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    Govee says it mistakenly licensed “white supremacy” book pic to sell smart lights

    Maybe it's both. A real room that someone told an AI to populate with stuff.
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    Inside the fight to force Vizio to share Linux-based source code for its TVs’ OS

    I guess by that exact logic, the EULAs I get when I install games are also just licenses, not contracts, which means I can just ignore it. Thanks, walmart!
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    IoT gadget maker AcuRite shares reasoning for killing customers’ favorite app

    There is a tailscale addon for home assistant. That's what I use for secure and easy remote access.
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    Trump admin didn’t want Ebola-exposed Americans, sent them to Berlin, Prague

    It was actually an attempt by the US to weaken Europe through intentionally spreading diseases there. /s... I think? Maybe, maybe not.
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    Speed-boosting “low latency profile” is one of the improvements coming to Windows 11

    Well you don't need to keep window animations enabled if that sort of thing isn't important to you. That will save "a lot" of extra power.
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    Data center developer pauses Middle East projects after war damage

    As long as there is open source, there is a way.
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    To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain

    It shouldn't be too hard to find radio transmitters at specific frequencies with the right equipment. If you have a transmitter that operates on your region's 4g, 5g, WiFi bands and the various other unlicensed band (without a very good reason to), you're immediately failed and barred for a...
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    Sony is raising PlayStation 5 prices again, this time by between $100 and $150

    If it leads to devs dropping UE5, it'll almost be worth it.
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    You’re likely already infected with a brain-eating virus you’ve never heard of

    Thanks, Beth. I really needed another thing to be paranoid about in my life!
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    Netflix cedes Warner Bros. Discovery to Paramount: “No longer financially attractive”

    Guess CNN is the next conservative news channel, then. Must be cool to be an american with all that freeze peach that doesn't actually help speech staying free.
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    RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs

    I was thinking the push would also be from the vendor side. Wifi chip makers want laptops to sell too, right? Better support for the leaner OSes could be in their own best interest. Won't happen overnight in either case. If we're lucky, we might even see MS make their only decent win11 edition...
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    RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs

    Maybe this will cause a push for leaner software. I'm delusional, aren't I?
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    Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs

    Hm, maybe I should get one of those and squeeze another 10 years out of it. Is this the case for even the old 2011 models? Or actually, mine is a 2010 model that I got 50% off in '11 because it was last year's model. Do you have a link to buy or make that board? Although I am worried that if I...
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    Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs

    I never got the impression that the contrast loss was intentionally done. I figured it was just fading naturally, basically "burn in" that's almost entirely uniform. Even with the faded blacks, it's still looking better than LCDs sold 5 years later. So it's basically like having a better...
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    Meta could end up owning 10% of AMD in new chip deal

    If only 5 lightning strikes would hit their data centers instead.
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    Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs

    I'm still using my 42" panasonic plasma from 2011. It's a bit more washed out than it was back in the day, but it's still "fine".
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    Five months later, Nvidia’s $100 billion OpenAI investment plan has fizzled out

    Please please PLEASE let this be the beginning of the end.
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    LG joins the rest of the world, accepts that people don’t want 8K TVs

    "Physical reality" pretty much doomed this from the start. When you're starting to bump up against the limits of human eyes in normal sized living rooms, it's just gonna be a waste of bandwidth and money to do 8k. Only people with enornous houses would want screens this big anyway, as most...