those screens tend to be overpriced for home use and their image quality is not the best since the signaging priorities are different.

I’m not sure about Canada, but in europe you just need to reject the terms of services of the TV OS and you can use it as a dumb tv.

I would go for an OLED. LG, Samsung and Sony all make good ones. I love my LG C3 and the newer C4 is also great. You could even find a C3 in a larger version so it fits your budget. the more expensive G4 is also there.

You can use it as a dumb tv if you reject the terms and services. (at least on the european versions)

Samsung is also good but lacks dolby vision and they seem to have a particular color profile that people seem to either like a lot or dislike.

depending on the outside temperature, there’s a limit to what the heat pump can do, which an internal electric heater inside the water tank takes over to reach usable shower temperature.

That is also true for solar heaters when there is no sun. and there are not many places that have climates where heat pumps cant operate these days.

Also air source heat pumps can have a COP of 3.5 so or higher. so even with a lower efficiency from the PV you might get ahead. You also get gains from the high COP on cloudy days where you might need resistance heating on the thermal one

I dont think you can claim any of them is better without doing the math.

I think they heat a refrigerant and then use a heat exchanger to transfer that heat to the water.

I would love to see numbers on how they compare against solar panels+ air source heat pump. I guess the solar heater is cheaper, but I would guess photovoltaic+heat pump probably is more efficient all around and it useful for all your home, not just water.

ok. I was not aware the two letter TLD were more restricted than the others. thanks!

I don’t get why they killed it. some regional areas have their own TLD. .cat for Catalonia, for example.

that’s the structure of a bluray disk. It includes all that the player needs to play it (e.g. menus, chapters, etc). The STREAM folder contains the actual video, probably in a .m2ts file (you can convert it to mkv using ffmpeg or similar tools)

while these news are great. it is good to remember than decreasing emissions is not enough.

if you see in a room that is filling fast with water and you are about to drown, would you be relieved if water simply started pouring a bit more slowly?

it will take decades for the atmosphere to get back to normal even if we halted new emissions

pretty sure they want democrats to wake up and change their policies and the only leverage they have is their vote.

Is the abstract concept of “competition” more important than weaning out of fossil fuels in order to keep Earth habitable for humans?

You need to understand, this is written by economists, the people who make a living by justifying human suffering.

Even if it’s a nice solution the licensing issue, they are still deceiving their users. I don’t think I have seen anything like them but they should be clear that they are bluetooth.

Curious. I always imagined it was a reference to the folklore create ‘Imp’.

Same goes for words in foreign languages. it just causes confusion. I like how eclipse went for “temurin” (anagram for runtime) for their OpenJDK distribution. no way to cause confusion.

this guy is 100% committed to give nazis a platform, right?

I enjoyed reading this a lot. thanks for sharing

wait… you are not being sarcastic?

is this really an emulator in the traditional sense? (implementing certain hardware architecture using software) or are they just implementing some software to read and run games in the host hardware? I would be very surprised if this was a true emulator, but I have no idea about the current scenario.

Jason Snell made a good overview of what the suit focuses on. I think it makes the case easier to understand https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/03/u-s-versus-apple-a-first-reaction/

they were just fined with 1.8B because of their anti steering practices. so clearly they don’t always comply

Im not sure you understands how this work. but anyway… they can do whatever with their service. I (or any person I know) dont plan to use it 🤷

Imagine if 99% of text messages sent were via iMessage, and the EU kept the same ruling.

If 99% of messages were sent via iMessage the ruling would have been different. if it ever fulfils the criteria needed to be considered gatekeepers, then they will be designed as such.

they wanted to be irrelevant in the European market for chat applications?

iMessages is like a footnote here. I was surprised it was even considered.

Im not sure. you dont want to use anything that might disconnect easily. The battery pack does have an additional USB-C plug to ‘daisy chain’ it to other power source.

it is also true that devices that are packaged as an integrated unit are less likely to experience issues. Reparability is a means toward an end (long lasting products) but not the only one way to achieve it.

Im sorry but this is not correct. Most design decisions are a trade-off, you gain something but you loose something. You might argue that reparability should have a higher priority than size, but saying that you can be more repairable without gaining any size is nonsense.

maybe your vacuum works with valetudo? it’s a self-hosted cloud replacement for many vacuums https://valetudo.cloud

What’s stopping AI companies from paying royalties to artists they ripped off?

profit. AI is not even a profitable business now. They exist because of the huge amount of investment being poured into it. If they have to pay their fair share they would not exist as a business.

what OpenAI says is actually true. The issue IMHO is the idea that we should give them a pass to do it.

that would mean governments prosecuting all offences, which is not going to happen. I doubt any country would have enough resources for doing that

copyright has become a tool of oppression. Individual author’s copyright is constantly being violated with little resources for them to fight while big tech abuses others work and big media uses theirs to the point of it being censorship.

which also has DRM on it

The status of Apple as gatekeeper in the messaging app ecosystem is not yet clear. Remember that iMessages is not really popular in Europe, and Europe wont name Apple as a gatekeeper because of imessage’s popularity in the U.S. The EU does seem to be inclined to define them as gatekeeper, but that is not yet final. and if Apple implements RCS that might get them out of the hook. see section 5.4 of this document https://ec.europa.eu/competition/digital_markets_act/cases/202344/DMA_100013_215.pdf

I love how every thread or post about printers ends up in people just recommending a Brother. I really hope they keep going doing what they are doing.

their parents also work harvesting cocoa. The reason they are poor despite being working a lot is that they are not paid enough for their work… by Mars (or Nestle, Mondelez, etc)

I did enjoy it for a while. I would probably be enjoying it if it was not because as you move up it becomes very different kind of game

but what about my gold splits? /s

because most news outlets just call it “The EU” or “the EU parliament” without specifying that tje EU has many institutions and political parties, which push their own agendas.

if you replaced every instance of both “republicans” and “democrats” with “the US government” you would get the same kind of impression.

but the non profit controls the for profit. that is not even that unusual. Mozilla works the same way

middle class is now “the richest 10%”? not sure they know what “middle” means