> I noticed "copyright info goes here (c) 2025" - which you might want to update!
It's still 2025, so that's fine :P post-Berne Convention, there are no forms required for copyright protection to vest, merely fixing the work upon a medium is sufficient.
> You should update the TV when you first unbox it (ideally via ethernet) and then disconnect it. If you don't like Apple TV then your streaming box of choice.
Can you update via USB? I know my (couple years old now) Samsung TVs have firmware downloads available so you don't even need to connect the TV to anything.
Yes. I've owned a couple Android-based Sony TVs in the past decade and they both support updating firmware via USB thumb. They also support installing/removing packages with ADB, just like one would with an Android phone, in the case that there's some offline app you want to use on it. The newer models also do a neat thing where if you have external speakers hooked up, its internal speakers can be repurposed for center channel audio which is super cool.
I'll echo the Apple TV + Sony TV combo. It's very solid.
> I remember pre 9/11 walking right up to the gate my mom was departing out of because she was nervous to go through it. I don't even remember going through security because we didn't have a ticket, they just let us through?
Pre 9/11, IIRC security checkpoints was a metal detector and an x-ray for bags, but they didn't check IDs or tickets. Boarding passes were checked at the gate, maybe sometimes IDs were checked, depending on airline policy; but you often did need to stop at the check in counter to get a boarding pass and drop bags and ID might be checked there... you could also check in at the gate if you didn't have any bags to check.
But you could absolutely walk your friends/family to the gate for departures or meet them at the gate for arrivals. My local large airport now has a visitor pass program for 300 people a day [1], which is maybe a start of a return to the old ways? You can also get passes to accompany minors in the airport that will be flying unaccompanied.
Yeah, Walkman is a name; we don't usually pluralize individual components of a name, we just add an s or an es, or sometimes (but not always) a trailing y becomes ies. But if we did plural by components it would be Walksman. :p (Personally, I try to pluralize compound nouns this way, cause I think it's fun. Even if it's not always appropriate or correct.)
I'd suppose the fashion goes somewhat with the price of copper, though I haven't tracked it. The heatsinks themselves have gotten far larger as CPUs and GPUs have gotten more power hungry, not to mention RAM and SSDs. A material that's a good tradeoff at one scale isn't necessarily one at a different scale.
At any rate, one should expect many of these trades to go the way of Al if Cu gets more expensive (which it might not). Not all of them, but we'll probably see a bias towards physically larger systems in cases where space isn't at a premium. And also a bias towards active systems over passive, liquid cooling over air, and so on.
APNIC has some addresses [1] and will assign up to two /24s to qualified new accounts within the region. There are also carve outs for National Internet Registries and Internet eXchange Points.
It's a human factors thing. If two patients both have a cancerous tumor that does not need treatment, the patient that did not have a screening is better off. The patient who was screened will deal with anxiety from having a positive screening result in addition to any negative effects from the screening and follow ups. Many patients are not comfortable living with a detected tumor, even if the standard of care is to watch and wait. Of course, the opposite scenario is also true --- if both patients have a tumor were removal would be best, the one that gets screened has a better outcome.
Maybe if we were all pretty rational people, we could better manage positive screening results and follow up actions that lead towards taking no specific action; but that's not where people are at the moment.
There's a tradeoff of early detection of fast growing tumors that are likely to cause issues vs detection of slow growing tumors that are likely to not cause issues except if they're detected. You can see how the consensus is shifting on things like breast, prostate, and colon cancer screenings over time. My TLDR is that we developed tools and methods, started applying them and have generally reduced the screening frequency over time as we understand more about the tradeoffs.
Except that the medical system already does that for various types of common cancer screening such as breast cancer. It is frequently detected extremely early when it is medically insignificant and patients may be recommended to just wait and watch with more frequent screening. Increased vigilance would have been impossible without early detection and early detection for breast cancer is viewed very positively and is very positive for society.
We have a system that partially results in anxiety because cancer screening is frequently only done when cancer would already be medically significant. A positive result usually means medically significant cancer because as a society we already chose to not screen when it would be medically insignificant. This is perfectly reasonable if the test is expensive, inaccurate, or harmful as even just the harms from doing the test in bulk could result in societally worse outcomes than occasional early detection. However, the rise in "medically unnecessary" screening indicates that we have turned the corner on that in many cases; that or it is easily billed corruption which is a separate problem.
It's still 2025, so that's fine :P post-Berne Convention, there are no forms required for copyright protection to vest, merely fixing the work upon a medium is sufficient.