Perun does some excellent defense economics and analysis. Probably one of the channels I have learned the most from.

Jake Broe does regular updates on the Russo Ukraine war which I always find helpful.

And finally, Zeihan on Geopolitics, does, well, what the name says. I find he brings ideas I hadn’t thought of, or that are not well explained, into clarity.

I’m surprised more people don’t buy the SE’s. They are half the price of the other iPhones.

I feel like that’s saying that my computer monitor needs a “killer app”.

That’s the thing though, it has piles of them. Steam is absolutely jam packed with them. Additionally things like, video editors, photo editors, browsers, spreadsheets, word processors, code editors, etc, etc. All of these makes a monitor (or laptop screen) something almost everyone owns. All of these apps are best on a monitor.

What is best on a Vision Pro?

It’s just WAY too expensive for people to want to do so

Yep, the price can make or break a product. And the price makes this product…not good. Particularly when people don’t see much of a point in the product in the first place. VR headsets are niche as hell, the Vision Pro is a niche of a niche.

Yeah, the constant doomerism in particular annoys me, and it annoys many others. The whole thing is self-reinforcing. If you are someone bothered by it, you are almost certainly going to unsub from the doomer place after dozens of doomers give unhelpful replies to honest suggestions to improve their lives on a micro or macro scale. And now, because you unsubbed from there, it’s even more doomer-y. Repeat this millions of times and you get what we have. Many well-adjusted people refusing to participate online, and doomers self-reinforcing each other and finding themselves unable to improve their lives.

Glad to see more handhelds picking up Steam OS! So many portable competitors have been hampered by their OS sucking down limited resources while providing an inferior UI and UX.

Nebula focuses mostly on 7-50min, edited content. That is to say, not shorts and no let’s plays. They have some solid originals, like the Battle of Britain series, however most of their content is also available on youtube. What most creators do is offer the ad free version on Nebula (ie no in-video ad-reads), and Nebula doesn’t add ads themselves. Many creators will also create supplemental videos that aren’t available elsewhere that go into more detail on one part of the prior story; something LowSpecGamer does quite a bit.

On the negative side, because the content is all edited (ie, not things like lets play) and there are less creators overall, you can’t sit down and watch Nebula all day every day like you can youtube. Also, as mentioned earlier, much of the content is also available on youtube.

I personally like it and happy to support creators I like. The extra content is solid and it’s nice creators are rewarded for making quality content.

Regulating ISPs as a utility is a pretty big change, not simply a technical detail; it is in the purview of Congress.

Congressmen aren’t individually drafting bills, they direct their aids to draft the bills and hammer out the details. We don’t need to overhaul our system, we need congressmen to do their job rather than offloading their job to the Executive.

Edit: Said bill would direct the Executive on how to regulate them as a utility at which point small technical details, as you mention, are handled by the Executive.

I don’t know what the US should do to resolve all this, but it’s getting to be quite the mess.

it really is just another example of how various parts of the US government have been ceding or delegating their responsibilities around willy-nilly

This is the big one. Congress has been delegating their power to the Executive for decades. Rather than meaningful law, they tell the Executive to make regulations that don’t stand the test of time. Congress needs to pass laws again, instead of delegating large swaths of their power.

Like most large changes, it requires an act of Congress. Doing these via the executive leads to weak outcomes like this.

Yeah, I have switched quite a bit of my viewing over to Nebula. Bunch of the creators I like are over there since Youtube punishes high-effort content.

It probably would have worked with more than one service if they did what music did: almost everything is everywhere. If you pay for a music service, you almost certainly can find what you are looking for. (Hell, one doesn’t even need to pay for Youtube and the vast majority is there too). Contrast with streaming services where each piece of content is likely only on one service.

No, I will not be paying for more than one streaming service, if your content isn’t on the service I pay for, that is your problem, not mine.

The Switch mostly lives on the talent and creativity of Nintendo devs. Russia seems to be lacking in the quantity and quality in that regard as well.

Honestly, I would expect Russia to shoot more for PC gaming, rather than console gaming. But that would almost certainly require using home-grown or Chinese semiconductors. I’m not sure there are too many homegrown Russian semiconductor fabs, and Chinese chips aren’t known for their high performance like Taiwanese (TSMC, and by extension nVidia, AMD) and American chips (Intel) are.

Seems negligent to not include extension cables in the spec. Lots of hubs have too short of cables, or one needs to expose a plug somewhere other than where the PC is.

Yeah, I have some EBL brand 1.5v rechargeable batteries since the VR handsets I own are pretty sensitive to low voltage. They were unfortunately a bit more expensive than regular 1.2v rechargeables.

Andor was surprisingly good, and the only thing Disney put out in the Star Wars universe I would ever recommend someone watch.

There certainly isn’t a ‘grand idea’ for how the universe looks. Even the most recent trilogy didn’t seem to have a grand idea of what itself was going to portray. It fees like Disney is looking at the IP on a yearly or quarterly basis, and not where it needs to be in 5 or 10 years.

My enthusiasm for the IP has been completely destroyed at this point; and I’m not the only one.

I remember back when Halo 3 and 4 were out for one Microsoft gaming platform (Xbox), but not the other (Windows); and Halo 2 for Windows was a disaster area (Games for Windows Live, ugh). Went on like that for years and years. I just couldn’t figure out why even first party Microsoft games were not available on both Microsoft platforms.

I would have bought the Halos in a heartbeat from a Windows-locked store back then. Though, I’m glad that by the time they launched an official MS store (and much, much later released Halo 3+ for the PC, and Halo 2 in a way that didn’t suck), I was already souring on Microsoft as a company and didn’t want to lock myself into a platform-specific store.

If the screens were as durable as the non-foldables, foldable phones would be the obvious choice. They protect the screen by putting it on the inside and are pretty satisfying to close.

With that said, I don’t forsee a technology that lets them get the screens nearly as durable as non-foldable screens. So, like you said, will almost certainly remain a niche feature.

These are pumped hydro, but with extra steps, more expense, and less mass stored (read: less energy storage). ThunderFoot did a video going through this in detail, he even used the crane-based one in his examples.

This is the question you always need to ask: is this new mass-based storage better than pumped hydro?

If you feel up for it, boot into the live disk for Mint. Lets you trial the OS without touching your OS install.

But, I hear you on the lazy angle. Momentum is a hell of a thing.