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For years it had frame rate issues. Every second or so when watching eg Netflix you would see a micro stutter if the content wasn't at 24fps (eg PAL content at 25fps). I think this was improved recently but it's been years since I've used the Shield for anything but Plex.

As for Plex I've had way too many issues to list. Networking issues, having to restart the Plex app after the device went to sleep, etc. When I switched to using Plex on the Apple TV all the issues went away.

It should be noted that I have re-pasted and cleaned the dust of my Shield a couple of times since I got it 10 years ago.

> I think the Apple TV is the best streaming box out there

It definitely is.

IMO the only advantage of the Nvidia Shield is better HDMI audio passthrough but it has so many other issues. And with more recent versions of the Plex client for tvOS the lack of audio passthrough is much less of an issue than it used to be (PCM conversion used to introduce sync issues). Also the Plex app for Android TV has been getting consistently worse over the years for me. Plus all the ads Android TV added a couple of years ago. Ugh.

Some of the more exotic boxes out there to run CoreELEC have tehcnically better DV support. These might work if you only want a Plex or Kodi client but for general streaming the Apple TV is just better.

Honestly can't wait for Apple to release a new one. Hopefully with audio passthrough of more codecs.

> not to mention the electricity to run them...

And noise.

That's your interpretation.

When someone claims that vinyl has less than half the DR of a CD then I think it's important to clarify how big of a difference it actually is. I would imagine HN would care about 16bits vs aprox 10bits of dynamic range.

I'm stating an objective measurable fact not arguing about semantics or meaning, whatever that is for you.

I'm not saying there haven't been improvements but personally I would not classify those as "very different".

> That is a false way of saying it

As an audio engineer I'm well aware of how decibels work and why we use them.

You're talking about subjective perception but I'm talking about objective measurements.

Yep many current pop songs are commonly mastered at around -8 LUFS even peaking at -5 LUFS which is quite loud.

> Vinyl literally has less than half the dynamic range of CD

A lot less than half.

It's around 20-30db and every 10db is a factor of 10. The CD has between 100-1000x more dynamic range.

Every time I do something that's not supposed to be permanent until I have time to implement a proper solution it lasts for years.

So a company which has access to practically unlimited tokens and their best models makes crappy software. Huh who would've thought?

/s

> Shipping tens of megabytes per web page is impolite, if not outright disrespectful to users.

You're being generous with what I would consider negligence.

The vast majority of global users are not using iPhones.

The consequences of MBs of JavaScript can be perceived by anyone in terms of performance and mobile data consumption.

You definitely need other factors but societal passion seems like the cornerstone. The US has everything except this.

Personally couldn't care any less about sports. I say this as an external observer.

It's the culture.

I'm from Spain and living in Mexico. Football in these countries is almost like a religion.

> There's guaranteed persistence

There's not. Browsers can delete "persistent" storage at any time.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Storage_API...

Honestly you can POST to an API to the other side of the world and receive a response in less than 300ms. That's literally the blink of an eye. There are very few use cases where you'd need even lower latency than that while at the same time sacrificing reliability (there's no guaranteed persistent storage in a browser).

For native apps this is less of an issue since they have access to persistent storage but with browsers there's no guaranteed persistence.

> Webpack - while maybe a win over Grunt/Gulp, was MASSIVELY complex.

and slow

yeah SSR is still marked as experimental after like 3-4 years

nobody wants it

> Maybe they should invest money in competing with Vercel on UX/DX

That's exactly what they are doing.

This is just my own impression but I feel that Evan might have distanced himself from Vue to focus on Vite and Void. IIRC Vapor mode was spearheaded by someone else. Same with Alien signals.

To be clear, I don't think this is bad. Vue 3 seems feature complete at this point and nobody needs another Vue 2 situation.

afaik Void Cloud never went GA

Weird situation for Vue. The Nuxt guys and Eduardo (creator of vue-router, pinia, etc) are working at Vercel while Evan is now at Cloudflare.

> theres no evidence that they arent (or can't) use profitable inference to subsidise those other expenses

as far as we know there's no evidence that they can produce any profits at all

AI companies have more expenses than inference.

The MSRC situation is really unbelievable.

There are probably better sources but I think this video by The Primeagen is a good introduction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kxx5xp5nTQ

I owned a Surface Book v1 for a couple of days before returning it. It was a garbage device with tons of issues. I will say it had amazing keyboard though.