Chahk @ chahk @beehaw.org

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The Internet and streaming services are fucking lazy and just insert ads every X seconds or whatever, which can often lead to an ad being played mid fucking sentence.

That is not laziness. This is a typical dark pattern, designed that way on purpose to annoy you into paying.

Youtube (without ad blockers) is the absolute worst at this, as it seems to insert mid roll ads specifically to disrupt the video.

YMCA

This will be useful to me in about 6 or 7 years when my (then) old phone will still be running Android 14.

Username does NOT check out.

Papa Jeff needs another rocket.

Imaginary friend

That's another thing I'm totally unfamiliar with. How do I even word something for them to sign? Are there any contract templates out there for this sort of thing?

if you don’t feel like you have a pretty high chance of delivering a product they will be proud of, that’s a good reason to not do it.

I think I'm up for delivering something they will not absolutely hate :) I just don't want technical issues to trip me up.

when people come to you saying that they can’t find anything in their price range for a service, it’s usually because they are clueless about the actual value, or they are hardcore cheapskates.

In this case they are well aware that their budget is too low for a professional. I'll try to manage their expectations.

I'm off the chart. I have 2 mismatched monitors - a 27" and 34", and the 34 one is an ultrawide. It's wider than the other, but their bezels still line up.

BITCH!

I'd so watch a TV show about that!

So hang on. Are you trying to tell me that exercise grows the hippocampus?

Any phone? Really? Even the ones with locked bootloaders? How about the ones that don't have any 3rd-party ROMs?

I had the Shield TV Pro 2015 version that I upgraded with an SSD. I wasn't planning on replacing it, but it died a few months ago so I upgraded to the 2019 version.

As the owner of original $500 Sony NSX-32GT1 TV from 2010, I can tell you exactly how different it is. Its UI wasn't exactly a snappy experience to begin with, but it's gotten even more sluggish over the years until everything stopped working due to being EOL. The OS on it has been unsupported since around 2016, so it's stuck on ancient Android TV version. Most apps (even built-in ones like YouTube) stopped working a few year later, and cannot be updated.

Sure, a $50 Chromecast will eventually suffer from the same problems, but I can replace it 10 times for the same amount of money while keeping my TV because its 32-inch 720p panel still displays content just fine.

Not to mention tracking your every move. "Drink a Pepsi to continue watching."

The specs on those QET models don't look great. 300 nits max brightness? That can't be right. Aren't they designed to be in brightly lit areas like inside stores?

Who knows, a couple years from now TVs will likely be twice or three times as smart as they are now!

Don't scare me like that!

set it to use an HDMI in by default so you never see the OS

How long do you figure we have before manufacturers remove this functionality?

multiple remotes

I have a Logitech Harmony Ultimate remote with Hub. It was the best thing ever for me, because in my living room setup I have the TV, A/V receiver, Nvidia Shield TV for streaming, and an Xbox Series X for my kids and occasional BR/DVD movies. With programmable activity buttons, a single tap on the remote turns on the appropriate devices, switches them to the correct inputs, and provides appropriate controls. Tap another activity, and it turns on devices that are required, turns off the ones not in use, and switches controls to the proper device.

Unfortunately Logitech discontinued the Harmony line. It's only a matter of time before they take down the servers that host device databases and allow you to reprogram the remotes. I've been looking into replacements, but there aren't many that have feature parity with Harmony.