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From a previous comment of mine:
> … my Insignia TV (best buy store brand) with fire tv built in is basically unusable. Echoing a previous comment I made too, about “smart tvs” and the “streaming sticks”: Hey, have you ever thought of why even the $149 Black Friday loss-leader no-name-brand TVs all have Amazon Fire, Roku, or are now "Smart" in some way? Certainly isn't because they need to incentivise you to connect it to the internet so it acts as a Nielsen-esq measurement device of all media you view on the screen via digital fingerprints that exist in all commercial media and advertisements. [1][2]
I feel like my Dad saying “turn off the damn lights” now that I gotta pay the ‘light bill’ on a machine that runs 24/7 with spinning disks.
It's already a tried system in Baja California: import the LED/LCD panels from China, assemble in Mex, export to US.
The issue being that Mexico for a country with massive coastlines only has a handful of good deep water ports, especially on the west coast with Lazaro Cardenas, the busiest port in all of Mexico [1], only takes as much tonnage as Port of St. Louis, the 21st US busiest port [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_seaports_in_Mexico
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ports_in_the_United_St...
I used to work for a media agency’s analytics dept and we got feeds from G, F, and others we dumped into a giant DB for modeling and analysis of our clients ad reach effectiveness.
First-hand account from me that this is not factual at all.
I worked at a major media buyer agency “big 5” in advanced analytics; we were a team of 5-10 data scientists. We got a firehose on behalf of our client, a major movie studio, of search of their titles by zip code from “G”.
On top of that we had clean roomed audience data from “F” of viewers of the ads/trailers who also viewed ads on their set top boxes.
I can go on and on, and yeah, we didn’t see “Joe Smith” level of granularity, it was at Zip code levels, but to say FAANG doesn’t sell user data is naive at best.
Good coverage in London, UK but not as much as the US
only fancy restaurants in France/Spain
some small biz places in Venice, Italy but probably only because of the Venice Biennale was sponsored by Amex and their sales people did a push.
First-hand account from me that this is not factual at all.
I worked at a major media buyer agency “big 5” in advanced analytics; we were a team of 5-10 data scientists. We got a firehose on behalf of our client, a major movie studio, of search of their titles by zip code from “G”.
On top of that we had clean roomed audience data from “F” of viewers of the ads/trailers who also viewed ads on their set top boxes.
I can go on and on, and yeah, we didn’t see “Joe Smith” level of granularity, it was at Zip code levels, but to say FAANG doesn’t sell user data is naive at best.
People are hungry for the new class of drugs and there’s a huge market being tapped by Chinese pharma to crank out these even while they are still in study/approval stage.
As a side note, my Insignia TV (best buy store brand) with fire tv built in is basically unusable.
Echoing a previous comment I made too, about “smart tvs” and the “streaming sticks”:
Hey, have you ever thought of why even the $149 Black Friday loss-leader no-name-brand TVs all have Amazon Fire, Roku, or are now "Smart" in some way? Certainly isn't because they need to incentivise you to connect it to the internet so it acts as a Nielsen-esq measurement device of all media you view on the screen via digital fingerprints that exist in all commercial media and advertisements. [1][2] [1] https://www.ispot.tv/ [2] https://www.samba.tv/
* 500/500 for $60, can go up 5gbps symmetrical if I wanted
* While not advertised as static, I've had the same IPv4 IP since I checked a year ago
* No significant downtime
* The provided router has a single 2.5gbps port and has 802.11ax
Disatisfied:
* The ONT and gateway is a Nokia BGW320 provided by AT&T that I must have. I cannot provide my own. There are some work-arounds with pfsense [1] and bridging 802.1X traffic.
* The Nokia ONT/Gateway kinda sucks and it's ARP tables fill up and the general networking of it are fairly basic and what you'd expect for some $30 TP-Link.
* I'm fairly confidant that AT&T uses CGNAT. I haven't been able to get Plex remote access to work correctly.
"I don't recall saying good luck"
I think something like that coupled with something like https://hamwan.org/ to route high-bandwidth traffic could be a great combo, almost like an adaptive bandwidth.
Me, personally, I would like to see the bands filled to capacity and it be common/everyday that ordinary people use 2m/70cm data modes for things besides DX’ing.
As far as the OS: It doesn't have an 'app store' and essentially you can program it to check in to an RSS feed / FTP / etc.. to grab new content, schedule content, or use a USB to load up a scheduler (Think like restaurant menu that changes from breakfast to lunch at 10:30am).
Other nice features may include ability to daisy chain to make a video wall, fallback/failover if HDMI1 goes off, RS-232 control or command of other systems. Some models also are built for 24/7 duty cycle, though, if you go to a local sports-bar or the like they will buy consumer TVs that will look blotchy within a year or two because they aren't built to be on 20 hours a day.
I recently was a Tech PM for a large ad/marketing agency and we utilized them for effectiveness of movie goers for a large studio. Essentially, we wanted to see who saw our ads on social media _AND_ set top boxes _AND_ searched for the movie title in particular Zip codes.
Obviously highly specific data that fingerprints a single user wouldn't be given to us by Meta, Comcast, and Google (first-party data), but we can ship that data to a "clean room" who will venn-diagram it together to get us our ultimate numbers, per Zip code, to find effectiveness/reach.
Wal-mart being a first party with both of their doors (retail and pharmaceutical) presumably can do this all themselves with their own data scientists looking at register receipts.
One insane fact I recently learned is that they do not use modern weapons, like guns, for fear of things getting out of hand. Only medieval clubs, bats with barbed wire, and martial arts/fists are allowed. [1]
[1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a44725757/...
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Gaffer-Power-Non-Reflect...
I'd say that it's pretty apt, that it's all running on VC money for market share. There's a reason that before mobile devices the only restaurants that offered delivery were pizza & Chinese.
"Can't decide between a Nissan March, Jpeg SX, or the Honda Jazz EX"
With AI it can make them automatically look lifelike, and you can just pull from your database of scans. Furthermore, you can use AI to create new extras from your existing training data.