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Comment Re:What a waste of time (Score 1) 42

Sounds like you need a better school board or state laws. My local High School offers a cooking class with an award winning Chef, an auto shop class with a motorhead that use to build race cars, wood shop class that builds sheds to any number of things (if the school needs something custom made they do it and they learn how to patch holes in walls in the building), agriculture course for anyone that wants to learn about plants or get into landscaping, an AP nursing class taught by a local hospital nurse, digital photography and video editing class, a club run by the local tv station where they often get hired for jobs later at the station in the Summer, and to graduate due to state law all kids have to take a finance planning course.

Comment Re:Amazon lock in (Score 2) 43

by xeoron (#64209702) Attached to: Amazon Confirms Fire TV Is Dropping Android
That side loading and unlocked fire devices are the only way they are used by all the people I know. I hate those devices, yet there is a massive community that only uses it because what they can side-load. They will lose a lot of business switching to this different OS.

Submission + - United and Alaska find loose parts on Boeing 737 Max 9 door plugs (theguardian.com)

Submitted by UnknowingFool
UnknowingFool writes: Following the incident on Alaska Airlines 1282 on Friday where a door plug blew off mid-flight, the FAA ordered all Boeing 737 Max 9 airplanes to be grounded and the door plugs to be inspected. Both United Airlines and Alaska Airlines have reported finding loose parts on their planes with United specifically listing "bolts” where Alaska only referring to "hardware". Both airlines have repaired the situation and put the planes back into service. It remains to be answered why the parts were loose and what further issues could arise.

Comment Re:One has to wonder... (Score 1) 37

by xeoron (#64128561) Attached to: LG's 2024 OLED TVs Put a Bigger Focus on AI Processing Than Ever Before
YES very important question... although Matters not, if you do not connect it to wifi :) My experience to setting LG TV/Projectors they will demand WiFi access to upgrade the firmware, yet will let you avoid it. Personally, I will upgrade it and then tell it to forget the wireless network. My current LG screen has 4k upscaling it calls something like 4k AI upscaling and it works for image quality yet it delays all audio so it is unusable.

Submission + - DVD resurgence to prevent films from disappearing (bbc.com)

Submitted by smooth wombat
smooth wombat writes: The advent of streaming services heralded a new era of movie watching. No longer tied to an inconvenient time at a theater, movies could now be watched at your convenience any time of the day or night in your own home. However, with that convenience comes a sinister side: those same movies disappearing from streaming services. Once the movie is removed from the streaming service you can't watch it again. As a result, more people, particularly younger people, are buying DVDs, and even records, to preserve their ability to watch and listen to what they want when they want. Before his release of Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan encouraged fans to embrace "a version you can buy and own at home and put on a shelf so no evil streaming service can come steal it from you". From the BBC article:

Other directors have chimed in to sing the praises of physical media. James Cameron told Variety:"The streamers are denying us any access whatsoever to certain films. And I think people are responding with their natural reaction, which is 'I'm going to buy it, and I'm going to watch it any time I want.'"

Guillermo del Toro posted on X that "If you own a great 4K HD, Blu-ray, DVD etc etc of a film or films you love... you are the custodian of those films for generations to come." His tweet prompted people to reply, sharing evidence of their vast DVD collections.

There will always be fans who want to own everything they can by a favourite artist or director, but another factor is an increasing fear over how much – or rather, how little – control we have over the content we stream. With so many streaming services at our fingertips, it's easy to assume that we can watch any film we want, any time we want, subscription depending. But there are many films that don't seem to exist online. In the UK, you won't find David Lynch's seminal debut Eraserhead available to stream. In the US, one New York Times writer recently told of her difficulty in trying to watch her favourite childhood movie, Britney Spears' Crossroads. Nineties pop fans wanting to indulge in a spot of nostalgia with Spice World will struggle to find it in the US.

Even films that are available could disappear at any moment, as streaming services reevaluate their content libraries or remove titles due to licensing agreements. And when you pay to purchase a digital version of a film or TV show, as opposed to renting it or watching it via a streaming subscription, you still don't "own" it – you've just purchased a licence to watch it. And, of course, when everything is on the cloud, we are at the mercy of a stable internet connection.

It was a problem that the film collector Lucas Henkel kept encountering. "I realised that many of the movies I enjoy are not really available on streaming services, or they disappear frequently, so the only way to see them reliably is through physical media," he tells BBC Culture. So Henkel decided to set up his own boutique home entertainment distribution label, Celluloid Dreams. "As a collector myself, it has a lot to do with the desire to own something tangible," says Henkel, explaining his own commitment to physical media. "More importantly, it guarantees access. I can pull out a 20-year old DVD and play it any day I want. No restrictions, no extra fees, no subscriptions just insert the disc and press play. Seriously, what's not to like about that? And no streaming service can match the quality of a presentation coming from a physical medium."

Comment Re:time and effort? (Score 1) 111

Sounds like they are trying to copy MacOS: it can reinstall the OS in recovery mode and keeps all apps, settings, files in place. Learned this one day when a system update was caught in a reboot and try to apply loop, with Apple Support walking me through the reinstall the OS only part and it worked.

Submission + - Colorado Supreme Court declares Donald Trump is ineligible for the White House 19

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: The AP reports: "A divided Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declared former President Donald Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot, setting up a likely showdown in the nation’s highest court to decide whether the front-runner for the GOP nomination can remain in the race."

"Colorado’s highest court overturned a ruling from a district court judge who found that Trump incited an insurrection for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, but said he could not be barred from the ballot because it was unclear that the provision was intended to cover the presidency."

"The court stayed its decision until Jan. 4, or until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the case. Colorado officials say the issue must be settled by Jan. 5, the deadline for the state to print its presidential primary ballots."

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