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But I think that's the point? One thing I find silly is seeing all these smart TVs with "fancy" speakers sitting behind a sound bar that has a Roku/fire TV/Chromecast plugged in. Paying twice for devices with a large overlap in features...

You can buy what are called digital signage displays which are mostly just that. A quick search shows a 65" Samsung model available in US retail for $1400.

Then voting needs to be a national holiday with plenty of polling locations.

I keep on having issues with my WD SN850 dropping offline and coming back R/O but it still fails to produce any reads and my system still crashes. I've applied all the pcie power management fixes on the kernel command line and still having problems. That sounds similar to what you describe. It starts off with vscode disappearing, then UI locks, and then it dumps me to a virtual console spitting kernel errors for a bit.

The nvme drive itself reports no media errors so I really do think it's a system side problem with the pcie controllers...

I'm lucky that I had no USBC issues with mine I guess. Unlike my ryzen desktop that hard locks when resuming from suspend sometimes when it goes to enumerate the USB devices. If I time a key press right I can get it to continue some times, but if I miss the window it just shuts down entirely.

AMD has had several USB based issues on their 500 series chipsets, x570 etc. so part of me wonders how much of these problems are on the vendor vs the integrator.

My support experience has been quite similar. Lots of required evidence, slow responses, and then just links to buy replacement parts in the store.

The kicker is that the things they were telling me to buy didn't even fix the problem. My fingerprint reader was very flakey, and after replacing it and all cabling connected to it, it still didn't work.

They then told me to buy a whole new input cover which was the wrong solution again. The issue was the touchpad, which routes the signal for the fingerprint sensor through its circuit board.

They also encouraged me heavily to update the BIOS and firmware of everything aggressively before really digging into any of the kernel messages I was seeing.

All that said, it's really hard to complain that for $50 and some waiting I was easily able to fix the problem.

Compared to replacing the battery on a MacBook pro which took me 5hrs and required complete disassembly of the chassis sans fans it was a dream.

Here's to hoping that framework does better, they do seem to take well to community feedback.

Dial up into an air gapped network defeats the purpose of being air gapped. I would think the bare minimum standard is that there is no way to change anything in the control systems without being physically present at the facility, past it's physical security boundary.

Hah, indeed. I only know one Tao :) Some things never change I suppose

It can definitely be confusing.

For example, traditionally still film cameras used 35mm film, but cinema cameras also used 35mm film. However the cinema cameras capture the image vertically instead of horizontally on the film, otherwise known as a Super 35. Literally the film runs through the camera vertically instead of horizontally.

In order to make an image work that is understandable to our brains you either need to do heavy cropping and waste tons of film, or you use an anamorphic lens to "squeeze" more light onto the film. You then have to reverse that when you go to project the film.

Those could just be individual commits on a branch. Why does it need to be a stacked PR? That concept really only exists within the interfaces of these kinds of tools.

For the longest time I could not stream YouTube on my Google fiber connection without constant buffering unless I ran my browser through a socks proxy to a server outside of the ISP network.

Some time a few years ago they got it figured out and it's no longer been an issue. I could not explain to the CSR in terms they understood what the problem was.

I always assumed it was some kind of mis-configuration...

It's not all sunshine and rainbows though. I've been lucky to have Google Fiber for a number of years and I still get buffering issues with YouTube and YouTube TV.