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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Yes. Even with Plex I’ve had people just never log in. Or after I log them in and set it as a favorite they just never go to the unfamiliar icon.

    Most of the problem isn’t even Plex/Jellyfin/etc.'s fault, it’s that the UI of smart tvs is a nightmare hellscape running on underpowered hardware and people just want to interact with it as little as possible. The absolute best thing would be to copy Netflix/Disney/etc and throw a QR code on the screen to sidestep that by throwing authentication to the phone.



  • I settled on a SPH-10BT a few years ago. It didn’t have backup camera support though IIRC there is a radar add-on, but don’t know how available it is anymore.

    It seems insane to me, especially with the prevalence of Apple/Android Auto, that no car company is willing to have the phone be the supplemental screen in the car.

    That there’s no built-in phone mounts in cars still bugs me. Put wireless charging on a spot on the dash, NFC/Bluetooth to get it to automatically snap into car mode. Don’t have to develop an in-house UI that everyone hates and can focus on making a car.






  • Tarrifs in general aren’t good or bad, they’re a standard mechanism every country uses. “Hey steel from over there costs less. If we tax it, it will be at a similar/higher price than our steel and our factories will stay in business producing steel here.”

    But what Trump is doing is blanket country based Tarrifs. Instead of using a scalpel he’s using a nuke.

    The retaliatory Tarrifs aren’t against everyone. They’re against the US. So American companies have to pay more for electronics, steel, bananas. And when they try to sell their products on the global market, which is what everyone’s been trying to do since the 90s, it costs more in China for American goods. Why buy Ford when you can buy a Chinese vehicle that has local support, is an EV that fits on your road, and costs half the price. (There’s a recent Wendover Productions video about how much Volvo is struggling the last few years, and that’s without a Tarrif war making buying materials and selling product harder.)

    The goal of a Tarrif is to get people to buy domestic because the foreign thing is now expensive. When there is no domestic, because it’s all been moved to foreign factories, it just makes everything more expensive for the purchaser.

    China isn’t paying for a price increase. You’re paying more tax to the US government for the priviledge of buying goods from China.

    China is comfortable being retaliatory to the US because they’re where the US was in the ~90s and selling to the rest of the world. And they have all the (for them) domestic production and market because we outsourced it to them.