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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by mattgreenrocks on Monday March 03, 2025 @05:57PM (#43247851)
Seconding this. Feels actively anti-user even if this is just a bunch of heuristics that end up choosing the wrong thing. Honestly, why is this not a dropdown?

Related bug: macOS defaults to variable refresh rate when available instead of remembering my choice of 144hz. This is confounded by my hub (Caldigit TS3 Plus), which has trouble with variable refresh rates that result in a black screen.

The cherry on top: either I use a HDMI cable and deal with BetterDisplay forcing RGB to fix YCbCr, or a black screen when using DP through my hub due to the above bug.

Sometimes I wish Apple would get broken up just so macOS could have a chance at getting more love.

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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by kridsdale1 on Monday March 03, 2025 @06:23PM (#43248072)
I bought a custom HMDI dongle that forced 4k RGB HDR for my OLED LG from M1 Mac.
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by knifie_spoonie on Monday March 03, 2025 @07:09PM (#43248464)
Interesting. Could you post a link to the dongle?
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by MarcelOlsz on Monday March 03, 2025 @08:36PM (#43249112)
I'd go with a caldigit TS4 + their hdmi/dp active adapter.
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by aschla on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @02:43AM (#43251573)
Not sure what the other guy uses, but I use this Anker with my LG OLED to get RGB 4k@120 HDR with my M1 MacBook Pro:

https://www.anker.com/products/a8317?variant=42329259475094&...

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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by liminalsunset on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @03:42AM (#43252044)
On mine, Apple TV+ (the official app as well as Safari) will refuse to play 4K through a similar adapter (VMM7100) on an OLED C2 42 from Cable Matters with the latest 120Hz supporting firmware. I assume it is because HDCP is broken. It works fine with the Mac Mini's built in HDMI. Frustratingly there is no great way to debug this, but if you open up Safari and look in the network tab, you can see the resolution of the video being streamed.

Does your adapter work at 120Hz without updating the firmware? If it does, does it support HDCP?

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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by aschla on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @12:20PM (#43257522)
Ah yeah you just reminded me of the rabbit hole I went down a couple years ago.

Yeah I had to flash the firmware on the Anker dongle, following this guide: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/dp-usb-c-thunderbolt-to...

I just tried streaming 4K through the Apple TV app on my M1 Macbook Pro and no issues, so I'm assuming HDCP works.

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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by zer0zzz on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @01:03AM (#43250882)
> Sometimes I wish Apple would get broken up just so macOS could have a chance at getting more love.

As much as I like the integration between the phone and macOS I like the idea of desktop Mac getting more love.

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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by indemnity on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @03:55AM (#43252138)
It’s very on brand for Apple to remove an option to trigger / customise something that should “just work”.

Example: iCloud Photos syncing is complete crap on macOS. If it has synced recently it’s not going to do it again. So you sit there like an idiot waiting 10 minutes for a photo you just took on your phone e to show up. When a pull to refresh or refresh button would have fixed it.

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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by LoganDark on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @05:38AM (#43252898)
iCloud Photos syncing is crap on iOS too. iOS will randomly stop uploading photos to the cloud "to optimize performance". Every time something's not uploading, I check my iPhone settings only to find that it's "optimizing performance" again. Even if it's on a full battery and I'm barely even using it. There is no way to turn this off - you have to manually catch it every single time it decides to "optimize performance" and tell it to sync for an hour. If you took enough photos for it to take longer than that hour to upload them all, you'll have to do this multiple times as it goes right back to "optimizing performance" after that hour. Again, there is no way to turn this off.
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