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5 votes
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Monitor recommendations?
I'm in the market for an external monitor for my Macbook M1 and wanted some advice on what I should get. I pretty much only code, read pdfs and webpages, and watch videos (not movies really) on my...
I'm in the market for an external monitor for my Macbook M1 and wanted some advice on what I should get. I pretty much only code, read pdfs and webpages, and watch videos (not movies really) on my laptop, so these would be the use cases. I'm trying not to break the bank here so I was looking at some budget options. The Macbook has USB-C so I would be looking for a monitor with that, but my main question is regarding resolution. Do I really need a 4K monitor for my use cases? I'd be interested in hearing people's experiences with 4K versus without — I've never had one but I'm wondering if now is the time to splurge and get it? Will the difference be very noticeable if I'm primarily looking at text?
My first place option right now is this one from Asus, so I'm curious if the brand is reliable as well. I don't think I've ever had an Asus product. If I were to splurge and get a 4K monitor I would probably get this Dell, but at $400 its a bit more than I was hoping to spend. But I also don't want to get a monitor that I immediately want to upgrade. Curious what other people's thoughts and experiences have been.
EDIT: See my comment for some updates. I've backed away from the 1080p options!
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Super Mario Bros. Theme Song - Bandura and Accordion Cover (2023)
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Why do recipe writers lie and lie and lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions?
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of May 22
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
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Tina Turner, unstoppable superstar whose hits included ‘What’s Love Got to Do With It,’ dead at 83
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Planet Of Lana review: A gorgeous sci-fi tale that shoots for the stars …and just about gets there
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Generate a secure password using lyrics from Kenny Loggins. It's funny and useful!
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The little-known unintended consequence of recycling plastics
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Problemista | Official trailer
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Patching Salt Lake 2002 to run on modern systems
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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
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Why it took thirteen years to engineer the Taco Bell Crunchwrap
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Megathread #9 for news/updates/discussion of AI chatbots and image generators
Here is the previous thread.
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Hello World - Honey Bee (2014)
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MyHouse.WAD - Inside Doom's most terrifying mod
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The Flash | Final trailer
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Social media and youth mental health - The US Surgeon General’s Advisory
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Fallen Leaves / Kuolleet Lehdet | Trailer
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Some SanDisk Extreme SSDs are wiping people’s data
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Facebook owner Meta hit with record €1.2bn fine over EU-US data transfers
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Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?
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I set out on a journey to the high north of Greenland to meet the Inuit communities that brave the harshest winters in the world
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Netflix buys ‘May December,’ starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, for $11 million following buzzy Cannes debut
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Norway beat Canada 3-2 at the 2023 IIHF World Championship – only the second win ever for the Norwegians against the Canadians
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Brazil sends thousands of Venezuelan migrants to country's rich southern states
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At the University of California San Diego, there's the Shake Table; an earthquake simulator with the heaviest payload capacity in the world
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The Color Purple | Official trailer
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Zara Larsson – End Of Time (2023)
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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
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DarkBERT: A language model for the dark side of the internet
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Why 95% of Denmark's Jews survived the Holocaust
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Why suicide rates are dropping around the world
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Vinícius Júnior calls LaLiga and Spain racist for chants after sending-off
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How I designed Fruit Ninja
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The history of Halo 2 world records
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Tim Bernardes e Rodrigo Amarante - Leve (2023)
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Whale hunts have been branded inhumane by activists and authorities as Icelandic report finds they suffer a long and painful death
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The best childcare in the world? Maybe so, but new parents in Iceland are holding out for better.
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Moldova ramps up EU membership push amid fears of Russia-backed coup
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The death of Antony & Cleopatra (30 BCE)
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The Dutch Textile Trade Project aims to understand the circulation of globally-sourced textiles on Dutch ships around the world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
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World's highest basketball shot
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Thoughts on brinkmanship with the US national debt?
Putting aside specific criticisms of the GOP as it exists today, what do you think of using the debt ceiling as a tool to reel in spending and put the US on a sustainable path with its national...
Putting aside specific criticisms of the GOP as it exists today, what do you think of using the debt ceiling as a tool to reel in spending and put the US on a sustainable path with its national debt? People make it out to seem backwards and manipulative, but this whole situation seems like we're driving a hundred miles an hour toward a cliff and the person saying we should slam the breaks is getting flack because it'll damage the car.
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How do you imagine society would develop if dragons existed?
Stories involving dragons tend to be in medieval periods so maybe we can try to extrapolate forward in time a bit. Dragons could be from any mythologies or fictions of your fancy! For my take, a...
Stories involving dragons tend to be in medieval periods so maybe we can try to extrapolate forward in time a bit. Dragons could be from any mythologies or fictions of your fancy!
For my take, a dragon is a flying fire-breathing giant lizard with the size and toughness of a big building. I believe a critical factor is how tamable dragons are. If not at all, they'd go from something humans fear and run away from, then being hunted for glory and materials, then being protected in conservation areas to prevent going extinct. If they can be fully domesticated (like dogs), they could expedite for warfare, transportation and industrialized metalwork. The most interesting scenario imo is the in-between where they could only be partially trained. Maybe a skilled trainer can get them to behave 80% of the time but there's a low but significant chance that they get agitated and wreck havoc. How do we make use of them while ensuring safety and intervenability?
On the cultural side, we might not have as many myths and legends about dragons anymore. We might find the idea of giant flying fire creatures utterly mundane (phoenixes might be less interesting by relation even if they still don't exist in this universe). What would we mythologize about instead?
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Is it possible to run a Linux app that requires USB/OTG support from an Android device?
I know very little about Linux but have a good overall level of technical aptitude. I have a device called an eDrumin 10 which uses an app to change the internal settings....
I know very little about Linux but have a good overall level of technical aptitude.
I have a device called an eDrumin 10 which uses an app to change the internal settings. https://www.audiofront.net/downloads.php I would like to use the control app from a tablet, but would prefer not to buy a ipad if I don't need to. Would it be possible to run the Linux version from an Android tablet?
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Nearly half of every pineapple you eat ends up in the trash. But now, companies across the globe are turning the inedible parts of the fruit into textiles, plates, soap, and more. | World Wide Waste
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I opened a ramen pop-up restaurant for just one night, and all 300 tickets sold out in 40s. It's one thing to cook for youtube videos, but it is another to cook for real customers.
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Kids’ reading scores have soared in Deep South states
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Holger Rune rallies past Casper Ruud and reaches Italian Open final – first all-Scandinavian Masters semi-final since 1997
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