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Scott Yoshinaga
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Scott Yoshinaga writes Oh My Pizza Blog, a personal blog at ohmypizza.com about hardware and programming. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Converting a 5K iMac into an External 5K Display (2023)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-15, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link this post as a how-to for turning a 5K iMac into a standalone external display, which takes some hacking. The comments cite it and do not evaluate the writing.
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Hi there, I'm Scott Yoshinaga, co-creator of the comic nemu*nemu. This is where I download my brain.
Most-linked posts?
- Converting a 5K iMac into an External 5K Display (2023)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-06-10
What Hacker News says?
> top of the line panels A few different people have figured out how to convert these panels into stand-alone displays. It's a pity that it would be impractical to make a small business out of this. - https://ohmypizza.com/2023/04/converting-a-5k-imac-into-an-e... - https://mschmitt.org/blog/convert-5k-27-imac-external-displa...
Comment linking /2023/04/converting-a-5k-imac-into-an-external-5k-display
on “macOS Sequoia Preview”Submitted Converting a 5K iMac into an External 5K Display (2023) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionActually you can use them as external displays but requires some hackery. See https://ohmypizza.com/2023/04/converting-a-5k-imac-into-an-e... But yeah agree entirely there. When upgrading from my somewhat cranky old 5k iMac a while back, I decided I'd never buy another iMac. The 24" was out. So I bought a Studio Display and a mac mini. At least I can upgrade the computer separately, which has happened already (M2 mi…
Comment linking /2023/04/converting-a-5k-imac-into-an-external-5k-display
on “Apple has announced its final version of macOS for Intel”