And in truth most of these software based tvs will only be supported for a few years before being dropped, making some people buy new ones (though It's not like most cheap smart tvs last long anyway). I know someone who got an expensive samsung model during the 3d tv craze, and while it hasn't broken they dropped that baby on it's head software wise half a decade+ ago. Not even Netflix runs on it anymore. But this was before more shared OSes like Roku.
I seriously wish that someone would try and undercut the TV market by selling "dumb" TVs, especially considering the number of people who use set-top boxes/streaming sticks, even when their TVs have built-in streaming platforms.
But if you don't have a shit ton of spyware on their TV collecting info on not just what they're watching but also what they're saying, what would you sell to marketing firms to make money?
The Vizio people talked about that some years back. Selling a "dumb" tv that is completely clean didn't seem viable, the customer would just see it as a more expensive set with way less features and it wouldn't be able to compete in the hotly contested TV market where the margins are low.
As someone with a phone from late 2018 that was high end at the time, the minimum photo size is 3.7 megapixels at 2560x1440 resolution. It's not insane levels but the fact the default camera software doesn't allow you to go any lower is ridiculous. As someone who also owns the stupid high megapixel 'smart'phone from 2012, the Nokia 808 pureview, it's maximum photo size is nearly 40 megapixels, though it's highest is 38, yet the lowest is 4 or less.
I like retrocomputing with a toaster, so it's good to me to be able to take photos in SD.
40MP on a phone? Did consumers ever figure out that this particular number changes nothing besides how big the file is and how big you can print it out?
I'm a bastard who uses a pentax. I started with them back in high school because I could steal my parents' film lenses, Ran a K5 for years, but it started screwing up, so I'm using the hipster silver KP. Not as good of a build (went from an old professional to a new prosumer) but the sensor is amazing for the low-light no flash stuff I do.
I often find myself missing the look of older UIs also, Skeuomorphism largely died because designers felt it had outlived it's purpose and while there is some logic to that I miss when you could customise the look and feel of UIs so easily. I know you still can techincally but I miss when all it took was the settings menu.
I ended up looking into it, and there apparently are a handful of small companies that do this. Sceptre is the largest and most common in the United States.
Public trackers that post more than whatever trickles down from private trackers are tech I miss. Private ones are great but I miss finding weird documentaries about fluoride or old Bill Cooper presentations from the 80s.
