You got 720p,1080p, 4k. More pixels. Doesnt take a fuckin brain genius to figure out if your tv's picture looks better because of course it does, and you don't gotta do anything to get it to work. but they realized that past 4k, shit ain't gonna look much better for the cost. so what do they do? more colors per pixel. only problem is color settings on tvs suck. tv manufactures handle this like dogshit. so now you gotta spend 30 minutes before watching a movie cause your fuckin tv automatically changes the setting from time to time for no fuckin reason. all this just to get slightly more colors. it's not even that noticeable. i fuckin hate HDR. i fuckin hate tv manufacturers.
the shining's still a beautiful movie but fuck me did i not notice the HDR one bit.
Under capitalism, we get “recycling” like this:
https://hackaday.com/2020/02/24/ethics-whiplash-as-sonos-tries-every-possible-wrong-way-to-handle-iot-right/
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/sonos-sunsets-several-smart-speakers-software-support-spurring-storm/
Sonos was bricking their own hardware, rendering it entirely unusable to anyone, and instructing people to take their bricked devices to recycling centers (that now can’t do anything with it except scrap it, if that).
Yeah a reformation of the recycling industry would need to be done as well for most of this to work.
But there's a ton of actually good tech that ends up in the pile as well that takes next to nothing to refurbish.
“Capacitor’s blown, pitch the whole thing and buy a new one”
We should teach everyone how to solder and use a multimeter.
I'm currently operating on a laptop I found in the trash that had a busted screen and a dead fan. 1200 dollar laptop when it was new in 2015, now about 4-600 depending on condition.
Fine otherwise. Super easy to repair.
This was more broken than the last one I found, which I sold, that literally just had some malware on it. Just reinstalled windows and sold that for 250 bucks.
It's insane lol, and this wasn't even me going out and looking for the things. They were just equipment I came across while throwing out the trash at the dump.
All the TVs in my house and garage are from the dump
I got yelled at last time though and the guy told me if I came back it would be trespassing, and then he wouldn't let me leave until he took down my license plate number lol
He yelled "You can't be doing that! NO SCAVENGING!" as if I should be ashamed of it. I'm not going to apologize for being poor.
Lol I had one of those guys where I used to live. Any position of power at all for some people. I used to call him the dump lord.
The guy trying to harass you I mean.