I’m sure some lawyers were able to improve their earnings considerably on your behalf

Is it legal to sell guillotines on Etsy? Asking for a friend.

I’ll never watch porn the same way again.

I’m not sure what you mean RE 4g/5g. I just replaced my phone with a 5g handset and get 5g coverage with it. I had 4g with my last handset.

Are you saying the 20-40GB plans have overage charges? I’d rather be throttled if that is the case.

corporations – especially the ones run by MBA parasites

Is that not all of them right now?

Not sure, tbh. I haven’t shopped around, but because I never go over, I’m fine with it. It may not be a good deal at all but I never see the difference.

I’ve been on T-Mobile prepaid since at least 2010. I get 10GB of data off contract for $40/mo. If I use above that it gets throttled, but I never do.

My price still hasn’t gone up. I am certainly waiting for it.

I buy a new handset every few years. Most times I get one from the EU that has the bands I need for local service.

This has generally been my experience as well. The sole exception: Distant Worlds. I’ve never, ever gotten it to run with any version of Proton.

I’ve actively been trying to have as much as possible in AV1, and before that, h265. A lot of my older material is still in h264.

That said, I generally have the following patterns:

• 720p media at feature length should be about 1 GB, if not less.

• 1080p media at feature length in h265 should be between 1.5-2GB. Ideally more towards 1.5GB. The same 1080p media in AV1 should be about 30% smaller.

I simply don’t see the need to encode at higher bitrates to have larger file sizes than that. I don’t see significant difference at 1080p.

That brings it outside of the reasonable range for most people, I would think.

Am I right in suggesting that e-ink displays remain artificially overpriced because of the company that ultimately owns the patent?

And the employers are actually already breaking the law for employing such people. It shouldn’t be going beyond that, and yet we never see politicians making that point, because it’s apparently a no-no to call out corporations for their actions at this point in American history.

Edit: and also, at least in the case of who I was talking about, they’d never suggest wages were too low across the board. They’re secure in their scapegoat. We aren’t really disagreeing, I don’t think, but this issue runs deeper because there are ideologies at play that do not adhere to logic.

We the people have decided to take control of the trickling down, because we haven’t been seeing any trickling

A former friend of mine was heavy into the right wing and worked construction (surprising, I know). He was always complaining about “illegals taking jobs” and how he thought the work they did wasn’t good anyway.

One day, I asked him: why doesn’t your company stop hiring these people you hate? He said it’s because then they wouldn’t have enough people. Naturally, this is a contradiction. It didn’t matter, of course. His whole personality was built on hating these people.

I think it is that way with a lot of folks. If we penalize employers (like we should, because, you know, the law), then these people can’t hate as effectively. That means they might start voting differently.

I like this. It has a kind of military radio chic.

I post this in offering to the internet gods, that this may be the first step which leads to an actually meaningful change.

I wouldn’t either. Dumb TVs are getting harder and harder to find though.

What do you mean “goes through?” It’s a decision from the FTC so it went through, unless I’m misunderstanding that process.

I’ve had the same early smart TV for about ten years now. The greatest thing that happened to it was the WiFi dying. I suspect I wouldn’t have it anymore if that weren’t the case.

It’s a 42" Samsung if anyone is curious, and the WiFi just… Stopped working.

In spite of some of the comments to the contrary here, I really think this is fine. Early access is early access. 2 hours has been the ground truth for a while. It does seem like a loophole, and I’m fine with them filling it.

Edit: and it isn’t really about Early Access – it’s about Advanced Access, from pre-orders.

Yeah. This seems a bit quick given the adoption of hardware decoders. I would have thought they would have waited a while longer before actually changing the default.

The benefits are real, though. AV1 is extremely efficient and it looks markedly better than alternatives even at lower bitrates.