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If you want to stay within the Apple ecosystem without the TV part, you could use an AVR with airplay built-in. Or get an AirPort Express, which can join a wifi network and become an Airplay client, and connect it via optical (mini toslink) to an AVR. And control it all from a phone or Mac.
I get that they are trying to find some practical used cases for their tools. But there's no enlightenment in the product development here.
If this is already the part of the s-curve where these AI tools get diminishing returns...what a waste of everybody's time.
No search. No desktop/friendly UX. It’s all going to go away.
You can see this happening already with the inability to permanently disable “shorts”. They can only be disabled for 30 days. You can see this happening when unrelated recommendations appear in search results. You can see this happening with the inability to block a channel, you can only stop it appearing in recommendations. It’s only going to keep getting worse.
Get off YouTube (and especially get your kids off the platform) and find alternatives. It’s not going to end well.
And without changes to laws around euthanasia or suicide, it means being forced to stay alive forever, which is even more dystopian.
Raising the center channel never sounded great to me, because there are so many other sounds in the center channel as well.
At least now I can raise only the dialogue levels on demand.
Meanwhile watching these shows the legal way on unsupported DRM chain gives you 720p SDR with worse audio.
It’s one of the few apps I’m happy to pay the subscription cost for. Well worth it for a well made AP.
Not trying to make this sound like an ad. It’s just a legit good app.
It can seem like a bunch of hippie crap but it really emphasised that we need more than just technology and engineering (and business engagement metric bean counters) driving decisions.
So much incredible technology behind the scenes and for what? This shit?
We need people with more perspective and humanity in the driving seat.
The annoying part is that if you load the feed url from a bookmark, at least on mobile, it reloads to the home page anyway. So you need to navigate to it manually each time. Never used to be this way. I guess they’ll remove the “feeds” feature soon enough anyway.
Even with ad blockers, these sign in prompts are becoming increasingly common and annoying.
Blocking Google and Reddit sign in popups especially have restored some of my sanity.
But slowly I’m seeing more people recommending the AppleTV, even amongst enthusiast circles which tend to be rather anti-Apple.
> Because the world today is not the world of yesterday. A capitalist oligarchy runs the world and forces us to consume in order to keep the gears of this rotten society on track. As such, the biggest market for video game consumption today is the mobile one. It is a market of poor souls forced to compulsively consume digital content in order to forget the misery of their everyday life, commute, or just any other brief free moment they have that they are not using to produce goods or services for the ruling class. These individuals need to keep focusing on their video games (because not doing so will fill them with tremendous existential angst), so they go as far as spending money on them to extend their experience, and their preferred way of doing so is through in-app purchases and virtual currency.
> But what if someone were to find a way to edit the saved games and assign the items and currency without effort? That would be terrible, because it would help players consume the content much faster, and therefore run out of it sooner than expected. If that happens, they will have nothing that prevents them from thinking, and the tremendous agony of realizing their own irrelevance would again take over their life.
> No, we definitely do not want that to happen, so let's see how to encrypt savegames and protect the world order.
Everything is in one place (not spread across different apps), the UI is consistent and not buggy (official apps can be terrible at times). All they do is put in a request to dad and their TV show or movie appears shortly after in the "newly added" section on the TV. Not only that, but content doesn't disappear from one service without warning. It's always going to be there, and I get to curate the kids content.
It require piracy, and the kids don't know that, but it's the only way to get this setup.
It will intentionally insert unrelated videos into search results, in an obvious attempt to boost your engagement. And it probably works. I have no doubt it’s possible for Google (a damn search company) to make a more capable YouTube search, but it’s clearly not aligned with their interest of increasing some retention KPIs.
Note: This is the HDR screenshot so colours look wrong unless tonemapped to a SDR display.
Competitors stuffed around trying to build a competitor for over a decade and failed. Is that Apple's fault?
It’s a shame because everything else about the AppleTV is such a nicer experience.
I used to use Kodi, but got tired of endless minor issues and UI skins that haven’t evolved since 2005.
PCs have also been left behind when it comes to HDR, Dolby Vision, and streaming options due to DRM.