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No. Monitors are small, and suited for one person working close up. I am looking for a television without the "computer" inside of it.

Yes, of course, it needs to have a computer to decode and display images, but I don't want it to be running a stripped back version of Android, that shipped out of date and hasn't received any updates, with apps that are laggy and often not current relative to other "smart" providers, that also takes pictures of my screen once every thirty seconds to tell the manufacturer what I'm watching and for how long, to build a better marketing profile on me.

I want a big OLED panel with enough smarts to drive the screen. I will plug my own computer into the television, if the need should arise.

Watts in TDP are not the same as watts in electricity, although they're both measures of energy.

TDP is a thermal measurement, it's how much heat energy your heatsink and fan need to be able to dissipate to keep the unit within operational temperatures. It does not directly correlate to the amount of electricity consumed in operation.

Unless poll after poll is contacting and registering answers from 100% of people in the country, that's only 35-40% of the people who answered the poll, which is a much, much smaller number.

No good reason to do this, but I would imagine you could set up a site-to-site VPN with Wireguard (or hell, Tailscale) from your phone to a VPS, and have people hit the public server which routes back over your tunnel to your phone for access to the data.

I'm almost curious enough to try for myself.

I mean, yeah, sure if you view having to go to the store as a negative, then you would prefer to order online and have it brought to you.

After years (my whole adolescent and adult life, more or less) of online shopping, I find that it's actually quite refreshing to go to the store, find the product I need, and purchase it. I have it immediately, I got to handle a demo unit and get a feel for it. If I need to return it, I go back to the same store and get my money back the same day.

There are pros and cons to both, for sure, but these days I find I'm valuing the offline experience more and more.

I might be wrong, but, wouldn't the recommendation to avoid Amazon if you want to be sure come from the massive amount of training data pulled from internet conversations? The kind that would already have been discussing the issue of counterfeit products on Amazon being mixed in with legitimate products from the original manufacturer, since this is a problem that's been going on for, what, at least a decade at this point, right?

The LLM is inherently distrustful of Amazon due to having consumed and trained on a bunch of text that's about how one should be distrustful of Amazon.

Sure, but why would I, as an entity buying advertising space, pay the same amount when YouTube is just going to try to show them to people who are asleep, that can't see the ads, and thus would have no effect anyway?

I might be out of date, but last I knew, it was "most of them."

International models tended to use Samsung's Exynos processors, while the ones for the North American market used Snapdragons or whatever.

Nah, I still have my boxed Windows 8 Pro on my shelf. The key used to activate Windows 10, maybe even 11, but last I tried it didn't work anymore.

I just split everything into tracks like they are on the album. Is there a tangible benefit to a single large FLAC with a CUE to tell the player where the songs are?

Excellent news, I can play the game on my Steam Deck with the on-screen keyboard!

A truly interplanetary file system, lmao

Why would they shit a brick over people using data to ask a computer to generate videos of... a game they already captured video of?

I just like that the text editor has the same name as me :D

Out of curiosity, how often do you need to travel to somewhere that you don't know how to get to and haven't been to before?