tripletopper
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I've had an Apple IIe, an Atari 800 XL, and ran on those two computers until the internet became important in 1998 and got Macintoshes ever since.
At around 1998 they were easy to use. Since they were the underdog getting only one or 2% of the computer Market they had to work with PCs and do things better.
And the reason why I might be quitting Apple is an OBS-related one.
First I do most of my practical computing on my Android like websites, social, email, etc. Though it's kind of hard to FTP my websites on Android got to figure that out.
I literally did not need a computer until I found out that was the only way you could broadcast out on Twitch.
The old 2014 Mac Mini worked well, but by the time we got to the 2018 Mac which I'm still on, I found something impossible on a Mac.
It's impossible to mix the sound in a Turtle Beach DSS one and output the game sound effects into your computer without having the Mac mix it down back to mono.
However I started noticing stuff when people were complaining about a high pitch wail on my broadcast on one of my settings. And I found the culprit and it was the Macintosh. If I tried to bring in one analog input from the video game it would mix it down to mono even though it was headphone mixed.
But this is the kicker if I try to cheat by using two mono microphone inputs and panning them to the left and right apparently Apple gets upset and puts a high pitch wail in your broadcast which is even worse when you're listening to it remotely on Twitch.
So I got to choose between mono video game broadcast and a Mac or do the unthinkable and actually brave the world of viruses on a PC.
Now thinking about it if you weren't as digitally germophobic as Adrian Monk is a biological germaphobe, you would always buy a Mac. But I'm thinking since I'm already doing what Apple would be considered dangerous anyway by even loading OBS because it's not an official Apple Macintosh app store app, might as well just take off the mask and go full PC.
I did something stupid when I was young when all we had was Sprint PCS as a mesoband internet, (better than dial up, not quite DSL or Cable) I tried to get a computer fixed and they offered to take over my computer and they never listen to me and was just going to hog Wild on it. I did the only thing I could do and that was pull the physical power plug on the computing device.
It would be futile for me to buy it if I don't get this question answered, does the Windows operating system automatically lock out analog stereo inputs? If not then sign me up.
Tomorrow is Black Friday. I don't need a computer to actually game well maybe I do now that I don't have to buy Street Fighter for the Xbox Series. But they are making a PC version so that'll fill that hole. But I got a 720p CRT VGA.
So it looks like I'm going to join the master race soon. By the way I would not publicly use that term I'm only using it as a joke. When I criticize PC is the master race I always said who else had a famous Master race I don't know Hitler and he (tried to, and thankfully fail to make) his master race by killing anything that was not part of it.
If this was the early zeros I would have loved the Macintosh as I did, but so many of their ads were spent fighting the evil empire that eventually they became the evil empire that they fought.
It took Apple to actively piss me off to throw away the core.
Now my family does probably not want to broadcast out so therefore the mono only restriction that the Mac OS has will not affect them. I'll probably sell it to them if they want to upgrade for cheap and use that money to buy PC on Black Friday.
Also as a piece of advice for security for my future PC should I put ONLY the PC behind a firewall, and have the consoles the Dish Network and Mom's Mac not behind the firewall, since most of the computer take over stuff is PC specific.
Also I know how to be safe you call the number of the manufacturer's specifically the vanity toll free number they spent thousands of dollars on to acquire just so that when you call them you know you're calling them.
Also if they initiates the call, do not give them any. I assume those are the two smartest things you could do to keep your computer safe, and that applies to all forms of communication and personal inf, email, social etc.
And I learned from Apple never let anyone hijack a computer even a person you call. Motorola respects the fact that I want to be talked through it's not automatically done for two reasons, one is I want to be able to prove every step instead of just go straight to the end and two the only way I learn is by doing.
Are those some fairly safe common sense ways to enjoy a PC?
At around 1998 they were easy to use. Since they were the underdog getting only one or 2% of the computer Market they had to work with PCs and do things better.
And the reason why I might be quitting Apple is an OBS-related one.
First I do most of my practical computing on my Android like websites, social, email, etc. Though it's kind of hard to FTP my websites on Android got to figure that out.
I literally did not need a computer until I found out that was the only way you could broadcast out on Twitch.
The old 2014 Mac Mini worked well, but by the time we got to the 2018 Mac which I'm still on, I found something impossible on a Mac.
It's impossible to mix the sound in a Turtle Beach DSS one and output the game sound effects into your computer without having the Mac mix it down back to mono.
However I started noticing stuff when people were complaining about a high pitch wail on my broadcast on one of my settings. And I found the culprit and it was the Macintosh. If I tried to bring in one analog input from the video game it would mix it down to mono even though it was headphone mixed.
But this is the kicker if I try to cheat by using two mono microphone inputs and panning them to the left and right apparently Apple gets upset and puts a high pitch wail in your broadcast which is even worse when you're listening to it remotely on Twitch.
So I got to choose between mono video game broadcast and a Mac or do the unthinkable and actually brave the world of viruses on a PC.
Now thinking about it if you weren't as digitally germophobic as Adrian Monk is a biological germaphobe, you would always buy a Mac. But I'm thinking since I'm already doing what Apple would be considered dangerous anyway by even loading OBS because it's not an official Apple Macintosh app store app, might as well just take off the mask and go full PC.
I did something stupid when I was young when all we had was Sprint PCS as a mesoband internet, (better than dial up, not quite DSL or Cable) I tried to get a computer fixed and they offered to take over my computer and they never listen to me and was just going to hog Wild on it. I did the only thing I could do and that was pull the physical power plug on the computing device.
It would be futile for me to buy it if I don't get this question answered, does the Windows operating system automatically lock out analog stereo inputs? If not then sign me up.
Tomorrow is Black Friday. I don't need a computer to actually game well maybe I do now that I don't have to buy Street Fighter for the Xbox Series. But they are making a PC version so that'll fill that hole. But I got a 720p CRT VGA.
So it looks like I'm going to join the master race soon. By the way I would not publicly use that term I'm only using it as a joke. When I criticize PC is the master race I always said who else had a famous Master race I don't know Hitler and he (tried to, and thankfully fail to make) his master race by killing anything that was not part of it.
If this was the early zeros I would have loved the Macintosh as I did, but so many of their ads were spent fighting the evil empire that eventually they became the evil empire that they fought.
It took Apple to actively piss me off to throw away the core.
Now my family does probably not want to broadcast out so therefore the mono only restriction that the Mac OS has will not affect them. I'll probably sell it to them if they want to upgrade for cheap and use that money to buy PC on Black Friday.
Also as a piece of advice for security for my future PC should I put ONLY the PC behind a firewall, and have the consoles the Dish Network and Mom's Mac not behind the firewall, since most of the computer take over stuff is PC specific.
Also I know how to be safe you call the number of the manufacturer's specifically the vanity toll free number they spent thousands of dollars on to acquire just so that when you call them you know you're calling them.
Also if they initiates the call, do not give them any. I assume those are the two smartest things you could do to keep your computer safe, and that applies to all forms of communication and personal inf, email, social etc.
And I learned from Apple never let anyone hijack a computer even a person you call. Motorola respects the fact that I want to be talked through it's not automatically done for two reasons, one is I want to be able to prove every step instead of just go straight to the end and two the only way I learn is by doing.
Are those some fairly safe common sense ways to enjoy a PC?
