GeekyBear

It's on most of YouTube streams because Google forces it on devices that lack hardware support, even if it breaks the functionality of the device.

Mainstream support doesn't have to be forced.

If the common hardware customers already have fails when you attempt to use a newer codec (but works fine otherwise), that can't be said to be a mainstream codec yet.

Sorry, but YouTube began thermal throttling on a Firestick the moment they started forcing AV1 regardless of the presence of on-device hardware support.

The M7 generation is said to be another huge advance on local LLM performance, so Apple is skipping the M6 Pro and M6 Max to bring out the M7 generation early.

A name like M5 Pro denotes the generation and the number of cores.

What does a name like Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 even mean?

> without 3rd party software

At least you can finally acknowledge reality.

Also, VLC over a wired connection and streaming from one Mac to another using WiFi (AirPlay) are built into the OS.

There is literally nothing stopping you from using a modern iMac as an external display using a thunderbolt connection today.

If you're OK with video compression artifacts, you can even do it over a WiFi connection.

In a world with the chips themselves named things like:

Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 or Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6.

Your distaste seems misplaced.

The iMacs before the 5k version did support Target Display mode.

They dropped it when the cable and connector standards of the day didn't support a display that big.

That's not laziness, it's a technical limitation.

Now that we have newer high bandwidth connection standards, you can once again use a newer iMac as an external display over a thunderbolt connection.

There are third party apps like Luna Display that do this now.

DeepSeek designs models that require less hardware resources for inference.

Remember when people thought that board level repairs were a perfectly normal thing for repair shops to do?