Your wall outlet is AC but a battery is DC, so a pure wire setup is not so much a safety thing as it is just incompatible. A good fire starter.
So you’ll have to convert it, which makes for a big, bulky plug.
On top of that, you’ll need prior knowledge of the battery layout, including whether they’re parallel or serial. Usually parallel, but not a guarantee.
All of this isn’t insurmountable, but is enough to make it not the norm. They do, in fact, already exist
My pi 3 has struggled with some particular codecs or large (greater than 5 hours) videos. I’m not proficient enough to say that it wasn’t my fault in some way, some config option, but it was a near thing, regardless. A pi 4 or 5 should do it flawlessly, and my pi 3 works more reliably than my roku, even with that flaw.
WiFi, as long as your router isn’t ancient, will be more than enough. Latency isn’t a factor, and you can get HD streaming at well under 100 Mbps, the upper limit of most routers. My router, in another room with walls from an old house that destroy my signal, still gives me about 20, which is enough for 1080p.
I will say a pi 3 feels fairly laggy just using it to browse online. It does much better as a streaming box. The pi 5 I just got yesterday is much snappier, feels great to use. The 4gb model is 60$ right now, although I got the 8gb model.
All this was on default raspberry pi OS with kodi installed as an app. Very little to set up besides getting the media itself shared in your preferred way.
Disks are for games I want to be able to pull out of a box 10 years from now and go “oh man I remember this”. I have the box from a DSi that I filled with GBA games, and a shelf for Switch and PS4 games that, when they’re retired for something else, it’d be nice to come back to once in a while. My daughter has gotten into my GBA games lately, so that’s been nice.
PC games, they’re so much more available. Steam is steady, GOG is steady, I feel I can leave it to them to keep and I’ll have any particularly treasured games 10 years from now, anyway.
Yeah but 2e is the newer one, and is default now. Assuming 1e is like assuming 4e for DND, it just doesn’t make that much sense.
If the chart was gonna include 1e, it would need to say so explicitly.
Only if the AI used discriminatory criteria from a protected class.
They CAN fire you for feeling you’re likely to sue. They can’t retaliate against a lawsuit, but there isn’t one yet. At-will employment sucks, and the thing that protects against this is a union, not discrimination laws.
No.
Netflix logging your IP is the equivalent of taking a photo of someone in public. Not ideal if you’re into privacy, but it’s a public place, so it’s your problem. YouTube’s Adblock detection is equivalent to patting them down to see if they have a weapon and requiring their ID. The software actively looks for changes, using technology that could detect what extensions you have installed, gather data to profile you better for ads, and monitor what you’re doing in your browser while the tab is open.
Both are ultimately for the same purpose, to prevent people from avoiding to pay them, but methods matter.
Well this is a data center oriented tech, anyway, and the current implementation doesn’t need that.
“It feels like the Berlin Wall of tech repair monopolies is starting to crumble, brick by brick.”
Feeling like that just screams how corrupt our government is. Apple shouldn’t get a vote, and their approval is the last thing that should be required to approve this.
Corporations should have to work in whatever environment consumer protection laws let them have, instead of dictating what protections we get.
Yeah that’s the whole discussion. Instacart charges fees for its use but it also doesn’t show customers the receipt it got from the store, because the prices it says goods cost it don’t match what it paid.
I’d agree with you if it was expected that prices would go up.
If I buy that HDMI cable for 9.99 at a store, I know that some of that money is going towards the store’s upkeep, employees, all that.
If I bought that cable at some gas station close to my house for 14.99, I know I could get it for cheaper, so I know I’m paying 5 extra for some convenience.
If I bought the same cable for 12.99 and a 5$ convenience fee from a delivery app, and learn it was a 9.99 cable, I was told the convenience fee was 5, but I paid 7 for convenience. I’m mad, because I was lied to.
It’s not about the higher charges. Not directly. It’s about the fact that I already covered the purchase price for the product and the service charge for delivery, but then I was secretly charged even more.
It’s about the deception. Like when a thing is normally 40$ but then it goes on sale, so the tag reads “80$ 49.99$”
If they’re honest about it then it’s dumb to complain. I dunno though, I can’t afford to spend extra and have to get my own groceries
The issue is they’re hiding it. If a business felt they were totally on the up-and-up, they wouldn’t try so hard to hide it.
I agree that undoing this would pretty much certainly mean they raise the actual rate they charge customers, but I feel that’s a far better system. Even if that charge wasn’t a flat charge and was like, 10% of the total or whatever the math currently works out to.
Basically, if they need to charge more money, do it. Don’t scam people into thinking groceries are more than they are. A disclaimer that prices have said 10% markup would do.
Duh, but also the app is literally titled “Threads, an Instagram app”. Using the proper name and not the singular word names Instagram.
It’s stupid, but it’s Zuckerberg’s stupid. Also there’s a ton of people helping run the business, it’s just an ad business, not a social media one.
There are better ones out there, that one in particular had some iffy reviews about voltages, but yeah they definitely exist.
I usually see them labeled as “power supply adapter for [AA,AAA,etc]”.