Fun fact, the image on the cover was from the 1939 worlds fair

It’s the Trylon and Perisphere

Android auto fails to load for me so often I’m pretty much restarting every day anyway

That typewriter sound effect for every key you hit was so satisfying

What was the series?

I think every salon had one of these at some point

Yea I see this as a net positive. They mention concert venues. This is the perfect use case, I remember so many times struggling to get a bus after a big show because they’re packed. This could relieve that. It could increase frequency of pickups on existing routes, it’ll cut down on single passenger Ubers.

My bet, fully automated with localized maintenance workers who can travel around and perform repairs to fix the trucks stuck in their areas.

They’re also accepting full liability if anything happens while using this feature so it’s actually a type of insurance

Yes but I individually choose what goes in there it’s not the fire hose of data that is everything I browse

I’ve got Google One for the storage but there was no way I wanted all my internet activity routed through the Google servers

Yup that’s the “nebulous music licencing platform” I was referring to

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Bandcamp was bought by Epic Games, who fired half the staff and sold off the remainder to some kind of nebulous music licencing platform. I wouldn’t cheer them on much longer, I see dark days ahead.

These are digital signage displays. They’re meant to sell the McRib at McDonald’s. If you care about any of the features that make modern TVs look great, black levels, contrast ratio, HDR these won’t cut it.

And yes the bottom of the barrel brands like Roku and Viso will give you the bottom of the barrel experience. This is not the same if you go with something like LG, Samsung or Sony

Problem with monitors is they’re not practical as a TV replacement for a livingroom environment. The 16/9 ones pretty much top out in the 40s inch wise unless you’re going for something outrageously expensive like the Samsung Arc. Then you’re investing a lot into features that don’t necessarily benefit the livingroom entertainment uses like GSync if all you’re using it for is watching movies and TV.

There’s a lot of smart TVs that work great as dumb displays (my LG never shows anything from it’s OS, just my inputs) as long as you don’t connect them to the internet

Yea I definitely fall into the 20 pages or less a month category. Hell I probably fall into the 20 pages or less a year category. But I’d never add a subscription for something I can just buy out.

According to Air Canada, Moffatt never should have trusted the chatbot and the airline should not be liable for the chatbot’s misleading information because Air Canada essentially argued that “the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions,” a court order said.

That’s some business class horse shit right there, glad they got taken to task over this

This always bugs me about the “it runs Doom” posts. 90% of the time it’s just a unique display hooked up to a regular computer where the computer is the thing running Doom or they made some simple raycast game with Doom assets (like all the calculator ones) or they just jammed a raspberry pi in something.

I’m sure this display will show Cyberpunk 2077 if they piped the display in properly. Doesn’t mean e.coli are running a 4080.

Regardless of the function, Netflix paid to get their name advertised right on the remote.

Content providers can probably include chapter markers in their content. I also suspect it’s not hard to detect a scene transition. Failing these, randomly placed.