Bullshit article when they make claims like this:

Critically, Apple TV boxes are also an easy recommendation on the privacy front.

Apple is no more privacy-friendly than anyone else. And while you may not see all the ads you do on other platforms, try booting an Apple TV with no account on it - immediately goes to ads for Apple’s own streaming.

Apple TV boxes don’t have automatic content recognition (ACR).

They may not, but your smart TV still does, and still runs it against anything the AppleTV sends to it.

One word: tracking

That still means all your chats are identifiable to your phone number.

For an org that claims they’re interested in privacy, that’s a major contradiction.

Tonal and Logographic didn’t become Lingua Franca because they’re more difficult to learn and standardization is even more challenging than with Alphabetic languages.

This is like language 101 stuff.

This is well explained in Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet by The Great Courses.

Brokeback Mountain

The recent adaptation of Dickens with Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds. Interesting, but they could’ve cut about 30% of the singing. It got to be repetitive, and it’s not like I dislike musicals.

There are many, but I tend to automatically forget them - I’m not wasting space in my brain for that crap.

Now, of course, you’re going to tell me why I’m wrong about these movies. Save it.

Its $10 for a damn soda, and has been for 20+ years (which is about when I stopped going to the theater for the most part).

Eaay to do with 4 people. I have no idea what tickets cost these days.

Freeze it right after cutting (wrap in plastic first). They hold for a long time.

I’ve been running STFork for so long I forgot its not the mainline app.

Guess it’s time to learn how to host my own Relay server.

Ah, yes, “think of the children” today, so tomorrow when they sign up to anything as an adult thebfurst time, we know exactly who they are.

Die in a fire, Rahm.

They do?

Think we need some examples

Syncthing or Resilio Sync for photo/file backup from phone. Both work amazingly well.

I don’t see anything like this in search, even DuckDuck.

What do you have on that you see this? (Or what have I turned off?)

I do use Ublock and Noscript, but they don’t list anything to block on search engines, really.

Dude, they’ve been tracking since the first cell phone (even the analog ones).

Since the first PCS phones in 1995 it just got easier with smaller cells.

Then with smart phones, all of them use AGPS, and the tracking data is largely available in a few ways - cell towers and signal strength, which/when AGPS data is pulled, etc (coupled with tower and signal data).

Then 5G cells are so small the accuracy is crazy with just cell and signal strength.

I’m not excusing what they’re doing, just giving background - there’s a lot more tracking going on than is obvious at first. And AGPS is always on already. It’s not a tracking function in itself, just is one piece if data that can be used.

Almost any messaging app is better, the question is what do your friends use, and can you get them to switch.

I’m a fan of XMPP because it’s an established protocol you can host yourself (if you wanted) - this removes untrustworthy providers.

It really comes down to what’s your goal?

I’ve had better luck using MKV for my Samsung TV.

But yea, Mp4 is generally more compatible.

It’s shocking how little resolution plays into quality. I’ve re-encoded some videos down to 480 and played them on a 65" TV and they look fine.

I can also make videos look terrible by just trying to save space by reducing the quality level of the conversion while retaining high resolution (1080).

Well, guess it’s a good thing it isn’t.

ASD encompasses a lot of stuff, hence the word “spectrum”.

And every day we’re learning new relations between seemingly disparate disorders.

Hell, ADHD is now considered part of it.

Ok, bye.

The problem is they are almost never good, as everyone can read the same info 4x faster than someone can present it (best case), and 10x faster isn’t unusual.

Source: Former technical trainer - I’ve read a lot about instructional methodologies. Video is the lowest common denominator that’s all. It can be useful for things that have a visual component, and self hosting has very little of that.

Seems there are 2 kinds - video links with almost no text, just farming visits, and video links with a wall of text.

Both suck. Videos, in general, suck.

So much of what goes on here needs text, lots of it. Video is slow and cumbersome.