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by mrjin 4y ago
Totally agree. This is as simply as discarding non-identity (even all) cookies on closing the browser by default. But the thing is that all mainstream browsers are controlled by giants and unfortunately all of which have huge interests in a
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by mrjin 4y ago
So a new discovery of Amdahl's Law? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
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by mrjin 4y ago
I'm wondering too. I actually tested almost all devices at home and the idle power consumption actually quite different from my previous perception. The following are a few I tested: 1. Microwave Oven. ~3W. 2. DECT phone base. ~2W. Ext
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by mrjin 5y ago
Obviously you were lucky. My experiences were based on Sony and Samsung, so TCL might be a different story and also different people have different needs. For me, all I need is really just a instant on big screen with decent speakers, nothi
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by mrjin 5y ago
Yep, most people have no idea the implications of Smart TV. I knew it but I had no many choices and actually I got totally disgusted by the practices of those vendors. It really has not much to do with demand but rather than getting more mo
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by mrjin 5y ago
They do. But the thing is that they work for the TV vendors instead of consumers and also if all vendors are moving to the same direction, there is virtually no choice for consumers.
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by mrjin 5y ago
If you let them get away with it, then you will never get a TV work as it should. My next TV would be a dumb one, if I cannot get it, then I'll go for a big monitor instead.
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by mrjin 5y ago
Oh well, I'm not sure how do you define average consumer. I don't really watch TV but I do have to deal with TVs for other members in the family. Put all those Ads/tracking/slowness issues aside, the quality of the Smart
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by mrjin 5y ago
It's beyond that. Dumb TVs are virtually instant on, those so called Smart TVs take a while to boot. Also the design of the UI were changed a lot by removing or hiding frequently used functions/remote buttons etc.
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by mrjin 5y ago
Smart TVs were created for all kinds of agendas but none were actually for us the consumers. All those agendas require an OS which takes time to boot. Making it worse, some of those TVs' CPU are crap and thus every operation takes much
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by mrjin 5y ago
Is it Artificial Intelligence or rather Artificial Idiocy?
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by mrjin 5y ago
I've been asking blocking feature since Gmail started inviting for beta testing. I'm one of the early Gmail testers. From day 1 I registered, I started received spams and I asked again and again, the response had always been non-s
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by mrjin 5y ago
I actually took a look at those full resolution pictures. The soldering quality of the Satechi dock was awful. Given the price, I was expecting something much better than that.
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by mrjin 5y ago
Some TV boxes actually come with a remote can be programmed to control the TV.
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by mrjin 5y ago
Well, seems Sony TVs have lots of issue related with Apps. Mine had tones of problems with YouTube. Didn't know that we could actually try to return it then. Was thinking of get a new one and kids cracked the screen. So we got a Samsun
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by mrjin 5y ago
Thanks for sharing. I did not know that.
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by mrjin 5y ago
I guess that was just an instance of the "Survivor Bias". I burnt hundreds of CD-R/DVD-R/DVD-RW disks from a various of vendors(mostly Sony, TDK, Verbatim, Kodak, maybe some other brands which I could not remember clearl
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by mrjin 5y ago
Gee... I'm glad I walked away from it. I was about to go for UDM-Pro when updating my home network devices. Then I read some HN saying they were putting ads to the console pages. But that wasn't really about product itself. What y
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by mrjin 5y ago
Because the creator of crypto concept never understood why there are centralized institutions in the first place. It was so naive to think the problem was the correctness of the records and thus everyone should keep a copy of the global led
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by mrjin 5y ago
Android had no chance if M$ hadn't made stupid moves three times in a row. Gmail was actually way before Android and I was one of the few early testers got invitation directly from Google. Unfortunately from day 1 the newly registered
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by mrjin 5y ago
Helping people by against their wills, well done Google!!!??????????
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by mrjin 5y ago
Well, this issue was actually trickier than it looks. The real problem is the protocols our communication infrastructures built on was designed without almost any authentication & authorization mechanism. It wasn't a big issue when
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by mrjin 5y ago
Oh well, if you take a closer look, you will find why: most if not all of those with surnames look weird in English are immigrants or descendants of immigrants from a non-English speaking background. When they/their ancestors arrived,
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by mrjin 5y ago
You were absolutely right about that. The catch is that for fair bits of ordinary users, they might even be struggling using Windows, and maintaining a VM under Linux would be a huge undertaking. Don't take me wrong, I'm not sayin
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by mrjin 5y ago
Yes, I fully understand the context and that's why I mentioned as it could be used to track us rather than was used to track us in the first place. Providing DNS over HTTPS can be deemed as goodwill as it indeed make it easier for some
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by mrjin 5y ago
Nothing surprising IMO as it's about 10 years old. Since you did not use it much, I would say the mechanical structures would be still very sound but it's the electronics were the culprits. If you kept it turned on, current would
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by mrjin 5y ago
Ditched Chrome for FireFox years ago. But now I get increasing concerned on the direction Mozilla is moving towards. A couple of recent moves: 1. Pockets and Accounts. 2. Unique Ids on installer downloads. 3. DNS over HTTP push. All those m
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by mrjin 5y ago
Yep, that's something to appreciate. So far I'm happy with my printers but I'm not sure if I'm going to be happy with my next printer really.
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by mrjin 5y ago
For sure he meant that.
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by mrjin 5y ago
Not necessarily true. I have one mono laser printer and one color MFP for almost 7 years now, both were dirt cheap and now both are still going strong, nothing to complain really.

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