If you have clinical-ass depression or executive-ass dysfunction, lowering the barrier to exercise can be really important. Sure, $1400 with a $40 subscription is way too expensive, but there's definitely a case to be made for the exercise bike in front of the TV for a lot of people.
Speaking of radiation resistance, species such as Deinococcus radiodurans (bacteria) and Thermococcus gammatolerans (archaea) can survive doses in the 15-30 kGy range. They have evolved incredibly efficient DNA damage repair to handle the high rate of double strand breaks (DSBs) associated with such conditions.
What is interesting is that these high radiation doses don't really occur naturally to the point where such mechanisms would have evolved and then been maintained. Instead, it is believed that they evolved to confer resistance to desiccation, which also induces DSBs at a similar rate.
I tried a DisplayLink dock once with my M1 Max MBP. It was incredibly laggy, pegged my cpu at 40%, and didn't let me set the correct resolution/scaling level for either of my monitors (horizontal 4k 32" and a vertical 4k 27", nothing exotic).
A TB4 dock fixes most problems, but I have to hack the EDID to disable YCbCr and force RGB, or the colors look like absolute shit. The external monitors still look significantly worse under macOS than either Windows or Linux, and I have no idea why.
External display handling is easily the worst part of using a Mac for me.
i think the fact that so few are supported is part of the issue (not parent commenter, also not a user of apple products so i admittedly do lack experience in this area)
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