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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • Its funny because all these grand Japanese OEMs like Sony and Panasonic got undercut by Korean rivals like LG and Samsung in the 2000s, which forced Sony to move further into exclusively high priced devices and for many other OEMs to leave the US or global market.

    Now TCL and HiSense are undercutting the grand Korean OEMs, which is slowly forcing them out of the low-middle end market.

    I upgraded from a 20+ year old Phillips LCD to TCL’s QM8K, and the display technology for being a QLED panel is astounding. It looks 95% like a high quality OLED for a fraction of the cost.

    Only downside is Google TV (Junk Android that you have to debloat a bit) and for some reason the TV can’t passthrough Dolby Atmos from app players like Kodi, even though it can do DTS-X just fine. I’m pretty sure the second issue is just a software bug, but TCL has been taking ages to respond. Pass through from an external source works perfectly fine though.

    If you’re in the market, I highly recommend seeing it in person at a hardware/electronics store. The side by side comparison is insane.






  • Relax, Americans aren’t used to seeing and responding to an actual oppressive regime nor have the capacity for supporting meaningful change. Plus the military structure is so well defined, there would be very little chance anyone would fragment or opt to join a “side” except for the active government. Most you would see is a bunch of useless resignations.

    In true American fashion, everything you fear will just happen really half assed. If there is even a hint of a civil war, it’ll be snuffed out by your favorite 3 lettered agency long before it begins.


  • Okay so funny story, I needed to spin up a non enterprise windows VM with defender disabled for testing and got to experience the horror of local group policy not actually applying the disable setting because Microsoft disabled the functionality without telling anyone.

    And then I learned you can no longer disable defender on non domain joined systems without downloading a perma disable tool.

    Otherwise group policy looks so cool until you run Bloodhound and realize you’ve created a security nuke lmao.

    Thank God we have Linux







  • Their dumb counter argument was AVIF, for the same reason as webp which is reduced total size since they’re a massive cloud provider and want to penny pinch costs wherever possible.

    JPEG-XL also has a progressive loading algorithm that increases the quality as you download instead of classic vertical scan loading, which is sick but I don’t think any browser actually bothered to implement it yet after the Google hit job.

    Hopefully will see it in action soon.