Miscellaneous Tech News
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews Im' not surprised. Xbox doesn't sound like a current product any longer. It's lost mind share in my limited view. It seems like something that quietly faded away. I forget that it's still a thing. Two years ago, that was not the case.
oh? so what still has mindspace for you? PS4?
MS is starting the move away from the console - like everything else - they are about to release an online streaming gaming solution, no xBox required.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
oh? so what still has mindspace for you? PS4?
PS4, Switch, phones, PC....
They all seem to get more discussion now.
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Ubunto 19.10 is available for Raspberry Pi now.
https://ubuntu.com/download/iot/raspberry-pi
Install server and then add desktop afterwards. Runs all flavors of ubuntu; lubuntu, xubuntu etc.
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4K projector turns any wall into theater-quality screen from inches away
Vava's 4K projector offers ultra short throw distance and Harman-Kardon speakers.
This is Vava, a 4K definition Ultra Short Throw (UST) home theater projector retailing for $2,700. For those of you not familiar with the term, UST refers to "throw distance"—the amount of space you need between a projector and screen in order to get the desired image size. This projector also features a built-in Harman-Kardon speaker, motion sensors to keep you from blinding yourself by staring into the laser, and plenty of inputs. A few weeks ago, we reviewed Cinemood, a miniature and fairly low-cost portable projector that unfortunately did not really impress us. Vava is the projector we thought we were getting then, and we're happy to report that it impressed us a lot. -
@mlnews man I want one of those!
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews man I want one of those!
That's quite a price tag though...
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews man I want one of those!
Oh, but 25,000 hour lamp life! And lots of lumens! That alone is worth the replacement costs of the bulbs of regular projectors.
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Omg it's 33 lbs! Hahah
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Omg it's 33 lbs! Hahah
It should come with it's own cart!
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Omg it's 33 lbs! Hahah
It weighs 23.8 lbs not 33, check your facts.
I had to dig for that in their documentation- direct download as it's not listed anywhere that I could find in the link or the product page.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Omg it's 33 lbs! Hahah
It weighs 23.8 lbs not 33, check your facts.
I had to dig for that in their documentation- direct download as it's not listed anywhere that I could find in the link or the product page.
Fuck off @DustinB3403.
I was going by what Amazon said, but who gives a shit.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Omg it's 33 lbs! Hahah
It weighs 23.8 lbs not 33, check your facts.
I had to dig for that in their documentation- direct download as it's not listed anywhere that I could find in the link or the product page.
Fuck off @DustinB3403.
I was going by what Amazon said, but who gives a shit.
w/e
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews man I want one of those!
Oh, but 25,000 hour lamp life! And lots of lumens! That alone is worth the replacement costs of the bulbs of regular projectors.
Yeah, that's laser based. So no traditional bulb, makes "super bright" easy, along with the super short throw.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Omg it's 33 lbs! Hahah
It weighs 23.8 lbs not 33, check your facts.
I had to dig for that in their documentation- direct download as it's not listed anywhere that I could find in the link or the product page.
Probably product weight vs. shipping weight. Chances are a nearly 24lbs laser device is going to include a lot of hefty packaging.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Omg it's 33 lbs! Hahah
It weighs 23.8 lbs not 33, check your facts.
I had to dig for that in their documentation- direct download as it's not listed anywhere that I could find in the link or the product page.
Fuck off @DustinB3403.
I was going by what Amazon said, but who gives a shit.
Alright, let's keep it civil.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Omg it's 33 lbs! Hahah
Holy hell!
For sure, NOT a portable unit like one would hope.
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Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/google-owner-alphabet-in-bid-to-buy-fitbit-533092Google owner Alphabet Inc has made an offer to acquire US wearable device maker Fitbit Inc , as it eyes a slice of the crowded market for fitness trackers and smartwatches, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.
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50 years ago today, the Internet was born. Sort of
The precursor to the Internet carried its first login request on October 29, 1969.
On October 29, 1969, at 10:30pm Pacific Time, the first two letters were transmitted over ARPANET. And then it crashed. About an hour later, after some debugging, the first actual remote connection between two computers was established over what would someday evolve into the modern Internet. Funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (the predecessor of DARPA), ARPANET was built to explore technologies related to building a military command-and-control network that could survive a nuclear attack. But as Charles Herzfeld, the ARPA director who would oversee most of the initial work to build ARPANET put it: The ARPANET was not started to create a Command and Control System that would survive a nuclear attack, as many now claim. To build such a system was, clearly, a major military need, but it was not ARPA's mission to do this; in fact, we would have been severely criticized had we tried. Rather, the ARPANET came out of our frustration that there were only a limited number of large, powerful research computers in the country, and that many research investigators, who should have access to them, were geographically separated from them. -
Apple releases macOS Catalina 10.15.1 and watchOS 6.1
Both follow closely after iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS updates yesterday.
Apple yesterday released software updates for macOS and watchOS—10.15.1 and 6.1, respectively. Apple's habit of late has been to release most of its operating system updates for each platform all on the same day. But in this instance, though, macOS and watchOS came a single day after iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS updates.The macOS update mainly adds features we already saw yesterday in iOS and iPadOS 13.2. That includes support for AirPods Pro, the ability to opt in or out of sharing Siri recordings with Apple, new emoji, and new HomeKit feature support. There are also a number of macOS-specific bug fixes and the restoration of some lost Photos features.
