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Comment Translation (Score 1) 21

focusing instead on its branded operating system software promoting third-party content searches

Today's TiVo is to TiVo of yesteryear what today's Sharper Image is to Sharper Image of yesteryear: a pointless company bearing the name of something great that used to exist for real.

Comment Re:Not a shopper (Score 1) 47

"Brightness" and "Backlight" are two separate controls in LCD TVs. You can check this with your TV. Go to the menu and you'll see the two separate controls. If you dial down the brightness, the backlight bleed stays the same.

Brightness is a software adjustment that affects the displayed image, and backlight physically turns down the LED intensity.

Shit-grade TVs don't control the LED intensity. They run them at 100% all the time and just software-dim the picture.

Comment Re:Fine by me (Score 1) 70

I find plenty A to C and C to C cables at the supermarkets these days. They also have started showing up with things which take rechargeable batteries and just assume you have someplace to plug in a type C, which these days is fairly reasonable. For most phones it's perfectly safe to use a $4 cable, they are only drawing a few tens of watts anyway.

Comment Re:Yeah, but they're getting incentives... (Score 1) 63

I expect someone here to answer that we should just spend near infinite amounts on all of the above. Why not just give everyone a check for $1m?

I'm gonna go ahead and answer you seriously, because why not? The answer is sustainability. Believing everyone should be entitled to the requirements for survival (e.g. food, clothes, shelter, medical care) as well as education (most people disagree only about how much) is different from believing that everyone should get everything they want. For example, you could believe that without working, you shouldn't be able to own much. Instead of handing people a bunch of money, you'd provide them with housing and food, etc.

But it's actually not sensible to do it that way, because if you give people money, they spend it and you tax it, and then they spend it again and you tax it again, and you get it all back eventually but in the process it induces a lot of work. And isn't work what you want done? So yes, of course you hand people money. And then instead of handing them food and necessities, people just go buy those things from this fearsomely efficient crap production machine we call capitalism, and the wheels keep on turning until we deplete our natural resources and/or destroy our biosphere with industry... at least, if the road we're on now continued. But that's not inevitable, it's literally only because we're continuing to allow big oil and friends to decide where we get our energy, how we're going to transport people and goods and so on.

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