Fogel
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Scoop it onto the plate/box with the spoon first, then pinch it on from there.
Whats rustling your jimmies?
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Scoop it onto the plate/box with the spoon first, then pinch it on from there.
RobXIII
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Lambourne
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Media players in general seem to have peaked because they have attracted the eye of evil corporate entities that want to stuff them full of advertising. Was looking at a Shield to replace my aging HTPC and all the recent comments were from people complaining about recently introduced ads.
I detest advertising in general and especially in anything I paid for so I'm probably going to have to build a new HTPC for 3 times the cost of a Shield.
I detest advertising in general and especially in anything I paid for so I'm probably going to have to build a new HTPC for 3 times the cost of a Shield.
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RobXIII
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Hoss
Make America's Team Great Again
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Low wifi connectivity in the office shitter.
That's actually worse than what I have here, which is NO wifi in that building at all. At least I know to just take a magazine. You have to deal with the hope and frustration.
Izo
Tranny Chaser
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Put the high test Blue cheese dressing in breastmilk bags. Noone will touch the stuff!
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Big Phoenix
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It's tech in general. The ability is there so from now on every single piece of technology will have that shit in it.
I just loved dropping $1800 on a top of the line tv last year only to be bombarded with ads every time I turn the damn thing on.
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Void
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You must not have updated for like a year or more, because that's how long they have been there.
And to be clear, it isn't Nvidia's fault; Google pretty much demanded that if they want to use the Android TV platform, it must have the ads to go with it. Nvidia wasn't using them for the longest time, but Google put their foot down. At least that's what I read. I doubt Nvidia gets a cent from those ads, so I could believe it.
Hoss
Make America's Team Great Again
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Just got off the phone with tech support. Got a computer that's not outputting any video. So he wants to check the power supply. OK, fine. It's one of the supplies they ship, it's supposed to be 24 V so I measure it and it's like 23.8 V. He goes, oh that's not good, it's supposed to be 24V.
Izz u series Wakandan? This is an industrial computer. The actual voltage range is probably 10-50V (though I can't find it in the manual). But he thinks a less than 1% error might be the problem.
Izz u series Wakandan? This is an industrial computer. The actual voltage range is probably 10-50V (though I can't find it in the manual). But he thinks a less than 1% error might be the problem.
Fucker
Log Wizard
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I run Plex on one computer and have an Apple TV box for the TV. Streams fine from PC to TV. Plex has outside sources for movies and crap, but you can turn them off. It doesn't need a lot of CPU, but SSD is a good idea for pics.
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Lambourne
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Presumably you can kill this by not letting it connect to the internet?
Friend of mine dropped a similar amount on a new LG TV and the apps on it were infuriatingly slow to use and the input methods consisted of shitty voice recognition that didn't work right most of the time and an on-screen keyboard that makes it take 60 seconds to enter two words. Having finally entered the correct words in the Youtube app, we got to sit through a maximum-loudness ad before we got to actually see what we were trying to find. I was sitting there thinking how my ancient HTPC (still running a Core2duo) is still a vastly better user experience.
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My Samsung had a software update recently and installed a dozen streaming apps i've never heard of. Went through and deleted all of them but was unable to delete the Samsung TV app. That thing autolaunches at turn on now and immediately goes to some 30 second commercial before flipping to a bad knockoff of Chopped. This tv has only ever turned on to HDMI1 on my htpc, but now every time i turn the tv on it immediate launches the Samsung TV app and the blaring unskipable ad before i can back out of whatever show it's defaulted to and change source back to HDMI1. Some google searches found a couple methods to disable the app that didn't work. Week later i found the remote keycode to enter the hidden service menu to disable all of the smart features on the tv which did the trick. But now it's giving me a flashing mute icon in the corner despite not even having audio going to the tv (optical out on the htpc to my Denon 5.1). Toggle mute, volume up/down - nothing. I'm about to throw the damn thing away.
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I bought a Sony TV a couple years back to update and while it does have the Smart TV shit, it hasn't been very intrusive. I updated it when I got it and it's been offline ever since(turned off the online stuff on TV AND blocked it on the router in case it just randomly decided to connect itself again, who knows with this shit). There's a splash screen with a bunch of apps and all that crap if I got to the Home menu, but it doesn't default to that when I turn it on so haven't seen it since the update(or well I think I sat on the remote and hit the button once but yeah). Only thing I use my TV for is my PS5 and an Intel NUC to play videos with, shit's pretty nice, relatively cheap and it's still a "proper" PC so I didn't have to change my habits when I switched and it's good enough to play 4K movies on VLC which is basically all I cared about.
Granted I'm EU so not sure if we have laws that prevent manufacturers from fucking us as bad as in the US though or if it's just Sony being less dickheads about it. It sucks it has devolved into this situation where you have to look into whether the products you buy will have unnecessary shit tacked on you can't turn off. Upside is unless it just dies on me, I'll probably keep this one for a while. My previous TV was like 18years old, I only changed it cause it was getting really old, wasn't 4k and the aspect ratio wasn't even standard shit so I had parts of the screen cut off in games and stuff which was dumb.
Granted I'm EU so not sure if we have laws that prevent manufacturers from fucking us as bad as in the US though or if it's just Sony being less dickheads about it. It sucks it has devolved into this situation where you have to look into whether the products you buy will have unnecessary shit tacked on you can't turn off. Upside is unless it just dies on me, I'll probably keep this one for a while. My previous TV was like 18years old, I only changed it cause it was getting really old, wasn't 4k and the aspect ratio wasn't even standard shit so I had parts of the screen cut off in games and stuff which was dumb.
Goatface
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i think this happens when tv defaults into loading smart hub at start up. it can (or could) be disabled.