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  • Samsung's Studio Display rival finally coming in August

    stompystompy
    A couple weeks ago, for 1 day only, Costco sold the studio display for $1350. I thought to myself, "that's pretty good, but I'm going to wait and see the S9 price."
      :|
    blastdoor

  • Ford will stick with CarPlay as GM exits for Google tech

    stompystompy
    mikethemartian said:
    Why would a company give control of its product to another company?
    So CarPlay is "total control of" a vehicle? Too much R.J.
    jas99

  • Spotify lays off 6% of workforce, loses content chief

    stompystompy
    If 600 employees = 6% of their workforce, Spotify employed 10, 000.   

    wow
    watto_cobra

  • iPhone 15 will have USB-C & big differences between models

    stompystompy
    ApplePoor said:
    By now, anyone using Apple products for any time (since 1990 for me) has an inventory of USB-A chargers and USB-C chargers and lots of cables and dongles. I even have a few of the original cables and chargers from the 90s. Apple could help the clutter by making useful multiport chargers still with the ability to change the actual plug to various formats for around the world.
    At the M2 MacBook Air event, Apple showed off their 2 port 35W power adapter. I don't think Apple pointed out the international version, but it was made available for purchase at the same time.
    twokatmewwilliamlondonwatto_cobra

  • New Apple TV 4K with A15, HDR10+, more storage debuts

    stompystompy
    illrigger said:
    mike1 said:
    starof80 said:
    I have the first gen 4K model and really don’t plan to upgrade. Yes Thread and Matter is nice, but the A10X is still a beast. I don’t really game on it so the bigger storage doesn’t matter to me that much. I have a HomePod Mini that I can use for Thread.

    The more Thread devices throughout the home, the more reliable the network.
    To be fair, that's true of most dedicated home automation standards. For example, Thread isn't superior to Zigbee in that regard, which is why Philips Hue has managed to stay on top of the game for so long. The reason people have had such low opinions of home automation devices in general and tout the superiority of Thread so much is the huge number of cheap and unreliable WiFi connected devices out there, and the fact that the more WiFi devices you have on your network, the worse all of them work thanks to collision domain issues.
    Most? The only home automation mesh networks I'm aware of are Thread and Zigbee. What are the others?
    williamlondonwatto_cobra