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Do you consider the base M4 Mac Mini great value for everything except gaming because the hardware is inadequate for gaming, or because of the limited game library for MacOS?
I agree with the latter, but not the former. Apple Silicon Macs are pretty good for gaming: even my M1 Mac Mini ran sophisticated 3D games quite well, and my M1 Max Mac Studio is an excellent gaming machine.

WOOOO HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS MENTIONED WTF IS A HAVING BUDGET FOR TOILET PAPER 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

I want you to know when you brought up the emu war when talking about the deer, that is incredibly ironic, because this is as equivalent a 'war' against deer as we had against emu, so please enjoy now your Canadian deer war.

That PSU is already bigger than a Mac mini.

Non gamer, non CGI artist, non architect, non engineer, non *insert most professional industries apart from design, video, coding and Excel sheets"…. Come now that's too ignorant.

Wrt reading, I loved books as a kid… My mom would say "it's summer! Go outside!" And I would take my book and sit on the balcony "I'm outside…" 😅
But mandatory reading of those so called classics in (our local equivalent of) high school almost beat that out of me. Those books were terrible and I barely read anything for a few years after that. So glad I picked it up again at some point.
So the old way definitely had some drawbacks… But not having read any books at all? That's crazy…

I know the emu war is just a meme, but for those who don't know, there were approx. 20k emus that migrated to Western Australia and were destroying crops, so the military sent 3 guys with 2 WW1 machine guns who spent a couple weeks culling them. not exactly a war in the traditional sense.

I was kinda expecting them to talk about Nintendo Music this week, as that was quite unexpected.

I had smoked a bit when AI Minecraft was mentioned and paused the video to go try it. Not gonna lie I was losing my shit a bit when the sheep I was following turned into what looked like a block of granite, turned back into a sheep, split into two, turned into a pig and two chickens, the pig turned into two more chickens, then they all melted into the ground. If it ran as smoothly as Minecraft I could get so lost in that 😅

The irony about the dear culling in BC is that they shot out of a helicopter, Used AR-15s, and used suppressors on their guns. ALL 3 OF WHICH are PROHIBITED under Canadian firearms laws. As a law abiding Canadian firearm owner. This made makes me extremely mad that the federal government continues to strip away my firearms privileges in the name of "safety", while also allowing foreigns into our land, allowing them to bypass our laws, and using our tax dollars to do so, all while people like me would have happily paid to hunt the dear for the meat. All this while millions of Canadians struggle to feed their families. The current Canadian government is a complete joke.

I took an interview from my car in a parking garage on my lunch and got the job. i couldn't imagine trying to take it from a room in the office.

Apple hardware is amazing, and the price is terrific if you stick to the base units, which blessedly don't have 8GB of ram anymore.

Your problem will end up being the OS. I hadn't used mac os in quite a while (since X launched), but I figured it'd be six in one and half dozen in the other at this point vs windows. So I got an M1 mac.

Dear God, the problems I dealt with…and it ended up getting returned.

If you're using a tabbed browser like chrome, every time you mouse up to click on a tab, the menu bar drops down and you click on some random option instead of the tab. The menu bar that can't be moved, and the only way to get a full screen experience is apparently to run the app in a virtual machine setup, and I'm not going through that so that apple doesn't have to make the product customizable. I had a range of other usability issues, which were all met by apple support with "That's how it's always worked, you'll get used to it". The device had endless compatibility problems with non apple usb and bluetooth devices. Logitech keyboard mouse wouldn't wake it from sleep. "Oh, don't bother putting it to sleep, everyone just leaves theirs on". An external usb 3 enclosure with a sandisk 2.5" ssd in it would suddenly slow to usb 2 speeds or disconnect the drive, requiring a restart.

If I could have installed another OS on it like a decent linux distro, where I'd have an actual full screen experience and if the OS was as customizable as windows and linux have been for 20 years, and apple didn't find a way to stick their finger into a standard to "make it their own", it'd be a terrific machine. But you'll see how it is if you start using it as a daily driver.

Also, was there a reason why you built a tower to compare it to, vs a minipc from someone like Minisforum? Similar ports, several take a dGPU, and ram/ssd expansion is a breeze.

M3 was available in the imac before last week

Regarding the issue of video dates, if YouTube removed this I would probably stop watching 90% of the online content about technology that I see today, as I honestly watch it for entertainment and curiosity to know what's new in the technology space, Unfortunately, I agree with Luke in this case, Netflix is ​​a platform that I'm on the verge of canceling, because I've already binge-watched a lot of horrible films and series and it's getting quite tiring, I almost no longer use the platform because of this, and I hadn't even realized that when it showed the reviews, I took advantage and used it a lot more, today I'm almost always on YouTube, but I almost never watch new channels, precisely, because I don't know how reliable they are, without the dates I would probably cancel my premium, as it would stop to use so much.

55:30 So you're telling me that if you tell AI to ignore the race it will still know the race due to patterns in crime and reoffense?

Thanks for doing these shows every week. Putting on my headphones and listening to you guys talk about technology and other random stuff sends me to my happy place. It's very relaxing so thank you.

I was hoping to hear a counter argument from Linus or Luke against college. Maybe doing a tech or trade school instead or self training from YouTube videos. College is waste of money for most professions and they try to indoctrinate you with politics imo.

Low key not including software and not doing a pre-built for the Apple comparison is insane. No client of Apple is willing to do the back route way for software and they will probably not build it themselves out of convenience and confidence. (How I know? I’m an Apple client)

I don't need wan show to be relevant to play while I sleep

I’m guessing part of the RAM pricing is that it also is VRAM capacity. A 32GB GDDR6 GPU will cost more than $1800 all on its own.

probably unpopular take but the SCP folks invading every single corner of the internet to blather about their fandom and weird made up communal wiki via numbercodes are heavily annoying. I assumed "maybe it's cool, let me check it out" and dug around for a couple hours and just came away disgusted. It's like people who like horror but have no scruples so they will consume any random trash they can find and insist it's good – not that they enjoy trash, but that the trash is good and not trash. Which I think really sets it apart from other extremely vocal fandoms that are everywhere, like undertale and even like minecraft once was as those two things are legitimately good. So I really hope there isn't like, a huge group of people who the only thing they read is SCP garbage and bad creepy pastas and consider themselves engaged in reading, generally.

I do not like judges using ai. There is nuisance in each case. If you killed a guy while fighting him off because he was trying to stab you. How can a computer understand that context. Just look how Youtube and Facebook have their ai make errors all the time in flagging your post.

[2:22:00] i love both ceramics and tech tips! you never know what people do with their spare time

That's like having a dream of playing minecraft. No object permanence.