No such thing has occurred.

Do you think a sitting President could ever be charged with a crime (apart from impeachment)?

Wrong.

So true. Heavy believer in lurking in any community you join prior to being loud. Understanding the norms of micro cultures and adapting to them is an important step to successfully integrating if you plan to be there for awhile.

we have a saying for that, soft brick.

I was super excited for BeOS myself.

I was a little surprised to have to scroll this far down to see BeOS come up. The first Amiga mention wasn't far above it either.

BeOS-lineage Binder IPC continues in Android.

I'm booting and running Haiku on my Thinkpad. It's a from-scratch workalike of BeOS, and able to run Be software. Though, frankly, Be software is totally 1990s, so a lot of Linux software written for Qt has been ported to Haiku.

In the end I wound up with basically the same application software as on my Debian desktop, except running on Haiku instead of Linux. Haiku is noticeably snappier and more responsive than Linux+X+Qt+KDE, though.

Wild that people would downvote your low stake personal opinion given as a direct ask from OP. I am 100% with you.

Google Glass was so much before its time, it might be reinvented a few more times and abandoned again before finally becoming a success.

yea, crazy, I upvoted just now.

google glass sucks though and glasses will never be a thing. google and meta and … can spend $8T and come up with the most insane tech etc but no one will be wearing f’ing glasses :)

I don’t think people are downvoting for the mention of Google Glass, but due to the rest of the comment making a value judgement many are sure to disagree with.

microsoft’s vibe voice.

VibeVoice (according to the repo description) is currently unavailable due to "misuse". But my impression was that it required a significant (>8GB) amount of VRAM? Or that it wasn't suitable for on-device for devices with low specs.

its unavailable from their repo, but was released with an open license and mirrors exist. I'm not sure what the VRAM req are.

According to this issue[0] the 1.5B model needs 6GB of VRAM. Meanwhile it looks like NeuTTS is designed to be able to run on CPU, which is nice for older/lower-spec hardware.

0: https://github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice/issues/26#issuecommen...

yes, most are.

Either Google, and other advertisers, put me in the "uses adblockers, be aggressive with ads" pool, or they've moved on to using DoH/DoT/etc in general. I've been able to confirm this by observing Google and other Android apps making TLS connections to known DoH/DoT/etc IPs, and blocking them worked.

At that point, you need more complex routing than what a simple DNS blocklist can provide via Pihole, and if you want good throughput, you're going to want real networking hardware and not a RPi.

n8n reddit is overrun with get rich quick workflows.

n150

for the super affluent, https://www.kaleidescape.com/compare/

Funny that they're marketing the supposed advantages of higher bitrates using pictures with altered contrast and saturation lol. I would expect the target audience to be somewhat affluent in the actual benefits? Then again, I wouldn't expect somebody like Scorsese to be a video compression nerd.

Also the whole "you can hear more with lossless audio" is just straight up a lie.

This has been more or less proven to be a complete scam, the quality isn’t any better than Blu-ray and in many cases worse.

The “best” quality of streaming you have is Sony Core https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Core but it has a rather limited library.

"Not any better than Blu-ray" is the same as saying "much better than streaming."

I think there are a few examples where the bitrate is higher than a native rip however.

Fascinating.

Pricing, if I am reading the site correctly: $7k-ish for a server (+$ for local disks, one assumes), $2-5k per client. So you download the movie locally to your server and play it on clients scattered throughout your mansion/property.

Not out of the world for people who drop 10s of thousands on home theater.

I wonder if that's what the Elysium types use in their NZ bunkers.

No true self-respecting, self-described techie (Scotsman) would use it instead of building their own of course.

For the less affluent you can setup a Jellyfin media server and rip your own blu-rays with makemkv.