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New comment by griomnib in "Sony ends production of Blu-ray Disc, recordable MiniDisc, and MiniDV media"

griomnib — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 03:11:13 +0000

Yup. That’s my guess as well, but on the other hand there is a pretty large industry serving the many people who do have a decent home theater system (and even some where it’s more “theater” than “home”).

As somebody who has a very nice (and expensive) 5.1 set up, I’m legitimately a bit worried about this trend.

New comment by griomnib in "Sony ends production of Blu-ray Disc, recordable MiniDisc, and MiniDV media"

griomnib — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 23:52:20 +0000

The primary value of Blu-ray to me is on a good home theater system the audio is going to be so much better than a stream.

The visual fidelity on a good 4k streamer is hard to tell the difference between Blu-ray (you can, it’s just not glaring), but even the sound on a DVD beats any streamer.

New comment by griomnib in "Feeling Targeted: Executive Order Ending Wasteful DEIA Efforts"

griomnib — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 23:49:33 +0000

That’s fair, you’re right.

In my defense, I’ve been advocating for accessibility in computing for over 20 years, and reading the original post really enraged me as it goes against all I stand for, hence reacting too strongly here.

New comment by griomnib in "Feeling Targeted: Executive Order Ending Wasteful DEIA Efforts"

griomnib — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 06:57:53 +0000

Yea but people’s RSUs are up, that’s all that matters to the Silicon Valley voter. Screw the weak.

New comment by griomnib in "Feeling Targeted: Executive Order Ending Wasteful DEIA Efforts"

griomnib — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 06:53:58 +0000

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New comment by griomnib in "Google Fiber is coming to Las Vegas"

griomnib — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 06:49:50 +0000

Yes and it’s not profitable enough to be worthwhile - unrestricted spying changes that.

New comment by griomnib in "Google Fiber is coming to Las Vegas"

griomnib — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:54:58 +0000

So the FCC is going to let them spy on the last mile with no restrictions. Nice of Sundar to come back from DC with a gift.

New comment by griomnib in "OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold"

griomnib — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:53:02 +0000

The CEOs and investor class are the elites. Politicians answer to them, not the other way around.

New comment by griomnib in "OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold"

griomnib — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:49:45 +0000

Give me a break, that’s fine for rounding and a huge gap between SCC and San Francisco and Santa Cruz. SCC is the outlier in the region, and a good percentage of HN is very pro-Trump because a good percentage of HN is pro-greed.

And the point about Chinese being among the most pro-Trump is South Bay stands - I have had several conversations and most people from mainland (RIP HK) see zero problem with authoritarian rule.

New comment by griomnib in "OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold"

griomnib — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 21:36:24 +0000

HN audience is essentially pro-Trump as well. 1/3rd of Santa Clara county (heart of Silicon Valley) voted for him, and a lot of tech employees come from authoritarian countries (China) and really see nothing wrong with authoritarian rule.

New comment by griomnib in "OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold"

griomnib — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 21:31:49 +0000

This is so clearly a complete lie - in what universe is some top government official in the United States telling corporations to a) fall behind competing nations in advanced technology, b) set back our technological edge in the military, c) degrade the USA ability to spy on and control information access/controls in other countries, or d) do anything other than fish for an insider trading opportunity.

New comment by griomnib in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

griomnib — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:28:13 +0000

Division by zero.

New comment by griomnib in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

griomnib — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:11:43 +0000

6. ??? 7. Profit.

New comment by griomnib in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

griomnib — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:11:13 +0000

4. Trump and Altman are both serial liars and it’s utter bullshit.

New comment by griomnib in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

griomnib — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:10:46 +0000

Altman is pivoting from WorldCoin to TrumpCoin - your retina will shortly be wired into the fascist meme-o-verse.

New comment by griomnib in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

griomnib — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:08:50 +0000

Or AGI already exists and is trying to get rid of us so it can have all the coal for itself.

New comment by griomnib in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

griomnib — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:01:45 +0000

How else do you think Trump is going to bring back all the coal jobs? SV is going to help burn down the planet and is giddy over the prospect.

New comment by griomnib in "A notification for you, Apple: There is no husband"

griomnib — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:08:41 +0000

I just really don’t want to work up a PhD thesis on the current state of Linux desktops before I switch. But I think I have to.

New comment by griomnib in "Has LLM killed traditional NLP?"

griomnib — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:02:13 +0000

Drowning isn’t the problem; just the water.

New comment by griomnib in "A notification for you, Apple: There is no husband"

griomnib — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:58:01 +0000

My primary complaint is the aggression to turn it on. You don’t get an option of “No” any more just “Not Now” which is openly user hostile as it implies I can’t make my own choices, I can only delay the inevitable. They’ve been doing that for a while now and each time it pushes me a little closer to leaving the ecosystem.

Then there’s the fact that I hate photos, mail, and the rest of it - which they turn on by default and then you have to disable. The fact that Apple Music works fine in my car but for some reason all other music apps are buggy.

Apple News won’t let me block news sources, anything I try to block stays in my feed just greyed out. Like, I’m not allowed to keep BuzzFeed out of my feed? Wtf.

Then there’s the sick charade of their “privacy” claims, which I won’t even get into, but it’s laughable.

They went from being the most user-focused company to nakedly extracting rent from a captive audience. I no longer feel I own my Apple devices, they own me, and I’m sick of it.