It was wild seeing fair-use Mickey Mouse in a divorce lawyer’s commercial.

To me, yellowed plastic is a badge of honor. Old age comes for us all.

I just hit the same issue a few days ago. So Debian 12 (Bookworm) still has i386 support, but that support may end as soon as next year as they haven’t confirmed i386 as an architecture for LTS.

If you do go with Debian, you can easily choose a lightweight desktop during installation.

One of my favorite remotes had the sources split across the top. Composite, Component, VGA, HDMI. And if you hit the button twice it’d cycle through the different ports of that type.

Never found a remote like that again. Now they just throw a menu to slowly browse through.

Reminds me of:

https://foodie.sysco.com/sysco-products/

I tried XFCE for some older hardware and had the same experience.

I poked around at stuff like fluxbox and found it too minimal. So I ended up using LXDE instead and got better results, but that was before it transitioned to LXQt. I have no idea if it’s still as lightweight as it used to be. Someone else might have to chime in.

which is funny because firmware is a legacy term for what evolved into what is honestly software.

You don’t need to socket any new chips nowadays.

It’s not drama, I’m just surprised is all. He’s usually very good about his accuracy, so when the entire premise is wrong I would have expected him to retract the video instead of leaving a comment someone can miss.

It’s a pretty big mistake, though given it’s his second (casual) channel it is very low stakes.

He can’t posit that re-releases are being done on single layer DVDs to save money, but use bootlegs as proof. Bootlegs aren’t a DVD release done by the distributor. That’s a pretty fatal flaw in logic.

It’s the equivalent of “Steam games are getting re-released in a weird way” and linking to Pirate Bay torrents, and the entire video is about how cheap games have gotten since they don’t have Steam features like achievements and cloud-save.

I’m surprised this video is still up, since the entire premise is false. They are bootlegs he bought off ebay, not official releases.

Not sure if it’s the one you are referring to, but AI gave discounts on flights.

The advertisers demand to view any generated log.

I don’t know about this agreement, but of the ones I read: They also have a mass arbitration clause, where if a threshold of people arbitrate you automatically get grouped into a class so the company doesn’t have to pay nearly as much.

do people actually buy those? I honestly thought they were some kind of money laundering thing. I’ve never once saw one sell.

I don’t know if it changed, but when I started looking around to replace my set about 2 years ago, it was a nightmare of marketing "gotcha"s.

Some TVs were advertising 240fps, but only had 60fps panels with special tricks to double framerate twice or something silly. Other TVs offered 120fps, but only on one HDMI port. More TVs wouldn’t work without internet. Even more had shoddy UIs that were confusing to navigate and did stuff like default to their own proprietary software showing Fox News on every boot (Samsung). I gave up when I found out that most of them had abysmal latency since they all had crappy software running that messed with color values for no reason. So I just went and bought the cheapest TV at a bargain overstock store. Days of shopping time wasted, and a customer lost.

If I were shown something that advertised with 8K at that point, I’d have laughed and said it was obviously a marketing lie like everything else I encountered.

Wasn’t always the case (I think it changed within the past two years), but upon doing research on when it changed I stumbled on this gem.

I’m pretty sure that was implemented a while ago. My install of VLC from F-Droid started showing up in Play Store’s update list.

It couldn’t update since the signature didn’t match, but Google knew about it and included it anyway.

I get my media from the local library and buy the ones I enjoy.

This combo even got rid of something that was ADB blocked in Android 14.