It’s better because it basically has everything that torrent sites have, since the same groups upload everything to both, but it’s all done over SSL encrypted connections so your ISP can’t see what you’re downloading, so you don’t need a VPN and you are downloading directly from servers so it’s much faster and you don’t have to worry about the number of seeders, nor do you have to seed yourself. You have many different providers you can sign up to, and many different indexers to help find what you are looking for. It also can download parts of the same content from different sources and combine them to make a whole.

Once you’ve tried it, torrenting feels so amateur and insecure and outdated. Ideally you just set up both, which is what I have done with qbittorrent running in a docker container with a built in VPN, but the torrents are the “last resort” when the content I want can’t be found on Usenet - which is very rarely.

You don’t understand the difference between Usenet and torrents.

It’s still 100% broken on the “latest” branch. Cannot add a single song/album/artist.

Education needs to move with the times. “AI”, LLMs, etc are not going away and they’re only going to become more and more integrated into everyday life. Kids need to be taught how to use them, and most importantly that they’re not 100% correct all or even most of the time.

If you don’t teach them these things then you end up with people like we have now - mindlessly believing everything they say, and believing that they are “alive” and have feelings and relationships.

Just like a calculator, a laptop, and a bunsen burner - they’re a tool. If you operate them wrong you’ll get incorrect results that might look and sound right.

The entire education system in most countries needs an overhaul to be more relevant for the world we live in. There should be no student coming out of school that doesn’t understand how interest and loans work, or the basics of taxes a normal person has to navigate, for example. LLMs and their accuracy/inaccuracy should be another. Assessments also need to change - closed book stuff basically shouldn’t exist for maths for example, and take home essays should be a thing of the past. They have no place in the current world.

We’re in a topic about TVs.

I’ve got a quest 2, but no I don’t want to wear a headset.

2m is a long way away from a tv.

I did. Did you?

Thanks for this, I’ll give the plugin change a go.

Thats only if you’re sitting somewhere where you can’t see the whole screen at once. I can see everything that’s happening on my big tv. I’ve found I do worse on a smaller tv/monitor, moved my gaming pc from my 144hz 34” monitor to the 75” 120hz tv and my results are much better.

What a ridiculous study. People who got AI to write their essay can’t remember quotes from their AI written essay? You don’t say?! Those same people also didn’t feel much pride over their essay that they didn’t write? Hold the phone!!! Groundbreaking!!!

Academics are a joke these days.

Yeh, pretty much. Those charts aren’t “fact” btw. They’re guides.

I’m sure it’s fine, but I much prefer my 75”. 36” would be way too small in my game room.

I don’t think the other 98% of phone buyers even know what resolution their phone screen is, nor do they care.

I think most phone nerds understand that 4K on a phone is not necessary.

Modern games run with 720p and 60 fps on the best GPUs

No they don’t. On PC you can run games at native resolution with zero “AI enhanced” stuff.

If your phone is 1080p you won’t be being served 8K video on any streaming service. 8K phone screens aren’t coming any time soon, as even 4K is overkill and rarely done - and even then, netflix etc still don’t stream 4K to them.

There aren’t really any 1440p TVs out there. They’re either 1080p or 4K.

Streaming services and other online media routed through the TV can hardly buffer to keep up with play speed at 720

This is a problem with your internet/network, not the TV.

8K content is only perceived by average eyesight at living room distances when screens are OVER 100 inches in diameter at the bare minimum.

65-75" tv’s are pretty much the standard these days. I’ve got a 75" and I’ll want the next one I replace it with to be even bigger, so 100"-ish will be what I’ll be after.

Some of these devices have even been known to look for other similar devices within WiFi range, and phone home that way (i.e., send analytics data via a neighbor’s connected TV as a proxy).