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by hapticmonkey 1y ago
AppleTV running Apple Music connected to my Marantz AVR. No ads. No privacy concerns. I get lossless stereo where available and Atmos on selected tracks. It's great.
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by hapticmonkey 1y ago
It's sort of sad how these tools went from "godlike new era of human civilization" to "some commodity tools for marketing teams to sell stuff". I get that they are trying to find some practical used cases for their
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by hapticmonkey 1y ago
People need to realise that all this AB testing is going to lead YouTube developers to one final version: An endless TikTok style scroll of (soon to be AI-generated) recommended videos. No search. No desktop/friendly UX. It’s all going
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by hapticmonkey 1y ago
The Wikipedia page has a good summary of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok_v._Garland
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by hapticmonkey 1y ago
Let’s not also forget that Apple and Google are currently illegally distributing the TikTok app in their platforms. Despite a law passed by Congress and upheld by the supreme court that this shouldn’t be happening. But I guess the president
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by hapticmonkey 1y ago
I'm sure various scifi authors have covered this topic to death (pun intended). But something about eternal life just feels so empty to me. And without changes to laws around euthanasia or suicide, it means being forced to stay alive f
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by hapticmonkey 1y ago
AppleTV 4K box with the new Enhance Dialogue feature has been working great for me. Raising the center channel never sounded great to me, because there are so many other sounds in the center channel as well. At least now I can raise only th
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by hapticmonkey 2y ago
The recent signal leak shows that they really do believe this stuff. insert american flag and prayer emojis
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by hapticmonkey 2y ago
I believe these piracy groups arent hijacking the HDMI signal. They're cracking the Widevine DRM chain to grab the audio and video data from the stream and repackage it into an mkv file.
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by hapticmonkey 2y ago
The irony here is that despite all these DRM efforts, piracy groups upload 4K HDR (or Dolby Vision) atmos mkv files within hours anyway. Meanwhile watching these shows the legal way on unsupported DRM chain gives you 720p SDR with worse aud
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by hapticmonkey 2y ago
Have you tried Infuse as the playback app on AppleTV? It’s one of the few apps I’m happy to pay the subscription cost for. Well worth it for a well made AP. Not trying to make this sound like an ad. It’s just a legit good app.
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by hapticmonkey 2y ago
"Law and order" has long been code words for using the power of the state to enforce hierarchies that benefits those shouting "law and order".
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by hapticmonkey 2y ago
Events like this remind me of Apple’s slide at the iPad announcement. It had street signs labeled “technology” and “liberal arts” and they discussed the intersection between the two. It can seem like a bunch of hippie crap but it really emp
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by hapticmonkey 2y ago
You can access those simpler chronological feeds in Facebook under More > Feeds. They still insert sponsored posts in that feed, but you can block them with browser extensions. The annoying part is that if you load the feed url from a bo
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by hapticmonkey 2y ago
It allowed me to block the initial cookie overlay, which then allowed me to read the 'article'. Scrolling down the page triggered a popup which I could then block. Works pretty well!
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by hapticmonkey 2y ago
The new “Hide Distracting Items” feature in iOS18 Safari has been a godsend for me. Just tap on the offending overlay/prompt and watch it disappear into the digital ether. Even with ad blockers, these sign in prompts are becoming incre
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by hapticmonkey 2y ago
I think Apple’s strategy here is going to pay off. Provide a box with an actual fast processor in it, a simple Home Screen with no ads, and an OS with no tracking. Somehow this is a revolutionary idea in this industry. But slowly I’m seeing
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by hapticmonkey 2y ago
Reminds me of the (now removed) article on encrypting saved games in the Godot game engine: > Because the world today is not the world of yesterday. A capitalist oligarchy runs the world and forces us to consume in order to keep the gear
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by hapticmonkey 2y ago
The examples are so horrendous I thought it was satire. I can’t wait for genome, cryptocurrency, and nuclear power startups to “move fast and break things” and screw up so badly and remind us why we had these regulations to begin with.
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by hapticmonkey 2y ago
It's for shareholders. Microsoft and Nvidia have a bigger market cap than Apple now, thanks to the AI investor boom. Apple need to show they can be all about AI, too. But Apple have the institutional culture to maintain privacy.
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by hapticmonkey 2y ago
If you're worried about Proof of Work leading to giant server farms using huge amounts of energy, then I've got something to tell you about AI...
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by hapticmonkey 2y ago
I set up my own media server and run Infuse on the AppleTV. For my wife and kids, it's the ultimate setup. Everything is in one place (not spread across different apps), the UI is consistent and not buggy (official apps can be terrible
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by hapticmonkey 2y ago
YouTube search has to be one of the worst offenders. It will intentionally insert unrelated videos into search results, in an obvious attempt to boost your engagement. And it probably works. I have no doubt it’s possible for Google (a damn
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by hapticmonkey 2y ago
The 4K Bluray copy I have seems to be an improvement over both? Note: This is the HDR screenshot so colours look wrong unless tonemapped to a SDR display. https://i.imgur.com/PFVzuYi.jpeg
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by hapticmonkey 2y ago
Tech companies: best we can do is an AI that reads your kids bedtime stories. You know, the moments we actually cherish. The manual labor is all we'll humans have left to do.
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by hapticmonkey 3y ago
My understanding is that Apple wont add RCS support until end-to-end encryption is part of the RCS standard, which it currently isn't. And they wont use property add-ons such as what Google use for encryption. Competitors stuffed aroun
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by hapticmonkey 3y ago
YouTube developers: ”Best we can do is to intentionally insert completely unrelated videos into your YouTube search results”.
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by hapticmonkey 3y ago
Correct. If you have an atmos setup then the AppleTV will convert TrueHD atmos and DTS:X to PCM. It will play back Dolby Digital Plus atmos however, from web rips etc. It’s a shame because everything else about the AppleTV is such a nicer e
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by hapticmonkey 3y ago
I’ve tried various methods for playing media files on my TV over the years. I’ve settled on an AppleTV with the Infuse app as my gold standard. I used to use Kodi, but got tired of endless minor issues and UI skins that haven’t evolved sinc
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by hapticmonkey 3y ago
The AppleTV YouTube app is so bad that I’m convinced nobody responsible for it owns a TV. It even forces its own built in screensavers to run instead of the OS one if the app is left paused. Who approves that?! What Steve Jobs said about Mi

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