ColonelPanic

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[–] ColonelPanic@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

10°C. Coats out, heating on.

Never know what it'll be tomorrow though. Might be 28 and sunny, might -15 and snowing. Maybe even the sun will make an appearance.

Regardless, it'll cause disruptions to the trains somehow.

[–] ColonelPanic@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Money.

Also I imagine the ads will be silent but animated, like a regular website ad but full screen, essentially turning whatever you're watching it on into a giant billboard.

It's just another thing to block I guess.

[–] ColonelPanic@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

It does also work for them that they retain employees who are more likely to put up with their bullshit. They can cull the truly lazy ones at a later date as required, either by firing them or finding a similarly bullshit change that they're likely to be adverse to.

[–] ColonelPanic@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I've not looked into it much other than seeing it in this video by Jeff Geerling and making a mental note for next time I'm in the market for a TV but it may be of interest to you.

I'm sorry I can't provide more details than that, but it's basically a digital signage TV designed to run 24/7 for years, and as such is actually built without the absolute bargain basement parts that go into consumer units.

[–] ColonelPanic@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Get a non-consumer TV if you can. They're more expensive but are actually built to last, have way more features and you can swap in whatever compute board you want so you're not stuck with an underpowered Android TV board.

[–] ColonelPanic@lemm.ee 25 points 3 months ago

It's not just large amounts of money. It's chasing more and more money each quarter, and when it starts slowing down panic sets in and they start trying to find any and every possible avenue to keep profits up. It's how we've ended up in subscription based hell and it'll only get worse.

[–] ColonelPanic@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

It might even be a bit simpler than that, as YouTube's going to have to mark segments as adverts somehow so you can't just skip past them.

[–] ColonelPanic@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

The BPI-WIFI6 is currently half price and good value for what you get imo. Not sure on true performance yet as I need to rewire my house but it's way more reliable than any of my other routers at least.

[–] ColonelPanic@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Pretty sure it's a Nexus 4 from 2012, and that shipped with Jellybean so it's highly likely.

[–] ColonelPanic@lemm.ee 26 points 5 months ago

Yeah, you can plug it into a few external services like OpenAI or even use a local LLM like LocalAI. Not used either, but I know it's possible.

[–] ColonelPanic@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

They did. Cheap and reliable

[–] ColonelPanic@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

How do you prepare for an update when Bethesda don't tell you what is changing? It says in the article they had literally no correspondence from Bethesda until the update dropped, so the only thing they could do was keep developing and hope not too much broke in the process.

That being said, from what I understand is that the script extender broke, so they're just waiting for an undefined time until that gets fixed for the latest update.

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