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WetBeardHairs , 3 months ago to technology in Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service

There is no hardware reset switch and in order to perform a software reset you need to get to the menu and to do that, you have to agree to the terms.

WetBeardHairs , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to technology in Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service

Yeah, computer monitors are manufactured to a different spec than television displays at the pixel level. This is usually called chroma subsampling.

Computer monitors typically are 4:2:2 or 4:4:4 which gives nice crisp and legible fonts. Anything less than 4:4:2 gives me a headache (also Windows…).

Television displays are usually 4:2:0. That’s fine for rendering large text that is visible across the room. But trying to edit a word document would be a terrible experience.

I believe they manufacture the television panels with fewer pixel address lines and that reduces the cost. Also, smart TVs sell ads and your usage patterns which are used to subsidize the cost of the tv.

That’s why computer monitors are so much more expensive than televisions.

WetBeardHairs , 3 months ago to technology in Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service

HDMI CEC will let your other devices turn on the monitor and switch inputs as appropriate. You’ll need some kind of AVR to play audio. Plenty of low cost, highly capable solutions out there like the WIIM Amp that lets you use multiple sources such as your PC or a dedicated streaming set top box.

WetBeardHairs , 3 months ago to technology in Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service

The downside is those are meant to be ultrabright for viewing in a highly lit restaurant counter with a really slow refresh rate and they tend to cost thousands of dollars. They are simply not meant for use as a display for movies and games.

WetBeardHairs , 3 months ago to technology in Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service

Sounds like a good way to get a new tv and move away from roku. They’re really piling on the ads lately and making their os really slow.

WetBeardHairs , 3 months ago to technology in Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service

Dang… mine is on 12.5.5 and the newest they support is 9.4.0

WetBeardHairs , 4 months ago to news in US sues to block merger of grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons, saying it could push prices higher

Bad news sells. Good news goes unnoticed.

WetBeardHairs , 4 months ago to memes in I swear it doesn't get this hot in other games

Minecraft is deceptively hard on cpu and gpus for what the game appears to be. It looks simple, but that simplicity comes at the cost of very high computational loads due to how dynamic and interactive everything is. They add in new features pretty frequently for a game I bought 12 years ago. Those features aren’t free and they stress the system even more. Be happy it is playable at all on a phone - it’s nice that they added in tuning parameters to let your phone be capable of playing it instead of saying you need the newest RTX4090 just to get 30fps

WetBeardHairs , 4 months ago to memes in I swear it doesn't get this hot in other games

It ran while simulating a distance of one chunk at a time. Computers could simulate much more because the game was written to let software define just how far from the user to render. Phones rendered hardly anything which let them at least play the game.

WetBeardHairs , 4 months ago to memes in I swear it doesn't get this hot in other games

It just has an absolute ton of calculations to perform on hardware that is not made for it.

WetBeardHairs , 4 months ago to worldnews in A 'Christian' family moved to Russia to escape 'LGBTQ, trans,' but now they're 'ready' to 'get out'

If we ever needed a sequal its now.

WetBeardHairs , 4 months ago to memes in Exchange Valentine's cards

God damnit they’re going to start making tiktoks into gift cards or some shit.

WetBeardHairs , 4 months ago to memes in Exchange Valentine's cards

I buy the bulk pack of general purpose gift cards. Some have got flowers on the front. Others say Happy Birthday in gender neutral styling. They’re all blank on the inside. I write messages to people. The pack of 20 cards costs about the same as two of those shitty pre-written gift cards.

WetBeardHairs , 4 months ago to memes in fries are another $8.00

Five guys will let you fuck your burger

This echos my last five guys in restaurant people watching experience.

WetBeardHairs OP , 4 months ago to linux in Are there any immutable distros meant for NAS systems or home servers?

Several comments specifically talked about VMs for the various apps. And frankly I’m not super familiar with the limitations of containerizing apps either. That’s part of why I was looking for an immutable os + flatpacks / snaps - it’s much more similar to a normal linux system just organized in a way to not break shit.