I think they meant to rotate through different pictures, not to physically walk up and rotate the ipad every few hours.

Which is kind of the point of a digital picture frame, cause… why use an electronic device to display a single static picture. Just go to a store and get your picture professionally printed if you only want one.

They could have saved even more by not putting batteries in them, or motors… Man, these things coulda had a way bigger profit margin!

Fits on a 3.5" floppy… interesting.

It’s an interesting story anyway, kind of fun how the early days of the internet people just decided to build stuff and that random little tool from decades ago continue to be the backbone of much of the world. Imagine if all that stuff was proprietary…

The cat physics are also outstanding. You can tell there were animators just sitting there studying how cats move for many, many hours.

So, the biggest tech of 2023 is a bunch of promises of things coming soon?

Ramanujan reborn - the main protagonist from the Wheel of Maths books.

That’s actually not true, and framework has similar issues. There was vampire power drains from certain mix and match options with HDMI and USB-C ports.

https://community.frame.work/t/tracking-high-battery-drain-during-suspend/3736

On the AMD framework, the upper right and left USB-C ports are slightly different from the lower ports

https://community.frame.work/t/usb4-and-thunderbolt-on-amd/30771

I love my framework laptop, but we shouldn’t pretend that they are free from quirks that plague other brands.

https://youtu.be/qBE9TZP26FI

Legally, if I ask if you’re a cop, you have to answer truthfully.

You can tell qBittorrent to only use the VPN, and it kills any connection not using that tunnel.

I tested it with legal Linux isos and killed my VPN connection, and everything just stops.

So both the VPN service itself, and qBittorrent can be configured independently to protect you. Belt and suspenders.

Not only does is it rear wheel drive only, but it also has about 10% less range than the AWD option. There’s a reason it’s significantly cheaper.

Making it illegal is what is causing the cycle of “spilling out into I’ve streets”

That’s outstanding

Neither. https://tenor.com/view/get-out-movie-cereal-eating-fruit-loops-gif-17699970

Careful, because 1337 had a recent scandal with Baldars Gate having a crypto malware in it and there was some involvement with the admins on that.

Seems fine with media, but careful using it for actual executables.

Just wish it had a US release…

I know you said it was for movies, which I use them for as well, but there was a recent scandal with 1337 and malware in Baldars Gate 3.

Downloading movies is pretty safe, but if you decide to branch out, I’d be a little hesitant to use 1337 for anything else.

TL;DW - he needs reference screen grabs to make his screen accurate props, but lately in browser DRM has been making it harder and harder to take screenshots (specifically using a Mac on Amazon streaming service). So if he gets frustrated enough, he’ll just torrent a HQ copy and use that instead.

DRM is making it annoying for everyone, and you never own anything if you don’t have an unrestricted local copy.

Development has always been incremental, but as gaming engines get better, they start being used for more and more things. AAA games don’t always develop the graphics and game engine from scratch, most often they develop one technology and use it for many games, or even buy a pre-built engine and “just” build the game around it.

Unreal Engine has been used not just for games, but also for real time, or near real time film making. The same engine that is used for playing a game can be used to create the background effects in TV shows, or whole scenes.

It’s crazy to suggest we just stop working on something because it’s good enough, because that’s not what people do.

But the music industry (mostly) figured it out. You can get the same song from a subscription to any number of services.

TV/Movies are still siloed. Once they figure out that it’s better to let you subscribe to one service and watch anything, that’s the day that most piracy will stop.