I’ve tested converting DVDs at different resolutions, and playing them on a 60" screen sitting 6’ away.

720 is just fine. I really can’t tell a difference between 720 and 1080, usually. Surprisingly.

Of course not, how could it?

Its just a wealth transfer from the state (our tax dollars) to a private firm. Same as speed cameras, where typically 80% of the “civil fees” go to the camera operating company.

These magnetic attachments hint at functionalities similar to Apple’s MagSafe,

Or perhaps, Motos concept that was in production 10 years ago?

After 30 years of running windows boxes, I’ve never been hacked.

But I’ve lost thousands of hours to update fucking my shit up.

O & O Shutup on a thumbdrive

God knows I don’t want that crap either. They’re always bastardized versions of full apps.

Meh, some/much of this is in every new car.

But EV’s take it to a new level with shit you just can’t disable.

I have a car with some of this shit. Just had to disconnect the cell antenna and attach a dummy to block it. Try that with an EV and it’ll probably have a heart attack.

Agreed.

I can buy a $1k car, carefully, and have a “beater” that works fine. Most people can’t. They need something in a bit better condition.

Though the greater point - battery replacement would be $5k-$10k on most cars, no thanks - that’s equivalent to replacing both the engine and transmission on a gas vehicle, at “fuck the customer” stealership prices.

My gas vehicles always go 300k miles, before needing either an engine or trans, many longer. Engines today are damn robust, and have been since the 90’s.

My maintenance over the years is trivial - about $150/year on fluid changes (that with an AWD vehicle with a unique setup). Occasionally something breaks, but that stuff you’d have on any vehicle (tie rod ends, latches, hood release cabke/switch, etc).

There’s a lot of BS out there about all this.

I’m so disappointed in this crowd, came in expecting some smart-ass comments, like “Angry Birb”

Just leave my gallons of ice cream sitting there.

They’ll probably require you to shop with your phone and scan shit as you go.

Yea, no, kiss my ass.

Oh Ffs, what a fucking idiot, or liar, probably both.

Of course that’s the whole fucking point, you over-educated fucktard.

And people wonder why the average Joe mistrusts academia?

They’ve been in use in the US in other retail outlets for about as long.

I suppose there was little rationalization for them in grocery stores until recently. Keep in mind grocery stores are massive chains, largely stocked by vendors - the store doesn’t own a huge portion of the product, they rent out space to vendors.

So there’s probably also the interaction between vendor and the chain - how the pricing update is managed.

Maybe someone more knowledgeable about how grocery works could chime in. I only have a cursory understanding. I wonder what their It systems look like, how they integrate/communicate with vendor systems.

Lol he’s got 5 people for 700 users. Way overstaffed. Or well-staffed at a minimum.

700 users is a business group in my world.

I’ve had the opposite experience - nearly everything works out of the box on Windows, yet not even a Logitech mouse works on Linux unless I go find some third party tool to make it work.

A mouse that works instantly on XP (probably on Win95).

Don’t worry, the US government is all governments are hard at work banning social media. Wouldn’t want people to expressing ideas.

FTFY.

And IPv6 exists. If even a portion of large orgs switch to IPv6 for their internet exposed interfaces, the “problem” goes away.

(I’ve been hearing about the shortage since 1995…and it hasn’t happened. Large orgs will always find a way to resolve issues like this that affect them).

Professional self-hosting was the way it was done until SaaS took off over the last 20 years - we just never called it that, because it was the only way to do things at the time.

Now we say things like Cloud or On-Premise. And as another commenter proposed, call it “Private Cloud” to sound fancy (wel, it’s not the same thing, but it sure sounds good!).

To my thinking, self-hosting means consumer-level hosting of services for a person, family, friends, generally at home, with VPS as an alternative server host.

Oh man, this is brilliant!

Wow, I like this term. Great concept that I’ve used forever, just not with such a killer label.

Even neuro-typicals can benefit from this idea.

There’s also a huge value to people working in the same space.

Random conversations solve a lot of problems.

And I’m someone that finds being in an office around people constantly to be exhausting. I just recognize the value.