Bramimond

I think the most important thing to keep in mind here is this: "Security at the expense of usability, comes at the expense of security." Back in university one of our professors once introduced a course with pictures of people bypassing safety measures since they were inconvenient. Can't find it anymore, but it was a huge machine that needed two people to operate. Not really, though, just for safety. The way it was implemented was you had to press two buttons at the same time that were placed far enough from each other so one person couldn't reach both of them. It was bypassed by using a plank of wood that was long enough to push both buttons. Bottom line, if you make it hard users will find ways to make it easy again, even if this means endangering their own lives, nevermind information security. This was kinda baffling to me back then, but having experienced various security implementations of big companies I now tend to agree with the users and also do my utmost to make life easier for me. Storing both the password and the token generator in the same password manager is an excellent solution for sites that insist you use 2FA when they are really not as important as they think they are. Or when it is a company shared account and a department worth of people needs to be able to login to it...

The ads that get blocked are not useful, they waste our time. This is a demerit to society: wasting time with often harmful messages. As such, I view it as a moral imperative to block these ads. In fact, showing these kinds of ads that harm society should be illegal. EDIT: Here's an elaboration on just how harmful ads are.

Did we get new TVs that are completely invulnerable to the burn-in issue in the past years? I still haven't found anything, but managed to cure the burn-in on my LCD by changing the color of the panel to gray.

I got a $200+ device to measure this and you are wrong. Bluetooth has a range of about 20cm. WiFi has a range of about 2m. Wireless landline has a range of about 1.5m. Mobile phone has a range of about 2.5m. Don't confuse the signal reach with the field the sending/receiving device generates. The field gets weaker the further away you are from the source. The above distances are in relation to when the strength is below recommended values for human health concerns. Some bluetooth earpieces will generate as much as a microwave oven. But I guess as everyone knows holding your head next to a running microwave oven is perfectly safe and not discouraged at all.

What is written in the article makes sense and is consistent with my experience. Furthermore, avoiding wireless solutions isn't much of an inconvenience. If I'm wrong I lose nothing of importance, if I am right in this call I'm getting rid of a health hazard.

After having read this, I am now on a quest to get rid of wireless solutions.

You can use Jellyfin in a way as to use mpv for video playback and mpv has this feature.

I haven't watched ads since around 2004 or so, but those Asus and MSI commercials are pretty nice to look at. Our culture was in a better place in the past.

This is also why I not even considered Emby years ago when I decided to use Jellyfin to make family videos, audio recordings and photos easily accessible to my family. I still would never use something that is closed source. I did once in 2012, when I switched to Opera which had all these neat features. For example it had file hosting build into the browser, so you could just share large files with people and it was easy. You could also host your own website for free. They called it Opera Unity or something like that. Truly amazing. But then they took it away and since it was closed source no once could fork it and it was lost forever. It was then that I swore to myself to never use closed software for things I care about ever again and I stuck to this.

For example? Also, I'm not talking about people at home - some of which are trying to do something about the bloat. I am talking about tech giants like Microsoft and ultimately consumers who accept things how they are.

That somehow only affects software development and no other industries. Also, I never said that developers are the issue, that's just your strawman. But for some reason it is culturally accepted for software to be a bloated mess. Possibly because so few people understand it enough to even know that we could do a lot better with more effort. It's easy to understand that crypto mining is "wasteful" for people outside of the field. But it's harder to wrap your head around that the energy bill of every PC could be halved if Microsoft gave two shits about having an optimized operating system instead. It's also totally possible to reduce the time between turning your computer on and doing productive work to under a second if optimization was a thing that was taken seriously. But culturally we just accept how things are. We, the consumers, do not put pressure on for example Microsoft to do a better job. Consumers vote with their wallet. I'm not complaining that companies only do as much as they have to, I'm lamenting that consumers are satisfied enough to pay money for it. Good enough is the archnemesis of better, after all.

I am aware of the developer perspective and the business perspective. But as a user I'd be happy about a cultural shift towards more efficient software. On the other end of that conversations you have games like CP2077 and the new Pokemon, that released as broken messes. It's a shame that this practice is financially successful. I don't mind waiting for better software. But I don't think any amount of waiting is going to lead to, say Adobe software products, becoming bearable in terms of performance. It is unfortunate that no one seems to care about optimization at any point in the process. Just imagine how much energy (or battery life) could be saved simply by incentivizing developers to write more efficient software.

Speaking of performance gains by comparing hardware improvements with developer effort and given how this community is leaning towards gaming, I was fascinated to learn that a single developer rewrote Super Mario 64 to make it run twice as fast and implemented a split-screen multiplayer mode where Luigi is playable. Something that Nintendo famously planned but had to cut because of "hardware restraints". And I feel this mentality all over the world. Websites are bloated. Operating systems are bloated. Software is bloated. "The hardware will catch up eventually, anyway". No one is really interested in spending the time to optimize their code anymore, it seems. With a few exceptions. I once found a forum where clicking on a topic brought the page up faster with everything fully loaded than my local e-reader app would turn a page. It would be nice if we could have a cultural shift towards more efficient software.

That video does not exist. The entire point of a UPS is to have it running 24/7 for as long as my PC lasts, which will be about 7 years. If they can't do that, then what's even the point. I'm aware to a certain extent how this stuff works, I just don't know which product is actually good. What I'm looking for is a concrete product that won't blow up, is silent and can be used 24/7 for about a decade.

Whenever I'm in the mood to get one I first research a bit. Then get something people recommend online. and when I try YouTube to find a review.. ... I give up on the idea. So what to actually buy that won't blow itself up eventually? Or is this not even necessary anymore. Are PCs now able to handle an unclean shutdown without much issue? Maybe I should just get one of those Jackery things that are meant for camping. At least those will last for an hour or two.

I don't see how to solve problems caused by a sedentary lifestyle by going even deeper into the sedentary lifestyle. Treadmill and height adjustable desk combo has me interested, however.

Okay, but why would you want to? As long as the connector on the device stays the same you still need a specific cable. And replacing the connector is a soldering project at best.

This not being widely implemented is a symptom of why I stopped being impressed by modern graphics. Devs completely stopped bothering to optimize their games. It's gone so far that Devs even stopped shipping non-broken games on release day. I'm still marveling looking at early 90s games. The graphically impressive games weren't impressive merely because of the graphics, but because of the limitations they had to work with. But that era of gaming is long gone. Since popular games like Pokémon already get away with being released completely broken, I wonder what the future of gaming will bring. Maybe they start selling games before they even start programming them eventually. But not in a weird kickstarter way. More like selling futures. You know, this train of thought was meant as a ridiculous parody of what the future will bring, like when people joked about Tomb Raider 25 or Terminator 17 back in the 1990s. But I can totally see video games going in that direction and I can't even say that this would be more depressing than gaming already is.

I wonder what even the point of copy-protection on BDs was, given how it was defeated in 2007 - years before the general public even adopted BD. Even in 2008 consumers were still confused whether to go BD or HD-DVD, so they mostly just didn't bother with either. I think it wasn't until 2013 that people I know upgraded to BD. Though, they mostly just watch streams anyway. It would be kinda hilarious if the industry was trying to push out a new format and nobody bothering with it.

When it got to coffee I skipped ahead and was disappointed to see that the rest of the video was coffee related. (I do not drink coffee.)

I still don't quite get why I would want to spend hundreds of dollars on this, when I can just ssh into my computer. Or the computer of people I do tech support for, who all have Linux boxes, since I refuse to help them with anything else. In very specific situation this is pretty cool and all, but I don't see how I could benefit from one personally.

I don't feel these drives are cheap enough to outweigh the missing warranty. (Or are they still under warranty? I remember that last time I returned a drive they only cared for the number on it and not whether I actually bought it.)

You know how bad things are when Linus is happy that there are only five screws. Meanwhile, my Dell Latitude E6510 only has a single screw for everything. And the screw is hold in place in the plastic, so you can't even lose it. It's sad how bad things have gotten. On my Latitude, I don't even need a screw to swap the battery and every replaceable part is only one screw away. Maybe two for things that are screwed in inside.

I never watch in 4K because it takes too long to download and it's not my internet connection, which is blazingly fast. Really though, I'd watch all videos in 576p if they did a proper job encoding. The difference between a great 576p rip and one in 1080p is as hard to spot as the difference between art created by humans and by AI. Definitely possible if you look closely, but hardly noticeable when watching a video. And the further you sit away or the smaller your screen is the tougher it becomes. The problem is that most people are bad at encoding, which to be honest is a bit like arcane magic and an art in itself. Simply cranking the resolution is something everyone can do with little effort and you get a bigger number for the marketing department. It's so bad, I bet most people have never even had the opportunity to watch a good 576p rip, so I'll leave an example. It's even an unfair example, since the 1080p version got a restoration while the 576p version had to work with an old master. The 576p version also came out nearly a decade earlier. Try to figure out which version is which without looking at the resolution: Yes, I can tell these apart at a glance and chances are so can you. But if you see this in motion the difference isn't exactly day and night and if it wasn't for the fact that the 1080p version worked on a different master it would be even harder. I'd even say that in the frame with less detail the 576p looks slightly better even though the text isn't as sharp.

They are out of stock. My keyboard is set up vertical, so gravity isn't working in my favor. Also, taking 40 switches apart doesn't sound very fun..