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Scrapez posted:I tried to wipe the thing, thats what I'd like to do, and apparently did not succeed because it still brings up the guy's Apple ID prepopulated whenever it tries to access the Apple Store. Yeah that's because Apple's installer is a little less harsh than Windows, which is what I presume you're used to. In OS X, things like user accounts and settings are quite distinct from operating system files, not intertwined in weird ways like in Windows, so an OS "reinstall" can completely replace the original OS install without affecting anything else. To do a wipe, boot in Recovery mode, select Disk Utility and use it to reformat the drive. Then quit out of Disk Utility and install the OS. If you want to make sure it's really really wiped, click around when reformatting and find the option to overwrite all the old data with zeroes.
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BobHoward posted:If you want to make sure it's really really wiped, click around when reformatting and find the option to overwrite all the old data with zeroes. But don't do this on an SSD
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Aug 11, 2016 13:58
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Is the fusion drive an ssd? It's a Mac mini with 1 gb fusion drive.
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Aug 11, 2016 14:37
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Scrapez posted:Is the fusion drive an ssd? It's a Mac mini with 1 gb fusion drive. It's somewhat an SSD? It's both. The problem with doing it on an SSD is that 1) because of wear-leveling, overwriting with zeroes doesn't actually securely erase everything like it did on platters and 2) it wears down the SSD with a LOT of writes, and SSDs don't like lots of writes. Pretty silly problems to think about considering you could have a cat grow to old age and die before your SSD fails from too many writes, rather than some other failure. But the underlying storage is a platter drive, so if it gives you a secure erase option and you're paranoid, go for it.
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Aug 11, 2016 14:40
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When I startup with CTRL-R and go into the Disk Utility it shows: Internal Fusion Drive Macintosh HD When I view it, it says it's a 1.11 TB Logical Volume OS X Extended Disk Images Apple disk image Media OS X Base System When I view it, it says it's a 2.01 GB Disk Image External Physical Volume OS X Extended When I click on the Macintosh HD Fusion drive and click erase, it pulls up the dialog to name it and select the format. When I click Erase, it fails immediately saying: Unmounting disk3 Couldn't unmount disk. Operation failed... Is there some different way that I should be attempting to erase the drive?
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So I discovered that youtube has a 1080p48 video format, and that apparently safari's html5 player doesn't like it very much.
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Aug 11, 2016 18:12
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48fps???
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Aug 11, 2016 18:59
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Quantum of Phallus posted:48fps??? Yeah I was surprised too. I found a couple other 48fps videos which I could play so maybe it was just that video.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:48fps??? isn't that the double frame stuff Peter Jackson used
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The Milkman posted:isn't that the double frame stuff Peter Jackson used Yeah and it looked like trash
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Weedle posted:Yeah and it looked like trash Yeah it was so bad that they totally abandoned it after like two films.
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Aug 11, 2016 23:32
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Also one of the framerates used for IMAX. But 1080p would be ghetto for IMAX 
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My GF saw Hobbit in 48fps iMax and said it was one of the biggest disappointments of her life. She couldn't get over how lovely it looked.
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IIRC 48fps requires twice as bright lighting as 24fps so if you're filming both one of them is guaranteed to look bad, and studios have 100+ years of experience shooting (and lighting) 24fps so 48fps is pre-hosed.
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Lots of tech channels do 60fps youtube videos, they look a little unusual, but not necessarily bad. Terrible for actual cinema, though. Speak of cinema, I wish there was a native netflix app for MacOSc
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well why not posted:Speak of cinema, I wish there was a native netflix app for MacOSc Dunno what MacOSc (Mac Oscillator?) is but Safari 9 and up handles HTML5-standards based video streams just fine, never had a problem with Netflix on any Mac made in the last three years. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Aug 12, 2016 |
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Aug 12, 2016 16:10
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I actually think Safari is the only browser on Mac that supports 1080p. I know chrome definitely didn't for a while
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Can it do above 1080? 4k is happening! I imagine a native app could leverage hardware better than a browser.
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Yeah as far as I remember it can (could be wrong here) I THINK I had it running 4K on the 5k iMac but I could be talking poo poo
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well why not posted:Lots of tech channels do 60fps youtube videos, they look a little unusual, but not necessarily bad. Terrible for actual cinema, though. I think 60fps video looks like complete garbage and I can't really figure out why it's become so popular in certain circles. I have a background in video production though so I'm probably more sensitive to that stuff than most people.
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Cyne posted:I think 60fps video looks like complete garbage and I can't really figure out why it's become so popular in certain circles. I have a background in video production though so I'm probably more sensitive to that stuff than most people. I can't say I really notice it in YouTube videos. I find that the 60FPS videos are usually shot really nicely and with a good camera though (see MKBHD) 101 fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Aug 12, 2016 |
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Aug 12, 2016 18:17
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It makes me happy that cinema audiences recoiled in horror from high frame rate stuff. 60fps and higher stuff is fine for games and running Macs and stuff but for films it's bad
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I never saw the high frame rate Hobbit. Kinda wish I would have just I could decide either way if I like it or not
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101 posted:I never saw the high frame rate Hobbit. Kinda wish I would have just I could decide either way if I like it or not YouTube has trailers in 48fps.
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60fps is big with eSports people as they are frequently streaming a game UI and they look better at 60fps. 1080p 60fps is the current performance requirement if you want streaming rights for major esports events. Additionally, Chrome supports 1080p 60fps -- benchmarked a stream this week. Feral Bueller fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Aug 12, 2016 |
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Anyone got some good examples of YouTube links that run at 60fps? Would be keen to try it on my TV, although I'll have to just presume it's feeding through the right frame rate as I don't have any way of monitoring that element. But I presume it will pick the best (I know it does with 4K at least).
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Aug 12, 2016 19:56
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It feels like every video game commentator guy does 1080p60 now.
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Aug 12, 2016 20:03
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For game videos I strongly prefer the 60fps stuff. I also play on an 144hz monitor.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Anyone got some good examples of YouTube links that run at 60fps? Would be keen to try it on my TV, although I'll have to just presume it's feeding through the right frame rate as I don't have any way of monitoring that element. But I presume it will pick the best (I know it does with 4K at least).  )I've also seen some smooth looking 30fps videos that are sourced from 60. They have some kind of motion smoothing/interpolation rather than just throwing away half the frames, but I don't know if any examples off hand.
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101 posted:I never saw the high frame rate Hobbit. Kinda wish I would have just I could decide either way if I like it or not For 3D it was really really good. Awful on 2D though.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Anyone got some good examples of YouTube links that run at 60fps? Would be keen to try it on my TV, although I'll have to just presume it's feeding through the right frame rate as I don't have any way of monitoring that element. But I presume it will pick the best (I know it does with 4K at least). Recent Linus Tech Tips videos, recent-ish AwesomeSauce Networks (terrible names) are at least 1080 / 60fps. Some are 4k I think, too.
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The Milkman posted:For game videos I strongly prefer the 60fps stuff. I also play on an 144hz monitor. Ah OK, yeah I can see its use for game stuff, but live action 60fps generally makes me cringe.
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So at some point Chrome updated and it no longer will let you hit backspace to go back a page. I thought "this is a good time to switch to Safari and give it a try", but they apparently do the same thing. I know why such a thing was removed, but I still hate that it's not an option on either browser.
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You could always use the Keyboard sysprefs to change the menu command to backspace, or get used to hitting cmd-back arrow.
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101 posted:I never saw the high frame rate Hobbit. Kinda wish I would have just I could decide either way if I like it or not It was pretty good but it's clear it's a "movies with color/sound" situation for people that are really unused to it.
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kefkafloyd posted:You could always use the Keyboard sysprefs to change the menu command to backspace, or get used to hitting cmd-back arrow. where have you been all my life?!
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qutius posted:where have you been all my life?! Or two-finger swipe left on the trackpad (I think this becomes one-finger on the Magic Mouse). kefkafloyd posted:You could always use the Keyboard sysprefs to change the menu command to backspace, or get used to hitting cmd-back arrow. Unfortunately you can't make a menu command without a modifier key, and you can't make any that involve the delete key at all.
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Aug 13, 2016 23:31
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Is unlocking your Mac wth an iPhone coming to MacOS? I'm using MacID at the moment which is pretty good but it tries to unlock the Mac every time I get a notification 🤔
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