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Cake day: January 10th, 2024

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  • My two complaints about Peacock were:

    1. Even taking the raw World feed there were often still segments cut out which I assume is where they ran ads. Watching replays with the “ad-free” plan there were no ads there, but the content was still gone.

    2. Even though the entirety of the events were produced in 4K/UHD, only HD content was available. I understand that they did this because none of their broadcast facilities run in UHD yet and I guess they don’t have their streaming apps supporting it yet, but it’s definitely time for that to be supported. Claiming they don’t need to go UHD because their affiliates aren’t using ATSC 3.0 yet is patently false; the signal is live in my market and dozens of others as well.

    That definitely needs to be fixed by Los Angeles, and really should be by Milano Cortina.









  • I know nothing about the stand, but it sounds like you should get the 9th gen and be prepared to replace both the stand and the iPad in 2 years. That is to say: go with the iPad that will be supported longest. You’re handling people’s financial data on there so you shouldn’t be using a device that’s not getting security updates. You’re risking their data and potentially opening yourself up to liability if your device is breached.









  • I was a longtime Android user, but had used Macs at work for a long time and eventually started doing so at home. I tried Windows and Android tablets but always found them lacking compared to my experience with others’ iPads. I always suspected if I got an iPad I would eventually switch to iPhone. Eventually I was gifted a basic one and about a year later when Google dropped support for my Pixel that was perfectly fine hardware-wise I made the switch. It was by no means the only reason or even the strongest reason, but the integration between Mac, iPhone, and iPad that generally works really well is a tough selling point to beat once you get on one of them. The much longer software support than Android (at the time) was probably the strongest selling point. Now that the Pixels are guaranteed much longer support I could conceivably see myself getting one and putting Graphene on it, perhaps as a second phone, but I have no need to. Apple has basically fixed all my annoyances from when I switched.