@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I can confidently say that I don’t remember ever having seen fireflys. (Nor Firefly.) 😳 I’m most surprised that you could count them. Naively, I would assume that these guys move around a lot and you’d lose track of them?

Buying a TV these days, means trying to avoid endless enshitification:
-Spyware and adware
-Shitty AI upscaling/ frame interpolation
-HW that breaks after 2 - 3 years
-One off OS, dead on arrival
-Android OS, that starts lagging after the third update
-8 buttons worth of ads, on your remote

You probably have to make some kind of a compromise. I thought that was buying from some other brand like Hyundai, but that one also felt into some of those categories and just broke, after less than 3 years of use. At this point I’ll probably go back to LG and hope their HW is still reliable and the rest manageable… It has AI bullshit and knowing LG, probably some spyware you have to try your best to get rid of, can buy a remote with “only” 2 ads on it, some web-based OS shared between all their TVs, that usually gets 4 - 5 years worth of updates and works decently enough afterwards.

At this point, I’ll probably settle for anything that doesn’t literally fall apart, not even 3 years in, like the Hyundai did.

Am Sonnabend ist es wieder so weit: ESC 20235. Gestern wurde die zweite Hälfte der Kandidaten für das Finale bestimmt. https://eurovision.tv/event/basel-2025/grand-final

Mir gefällt, dass viele Lieder in Landessprache vorgetragen werden. Meine Favoriten sind:

• 🇮🇹 Italien
  
• 🇱🇻 Lettland
  
• 🇱🇹 Litauen
  
• 🇵🇹 Portugal
  

🇩🇪 Deutschland hat mich stimmlich leider nicht überzeugt, auch wenn die Musik einen mitnehmen kann - aber für die kann ich ja eh nicht abstimmen.

@prologic@twtxt.net LOL. It is from the Severance, AppleTV+ series. I am about to finish watching it with my kid—well, what’s available for seeing. The series is still ongoing. I recommend it!

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz good day, bored girl! I just finished watching a “Black Mirror” episode, and I and also bored. I want to play Diablo IV, but now the TV is monopolised by wife. Cry, cry, cryyyyyyyy!

@prologic@twtxt.net meanwhile we have all Korean shamans busy asking for rain. We haven’t had rain for over a month, and the next possibility is at week’s end, this week. Keeping fingers crossed!

And yes, UPS everything! We even have UPSes on TVs.

@prologic@twtxt.net @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Time to win the lottery already! Damn, how hard can it be. 😂

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I know her from iZombie, which is also pretty good. 😅 Have it on DVD, even.

Work takes up 110% of my energy at the moment. All I can do is sit here and try to unwind.

On an entirely unrelated note, Resident Alien (Alan Tudyk!) and Ghosts (Rose McIver!) are great shows.

@prologic@twtxt.net @david@collantes.us Good question, was this on live TV? I think it was? 🤔

Auf arte läuft heute Abend “The Cure”. Erst eine Doku über die Band und jetzt das Jubiläumskonzert von 2018. https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/120866-000-A/the-cure-anniversary-1978-2018/

Live from Piksel Festival in about an hour via: https://www.twitch.tv/pikselfest - Also other presentations stating momentary

Its like old school TV but with youtube videos. Each channel has a subject and the channels play in a sort of realtime. so no going forward or back. Perfect for channel surfing.

Smart TV é um bom negócio desde que nunca a liguemos à net. Os preços são atractivos porque os fabricantes recorrem à recolha e venda dos dados dos clientes. Ao mantê-la como uma TV burra, compensa

LERIBAG :vaivaivaivai: :i_cant: :vaivaivaivai:

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@prologic@twtxt.net I have seen these screen shots. But have not yet seen them in actuality. I use ublockOrigin. Maybe it gets these too unlike adblock.

For android I have revanced.. The only place I get ads is on TV. I haven’t found a replacement there.

found spicy khmer waltz vexed quagga jacob (Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx)

what is the best dumb TV? [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24666968]] #links #hackernews #tv #dumb

Because it won’t work with chromecast, Shudder TV is ironically the only Shudder feature that you can’t use on a TV

?? default filename tv ?? http://defaultfile.name/

School harem-comedy anime is TV’s last bastion of psychological realism: it portrays a world where teenagers are dumb and socially awkward, and emotions come through on their faces but nobody notices.

Cheap TVs and Exorbitant Education, Modern America in One Chart https://kottke.org/19/02/cheap-tvs-and-exorbitant-education-modern-america-in-one-chart

Can Scientists Do TV? http://nautil.us/issue/68/context/how-well-forget-john-lennon

I’m finishing development on Manna for our Malices now, streaming on http://twitch.tv/enkiv2

I’m currently streaming the last push on developing Manna for our Malices, the game I’ve been working on for 1.5 years: https://www.twitch.tv/enkiv2

Infomercial Dark Patterns: How the App Store Recreates TV Scams https://tedium.co/2018/12/11/infomercials-history-dark-patterns/

Protip: leave recordings of old public access TV in languages you don’t speak on youtube on in the background, in order to encourage incorrect inferences & poorly targeted ads

Extreme Graphical Representation - TV Tropes https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation

Viewer-Friendly Interface - TV Tropes https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ViewerFriendlyInterface

Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/twitchnovel/

Bad idea of the day: An algorithm that creates textual descriptions of images watches TV, creating a description from each frame, which is then used to generate a new image & the video is resynthesized

Reality TV: Anatomy of a Genre | Video Essay - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS90rgLsb24

Serial Box creates books for the age of Peak TV - Vox https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/8/6/16849756/serial-box-serialized-books-peak-tv

Is This the End of the TV Writers’ Room as We Know It? | Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/08/the-end-of-the-tv-writers-room-as-we-know-it-mini-rooms

It would be a lot more interesting if, instead of Sinclair Broadcasting Corp, all our local TV stations were owned by Sir Clive Sinclair

Donald Glover’s ‘Community’ Exit And The Evolution Of The End Tags https://uproxx.com/tv/donald-glover-end-tags-giant-hand-dan-harmon/

Ringer Top 100 TV Episodes: When Do TV Shows Peak? - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/7/31/17628494/when-do-tv-shows-peak

TV Programming Quirks: Why So Many Shows Have 65 Episodes https://tedium.co/2018/07/24/tv-programming-quirks-history/

Bad idea of the day: a reality tv show where Stephen King and Joe Hill move into a cramped apartment together while both trying to write new novels, confusingly titled King of the Hill

Extreme Graphical Representation - TV Tropes https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation

Viewer-Friendly Interface - TV Tropes https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ViewerFriendlyInterface

An oral history of Babylon 5: The beloved TV novel that showed a different way to tell sci-fi http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/an-oral-history-of-babylon-5-the-beloved-tv-novel-that-showed-a-different-way-to-tell-sci

Bad idea of the day: A small dedicated machine (like a chumby, maybe based on the raspberry pi) that ships with ipfs & ssb/patchwork, casts from ipfs or peertube to TVs.

Band name of the day: eat your tv

Bad idea of the day: a dual-layer LCD (like the 3d TVs from a few years ago) that uses the top layer exclusively for hover behavior

I keep hearing the awful take that Altered Carbon is shallow aesthetic-centric cyberpunk devoid of social commentary. Did these people rush to skim the book when they heard about the TV show or something?

Traces by Mike Caulfield #16: If the Future of the Web Is TV, What Is the Future of Misinformation? https://tinyletter.com/michaelcaulfield/letters/traces-by-mike-caulfield-16-if-the-future-of-the-web-is-tv-what-is-the-future-of-misinformation

OpenWebPodcast.TV ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/a/16d