Funny you should say that. I had a ceiling fan that stopped working. Various YouTube videos suggested it could be a failed capacitor in the fan. I took it apart, and everything measured correctly on my meter. The fan was fine. The problem was the switch on the wall had broken. I've had to replace four failed light switches in our house.
They don't make them like they used to.
They abandoned everything *in* the software that mad a Tivo desirable well before this. It had been just another DVR for some time.
Season passes that worked? Gone.
Subscribing to things like series premieres? Gone.
Suggestions? Gone.
We had a roamio with a lifetime subscription, and dumped it at yet another cox cable price increase.
By that time, we realized that pretty much everything we watched was on broadcast.
We got an orange pi (what a disaster! don't!), an hdhomerun quattro, and a terabyte disk.
we've been using the Quattro's dvd functions, and they've been "good enough" that other projects are ahead of getting the raspberry pi running.
We had a ReplayTV 2020 back in 1999, and loved it. I always thought ReplayTV was better than TiVo, but TiVo had a lower sticker price with a subscription, and consumers are dumb. We moved to MythTV when we got an HDTV in 2004, recording off of antenna and QAM, later getting a HDHomeRun with CableCard. Last year we dropped cable, as we had mostly stopped watching it in favor of streaming, so MythTV still is sitting there recording occasionally from the antenna, but we rarely use it.
As far as features go, though, MythTV was the best I've seen for recording TV. It's a shame it's a bit complicated to set up; I believe someone tried selling preconfigured boxes at one point, which would have been a great idea, but there were issues with the TV listings.
For people who still want to record TV and are geeky enough to be here, MythTV is still a good option, though you'll need CableCard support from your cable company, and some of the channels will have copy restrictions so you can't record them.
But for everyone else, most cable companies will provide a DVR service of some sort (usually now streaming from their servers, not really recording locally), so you're pretty much stuck with that.
Because it's infuriating digging through a drawer that has multiple USB cables to try to remember which are power only, thus safe to use in public USB chargers.
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And no, they weren't fishermen, lol. If a guy jumps out of an alley with a knife do you assume he must be a surgeon?
they need to go further.
As I drive off to dutifully buy the wondrous stuff from the last commercial, the current commercial should jump to my phone so I don't miss it!
Music & Sound effects shouldn't even be on the same channel as voice!
Adding channels on a digital distribution isn't as complicated as what it takes to broadcast & decode stereo audio, whether AM or FM.
And then add a "relative volume" slider so that regular volume controls both (or even let the user choose a curve so that music doesn't increase as much as speech [or more, if the user prefers])
>ah i forgot another surprisingly common failure mode: cats peeing on the screen.
fluufffyyy!
it seems to me that removing such jobs would actually be a task well fitted to an AI . . .
Sounds like another leftist death threat.
You guys just can't resist.
Most of these things are long-known and well-understood principles.
The problem is the McMBA's being churned out by US(mostly) business schools aren't being taught to
Things like persistence, durability, consistency, reputation - do they matter?
I was told by a near-retirement mid-level manager at Pillsbury in the early 1990s that the MBAs swarming into corporate America simply saw reputation as a piggy-bank they could squeeze. Do you have a great name (cf Pillsbury) that consumers trust because of a century of careful production, high quality, and the best possible inputs?
Let someone who's got shitty factories rent that name and logo!
The more consumers trust it, the LONGER you could go by farming out your production from US (expensive) factories to shitty Asian and Mexican factories, and still have the sales based on that century-old reputation no matter how bad your product.
(profit)
I mean eventually consumers would figure it out that your product was awful now no matter how trusted your brand, but in the meanwhile think of the $$.
... Until they can figure out how to wring union dues from AI systems, anyway.
Every company should lock those precious and above all, widely demanded AI resources behind stringent pay walls. Why should the plebs get a browser that anticipates what they want, offers suggestions, and will summarize web content for you? They don't deserve such services for free.
Whatever happens, I certainly hope as a non paying user I'm not left with a lightweight, simple browser that integrated none of those functions, hell, it would probably do nothing more than render web pages cleanly.
That would be terrible.
Are we going to likewise celebrate other cult founders like Jim Jones, or L Ron Hubbard?
I'll credit Jobs with being good at marketing, but I'd genuinely like to know if he did anything for the computer industry substantively. Would we have had GUI desktops without Apple? I think so, Parc was working on that stuff long before Jobs ever said "what if we made computer stuff in white?"
Until they told him to stop, and then he took a nice little payout to stfu so her highness could finally get the presidency she deserved.
If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers. -- Swami Prabhupada
