joney_baloney

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by joney_baloney 8mo ago
I had to look to remember, I'm on a $10/year subscription for "Pro". From looking at their page I'd say some codec support is under the Pro license. I know I haven't thrown anything at it that needed transcodin
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by joney_baloney 8mo ago
High end model is $150 (US). Very fast and yes Apple gets some of your info but it's not getting resold to advertisers and 3rd parties. Generally speaking doesn't require adware to keep the price low.
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by joney_baloney 8mo ago
FWIW, I have no trouble playing any of my alternatively sourced media, 4K Dolby Vision included, using an app called Infuse. Pass-through audio may indeed be an issue for some lossless surround formats, or at least that's what it sound
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by joney_baloney 2y ago
I liked it more than I thought I would, but the "AI fake" effect was a bit noticeable here and there. After watching the 4k UHD, I put in my Blu-ray from 10 years ago or whatever, sort of thinking I was going to prefer it's
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by joney_baloney 2y ago
Unprompted shout out for a Mac equivalent that I like: https://loshadki.app/openin4/
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by joney_baloney 3y ago
Yeah and it'd help my sinuses too but at my age I'm used to taking the enzymes when I eat and they work well enough. Long term damage is basically my personality at this point, lol.
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by joney_baloney 3y ago
Once it gets bad, yeah. I was very end stage before my lung transplant and it's an accurate description.
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by joney_baloney 3y ago
My younger brother has CF and takes Trikafta and it's absolutely made all the difference in the world, it's wonderful to see. Watching all the years of research and CFF funding finally pay off is really something. My personal situ
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by joney_baloney 3y ago
This is exactly right. Source: have CF.
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by joney_baloney 3y ago
Got me a week or two ago. 2018 Intel Mac mini on Monterey. Also did me the lovely convenience of changing my iCloud settings, my desktop background, and turned on screensavers.
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by joney_baloney 3y ago
Haven't had this issue here either. Metadata currently 731 MB on a 32GB ATV 4k.
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by joney_baloney 4y ago
Yep.
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by joney_baloney 4y ago
99¢/mo or $10/yr iirc. Can't remember how much the lifetime is but I don't mind the annual sub as long as it keeps it maintained.
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by joney_baloney 4y ago
https://archive.ph/076XD
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by joney_baloney 4y ago
Ars syndicated: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/10/why-b...
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by joney_baloney 4y ago
https://archive.ph/VDs7U
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by joney_baloney 4y ago
A classic. For those who don't know, this is the Pinboard guy.
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by joney_baloney 4y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-mbs-neom-saudi-arabi... Maybe so, but they might just be willing to take MBS's money to nod and make cool designs that will probably never get built. Which, can't reall
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by joney_baloney 4y ago
https://archive.ph/oHX41
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by joney_baloney 5y ago
Still got mine. First gen, Mac only, Firewire. Haven't turned it on in a few years, I wonder if it still goes...
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by joney_baloney 5y ago
Pedantic Post Alert, but there's a few different products called "Apple TV". There's the hardware box called Apple TV that comes with a remote and plugs into the HDMI on your TV. That IS an alternative to Roku. Then ther
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by joney_baloney 6y ago
Yeah, his name was Montgomery Scott, next. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relics_(Star_Trek%3A_The_Next_...
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by joney_baloney 6y ago
More than likely.
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by joney_baloney 6y ago
Saw this just after reading this post. Not a bad development. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/the-best-feature-of-...
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by joney_baloney 7y ago
Just want to say thank you for what you do. I spent a few days on ECMO in 2005 during the course of a double lung tx and saw some true heroics from the folks keeping me alive. It was a hell of an experience.