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Depends on the server you are using to host your media sever from. If you're using a Raspberry Pi, then you might not be able to support transcoding at all, definitely not for a 4K AV1 video and a lot of modern formats. So even if Apple TV can play it, the Plex app won't attempt it and will force transcoding from the server.

Even if your server can support transcoding, all transcoding results in quality loss, so if you want to enjoy your media in the best formats then you want to direct play. Just depends on the media you are playing and how much you care about the quality.

The official Plex app hasn't been updated to take advantage of all the hardware decoding support available on the Apple TV. I moved to Infuse, a paid third-app, which I use to stream my Plex media content.

Jellyfin official apps are sporadic though, so Infuse is popular for Jellyfin users because it is well maintained and allows you to direct stream content without transcoding as often as possible.

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I'm also the developer of Aviato Media Server (https://aviato.media), which I just released publicly last week and is available only as a beta, and I am an ex-Plex employee.

> and it's "better for the environment" because every year you don't buy a new phone, the environment is happy.

This seems wrong. I am still on an iPhone Xs Max from 2018 and it still gets software updates. It looks like the last software update on the G6 was in 2020. The lack of even security patches limits the life of the phone for many people.

The primary reason I'll eventually need to upgrade is because of 5G support. Coverage is getting worse as 3G has been shutdown and all new towers are focusing on 5G. My battery life sucks now too, but that can solved easily.

Sounds like he used to be younger and needs to see an optometrist.

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I used Grammarly in the past and I stopped because the privacy issues were concerning. I switched to https://www.antidote.info/en, which works entirely on-device, without sending your data to a cloud service. They now do offer a fairly minimal web application that can be used if you have their subscription, but they offer a one-time purchase for the desktop application.

Similar to Grammarly, the growing use of AI-based pair programming tools, like Github Copilot and similar, poses similar serious privacy risks. While the intelligent autocomplete is helpful, it uploads large parts (or all) of your source code; which most companies should be very concerned about.

Actually, SSO is usually a requirement for even basic security audits. So SSO is essentially required for companies operating in specific sectors, regardless of their size. Healthcare and military contracts are two obvious ones, but any company dealing with sensitive information, going through SOC compliance, or similar will likely need to enforce SSO to enforce and audit access policies.

Besides, SSO is a major convenience. Assuming that SSO = large company is a flawed perspective, although, I understand the reasoning you're conveying. I believe, however, that only very small companies (less than four people) can easily avoid SSO, because it is complicated to deal with on/off-boarding employees, SSO helps.

And I agree with OP in most regards, for most services, advanced security controls should be available. I think it is far more likely that most companies segregating their security features are not secure by design, so the functionality they're offering is poorly implemented, and by restricting access they limit the amount of support they need to provide to those features.

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For anyone who is interested, the actual blog post on his website was deleted. It's available on the Way Back Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210601160519/https://www.kamau...

This has been annoying for me. I build a healthcare EMR software, and the browser trying to autofill the employee's information into every patient field is often a problem. By accident we end up with patient's phone numbers, addresses, and emails being set to employee's information. Since its software, I don't have control over those employees, but we have had to put in recommendations to disable autofill in browsers being used to cut it down.

We've spent countless developer hours trying to work around password managers. I agree that sites shouldn't attempt to disable password management for login and sign up pages, but it's annoying how often these password managers do the wrong thing and break the user experience for pages… like Safari is doing for livewire-ui/spotlight.

I agree entirely. I've tried zsh and other replacements, but I keep coming back to Fish. It's intelligent, loaded with features, and ohmyfish adds a lot.

No other machine I connect to has fish, but for my own machines, it's my top choice. Still, I write a lot of utility scripts in bash for the compatibility and it can be annoying when I copy a command and I know it won't work because it uses some unsupported syntax in fish. Every now and then, and it is rare, I switch to bash locally to run something.

No one wants used products for "new" prices, but plenty of people would be willing to buy open-box items at discounted prices. It's a huge thing for appliances.

In most situations, however, things are simply repackaged and sold as new. Clothing, for example, is commonly returned; then hopefully re-washed before selling again as new. In most situations this applies to electronics as well, although electronics can be different. There are stories out there of people buying new SD cards that had photos on them. Most companies have a return center that processes returns, inspects them, resets them, and repackages them to be sold again as new.

Exceptions are when returns are sent to stores… like Amazon or Best Buy handle returns differently than returns going back to the manufacturer.

I don't think most stores would offer returns, except it is often forced on them buy credit card companies to protect their consumers.

American Express, Visa, and Mastercard all have some kind of requirement that the merchant allows returns (usually 14 days minimum). Otherwise the consumer can file a chargeback and the resolution will go to the consumer in most situations.

Years ago, there was a failed gaming device called a Stinky Board, it's a D-PAD controlled with your feet. I got one at a gaming convention and have never put it to good use. Now I have a reason to pull it out of storage.

Link to unavailable product: https://www.amazon.com/Stinky-Gaming-Footboard-Foot-Controll...

Maybe I am missing something, but iOS 14 has had beta versions out for developers for months; I had been running iOS14 and Big Sur for testing for weeks. Apple has always had developer previews and at some point, when mostly stable, they often release public previews to get a few interested users involved in testing as well.

They've been working with developers for a long time on the new App Clips functionality and that's been open for developers to start working.

So I am not following what is this article is saying? It seems like they're suggesting that Apple should release iOS a few days after announcing, but, that isn't enough time for most developers to test and release updates for a major iOS update; but Apple never intended those few days to be the only time developers had.

I do not think it is.

Blockchains are meant as a data store. Archival, verifiable. But not easily searchable. There is no design on blockchain for advanced query languages/logic.

It seems like the OP is going after something like blockchain that adds querying. But I don't think blockchain syncing is designed well enough for client-side use, and the OP seems to want to use this database client-side in JavaScript. I think it would be possible to implement blockchain syncing with WebRTC, but WebRTC has some security risks for users (IP leakage mostly) so I am not sure I would start off with that as a primary communication channel.

I think this comes down to price. They are constantly buying drives and to avoid supply issues, it is acceptable to have a hard drive that fails to a certain degree, if the price is balanced.

It would be interesting if these reports included prices, but that might be a problem for Backblaze to reveal so much about their business operational costs.

I also posted to the github gist, this the sed command here is not cross-plataform friendly. You can accomplish the same thing with an awk command though:

awk '/^###/' "$0"

Right. Firefox and Safari (iOS and desktop) haven't implemented the Clipboard.read functionality yet either, only Chrome has and it's only available on use action such as a click or keydown (and not available on touch or scroll events).

But they can copy to your clipboard for you, a lot of services use "Click to copy" features. But reading is much harder.

iOS before 14.0 appears to have allowed apps to read clipboard contents without making that clear to users. Now that you get a notification whenever an app reads the clipboard, it has become fairly clear a lot of apps are reading clipboards constantly. For what… we all wonder.

I agree with this.

As a privacy-first company, for them to make any decision that is for performance but adds additional privacy risk shows they make the wrong decisions.

They also left this for over a year after being told about it and part of the only reason it was caught was that their browser app is open-source. What about all their closed-source services, like their favicon service their browser apparently relies on.

We shouldn't blindly trust any company and a privacy-first company should be willing to assume we don't trust them and therefore it is up to them to prove everything they do.

I get a few of the responses on their Github page are now non-helpful, but the big point here is that by DuckDuckGo taking this series of actions (implementing the browser like this, ignoring a valid bug report about it, and only reopening the issue after massive push from users) it shows that DuckDuckGo isn't as privacy-focused as I thought, nor many others.

I've been using DuckDuckGo as my sole search provider for several years now, on all my devices, but I'm concerned about what else they may have done in the sake of "performance" over privacy.

Some of the models look cool, but this website is unchanged since 2014/2015. Not sure they’re active.

This is what I thought had happened.

They've supported MFA for awhile, so simple enough to reset a password and make sure MFA is turned on.

I prefer when companies are proactive.

It wasn't listed in tech specs, but it was never hidden or kept secret. It probably could have been more explicitly detailed, but in the FAQs for the Nest Secure it even tells the user:

> Can Nest Secure detect breaking glass? No. We’re working on bringing glass break detection to Nest Guard, the main hub of Nest Secure. Nest Detect, the open/close motion sensor, doesn’t have a microphone, so it can’t detect breaking glass. But its motion sensors can detect movement by intruders as well as when a door or window opens and closes depending on how it's installed.

https://nest.com/support/article/Frequently-asked-questions-...

This was listed before this big announcement.

The microphone is not part of the Nest thermostat, it's only part of the Nest Secure, the keypad which is included as part of the Nest Guard.

Since the best options currently rely on remote programming and browser-accessed IDEs, has anyone tried using a remote desktop tool, Parallels Access, TeamViewer, or VM software to simply remotely program? I can't imagine it'd be great still…

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Are they aware that "Surgical‑grade stainless steel" means extremely cheap? Surgical‑grade stainless steel is designed to be single-use. They advertise their phone as having steel that is good enough to use once?

The data was very interesting, but there wasn't anything meaningful mentioned that came out of the data, other than possibly where you should look to move to if you have flexibility.

I personally bought a house in my early twenties. At the time it was roughly 2.5x my income. I've been there a few years and went through some changes to my employment, I now earn more making it easier. Over the course of ownership, in the ~20 years, I'll have paid close to $400k between the principal and interest.

If I made more, it wouldn't change the amount I pay toward my house so it wouldn't make me own the house faster. While I could send additional payments, the amount of interest I'd avoid would not be worth it.

If I had $20k available to me right now and sent it entirely to my house it'd save around $12k in interest over 15 years. Had I invested that $20k now and received only a 5% growth, over 15 years that would have earned $22k in compound earnings leaving me with $42k of potentially easily liquidatable assets.

Buying a house that is close to your annual income doesn't make you own the house faster, it just makes it easier for you to afford.

I think the guidance most people should take away is to avoid buying a house that you cannot pay off in 10-15 years. A house at $250k at a 3.5% interest rate would cost you $72k in interest on a 15-year mortgage or $154k in interest on a 30-year mortgage. At that point, it is worth sending additional payments (especially early on in the mortgage) to save on interest. This is pretty popular advice, to not overshoot for a house you cannot afford. The best reason is that you can still move later on. Buying a house you'll live in the rest of your life might be a good goal (@Clubber) but it doesn't happen for most of us. Instead, buy a house you can actually make a dent toward ownership in, so if you want to sell it in 10-15 years you'll do so with potential profit.

You don't need to sell your house for a profit (although we all would love to). Had you rented like @magic_beans wants you to, you might have lost 100% of that money and every year your rental price may go up, you might not be allowed to have pets, you can't make improvements you want; you can lose a lot of control with renting. If you buy an affordable house though, in 10 years you might sell it and if you get back even 50% of the total cost of ownership you still walk away better than someone who rented. If you got a house you could pay off in 10 years, you might walk away with a lot of cash and some profit (especially if the house's value went up).

You then have the choice to use the cash from your home sale as a down payment for your next house, which would allow you to afford a slightly more expensive house while still paying it off in 10 years. Imagine you buy a house now for $250k, pay it off 15 years (that might cost you around $2.5k/month). You sell it in 10 years, you could then buy a house for $500k and only mortgage another $250k. Or you could buy a reasonably priced home in the middle, allowing you to start investing your money elsewhere, pay off the house sooner, etc.

My plan, my suggestion: Buy a house when you're in your 20s that is affordable. By the time you're married, have kids that need their own rooms, and are looking to settle down a bit more you'll be able to sell that first house and afford that house you need. It's worked out so far.

They're charging for it now hoping most people do not opt for it. It provides a smaller user base of more interested, Tesla-dedicated customers who are willing to test out the new functionality before they make it standard.

Their order process isn't a final submission as well when you place an order someone from Tesla walks through that kind of asterisks with you in person if you opt for that functionality explaining the limitations and confirming you're interested in the functionality.