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Tom Deketelaere wrote: Yeah, aren't all "smart" devices these days ...
Not the ones I build. I pick who I work for with more care than I've come to understand that most people can afford. I count myself lucky I guess for that and am not issuing that statement in judgment of people who don't have that luxury. But I will not write certain kinds of code, nor assemble certain kinds of hardware, and hardware or software that is designed to surveil people without their continuous/ongoing consent is not something I'm willing to take part in creating.
When I was young I was less selective, and after the fact I learned that some of the productivity software I had contributed to was being used to help companies abuse their workers.
Never again. I will walk away in the middle of a project before I do something like that again.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: Never again. I will walk away in the middle of a project before I do something like that again.
Been there, done that.
It wasn't surveillance tho, a previous company wanted to use data for commercial reasons even tho the terms clearly stated that wasn't allowed.
So I passed on that project, in the end the project never got released (and I knew that it wouldn't, there was no market for it) but still.
And yeah, just as you, I'm lucky I can afford it as well, not everyone can.
Tom
modified 23-Feb-21 1:58am.
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honey the codewitch wrote: However, for some reason when I watch netflix using netflix.com it seems like i don't get it in 4k, but going through my TV i do.
Like many streaming services, Netflix does realtime quality detection and will downgrade a stream to show what it thinks is the best that a particular device/bandwidth combination can reliably display. It's rather conservative from what I can see. I am not aware that you can force override it. It just does what it thinks is best.
I suspect, but have not confirmed, that it might have a built in bias for Netflix's apps over generic web. One day services like this will drop their generic web interfaces entirely, I suspect.
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Well - I sit here working with my 52" TV monitor - but it's LG. Costs so much Less Money. And although it's a "smart TV", it doesn't have the built-in aps, has never been connected to the internet and changing between TV/HDMI1/HDMI2/HDIM3 (the last is this PC) is by a single button that puts up a menu on the screen - goes right to where I want to go - in fact, when I turn the TV on (or the PC on) it even brings up a little icon for the new connection - press OK and you're there.
I'm actually somewhat afraid to buy a new TV as they will, sooner or later, make it mandatory to connect it directly to the internet. I stream via ROKU - but that's the next part of the story.
ROKU's just gotten too big and arrogant. All their remotes come with four pre-set buttons that periodically get pushed and you get thrown to one of the assigned (there choice) channels. I tried hot-gluing the buttons to stop them but they're too damn sensitive. I don't want to mess with the circuit board. They, by the way, are even below Virgin Mobil for online tech support - actually worse than useless. As for services - the "New and Notable" for a dynamic list of easily available channels hasn't changed for a year or more - and it just happens to be in large stations that they sell subscriptions to. "Free" stations, to them, also "Free Trial". The question is where to go from them? Oh - yeah - it seems they've "pulled an apple" by doing their upgrade to older devices to slow them down to get users to buy upgrades. They've also gone to not supplying some of their stations to "older" models. Like Windows 7, my upgrade is not likely going to be to their products.
Picking another TV brand is easy enough - but there are only a few streaming services. On a good day, they all suck.
Methinks, perhaps, it's time I turn to Kodi. Start with my Intel NUC and go from there.
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I looked for features at a particular pricepoint and size, that I could get locally without signing up for a costco card, and LG just wasn't on the list or I would have considered them. In the end I found two brands, the exact same price, and pretty much the same features, but I had never heard of the other company, I like my samsung appliances, and the things I hate about their phones (bloated, laggy, overpriced) didn't seem like they either applied to TVs or applied to my situation - I was wrong. They figured out a way to elephant up TVs as well.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Unwilling worker ends struggle (9)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Resistant ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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And that means you are up tomorrow!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I was reluctant at first !
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Which tomorrow are you referring to?
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The one that never comes ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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At the moment tomorrow is the same as yesterday
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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... Addiction Center[^]
Well, it'll certainly cure texting-while-walking ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Oath of Fealty --- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle Think of it as Evolution in action
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I always liked that book... and that quote.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Darwin advanced studies division?
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OriginalGriff wrote: Well, it'll certainly cure texting-while-walking We already have roads for that!
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But running over a member of the Intellectual Proletariat may place you in the company of many infra dignitatum types: The local police, the local magistrates, the local prison guards, ...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I have for years had lying around a few really great .swf files, maybe a dozen of them. Now that I wanted to show one of them to a friend, it wouldn't play.
Yes, I do know that all Flash support ended long ago, and all sorts of Flash files have been discouraged, due to security risks. Web browsers have no support for them any more. But I have been using dedicated .swf/.flv players, that would work offline. Now they just display a large icon, or report "Error: input string was not in a correct format."
I was naively believing that I would be able to play my old .swf files 'forever', given an offline, standalone player and local .swf files. Apparently I was wrong.
I have no idea what has changed. In the program directory of my standard "MPC-HC" video player, not a single file has been changed for three years. The rather anonoymous "SWF File Player" has files unchanged since 2013. Maybe both depend on some .dll that has been removed, or registry settings that have been invalidated.
Is there no way whatsoever for me to play the old .swf files nowadays? If I boot up an old XP installation, with no network connection, would it work on that one? If not, how the elephant has Adobe managed to kill even that? I most certainly would like to have the files available on my Windows 10 machine, so if anyone can point me to some truly standalone player for .swf that hasn't been butchered (and won't be) by Adobe, please tell me where I can find it!
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Try Adobe has left a building[^]
More than likely this'll open most adobe legacy formats. Those formats are the one's that used to be supported but are no longer being maintained.
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Nope. It plays .flv, but not .swf.
(From the description, it looks as if they look upon Flash as a pure video file wrapper, ignoring the interaction function of .swf files.)
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Adobe Flash Player - Debug Downloads
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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