I was using their RubyMine editor for a few years and really liked it but then I switched jobs and ended up using vscodium and found it did basically everything I needed but was free.
USB A was very easy to ruin as well. It might look strong but usually its just held on with a couple of solder joints which I found very prone to bend enough to break the device if it ever got an up/down force on it.
There is open CL now which blender and other programs have started using. Hopefully the lack of nvidia cards in these mac pros means proprietary tech like cuda gets left behind.
When price and space are not an issue with this device you would think they would just throw every thing on it so it suits everyone since there is no need to compromise here.
The problem is you forget every time so once a month you are in the middle of doing something and you have to stop, turn your mouse upside down and then wait.
They always catch me by surprise when they go flat. Also about twice this year my mouse has just not connected for some reason and I have to use the laptop trackpad to fix it. This would be a big issue on a desktop. And if I have to have a cable available to charge it I might as well just have a corded mouse.
The only time I find a wireless mouse to be better is for use with my laptop because its easier to bring to meeting rooms. At home I use wired since it seems all gaming mice have awful battery life. This logitech one I use at work has 70 days which works for me but every few months I have to run around and find a cable which isn't nice to use since usb cables tend to be a lot stiffer than mice cables
The only shocking things here are the lack of ports. Only 2 usb A and 2 usb c ports. Its basically required to use a usb hub on this device since once you plug in a proper mouse and keyboard you only have the usb c ports left
My pebble watch gives me warnings when it has less than a days worth of charge. The only issue is I usually get the warnings when I am not at a charger. An improvement would be to only give the warnings when I am at home.
Absolutely. Microsoft products are horrendous for this. Every time I have to start up my windows VM to test an IE bug I get assaulted by advertising and "news" in the start menu with bright moving blocks and then I open IE and get hit with it even worse. I don't know why people put up with it tbh.
I wish I could hit reader mode before the page loads so my phone doesn't melt in the time it takes for the page to finish loading its 10000 js frameworks.
That was what I remember being the case years ago. I used to be tracking the progress of the blender project ans they where making some good progress on getting everything running on OpenCL because it works on all cards.
At least on Nintendo's platform this has not been my experience. The same game is often cheaper on PC than on the switch at full price, and for first party titles I don't think I have ever seen a sale on a Nintendo game.
The price of consoles is subsidized by the fact that the games are super expensive. On PC the prices of games is usually less while they are at full price and massively less while they are on sale which is a quite frequent event. When I look at console games I almost never see any significant sales. Its not uncommon to see AAA games at 90% off when they are a few years old. On console they just stop selling the game.
OpenCL is what the rest of the world uses and will continue to use. All this means is many programs will drop mac support like they have already done and some will be created as mac exclusive because no one wants to support both.