Compression depends on the broadcast. Digital stations can dynamically adjust bandwidth allocation to each stream, so primetime content will look better.

SD channels look like compressed garbage. Far worse than just DVD.

As far as why no HDMI, I can give a few reasons:

• Cheaper
• Easier if your TV is far from your antenna.
• Most people use a single streaming device for all TV and like not switching HDMI

I’ve got a TabloTV. For primetime content, it looks great.

YMMV. In my toogoodtogo experience, many stores use it as a way to get you in the door.

Also after plugging one side in, the other side is a fun little cattle prod.

Everyone boosting AI use acts like it’s this little secret that only they know about.

TIL, we use the phrase “roll up the window” because early car windows had manual cranks that to be turned to open or close them.

I found a bunch of old floppies from gradeschool, so I picked up a USB drive to archive them. Wild seeing files with modified dates starting in 19xx.

but making them easy enough for mass adoption

In the attention economy, making them easy enough translates to making them addictive enough. I’ve been using a dumbphone for four years and every time someone asks about it, they say something like “I wish I could do that.”

The thing people want is also what they hate.

I can write upside down pretty well. This once got me a job offer after I did all the example problems so they were upright for the interviewer.

Nothing that fancy. Just getting a good char. But the pan dries out everywhere not touching meat, so bits get caked on a bit.

The bread is Pan de muerto. I just learned this from this post

Depends on how stuck things get. I do a lot of blackening of meat which tends to leave dry cooked bits on the pan which don’t wash out so easy.

Came here to say YouTube. Also because our doctor sent us videos regarding care for our recent pregnancy, so we unwillingly had Google know we were pregnant.

Also computer processors. RISC-V can’t advance fast enough.

Also ticketing. NFTs would actually be great for managing venue ticketing and someone needs to eat Ticketmaster’s lunch.

I have one of those too, but I usually don’t need it with the heat and steam method. Most of the stuck-on foodstuff comes off with just a spray from the faucet. No need to even scrub.

Endoscope. $50. Uses phone as screen. 10’ wire with camera and light on the end. Saved my ass when wiring through the walls so many times.

Cleaning cast iron. I used to add water cold and bring to a boil. Now I heat first until grease is almost smoking, then add a bit of water and let it steam and sputter itself clean.

Booo? 👻

Counterfeit or no, I think this perfectly captures the spirit of the originals.

Anime causes rise in invasive raccoon population in Japan

I had a vibe coding coworker take over a project. Added 8,000 lines of documentation all dated 6 months in the future.