It seems strange that dummy plugs have to exist at all. It seems like a software/firmware problem. Though I'm sure the economic value of an HDMI dummy plug factory, DVI dummy plug factory, VGA...
It seems strange that dummy plugs have to exist at all. It seems like a software/firmware problem. Though I'm sure the economic value of an HDMI dummy plug factory, DVI dummy plug factory, VGA dummy plug factory, etc provide some needed jobs; I wonder if the environmental cost is worth it when a room full of application and firmware engineers could probably figure out a reasonable "force enable GPU frame buffer mode" solution in a few days or less
I used this along with Tailscale to connect to the Mac at my desk on the west coast while visiting east coast family over the holidays. Between the fidelity of Sonoma screen sharing and the lowest...
I used this along with Tailscale to connect to the Mac at my desk on the west coast while visiting east coast family over the holidays. Between the fidelity of Sonoma screen sharing and the lowest possible latency from Tailscale the experience was very good, basically as if the desk Mac were sitting in front of me with a bit of added latency. The streamed image was excellent, matching the laptop’s HiDPI resolution perfectly.
There’s been several times in the past I’d used VNC or similar to remote into computers much closer geographically and the experience wasn’t even half as good.
As a bonus, I found that when using the higher fidelity connection mode the screen physically connected to the Mac doesn’t light up, and it instead creates a virtual display to stream while connected displays are disabled, which means nobody can watch you on the other end.
It seems strange that dummy plugs have to exist at all. It seems like a software/firmware problem. Though I'm sure the economic value of an HDMI dummy plug factory, DVI dummy plug factory, VGA dummy plug factory, etc provide some needed jobs; I wonder if the environmental cost is worth it when a room full of application and firmware engineers could probably figure out a reasonable "force enable GPU frame buffer mode" solution in a few days or less
I used this along with Tailscale to connect to the Mac at my desk on the west coast while visiting east coast family over the holidays. Between the fidelity of Sonoma screen sharing and the lowest possible latency from Tailscale the experience was very good, basically as if the desk Mac were sitting in front of me with a bit of added latency. The streamed image was excellent, matching the laptop’s HiDPI resolution perfectly.
There’s been several times in the past I’d used VNC or similar to remote into computers much closer geographically and the experience wasn’t even half as good.
As a bonus, I found that when using the higher fidelity connection mode the screen physically connected to the Mac doesn’t light up, and it instead creates a virtual display to stream while connected displays are disabled, which means nobody can watch you on the other end.