I’m all physical media, but if I need to download something, I do it on my phone (sorry, seeders) and transfer it over to my PC to watch on my TV.

that sounds like a lot of hassle. why are you downloading on the phone?

don’t worry, academic integrity has been destroyed by now

I’m not sure if tracking can be fully disabled with DNS blocking. they could easily implement DoH usage or direct IP connections as fallback

“hot” does not mean “boiling”. nobody even assumes it to mean that.

what kind of place has those trash bins?

LTO-8 is 12TB native per cartridge. A used LTO can be as little as $300 USD with a 12TB cart $65ish. Ancient LTO-3 can be had for like…$5…and stores upto 800GB per tape.

how do you find so cheap LTO drives?

how do I carry RF remote signal from each room back to main unit…oh, I don’t need to, could I make a web ui that controls the shuffler via a Pi to RS-232, that you access on your phone?..Shit…i could do this.

you could also do an RF IR remote bridge with two minimal Pis

if you are also annoyed qbout the tracking and ads shit smart TVs pull off, you could by a mini-PC to fix all of these at once. making an IR remote work will be challenging, but if you go for plasma bigscreen, you can control it fine with kde connect on your phone.

The phone caused a stir when it was announced a week ago. First, there was the thrill of 80s computing legend Commodore making a phone.

garbage “journalism”. the writer should have really known the company has nothing to do with the original Commodore, other than buying rights to use the name.

But anyway, I used ddg too, and it gave me that link among the first results, which is weird. I thought their search was reproducible, but turns out it’s not, just like google…

sometimes I navigate to a result in the same tab, but just before clicking I notice another result that could also be relevant. then I navigate back, and now the results are somewhat different, usually the result I was looking at being omitted, and with a different order too. after that reloading it always gives the same results.

you couldn’t have addressed the writer, when you were referring to the person with the pulitzer

Assuming the bubble pops before then, the key to resetting this “new normal” is to NOT purchase anything you do not need to until we’re back to $80-130 / 64GB or cheaper, like it was in 2025. Hold out, make them desperate to lower prices.

that’s the solution, but you know the consumers are not principled to execute it.

right but look on the bright side, at least we have a useful idiot against google. speaking of that, did any good come out of that?

It’s noticeably less powerful than comparably priced PCs

those are bigger, and many people that want to game on TV don’t want such a bulky box besides it.

It’s noticeably less powerful than consoles costing hundreds of dollars less

console makers are selling their consoles at a loss, because they expect you to buy insanely overpriced games or get a subscription.

I think it was said in the GN video that valve couldn’t sell it at a loss even if they wanted to, because they are essentially selling a PC and they would be targeted with antitrust lawsuits for selling at a loss

It is not customizable in any meaningful way.

I guess that’s the price of consoles and tiny PCs. you won’t be able to make them without custom components.

oh, yes that makes sense

that does not make sense. you are not building a pre-built, because then its not a pre-built. is the sky cloudy over there?

what do you think, are those companies committing fraud that sell water with “extra H2O”, or with “more ions”, just to put themselves in a better light?

Nobody is misleading you because you have deeply held ideas on what words should mean.

if your definition of encrypted means telegram is an encrypted messenger, than “encrypted” is literally nothing more than a meaningless buzzword, since all messaging services do some kind of encryption.

That’s just your misunderstanding of the term. The chat is encrypted, no lies about it, it’s not end-to-end encrypted.

I was pretty sure someone is going to bring this up! “It uses HTTPS so its Encrypted™, you are just too dumb to comprehend it!”

well, yes, point me to a chat service that is not encrypted on the wire nowadays. I still think it is false advertising, because their clear intention is to make the user think their service is somehow more secure than others, while that is not the case. why would you advertise privacy and encryption, if not for arguing that you the provider cant read messages?
Ironically the owner of telegram is repeatedly posting on his channel about how much more secure telegram is over whatsapp, which is an actual end to end encrypted messaging app (but with other problems, like questionable key handling)

I’m not sure they are lying. Yes, they’re not E2E but I don’t think they claim to be by default, do they?

they claim to be “encrypted”. if I just make a new chat it will not be encrypted. this is false advertising. furthermore this highly advertised feature has artificial limitations, like that desktop clients can’t use it. it also cannot he used with group chats. so much for being “encrypted”.