I’m not aware of the contest or award in contention here, but this MacWorld article is so terribly written that it is frustrating to read, and in fact motivated me to write an equally poorly-written but mercifully much shorter post about it.<\/p>\n
Now I do not wish to throw stones too hard, for obvious and typical reasons regarding the throwing of stones, as well as due to the fact that there actually is good information in this article, which I will shortly rely upon, at least in part, in making a purchase.\u00a0 But why is the information so hard to get?<\/p>\n
This article seems to have been written three times, chopped up into paragraphs and, like the taped recording of a calliope in The Beatles’ Mr. Kite, simply thrown in the air and re-assembled in no particular order.\u00a0 But don’t take my word for it:<\/p>\n
The article includes numerous reviews of items.\u00a0 With those, it’s nearly seven thousand words, and without the inline reviews, it’s still nearly three thousand.\u00a0 And for what?\u00a0 Repetitive and confusing out-of-order passages like this:<\/p>\n
The macOS requires the user to permit \u201cScreen Recording\u201d in order for DisplayLink devices to work properly. This can be found in System Preferences under Privacy in Security & Privacy<\/strong>; navigate to Screen Recording<\/strong> in the list on the left, then tick the Screen Recording permission for DisplayLink Manager after unlocking the padlock using your admin password. You may need to quit and restart DisplayLink Manager afterward. Don\u2019t worry, DisplayLink isn\u2019t recording your screen\u2014this just lets it do its magic enabling multiple screens.<\/p>\n
Installation is straightforward. Older versions did not support laptops\u2019 closed-display\/Clamshell Mode, but 1.8.1 and later do support Clamshell Mode if the MacBook is Intel-based running macOS 12 or if the MacBook is M1-based running macOS 11 or later.<\/p>\n
The scariest bit is when you need to enable \u201cScreen Recording\u201d to allow the DisplayLink Manager app to capture pixels and send them to your USB peripheral. This entails making some adjustments in the Mac\u2019s \u201cPrivacy\u201d tab, but you are walked through it step by step. Take a look at the instructions here.<\/p>\n
— https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/675869\/how-to-connect-two-or-more-external-displays-to-apple-silicon-m1-macs.html<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This is the bit that made me stop reading and start writing.\u00a0 The third paragraph is a partial restatement of the first, but which would have served well as a very early gazette of the more detailed instructions.\u00a0 The third paragraph should have been placed near the beginning othe article, with a note that it “will be covered in detail later.”\u00a0 As it is, that three-paragraph riddle is more than a thousand words into the article.<\/p>\n
I’ve burined the lede here, as I suspect that this article is written or at least edited by AI, and this is the garbage future that we have to look forward to.\u00a0 The real peril is not articifial intelligence but actual stupidity.\u00a0 Unless the entire MacWorld staff has been slain and replaced by robots, this article passed review and was approved for publication less than a year ago (according to the date on the online version).\u00a0 Now perhaps it is a long-in-the-tooth pastiche of innumerable updates, but there’s a fix for that called a re-write.\u00a0 MacWorld is not somebody’s blog, but a grown-up tech magazine with real people who get paid to write and edit.<\/p>\n
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Now I do not wish to throw stones too hard, for obvious and typical reasons regarding the throwing of stones, as well as due to the fact that there actually is good information in this article, which I will shortly rely upon, at least in part, in making a purchase.\u00a0 But why is the information so hard to get?<\/p>\n
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