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rpt said:

Anyone there who can tell me how I can turn this karaoke sh** I never requested off when I use my ATV. And even better; a way I can see what I am playing when I play classical music which doesn't fit into the st***d Apple song context.

If you set the screen saver timeout to a small number the screensaver will kick in sooner and hide the offending scrolling lyrics. You’ll see a temporary on-screen notification when the song changes. The built in ATV screen are quite nice, and you can always use your own photos for the screen saver.

KITA said:

It's worth noting that the S20, S20+ and S20 Ultra all sample touch at 240 Hz. For comparison, the iPhone 11 Pro only samples at 120 Hz.

This makes a huge difference on how the device reacts to touch.

Maybe, maybe not. It really depends on what real world process or input, like tracking a moving stylus or coincidence detection of a short lived multiple touch, you are trying to capture with the sampling. The rule of thumb for the minimum sampling rate to completely capture all of the information contained in the input, otherwise known as the Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem, is to sample at at least 2-times the frequency of the event. A reasonable way to test this visually would be to use a test fixture that moves a stylus through a series of patterns at various velocities across the screen and figure out at what point the pattern is no longer captured with full fidelity because the input is not being sampled at a high enough frequency.

There is obviously going to be a difference in performance between 120 Hz and 240 Hz sampling. However, if the stylus velocity where the higher sample rate provides a benefit does not correspond to anything a user would ever do in the course of using the device then the over sampling will have no user benefit but simply consume more power. 

Does Apple provide recommendations for cleaning the Lightning port? I’ve restored 3 iPhones that were thought to have faulty Lightning ports simply by (very carefully) removing the lint that had accumulated in the Lightning port. One of these was a recent vintage iPhone that the owner had taken to an Apple store and was told that the phone’s Lightning port was bad. The owner held off from getting the repair for many months and lived with intermittent charging problems due to the cost. I cleaned out the Lightning port on the phone using a disposable micro applicator brush (found in the vicinity of makeup counters) and he’s had no problems with the port since, going on nearly two years. The other two phones were my own, which tend to get linted up because I carry them in my pocket. 

Hmm, maybe Apple will put a GPS grand master clock in the HomePod, AppleTV, and (future Apple automotive hub) and implement a precision time protocol, e.g., IEEE 1588, in their devices and HomeKit sensors/cameras/media/control devices to allow for very precise time synchronization and isochronous communication, control, and event handling. Without getting into too much esoterica, imagine IFTTT/Workflow/Siri Shortcuts type of automation that can be synchronized with sub-microsecond precision rather than relying on ad hoc/loosely coupled/unbounded execution chains.  Having a network wide shared precision time reference would open up a world of automation possibilities for cooperating devices not only within the home, but also onboard vehicles such as an Apple People Mover/Package Mover/whatever mover. 

lkrupp said:

The FBI is lying pure and simple. Sad we can no longer trust our government’s security organizations. They’ve lied, hidden, obfuscated, edited, redacted, destroyed, misdirected the American people, all in the name of national security, for a hundred years now. Now we refuse to believe anything they say or print.

Evidence?