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It is also a round trip delay. Server to TV, I react, move cursor, press fire button, back to server. So, I pay that delay penalty twice in terms of user experience.

People in Paradise wanted to live in a forest- their private forest. California is going to burn - we can just try to manage where and when. The two season rain pattern, combined with very dry summers and wind patterns between the cold Pacific and the hot interior, results in heavy fuel loads...

Google has given up on new fiber builds as it was costign them too much.

i was all - "that sounds interesting" - and it was, especially the price - $450! I guess they wanted to match prices with Intel and nVidia :)

Just out of curiousity, what do you use the 10G NIC for?

I think they need to update their slogan to "First, do evil. Then do more evil."

As a former neon tube bender, I am used to bending with fire. This looks a lot safer.

Do you get any error when trying to play the movie? Or does it just downscale? Edit 1 :I am thinking it is the active adaptor, but not sure why it is content specific. Does it stream Amazon movies to your normal computer display?

When Starlink gets deployed, it should be ideal for real rural internet connections. Not so good for near suburbs, since you will be sharing with potentially too many people in the area. https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/

At these prices, I am unlikely to buy anyway. However, if every other site has reviews a month earlier than H, there will be less traffic reading the review.

Would you get the sample sooner than retail?

Costco is going to have the Samsung 6290 40" HDTV for $299 again before Black Friday. Makes a nice, cheap, 4k Monitor. There are endless threads on this in the Display forum. Picked up one last year and will probably buy another one for the work computer this time.

This is interesting. My post-Steam gaming breaks down into two sets of game styles and fear of addiction. 1. The ones I can play on autopilot late at night - almost always some single player scrimmage thing Sins of a Solar Empire = 1,370 hours Rise of Nations = 572 hours Civ 5 = 304 hours...

My eyes have had some bad things happen to them and the windows scaling is more about eye strain than PPI sharpness- I don't run at 100% normally because the small text is too much strain when looking from corner to corner when coding. I will crank it down when debugging to me see more...