Technology Chat Thread • Page 42

Do you not have room for something bigger? I can definitely sympathize as someone who wears glasses for distance heh. My current living room TV is the biggest I've ever owned at 55 inches and I regret not going bigger tbh. I still squint reading small text bubbles in video games. Bedroom is totally fine at 42 inches though since I don't really game in there

 

not really, we live in a small house and the space we have for the tv is on top of a tall dresser. We also use subtitles when watching. If I could I would have something a bit bigger but we live in a small house. Thankfully I still have my 65” tv for the living room heh.

 

LG stops making Blu-ray players, marking the end of an era — limited units remain while inventory lasts

 

On one hand, it's a real bummer that physical media is getting less and less popular... But on the other hand, I love going to used record stores and seeing DVDs costing under $10, and seeing full series DVDs on Amazon sometimes for only like $20, compared to what you used to pay for just one season of a series.

 

Shortcuts

This should work from Apple Music for any song or album.

 

bueno! thanks for the footwork. probably my most-used shortcut and I always get props for serving music links this way.

 

Getty Images and Shutterstock are merging into one stock photo powerhouse

 

Man, I'm only like 10-12 feet from my TV in my recliner and I'm still squinting to read the chat in Twitch streams with my glasses on haha. I think 55 inches is too small for me now. Wild. 42 inch felt huge when I was in high school.

 

That's facts

 

I need some recommendations. I'm looking to get away from Spotify and play music files instead. What are good apps/programs for PC (window 11) and iOS to play music files, organize my music library, sync with each other (PC & iPhone), and connect with last.fm? Preferably with a good UI. I also posted this in the music forum general chat thread.

 

Plex/Plexamp is the first thing that comes to mind

 

Yeah, I’m setting up a Jellyfin server

 

this is a pretty cool cheeky app i just came across

touch grass

 

Crazy

World’s largest data center gets go-ahead from Korean govt — facility to require 3 GW of power

 

Got a Samsung Galaxy S24 FE recently and I'm very happy with it. Definite upgrade from the Motorola G Stylus 5G I had been using for the past year. The Motorola was by no means a bad phone and it did serve me well for over a year, I just wanted something faster and with a better camera and so far the S24 FE surpasses it in every respect

 

Microsoft set to shut down Skype in May | News.az

 

Finally made the switch from Chrome to Firefox. Chrome has recently removed/restricted uBlock Origin and Adblock Plus, which meant ads on Youtube started showing up again, which got really annoying. So far the Firefox experience has been pretty smooth. I like how it doesn't auto-play Youtube videos when I open new ones. And it transferred all my bookmarks too, which saved a lot of time.

 

shoutout to Zen browser, built on Firefox.

 

Napster Finds New Owners in $200M Acquisition

Napster Sold To Infinite Reality in $200 Million Deal

 

Is there a way on reels to use a movie clip that has had the background green screened and put a picture from your camera roll as the background? Or do you need to use an outside app to do that?

 

Anyone here use Brave as their mobile web browser? Just tinkering around on it with my iPhone now

 

I tried it out on my iPhone for a while but stopped. I thought it was fine, but only Safari allows extensions on iPhone and there’s a few that I have that I really like. I know safari isn’t the most private, but I changed a lot of the settings to make it a little better at least. I’ve recently gone on a privacy deep-dive recently lol

 

I tried this for a few weeks because of your shoutout. It’s really cool but I had to stop using it because I use Google docs a lot for school right now. For some reason shortcuts don’t work in google docs on zen.