I’ve heard a lot of cheap Chinese devices have telemetry or malware on them. I’m almost surprised this does not.
Chinese stuff also tends to not rely on Google Services, does it have casting support? Maybe that’s on an app-to-app basis anyway.
Thanks, I’ll have a look.
I like how one of their screenshots has another screenshot in it
What software / OS would I run on this device to get a seamless fullscreen experience (like consoles / sticks / SteamOS)?
I have a server and all, but I’d need the right software to make the casting work and perhaps get a nice GUI + remote if I want to use actual apps.
I prefer to not rely on screen mirroring as it means I can’t check my phone without interrupting what I’m watching. Especially a problem when watching with someone else.
I don’t have any other Apple devices, and I really want to be able to cast from my apps to the device, so I can keep watching something I have started seamlessly.
Is that possible on the Apple TV?
Thanks for the reply.
If there are any EU citizens in there, that might be illegal.
Anything that makes companies lose the slightest bit of control they want to make illegal. If they can’t endlessly milk you for money it’s a problem.
If Minecraft came out today it would be a subscription service or at the very least would have season packs and cosmetics.
I’m sorry, but it’s not my job to clean up a billionaire’s rotting platform.
X and Facebook profit from petty conflict, spread misinformation for clicks and their leaders are horrible people. Those platforms can die for all I care. The less people are on there the better.
If people want to talk to me, they can and do contact me directly.
I think I’ll pass. Left Facebook over 5 years ago and I haven’t used it in 10.
Another minor point of contention: Lamborghini’s are at best 4-5 times faster than a shitbox car. A single-billionaire earns 20 000 times more than the average person. The scales are all out of wack.
A closer comparison would be the difference between a private jet and a person walking. Even that would only be a 200x difference. A snail and private jet is much closer to that 20 000x difference.
It’s so absurd a difference in scale that the comparison is hard for people to imagine.
A world where the difference between the average person and the richest people is only as large as a shitbox and a Lamborghini’s speed would be actually be a pretty palatable society to live in.
Presumably this is satire, as these are clearly not equivalent statements.
We don’t share limited horsepower, but we do share limited wealth, and it can be redistributed.
This anaology also implies there is an essentialism to people’s financial situations. That rich and poor people are inherently different. In reality rich people have been allowed to be rich by current societal structures.
Looks like I have over-analyzed the meme. If you are a troll, you’ve got me.
It’s pretty obvious they are asking if the UK is next to block VPNs.
That said, I will agree that there is a second layer meaning. “These are the sorts of governments you will be aligning with following this policy”.
The UK is/was a colonial power. Usually those oppress people outside the country, but keep the people within relatively happy. Rights for the internal group but not external ones. A form of profiteering and oppression.
By comparison, most of the countries listed here crack down regularly on the rights of people within their country, and this is the direction the UK goes in when they ban protests and privacy.
Oppression is oppression, and oppression is bad.
To avoid you all a trip to reddit:
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Yeah as a result of this post I decided to look into AV1 grain synthesis again. That’s the only way I can see that AV1 can meaningfully “improve” over h265 right now for noisy content like movies, which is what enthusiasts care about.
Grain synthesis is where you analyze noise on the original file, denoise the video stream and reapply artificial noise of a similar style as the original at decode time.
It relies on a lot of assumptions:
From a short experiment, I found that VLC was able to render the synthetic grain, but MPV(.net) did not out of the box. I had to play around with gpu rendering modes to get it to work.
As for transcoding, it’s unclear what happens to the synthetic grain, whether it is burnt in or simply ignored. At least one or two people have reported it will just be ignored and you’ll get a weirdly smooth movie.
Typical end users do not. Companies do because it will save them money.
Enthusiasts will care because it could save them storage space for equivalent quality, though if the cost of encoding is so high then just in terms of energy costs you may save money just going for a cheaper codec and upgrading storage with the saved money.
I guess that means people can go and run the reference code and start comparing the results for real now.
Hopefully an adaptation will get added to FFMPEG and Handbrake so we can have a play with it too.
I don’t know what you were expecting.
You more or less have to have an account to use a paid feature. Especially for a free trial.
It’s only Mulvad (which is apparently what Firefox uses under the hood) who doesn’t use an email address as an identifier.
They can just tell you really hate brown people and love licking boots by your vibe.