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Encrypt-Keeper

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  • Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL

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  • No I know what you mean. I’m not talking about the “Trumotion” 120hz motion smoothing technology.

    The first generation of Sony Bravia TVs that advertised native 4k/120hz, specifically to coincide with the release of the PS5, couldn’t actually do native 4k/120hz. It wasn’t until their following generations that were finally able to, in a post-launch firmware update.

  • Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL

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  • This is good news as far as I’m concerned. I was burned by an expensive Bravia TV with a lack of promised feature support, poor quality control, zero customer support, and unfixable hardware design flaws that made several prominent features permanently unusable.

    TCL on the other hand might have always been a budget brand, but their TVs are very well made considering their price point. They are much more competently made TVs with a level of quality control that blows Sony out of the water. If they commit to making the Bravia series at its current price point, as opposed to just turning the Bravia line into budget TVs, I’m reasonably confident they can deliver.

  • Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL

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  • Sony TVs are absolute garbage devices designed by actual morons, with the worst customer support in the industry.

    Back when the PS5 came out, they advertised their Bravia TVs specifically for its support for the PS5 and its feature set. I spent something like $1,200 for a Bravia x900H which at the time was very highly reviewed. When the PS5 released shortly after, we had to wait months for Sony to actually release drivers to support the PS5 features promised like VRR and 4k/120hz, and when they finally did the monkeys paw finger curled. If you turn VRR on, it disables local dimming. This is important because those panels look like dogshit without local dimming. So right off the bat you have to choose between a smooth picture, and a good looking picture.

    As for 4k/120, they cheaped out on the MediaTek processor so it can’t actually do native 4k/120. Turning it on halves the horizontal resolution to 1080, and then it crudely upscales it back up causing a now infamous blurry mess to the picture.

    Those are just the problems that affect everyone due to design flaws and false advertising. But on a more luck-of-the-draw level, when I bought mine brand new, it had significant backlight bleed. I was upgrading from a $150 Costco LCD and I swear to you the picture on the Sony was actually worse. 25% of the screen was permanently tinted blue the bleed was so bad. No problem I thought, I just bought the thing brand new, these things happen with LED panels from time to time, I’ll call Sony and RMA the thing. But after a week of arguing with Sony’s outsourced support, they refused to honor the warranty. According to them backlight bleed is expected and no matter how bad it is, they don’t cover it under warranty. So whether or not your Sony TV is even functional as a TV is simply luck of the draw.

  • Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL

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  • Their early “4k/120s” weren’t even actually 4k/120. Enabling 120hz refresh rates on early Bravias would cut horizontal resolution in half, and then crudely attempt to upscale it.

  • Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim

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  • Because the opposite is true. AI uses spinning rust far, far more than it does solid state storage.

  • My website was down; because I didn't pay the server bill

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  • A simple low traffic website doesn’t even need anything close to symmetric fiber. Your run-of-the-mill shitty cable internet usually gives you 15-30mbps. Thats more than enough unless your site is really popping off.

  • Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why

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  • No if you download the local copies back then delete them from OneDrive, OneDrive will delete the local copies you restored to your computer.

    It’s also important to note that the users aren’t “Using OneDrive” intentionally, so they aren’t even aware that there are steps they’d need to reverse.

    The issue isn’t the users at all. The issue is that Microsoft has a software that takes files off your computer without permission and puts them on their computers. And then make sure it’s obtuse to safely get them back.

  • Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why

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  • Oh no it’s far worse than that. Essentially what happens is One Drive takes over your entire home holder, and then makes the copy in OneDrive the original. People try to disable OneDrive and then delete the copies in the cloud, only to find out OneDrive will then delete the local copies from your computer.

  • Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things

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  • This will not take off until their native apps release and support self hosted rooms.

  • Self-hosting in 2026 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure

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  • It is a skill much like maintaining a car yourself, or your own lawn/garden.

    It’s pretty easy to get started, and there are certain ways of doing things that keep it pretty simple forever, at the cost of some flexibility.

    But no matter how you do it, there will be a non-zero amount of work involved indefinitely. Just like you need your cars oil changed, your garden mulched and weeded, or your server patched and cleaned up once in awhile.

  • 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular

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  • Actually Edge prior to this was a fine browser. Like a lightweight chrome. It was actually just good enough to not really make you want to install a new browser unless it was your daily driver personal PC.

  • Is there a self hosted mTLS manager?

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  • mTLS is the more common name these days.

  • AI content on Wikipedia - found via a simple ISBN checksum calculator (39C3)

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  • He used AI to write the anti-AI tool

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    What is a Passkey? - Computerphile

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  • Right but what about it do you think is complex?

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    What is a Passkey? - Computerphile

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  • True, but with passkeys they're never sent, by design.

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    What is a Passkey? - Computerphile

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  • Complex how exactly?

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    What is a Passkey? - Computerphile

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  • No. When you log into a website your password is sent to the server. A passkey is not.

  • what I think of the apps

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  • Yeah like why do you assume that “lower class” minorities are doing this work?

    As a former white delivery driver fuck you op lol

  • Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud

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  • I hate buying from Amazon and avoid it as much as I can, but one thing I’ve noticed in the last 5-10 years is that brick and mortar stores seem to have given up completely. It is shocking how many times I’ve wanted to buy something, often very common, from popular brands, and I try and find a local store to buy it from only for that store to be out of stock or just not stock it at all. It feels to me like these stores are filled with “stuff” but none of the things I want to buy.