That idea works in theory where there isn't any negatives. The problem is there always is. Your goal is to consume media. Do you care about quality? Netflix is the antithesis for that. Their goal is for you to consider them the second screen.

Second.

Not first. Not only. They are not trying to engage you. They want to be on in the background so you feel a connection to them to not cancel your service, essential noise while you doom scroll.

They have explicitly said as such and that is the reason many of their shows have fucking horrendous screenplays that would get you an F in a high school drama class. Like really basic don't do this 101 level shit such as expositing what is currently happening on the screen. You know... because they don't want you to actually watch the screen.

While too many streaming companies is a bad thing, nothing good comes from Warner Bros being dragged down to make absolutely fucking rubbish at the direction of Netflix's upper management - which Netflix is objectively doing.

Hey, that Pepsi formula was super duper secret. Even more so than that goofy colonel's 11 herbs and spices.

Yeah, LOL, the first time I encountered Quicktime I thought, "how cute, GIFs with sound." Computers struggled back then to even handle 160x160 mov clips. It got better as time went on but being an Apple thing meant the PC world moved on from it pretty quickly.

You mean: That would be "unconstitutional".

I'm sure we can make a deal.

That's great. You get all my competitors together to follow this standard with a minimal amount of opt-in data and I'll just keep hovering up the entire internet. You see why my competitors may not be so keen on your standard idea?

Does your browser advertise itself as a web crawler? But let's math this shit!

You are a human. I suspect when you browse it takes you a good 10-20 seconds to make a connection, wait, receive a captcha, re-evaluate and context switch, and attempt to switch to another website. That's conservatively 6 attempts per minute. I assume you need to eat, drink, shower, shit and sleep so let's say you spend every other moment constantly battling Cloudflare like a lunatic even professionally while you work. That's 16 hours a day, 960minutes, or 5760 attempts per day. Or a total of 875,520. There'd need to be close to 500,000 of you lunatics doing this all day, every day, every waking moment, continuously for 5 months to match this number.

Somehow I think even if you did get get stuck in a captcha, and it did get counted ... I don't mean to belittle you but you're quite insignificant in this number.

I thought Microsoft just shovel money at OpenAI. Do Microsoft even do any of their own model training at all?

Anti-trust violations are not innovation. But thanks for writing the most stupid thing I've read this year, which is impressive given how low the bar already was. I see why you post AC.

Hey, if they don't have an Internet tether to the mother ship, don't have a big stupid screen that controls everything, and don't cause sticker shock, they will do well. Hopefully the big ass-hat car manufacturers that create overpriced cell phones on wheels garbage will take notice. I won't even consider a new car today with the absolute shit that is being offered, not to mention the price raping.

You must live in a rough neighborhood!

If I really thought my garage door was up, I'd just text my neighbor to ask if it was down. We've got each other's house keys in case we need them. No way I'd want to live in a neighborhood that required me to lock up _that_ tightly!

It must be working a band other than ~433Mhz like the ones I tried. 100 yards is really good.

I am more and more surprised by the crazy amalgamations that these more traditional industries come up with in regards to IoT. We have seen online fridges that display ads, dishwashers with an app and more bananas stuff like that.

Why is there hardly any really standard for a personal home automation hub? Nobody really wants all this trash phoning home over the internet to mysterious servers. Controlling it within your LAN area would be mostly enough. And if you REALLY wanted full remote control, then that personal hub should just integrate with existing services like Apple, Google etc. But it should not be every single device doing something different and more stupid, this should be way more standardized, allow you more control over your data and should be much more future-proof.

That would be unconstitutional.

Chromecast is a security risk, as they refuse to implement WPA3. Its daft that they require wifi to control them. Nasty consumer devices that need to die.

The ONLY free market is the black market. That ends up with plenty of organically formed limitations even for the top crime lord - who still might suffer a while before Trump pardons them.

Government defines the rules of the market, the corporations are an extension of government, defines the currency needed to function, defines and enforces property rights...

American cars are subsidized and heavily protected; if not, they'd be gone years ago.

Free healthcare isn't subsidizing a company. A better power grid isn't. A pro-business power grid is somewhat a subsidy but nothing outside norms. Infrastructure like roads, communication, water, etc. isn't subsidizing. Indirectly, everything can be spun as subsided.