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aaronpk_tv
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My 2017 12" MacBook is starting to show its age, but I hate that there is nothing to replace it right now. There's no reason to get a MacBook Air since it's the same form factor as the 13" Pro. But it seems unlikely they're going to release a small computer again at this point. -
📷 PhotoJoseph 🎥
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Apr 18
Yeah I still don’t buy it’s a processor thing.
Ok you're right, at least on the TV 4K, because Plex can play VP9 videos on it. They must have bundled a software decoder into Plex to do that without hardware acceleration. -
📷 PhotoJoseph 🎥
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Apr 18
Great article. Too bad it doesn’t say WHEN. Arghgh
It's Apple, nobody knows when 🤷♂️
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Eugen
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron
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Apr 18
@aaronpk I'm not saying this is necessary to do here. There's a number of region-specific Mastodon servers for which this issue will never exist.
Yeah it is only relevant to the huge global instances, which look much more like a traditional web app than anything decentralized. -
Eugen
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron
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Apr 18
So I'm just wondering... With static assets like images, adding an edge CDN is relatively simple. But with anything dynamic like API responses, not so much. There must be ways of dealing with that. Because, let's say my servers are in Germany, and you are in Australia. Any API response for you takes up to 800ms longer than for me.
The solution is not trivial. API servers distributed in multiple data centers, and eventually you'll end up needing databases in multiple regions too. That'll lead you down to the multi-primary database problem.
Ironically this is the thing ActivityPub promised to solve by having people use a large number of smaller servers where the replication of data is the ActivityPub protocol. -
Mihaela MJ
https://twitter.com/civeljahim
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Apr 18
AV1. Quting from iMore:
"AV1 is the next, next-generation video codec. It's open and royalty-free, like Google's VP series, and Google has bought-in to the extent they've shelved VP10 for AV1, which is about as bought in and bought in can be."
https://www.imore.com/why-you-still-cant-watch-4k-youtube-apple-devices
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AV1. Quting from iMore:
"AV1 is the next, next-generation video codec. It's open and royalty-free, like Google's VP series, and Google has bought-in to the extent they've shelved VP10 for AV1, which is about as bought in and bought in can be."
https://www.imore.com/why-you-still-cant-watch-4k-youtube-apple-devices -
📷 PhotoJoseph 🎥
https://twitter.com/photojoseph
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Apr 18
Yeah. It’s not a hardware power thing. My 2017 iPhone X plays VP9 just fine.
iPhone X is the A11 processor. The Apple TV is A8, Apple TV 4K is the A10, so it'll be a while before a new chip makes it to an updated Apple TV!
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📷 PhotoJoseph 🎥
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Apr 18
One problem — YouTube app on Apple TV 4K doesn’t play 4K or HDR (doesn’t use VP9/VP9.2 codec). This is such a stupid pissing contest between Apple and Google. It’s truly wonderful when multi-billion dollar companies can’t cooperate for the benefit of the customers who made them.
But also this is a perfect example of why an external box is better than a smart TV. Once your TV has hardware decoders, good luck upgrading that when better video codecs are released in a few years. At least with the Apple TV you can replace that part and keep the same panel.
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📷 PhotoJoseph 🎥
https://twitter.com/photojoseph
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Apr 18
One problem — YouTube app on Apple TV 4K doesn’t play 4K or HDR (doesn’t use VP9/VP9.2 codec). This is such a stupid pissing contest between Apple and Google. It’s truly wonderful when multi-billion dollar companies can’t cooperate for the benefit of the customers who made them.
Is this a VP9 vs HEVC thing? I assume the Apple TV is too low power to implement software decoding and needs hardware support, but that means a new Apple TV to get VP9, if Apple will even add that since they're all in on HEVC? What a mess.
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alexlindsay
https://twitter.com/alexlindsay
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Apr 18
The TVs are actively gathering data by design and proven security breaches if they have a mic or camera. I’m not a tin foil hat person... I use Zoom, a credit card, and even a Safeway member number. But no way would I connect my TV to the internet. AppleTV is the firewall.
💯 hard same.
I bought a "commercial display" because it's almost impossible to find a not-smart TV these days.
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IndieWeb: The last (and only) online social site you’ll ever need—your own.
You don’t even need to “join it” because its something you can choose to own for yourself.
I know I’ve thought and probably said variations of this tagline many times in the past, but I’m not sure I’ve ever written it out. And perhaps it could be honed even further? It’s closely related to the idea that the IndieWeb is what you have when the Internet itself is your social media network.
It’s helped me that I have the capability to cobble together my own version. Eventually we’ll have lots more commoditized versions, but there are a few simple sign up and go options out there that don’t require as much tinkering if you’re interested.
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I was going to build out a hilariously over-complicated & fiendishly expensive Wordpress architecture as a joke, but unfortunately @awscloud beat me to it.
