They can control what you do because you have to sign a contract agreeing to their terms.

I’ve long joked that PE stood for “placebo effect”.

I grew up near a road that was paved with asphalt containing ground up tires. The road lasted a long time (15-20 years), but for its entire life, it smelled like a pile of burning tires. You had to close the car windows and set the ventilation to recirculate to try to keep the smell out.

What’s the benefit of a foldable e-ink display? We don’t typically fold our books and magazines in half. The bendability of paper is mostly a side effect of its thinness and really only helps when turning or flipping through pages. Electronic devices don’t have multiple physical pages, so they don’t need to be as thin…

Isn’t it already illegal to sell a gun (or a complete gun kit) without a serial number? My understanding was that a gun kit could be no more than 80% complete to be sold without serial number, and that remaining 20% had to be more substantial than just assembling it or drilling holes.

The continued lack of VC-1 decoding is the only reason I haven’t adopted the Roku for all my media playback. I’m not willing to re-encode my files and lose quality considering even a Raspberry Pi has hardware decoding of VC-1.

Photo-stitching would require more code than all of MS Paint.

I feel the same about TackLife, which they dropped recently. They have/had very good products at decent prices. Amazon may be throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Probably not. Most of these companies are just brand names for various Chinese companies. They will just pop up with a new name.

These types of business decisions never make sense. First eBay creates a payment processor (called PayPal), then they spin it off. Now they have to create a new payment processor since they don’t have one anymore.

I’m not sure why there is even a contract between the companies. Roku offers a platform (like a PC running an OS) and YouTube TV is an app that runs on that platform. Other than some sort of quality certification, there shouldn’t be another connection between the two. For example, there’s no contract between HP and…

Nobody remembers Coca-Cola BlāK?

Nobody remembers Coca-Cola BlāK?

There is definitely confusion between 5G and 5GHz. Some of my less technical friends have mentioned using the 5G in their Wi-Fi router.

BTW, I’m running an UnRaid server with 2 parity drives (can survive any two drives failing simultaneously).

I have about 70 TB on my server. I have an assortment of drives purchased over several years, but the most recent 8 TB drives were around $139 each (shucked externals). As you said, SSD isn’t even close to feasible at these scales. The pricing of drives is roughly $50 + x/byte, so when dealing with 1 or 2 TB, the…

This sounds like an issue with the public water supplies that these companies are using. None of them are adding these contaminants.

No Spinal Tap?

One thing they never discuss is what about vapes that don’t contain nicotine (or THC)? Why should they be banned, too? Why not just limit the flavorings to non-nicotine cartridges?

Unfortunately, most media outlets got rid of their fact-checkers years ago, so they rely on unconfirmed content, and it is causing a continual eroding of the public’s confidence in the news.

So, if the drivers are declared employees, it’s OK if Uber and Lyft set their hours, right? Some manager will have to assign drivers to each shift, including night shifts and the drivers will have to do it or lose their job. And if the driver wants to drive on their day off or during additional hours, oh well.