Bother 😒

I’m not fully up-to-date with bleeding edge display technologies but is there any reason that a passive DP to HDMI adapter couldn’t easily solve this issue? And would it cause Valve any strife to include one in the box?

Something that they have continued in earnest with the Switch 2.

Unfortunately, many large monitors are becoming “smart” now.

HDCP (the DRM HDMI uses) is interface-agnostic though? It works over DisplayPort, heck it even works over DVI. I think that makes your argument about DRM fall apart, though TV OEMs did indeed promote the adoption of HDMI.

Wait, are you arguing that the US is the lesser of two evils in this situation? Like, right now, this United States of America, the one that has a fascist regime in power?

one indirectly owned by the CCP such as Lenovo?

You could say this about literally every Chinese owned company. Eliminate all Chinese and all American companies and there’s not a lot of goods left you could purchase. Even less when it comes to goods made for other companies in China by Chinese firms.

I’d rather pay for search, than to be the product of a search engine. Self-hosting a decent index is much harder than it seems. Kagi aren’t ontologically evil in the same way as Google or Microsoft so I think it’s the best option.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Did we culturally forget that digital art and photoshopping exist for a minute?

Yeah, compose has been an open standard for a while now, that’s why docker started* pushing you to rename your files to compose.yaml rather than docker-compose.yaml.

That is not how you secure a system.

Yes, but projects like Wayland which are trying to do this get shouted down.

Oh, I thought this was the “they were in my coat pocket” one again. This exact thing is why I bought an airtag for my keys.

TBF they’ve had KDE Neon for a lot longer.

Oh yeah, absolutely. There are limitations there, and stuff like compression and format are going to make a huge difference. I just think the tradeoffs are acceptable for the price.

Oh no, I can’t tell these people’s faces apart because someone on the internet said I wouldn’t be able too. What am I gonna do??

(the photo is 480x576 rather than 640x480 or 854x480 (16:9) but you get the idea)

Aldi doesn’t do sales ever.

480p in 2025 is trash.

According to who? If it’s functional as a doorbell then why does it need to chase higher specs and drive the price up? It’s not a movie, and you’re pawbably looking at it on a 6 inch screen anyway.

If you don’t like it, don’t buy it, spend your money elsewhere. But asserting that no one will use it is ridiculous and more than a little bit privileged.

It’s a shame that tuya camera* stuff, even cut from the cloud, still has so many issues integrating with ESPHome.

It costs US$22.50 compared to US$100 for the Ring (that requires a US$10/month subscription). It’s going to have some compromises and calling it e-waste for that is weird as hell. 480p is also pawfectly good-enough for the use case as well. Like, when I was growing up 480i was pawfectly cromulent, and most terrestrial broadcast channels are still only 576p50 (on DVB) encoded as MPEG-2. Your doorbell doesn’t need to be 2K or 4K, and that’s just going to use more drive space for no reason.

That’s honestly just a tin-foil hat sort of take, that entirely relies on planning for an unprecedented AWS outage specifically to screw over customers.