At my last job we bought a lot of Vizio tvs. We used them for conference rooms, hallway displays, etc. They were reasonably priced and had a good feature set needed.

They have been on a decline for years and this is a nail in the coffin.

There are business models that are dumb displays that you bring your own device to do conference stuff on whatever platform you wish. I'm not current with the pricing but they typically have good warranties.

They are insanely priced compared to disposable Vizios - renting a "real" display monitor for a conference would be $1000 or so (including the shipping, setup, return, usually involving large crates and trucks).

Buying a similar Vizio would be delivered by free by Walmart for $200, you just ignore the setup prompts, stick HDMI in, and give it to a nice hotel employee when done.

This was a what can we order under X dollar amount from Target kinda thing. We bought 2 TVs a month for several years.

I tried many different setups and have landed on my perfect one finally.

I use 1 4k screen at 125%. This is where I primarily work. My second screen is a 15 inch 1080p monitor. It’s primarily chat/email and the screen I share when I need to screen share. I have to work on to many things at the same time so virtual desktops become to much to juggle. I do stick to either a 50/50 split on the 4k or a quad split.

At one point I had 8 monitors and now thinking back I was insane, but it was fun.

This seems cool and all but a simple password manager or something like vault solves this as well.

Maybe I am the odd man out here but I have a Kinesis 360 Pro and legitimately my wrists and hands hurt after using it, vs my 60% tkl that I just move around throughout the day.

With my experience it’s the edge cases. The few times I had to reach out to AWS support were due to some weird edge case we couldn’t fix but AWS had to. And having a rep involved made it so much smoother.

I had to reach AWS because of a bug in Aurora last year; they replied quickly but said that they couldn't understand the bug...

I am a newer iPhone user (2 years now) and I am of the same opinion as you. I see so many people crying foul, that their phone is now unusable, but I’m just hear going “eh it’s uglier” and continuing. Curious what OP thinks is fundamentally broken.

Now I have heard about issues on MacOS and things but not really anything around the phone.

Something I've heard from someone that owns an iPhone 16 Pro is that animations are (were?) laggy sometimes. I was also looking at some pictures on an iPhone the other day (unsure about the model, maybe 14?) and it felt like it was dropping some frames while switching apps.

So while it may not be fundamentally broken, it's the type of stuff that would annoy me a lot if I used an iPhone. I never expect to go from a smooth experience to a low-end Android phone experience after a software update.

MacOS... I've avoided upgrading my M4 Max MBP so far after upgrading the M1 Air we have at home. It's just not as smooth as before, even with reduced transparency.

iPhone 16 Pro and Apple TV and Apple Watch have all become noticeably slower/laggier with choppy animation under 26. Totally unacceptable.

I have a 16 pro and haven’t seen any noticeable lagging in the animations.

My M4 Air has been fine after the 26 update. I haven’t noticed any difference in responsiveness.

My old F150 had a screen in the rear view mirror. I miss that.

Hah I did the same thing. I only ever interact with it now when it appears in search results.

If memory serves the launcher/ui is out of their control. It is GoogleTVs launcher and they are forced to use it.

South Dakota is in the northern portion. But to your statement, historically speaking the southern states after the civil war kept trucking along in terms of power and influence.

The Dakotas weren't really north/south in the Civil War context; only about 4k people lived there in 1860. It was largely empty land, and not a state until 1889.

4k white settlers