Ahhhh yes, I'm "stealing" the freely available over-the-air digital TV signals available here in the Seattle area. Darn those pesky corporations producing pirate airwaves that anyone and everyone can freely tap into with their TV or a box like HDHomeRun! Absolutely horrible.

broadcast tv is still shit-tier bitrate 1080p (or even sometimes 720p/1080i still). streaming platforms are marginally better bitrate, but still rarely even have 4k content. there are 4k blu-ray movies. but honestly, im not sure i've seen any 8k content ANYWHERE!? im sure if i explicitly search for it, i can find it, but the casual content around me is 4k or lower.

and beyond that, we're also at the point of diminishing returns. we're at the point where the production cost of the convent vs the demand makes "no sense" from the business side of things. the extra storage, extra bandwidth, extra processing for 8k content is quite significant, and the market demand for it is near-zero. its an e-penis pissing competition to brag that you got 8k content rather than an otherworldly better experience. in the real world, it is a marginal perceptual increase in quality, compared to something like better HDR spec has a much larger noticeable increase in the overall experience.

mind you, i'm saying this as a super geeky person who would absolutely fucking LOVE to have a high refresh rate 8k monitor for my primary workstation.

Maybe... just maybe... they shouldn't have god awful fucking shit quality service, both the ISP connection itself, and their customer service !?

100% THIS

I was doing this w/ NDI tech a decade ago.

the rankings are fucking bullshit, no matter which language you think should be top or bottom.

their "metric" is "we went to google, and used google's estimated number of pages referencing this language"

that's it. that's the entire fucking index. google de-listed a fuckton of older pages on the internet. google changes their algo all the time. this "popularity" contest has absolutely fucking nothing to do w/ actual usage, and is entirely at the whims of google's day to day enshitification of their search engine results.

Who ever the fuck has an issue w/ Lego having electronics products isnt a Lego fan at all.

TLDR: FUCKING MINDSTORM EXISTS

I'm guessing you don't know all the ways to activate Windows then.

Standard Windows keys require Microsoft for activation. MAK (multi-activation keys) also require MS. However, KMS (Key Management Service) however does not. KMS uses a locally controlled server for activation. This is quite common in large organizations that deal with a high quantity of machines (think fortune 500 orgs w/ 100k+ employees w/ laptops). This would of course also cover the military. Do you think the DoD was using phone activation this entire time for their air-gapped machines? No, they have the private DoD network w/ this type of infrastructure (at least, this is my assumption)

How may different compatibility deployments are there for IPv6?

6in4? 6to4? 6RD? NAT64, 6over4? Teredo?

Think any of those are fake names? Try again!

And that's just ONE piece of IPv6. Practically everything in the "spec" has at least 2 variants minimum, and its just a royal clusterfuck. When it is described as "protocol by comity", this is exactly the result, and its been a total pain in the ass to have anything reliable at scale.

You may be on one of the lucky ISPs that has a sane deployment and want to reply with "Well, it works for me!" - that's awesome, and I wholeheartedly mean it. That IS really awesome! But for the rest of us dealing w/ multiple ISPs in multiple regions, its a fucking shitshow to get anything reliable going consistently.

One IPS I deal with about 18 months ago entirely dropped IPv6 "support" - and now we can pull a single /128 address with no routing table at all. So we have an address that is entirely fucking useless, instead of having a normal block allocation which it was previously. Another ISP I deal with still uses PPPoE, and then uses 6RD over that, so the MTU is trash because both reduce the MTU size.

IPv6 is a fucking mess, and it pisses me off every day!

"You won't be walking around with a calculator in your pocket all day when you're an adult!" - teachers in the 90's and earlier.

"NO, you can't have a global communications network with the sum of all human knowledge attached to a tiny super computer in your pocket!!!!!" - teachers today

From TFS:

"In November 2025, the American IT services giant Kyndryl announced its intention to acquire Solvinity, a Dutch managed cloud provider."

When mentioning -40 degrees, there is no need to mention F or C, because that's the cross-over point!

I can't wait for this new level of kernel panics!!

I only state this because I have a Dell laptop for work, and Windows will consistently kernel panic (blue/black screen) when entering this mode.

Something devs forget to check is to see how well PCIe devices, in my case, Thunderbolt, goes in/out of sleep. These devices have direct memory access, and if you don't properly put them to sleep, shit breaks hard! It honestly took me well over a year of troubleshooting to figure out exactly it was these sleep states + thunderbolt at the same time causing the issue. Take either out of the equation, and shit works just fine.

Nvidia uses a unified driver framework for Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD. Dropping all support for GTX 10 series and older was applied across the board in all their drivers, not just on Linux. This article is more about the mishandling of notification to end-users in the Arch ecosystem that did a normal "system update", which removed GPU support without warning for users of these GPUs. In the FreeBSD ecosystem, we use versioned drivers already, where the package name includes the driver version in it, and if the older/compatible drivers are ever pulled from the main package repos, it is still fairly easy to "git pull" an older commit of the Ports tree, and "build" (download) the older driver and have it installed. Will this continue to function in newer kernels going forward for Linux or FreeBSD? Who the hell knows! This could also become an issue on Windows as although from a branding perspective, "Windows" is still "Windows 11", Microsoft does significant kernel updates yearly now (previously twice a year). So we're fine on 25H2 (tested an verified on my dual-1080 SLI laptop, yes, really, that's a thing), but who the hell knows when a newer build of Win11 will break compatibility with the older drivers too.

typical "i didn't have an issue therefor i'll just assume nobody will ever have this issue" response which doesn't hold truth at scale.

"The human eye perceives somewhere between 30 and 60 FPS"

This is absolute bullshit. Humans can track significantly faster than this, its just that at around 24 frames a second (assuming proper motion smoothing from captured footage), things START to appear animated rather than a series of stills.

There is a reason why 240Hz monitors exist. Check out Blur Busters tests, such as https://testufo.com/ - on a 240Hz OLED panel there is a distinct difference between 120Hz and 240Hz. And now we're pushing monitor tech well beyond this level of refresh rate.

There have also been countless tests done to show that higher framerates in fast paced games has a measurable impact on human processing latency.