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What native resolution is your projector? Not at all trying to insult, but many "1080p supported" handle the signal, but still play back at 720p, and there's a good chance you're getting a better native resolution playback that compressed and down converted 1080, which would make sense.

Also, while I LOVED my 120" projector screen with my med-high end BenQ DLP projector, after upgrading to my 85" I just can't go back to the screen, even if it's dark. Idk, it just can't compete. And I play actual BD discs on the projector to maximize quality.

No way, not even close. At least I can't enjoy that anymore, I'm too much of a snob now... Are you watching on your phone or Laptop? That would make sense.

However, 1080p h.265 can get you superior quality while saving space over 720p h.264.

When I had to watch on my 65" UHD, it was 4-5GB/hour 1080p h.264 files at minimum. 8-10GB UHD h.265 minimum. When I rip BDs my 1080p stuff i rip and convert to h.265 and keep them around 5-6GB/hour (which is like 8-10 h.264 so a gain), and my UHD + DV/HDR stuff I rip are also about 12-15GB/hr... but I cut out all subtitles and alternate audio and keep stereo and multi channel English to help maximize that file size (for friends/family who don't have surround or just use TV).

Now that I'm on an 85" UHD, I kept most content the same (most shows don't need UHD + DV or HDR) but on bigger theatrical stuff or content where I care, movies are closer to 20-22GB/hour for maximum enjoyment. It makes a very big difference when viewing lower bitrate vs higher bitrate! Way less banding, pixelation, and offers smoother playback in higher motion scenes. Plus, audio plays a huge part in immersion!

Not everyone has the space though, for that content, so I get it. But treat yourself occasionally and watch something hi res with quality audio!

Love the Mr Robot reference (hopefully).

It's no different than you subsidizing the costs through the carrier, the only difference is Apple will likely earn interest whereas carriers do this at basically 0%. Or Apple is going for vendor lock in. Right now you can "switch phone companies" and they advertise paying off balances up to a certain amount to entice the switch. Apple may not allow that.

Jesus, underhammer lol, like the old guns you'd crank on to chamber, but miniature! Never seen it, and I own some old 1800s stuff too.

That looks like some AI pistol too. I've never seen anything resembling that style. They used to be flint style but here that doesn't exist. Barrel is way to short for its supposed age. Idk that that finger hold is either... There's so much wrong with this.

So does Copilot and Microsoft Copilot 365. I enforce GPOs to ban/remove them, and every couple Windows updates, it reinstalls, and each next day I see my alerts pop up they're back.

We're catering too much to the auto industry at this point, it's a stranglehold on the market. Instead of holding these massive companies accountable (coughkiahyundaicough) with theft issues and lacking security systems, now just install kill stitches on everything, and have additional ways to monitor citizens since it'll be always connected smh.

Oh no... Is it? I figure they're some small start up from Indiana so hopefully might be more trustworthy. The base model doesn't even have a modem!

Edit: FUCK ME you're right. Bezos funded them so he could compete against Tesla. Jfc. I'm not buying one, ever then.

The same with those Fire TVs auto updating without a network connection, I'm assuming it's using some sort of LoRa radio technology so they're able to still transmit data whether you like it or not! I noticed it on our conference room TV, not hooked up internet at all, but I noticed the fire TV ads were updating. I blocked it on our network via mac address just in case, but I read up on it, and they use a "proprietary technology" so the TV's can still update.

LoRa or WiFi HaLow is my guess since you don't mess a license like HAM, it's low power, inexpensive, etc. Would not be surprised one bit if Amazon is secretly listening without public knowledge. (Maybe too tinfoil hat ish)

Edit 2: what's worse, Slate swapped in a former Amazon exec to be the new CEO. Fucking doing sorry already before even releasing 1 vehicle. They're NOT trustworthy IMO. Maybe they won't have a modem in the base model, but they're probably counting on people opting for technology, and they'll still likely get financial data through the sales process that Bezos and Amazon can capitalize on. There will definitely be some sort of data brokering involved!

I wish I had the money to start an open source auto company. Like slate, but with more options.

Illinois just banned phones in school. Idk if that's leave in lockers or out of class.

We call those tornado sirens now. Wonder if ours function that way 🤔😅