Chronographs

That sounds a lot like socialism and we don’t do that in this here land of the free 🦅

They are, they just often don’t have a presence for various reasons.

Because the OEM’s are Chinese and not on Amazon.

This is a well established practice.

https://www.autods.com/blog/suppliers-marketplaces/aliexpress-to-amazon-dropshipping/

https://bettamax.com/how-to-dropship-from-aliexpress-to-amazon/

Yes, on Amazon it goes Manufacturer -> Aliexpress -> Amazon -> Consumer

On Aliexpress it goes Manufacturer-> Aliexpress -> Consumer.

Nobody is saying Aliexpress is a manufacturer, or that you’re cutting out all the middle men. You’re cutting out A middle man

No it’s cutting out Amazon, as the stuff on Amazon came from Aliexpress already.

Yeah it’s cutting out one of the middle assholes so it’s one instead of two. From the stuff I get recommended on Amazon it’s pretty clear they don’t care about false advertising either. Cant help you with your vpn problem though

Well to his credit, Twitter is dead now. X is just wearing its skin

I mean it’s 64/128/256 cores for home/pro/workstation so not really. People buying aftermarket server parts that want windows can probably figure out how to type irm https://get.activated.win/ | iex if they don’t want to pay for it anyways lol.

Well notepad++ hasn’t been looking great https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/

No, space isn’t cold it’s empty. You need something to conduct away the heat, otherwise all you can do is passively radiate it

Yeah, you’re talking about bitrate. A lot of the 4k content is encoded using more efficient codecs, but if it’s sourced from the streaming services the bitrate is so abysmal it’s usually a tossup between the 1080p or 4k stream. At least the 4k usually has hdr these days which is appreciable.

Plus the network usage for people with data caps, ISPs who throttle you for any p2p traffic etc it’d be a mess. Not to mention torrents usually have a ‘ramp up’ time as they find and connect to peers, probably not what people used to and endless stream of autoplaying short-form videos would want.

Yeah the venn diagram overlap of “people who understand and care about e2ee enough to drop a messaging app for not supporting it” and “people who use whatsapp” has to be a sliver

Yeah beyond the obvious problems with latency it mostly comes down to trust: trusting them with your data, trusting them to have enough capacity and trusting to not enshittify in the future. I reserve that level of trust for close friends, certainly not companies and absolutely not bezos.

I wish they’d actually improve their product instead of forcing in more slop

That display is using BFI (black frame insertion) which is usually optional to reduce blur.

That’s some pretty confidently incorrect posting. Most gaming displays these days have some flavor of adaptive sync available that adjusts the refresh rate to the content being displayed, and even before that there were film modes that set the refresh rate to the ~24 fps(or a multiple if it) that film content is at to avoid stuttering/tearing.

This is likely the bottom of the adaptive sync window and will only be used if the machine is idle

Buzzing, buttons not working, other devices not working in the same bus. I’d just read it when you’ve had some sleep

Comic-con?

Probably single channel too because of course