Rubberducky1324

The Mercator projection is not a mistake at all, it just chooses trade-offs when mapping a 3D sphere to a 2D plane that are relevant for marine navigation (preserving angles and directions, but not sizes for example). So if you want to do marine navigation, it's a good choice (no mistake). I can imagine it's not the best choice for things like Google Maps and learning maps in school, so the choice for Mercator could be considered a mistake maybe.

I had the same feeling (coming from NAD Viso HP50 wired headphones) that Bluetooth options just sucked. I recently got a pair of Focal Bathys wireless headphones, and they sound amazing.

I have an LG G5. I don't remember if I needed internet access to set it up, but currently I keep it offline and just use an Nvidia Shield (which is better anyway). No ACR, tracking, ads, ... in the TV itself.

By doing this you basically get a subsidized TV without paying with your data :D

They use the Signal protocol. The keys are not generated by Facebook, and are never on their servers. They are generated on the devices themselves.

> The unfortunate part is that CoreELEC only works when you get all your content from a locally attached disk. You can't even really stream it from your beefy NAS/server

This is not true. Streaming from a NAS at high speeds is fully supported and works fine. I would suggest to use NFS over SMB though, SMB gives me issues for higher bitrate content

Streaming apps do indeed not work. It's a device for local / NAS media playback.

The problem with this setup will sadly be that WideVine / DRM stuff will not like it, so you're locked to low resolution playback from streaming apps.

Each of these Android set top boxes need to be certified to get high quality playback.

> I find it so strange that Profile 7 is effectively unsupported outside of Blu-ray players and this one device.

Since DV Profile 7 is only used for Blu-Ray discs, and playing backed up BR copies from a non BR player is not really supported, it kind if makes sense that it's not supported.

For the Ugoos device, I'm not sure, but I thought the chipset inside supports it, but you still need to flash custom firmware (CoreELEC) and provide a Dolby Vision file to unlock this. So it's not supported out of the box.

> Citation needed? Yubico authenticator doesn't (the secure enclave is the Yubikey). I'd be very surprised if MS Authenticator and Authy (which I don't use but are the most popular apps that I know of) support such backups

Google Authenticator has an export option that I've used in the past, so that one does it for sure. Authy allows cloud-based synchronization in any case, so exporting seems quite possible. MS Authenticator also allow cloud sync, so probably exporting is not difficult.

> Also: 44.1kHz sampling rate != arbitrary waveform up to 22050Hz, unless music you're listening to consists of pure sine waves

Every signal can be represented as a combination of pure sine waves. That insight is the basis of Fournier analysis / transform.

> just genuinely more data.

Mastering is mostly done purely digital, so only when they are pressed are they converted to analog grooves. This can never add new data / information.

I'm really enjoying my Focal Bathys Bluetooth headphones! Sure, wired options will always be better, but when I want convenience, I've been really impressed with these!

clang-tidy can often detect these. If the body of the function doesn't modify the value, for example.

But it needs to be conservative of course, in general you can't do this.

LCD screens with FALD (Full Array Local Dimming) can do HDR just fine. Usually they even have higher sustained brightness due to the inherent limitations of OLED.