Sure, but then I’m still using discord’s servers. And it’s very unlikely I’d be convincing anyone until Discord screws up bad on something that affects them

No, it’s not because life without Instagram is sad. Read the other reply for a real reason. People stay on platforms to keep in touch with others and those others do the same.

It’s only “generational” because half the world didn’t grow up with the Internet as their primary form of communication. But I’m against that label because it’s true for anyone who uses a service a lot.

I would LOVE to stop using Discord but there’s no way I’m convincing all my friends to run two chat programs (Matrix for me, Discord for their other friends)

If it’s stationary, the temperature doesn’t matter. Well…it probably does at SOME temperature but the issue I’m referring to is flexing the cable when it’s brittle.

I moved to the pre-install engineering side of things so I don’t have to run it anymore but it was a dream to work with over CAT6A

They have cables with harder jackets for racks that I’m sure is what most people are thinking of with the bend radius but yeah…bulk fiber is incredible. The big caveat is temperature… don’t pull fiber when it’s freezing out.

It definitely depends on the application but my instructor showed it to us in training and I replicated it for a tech who wasn’t there later

There’s also two minimums, one for how much it can bend before the fiber breaks and one (much larger) radius for peak operation. A knot causes optical loss but it still works

Instead, they’re trying to force everything to USB with DP Alt mode which has a ton of the same annoyances…but at least USB C is flippable I guess.

HDMI 2.1 cables have 19 wires and USB 3.2 has 13 or 14 (can’t remember) so they’re really finicky and fragile. Fiber has 1 or 2 and is VERY rugged in comparison…you can literally tie a knot in a fiber cable and it’ll still work.

Plus with fiber, if your AVR blows up, it can’t take the other equipment out with it since it’s electrically isolated.

Fiber is also cheap cheap cheap!

Fiber is thin and easy to route.

Fiber can ALSO be shortened, extended, etc. in the field.

The only downside is the cost of the splicing tools (and the cleanliness required)

And I guess SFP connectors are pretty gnarly. But if it was aimed at consumers, they could slap a nice rubberized coat on it…

Man, I love fiber.

So don’t watch it. Problem solved lol

If you think he made it long because that “equals good content” you are either unfamiliar with Rossmann, not the target audience, or simply delusional

You’re telling me. I work in pro AV/networking and have to worry about DRM and HDCP handshakes all day.

Fair enough on my analogy being bad. Your second one is much better but I think it would be more accurate to modify it to “not being able to play a triple A game because you use Linux and the anticheat won’t run.”

My company orders a thousand TVs a month and we’ve dropped Samsung all together unless a client specifically requests it. I hated them when I was an installer (terrible to mount and configure, especially the Frame TVs) and now I hate them on the pre-sales side of things.

We looked into LG but they’re kind of a pain to get quotes from.

We default to Sony now.

Isn’t it more like buying a 4K texture pack dlc for a game and finding out your GTX 1070 can’t run it? The problem here seems to be getting max settings on unsupported hardware.

I think Netflix sucks and that OP should get a refund…but I also think Netflix provided what was paid for

Fair enough! Thanks for elaborating.

It’s better than signing them up for spam. We could add that personal touch

There’s a joke in there about the power of hot air but I’m not confident enough in my knowledge of British politics to make it

[edit] don’t upvote me, read their reply. They clarified their argument and I was wrong

I feel like you agree with the person you’re replying to but don’t see it.

You hate when people/media describes it as a winnable scenario. They are saying that the chart misrepresenting energy gives people the impression that the “fight” is almost “won” and the government has it covered - no need to keep it part of the conversation.

We’re all so lonely, won’t you give us someone to talk to? Post the unedited screenshot so we can all make a friend

Oh whoops I misread

I was gonna say the screen is too small to be worth 4k but then I remembered my friend’s son playing his Switch with his face against the screen lol

Well that doesn’t solve their problem at all

Teardown is good chill fun