According to the response I got from Netflix or Nvidia (I for get which ATM), the autoplay feature control is deliberately disabled on that platform. Works in Wii U, though.

I will try managing the "continue watching" link.

FWIW, Crunchyroll has broken that. I have seven episodes of various things completely watched sitting in my "Continue Watching" with 1 S (second).

It used to be that there was a home screen display of the users' choice of various applications, followed by highlights from those apps. Now it is just the highlights, so there's no easy way to get to the main screen of the app; you are always dropped into the video, forced to stop it and return to the app main screen. You can get to the main screen, but it is three clicks away. Also, specifically on Netflix, there is no way to look at the description without the video beginning to play, but if you don't watch it, it is stuck in your "continue watching" list forever. This pain in the ass "feature" is specific to the Shield TV, as it does not happen on the game console I have.

There must be a VP, or higher, level of executive in charge of annoying customers.

I was going to buy one for my mother, since her cable TV bill is egregious, but now, I'll have to look into Roku and Apple, even though I am not a fan of Apple's ecosystem.

Bought one. Doesn't even play videos from the unreachable USB port. I have too may other devices (streaming media player, game console, Pi 4B) to need that crap in my TV/Monitor.

If/when we get global samples of the same time period and span, then we can talk about a "shark extinction event". That one, two, or even five locations show a drop in shark apparent shark populations is something to be categorized as "interesting, needs more data", but means nothing. Globally, what else was happening? Locally, was there some other change to the environment to make it lass attractive to sharks?

Worth publishing the data to get others to add to it, but total fraud to attach any meaning to it.

Neutrons stick to protons because the energy needed to break the strong force bond isn't available most of the time. When there is sufficient energy, due to a high-energy photon or collision, neutrons often do break free.

Electrons don't crash into protons because the energy (mass) needed to convert them into a neutron isn't available most of the time. That difference in mass between a proton and a neutron is usually represented in a neutrino and a photon. When that isn't there, the electron settles into the lowest energy orbital it can reach. They are not "orbits" like you saw in 50's science classes and cartoons, but that is another class.

I've been using Cygwin since almost forever.

First used it back when a company's "desktop policy" was Windows 95. There were Sun workstations in the lab, but that was a huge productivity hit (fewer machines than programmers, travel between office and lab with documentation), so most of us used the Cygwin X server and shared the Suns in real time.

I keep a dual-boot Windows 7/10 laptop around for the very few corner cases where I am away from my LAN, and Linux/OpenBSD are not quite the right tool. Its twin, which gets more use runs, those. The Wintop, has Cygwin installed, and almost no Windows applications.

I may, eventually, try WSL, but I cannot imagine that this is anything but a ploy to allow corporate IT to shove Windows down every programmers' throat, rather than letting them use VMs on a Linux host.

This is part of the nonsense that provides anti-science nutniks with ammunition. Extrapolating from current baselines is utterly meaningless. Why not use 1921, 1821, or 21 BCE as the baseline? Why pick those three countries? Why not Iceland, Canada, and Sweden (countries less effected by WWII and whatever epigenetic changes were brought on their parents by that experience)?

There are already studies that show some correlations (yeah, I know "correlation...") between diet, physical activity, pollution control, and stress response to general aging. For example, here in the US, most everyone over 50 was exposed to leaded gasoline. What effects (probably not good) are related to that exposure? We already know lead exposure at some level leads to cognitive difficulties.

About the only things we currently "know" about potential human lifespan is that over time, some conditions (pattern baldness and hardening of the prostate, decline in HGH and testosterone) are caused by "natural" changes in the body and that many cell types have increasing numbers of cells entering senescence and not being replaced by healthy cells. We don't even know what specifically causes those changes, although somewhere along the line telomere shortening became a target for investigation (I cannot find anything definitively linking that to general aging).

I want a mid-1970s 300GD, but with the 300SD engine (for some stupid reason, MBZ never fitted the G with a turbo). Mechanical fuel injection (including the fuel pump) and mechanical control of the transfer case and differentials. Once started, it needs no electricity to continue running. Electricity may be needed for the glow plugs and starter motor, but it is plain old DC, not electronics.

Swap a manual trans for the automatic, and it is shade-tree mechanic/Zombie Apocalypse ready. Add a Union of South Africa sticker (ZA) to advertise your status.

If you've got one for sale (with/without the turbo) send me a message.

Security is never a priority because it is a "cost". Jail senior execs of any company that is breached (as in the breach, in and of itself, is sufficient evidence for conviction) for several years. That would make it impossible for them to sweep it under the rug

They and Hulu fell out a few years ago, but if 2-channel sound is acceptable it is the best for Netflix. The Nvidia Shield I bought to replace it simply hasn't, in part because either Nvidia or/and Netflix decided to keep the annoying "start the movie" feature whenever you select a title simply to get more information. That doesn't happen on the Wii U, as the application there honors the users' settings.

Crunchyroll is mostly stereo, so sound quality is the same as the Shield.

Haven't looked lately, but with a decent DLNA client or Kodi, I'd seriously consider dumping the Shield on ebay.

Netflix has a control for it on the desktop version, but it is NOT functional on Nvidia Shield (other Android?). Once you click into a title to get a bit more information, autoplay begins, regardless of the setting. When I called to complain, I was told it was intentional.

The setting does work at the top-level display of the Shield, and both levels on Wii U.

The new rating system is also very lame/annoying. If my only two choices are up/down, then an interesting, but not stellar, title is either not rated or rated down.

The Mediterranean Sea has dried up repeatedly during ice ages. I would very much like to see the waterfall as the Atlantic Ocean refills it. A smaller version also existed at the Bosporus Straight, perhaps in only a few thousand years ago.

Take a look at the Gibraltar Straight on the NOAA map: https://maps.ngdc.noaa.gov/viewers/bathymetry/

There's a steeply-banked, narrow channel that appears to have been carved by rushing water.

If piracy is a crime, then Steam was libeled by being accused of it, as was their hosting company for facilitating the crime.

Shouldn't they be able to recover the damages to their reputations, as well as punitive damages, for this libel?

The "Blackbird" is backordered, but I've sent a query on availability. A new POWER9 would replace a current microATX PPC.

It's an old browser bookmark of mine, so thank you for mentioning them.

I just bought a new "dumb" TV from Sceptre https://www.sceptre.com/TV/4K-UHD-TV-category1category73.html?v=1614378061/.

Although it has a USB port (in an essentially unreachable location), it doesn't have enough "spare" CPU power to play videos from it. OTOH, multiple HDMI, so room for a LibreELEC Pi to play anything I want without Sony's nannyism. Throw in your choice of captive streaming stick (mine's an Nvidia Shield) and game console and you're good to go.