unless there’s actually anything illegal going on. For all I care they could offer a calculator app that costs $999 per month. People don’t have to agree to that and we shouldn’t act as if users aren’t able to understand clear pricing information and the explicit consent that is given via the subscribe button. If they don’t I think that’s on them.

Furthermore speaking of free apps that turn out to be anything but: Is Netflix a scam? I’m sure it’s a top free app in the store and yet I can’t do anything with it unless I’m subscribing to the service.

> Other than the resolution, this is a pretty mediocre quality display.

The resolution is the essential feature of this display. And it's an important one due to the way macOS handles scaling. You basically always want to use 2x scaling in macOS. On a 4k / 27" display (which are ubiquitous) that results in an effective screen real estate of 1080p which makes the UI feel too large and cramped.

> 27 1440 is fine

That may be your opinion. I'd say it's downright terrible.

You can't buy any 5k / 27" displays other than this Studio Display and the almost as expensive LG Ultrafine.

It is a pretty unique display. Too expensive for my taste but I wish there were other 5k / 27" options. And no, 4k on a 27" display isn't even close, primarily because you'd give up a lot of screen real estate with macOS' recommended 2x scaling.

Thank you. As someone that values pixel density and wants a 5k / 27" display I thought I was crazy walking into any reddit discussion on this topic. It's refresh rate over everything else over there. An attribute I couldn't care less about. I need 60 Hz and, probably, native 24p for the occassional film I don't want to watch on the big screen but other than that it's sharp text I care about.

Meanwhile people act as if there are countless other 5k / 27" on the market or suggest that 5k at any ridiculously large display size is just as fine. Most people don't seem to be aware of how resolutions, display sizes and scaling behavior on macOS interact and depend on each other.

> Otherwise, your GPU can scale to fractional pixels that a display can't render accurately on any old display.

I disagree. This results in a slightly, but noticeably blurry image, particular in text. And it wastes resources by being a constant GPU-bound task.

Those are paid features. You may disagree with the pricing but I'm not sure if those are valid complaints when you're actual issue seems to be that you don't want to pay for these features (which is, of course, legitimate).

> My big issue is the backgrounding. I like watching a video while cooking, but I also need to use timers. Not having the video stop and re-orient itself to portrait while I quickly set or dismiss a timer is excellent.

Background playback is a paid feature. You may disagree with that decision but the option is there if you wanted it.

> The complete lack of what HDMI port it uses is indeed pretty bizarre

Isn't "Support for one display with up to 4K resolution at 60Hz" as stated on their specs page[1] pretty clear? It's an HDMI 2.0 port and I think mentioning the supported resolution and refresh rate is more helpful to customers than the HDMI spec version.

[1] https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/specs/

Quite the condescending tone.

You could have stopped at video content. Or just content. I don't see how the platform that serves and broadcasts said content is relevant to the value or performance of the device it's made on.

Personally, I want sharp displays with high pixel density. Multiple 5k / 27" displays offer that, a larger 4k or 5k display does not.

For standard lengths up to 10m any HDMI 2.0 cable from decent manufacturers, like AmazonBasics or Monoprice will be fine. For longer lengths it gets tricky and you have to be quite selective but that's a niche use case.

Also, the Mac Studio actually has an HDMI port.

> Is this not quite niche?

Having more than one device connected to a display? I think that's rather common and I'd expect multiple inputs on a display from any price range.

You'd still use a 5k display in a non-native 4k resolution (surely the xbox doesn't support higher resolutions?), which might be ok for video and most games, but it's not a good solution. I'd just get a half decent, affrodable 27" / 4k display for gaming and keep the Studio display for actual work.

Plus, you can use the additional 4k display as an extended macOS display when not gaming. I mean there's never enough screen real estate.

It's still provides subpar image quality and is wasteful, even if the M1 won't audibly complain. I'd never use it.

> Sadly my eyes aren't as good as they used to be so I can't make a lot of use of the extra real-estate, but it always seems as if they're ahead when it comes to resolutions on consumer devices.

With proper 2x scaling as intended by Apple there is no extra screen real-estate. 5k at 2x scaling gives you the real-estate of a 2560 x 1440 display, just with a doubled pixel density and thus much sharper. This is the actual value of HiDPI display.

Dune is such a movie and yet Villeneuve basically had to beg and wait for the studio to greenlight Part II. This should have been shot back to back as it's simply an unfinished film in its current form.

I think opening their video amounts to asking for their content.

Showing ads in videos isn't exactly new. I think Youtube Premium is too expensive, particularly if you don't have any use for their subpar music feature. However the concept of paying for an ad-free experience doesn't seem alien to me. A more affordable plan that just removes the ads would be welcome (and I hear it's planned).

You could say the same thing about pay once, use forever software and yet updating software, adding features and fixing bugs is common and expected. Of course that doesn't mean that there isn't any differentiation between products or held back features but maybe keeping customers happy actually aligns with the goals of the company?