Hmm I’m curious if this one does any better than the CCwGTV when it comes to multi channel aac. For whatever reason when playing 5.1aac from Plex my Chromecast outputs lpcm to my soundbar instead of converting to DD5.1 which results in the rear surrounds being incorrectly mapped. All of my Dolby content plays fine, and it seems some client devices have incorrect transcoding profiles. It isn’t a problem with my Chromecast ultra (no GTV), which may have to do with it having an option to always output (E)AC3 so when I’m using the older Chromecast all my AAC5.1 correctly converts to DD or DD+

One thing not often mentioned is the ability to plumb the mopping system. That’s the main reason I’m continuing to stick to my S7 MaxV Ultra with the water change kit. I don’t have to refill the water and the dirty water automatically drains down the laundry room washing machine drain. I hope the S8 and other brands release similar kit because it changed my machine from a weekly maintenance burden (refilling the clean water and emptying the gross water every week if you have it mop nightly) to a monthly or several monthly chore. All I ever need to do is rinse the dirty water strainer and clean the hairballs off the ends of the rollers, and even then I can ignore it for months without consequence.

Huzzah! I’m mostly hyped for improved OFDMA and MLO. The article mentions that better congestion handling helps in enterprise and large deployments, but doesn’t mention that these features can also help a lot in other crowded situations like dense apartment buildings. You just gotta get your neighbors to upgrade to WiFi 6 or higher though.

I’ve been on WiFi 7 since January and seen a 10-15% reduction in spectrum usage consumed by other APs interfering in our dense building. A good number of our neighbors are on WiFi 6 which might have something to do with them being mostly students who just went out to buy a new router for their apartment after leaving home. As far as I’ve seen none of my neighbors are on 6E but I don’t expect to ever see much 6GHz interference since it barely makes it through a single wall - which is fine for me because none of our rooms are more than 1 wall from the AP.

https://archive.ph/20240912231650/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/09/openai-reasoning-model-o1/679863/

Hmm article says 6GHz, but I’ve also had great success going through brick walls and refrigerators using mikrotik wireless wire - it’s 60GHz and the ship as a pair of PTP radios. I just tape them both facing the wall on either side and I got a gig through that. It also helps that the wireless wire has like a 60° directional antenna inside. My old apartment has an unused brick chimney structure that’s at least 2 brick walls that goes from basement to roof and I was surprised I was able to get it to penetrate that too including our refrigerator which was backed up against that spot on the wall.

https://archive.is/0pUwk

Paywall bypass: https://archive.ph/20240819182125/https://www.404media.co/donald-trump-taylor-swift-endorsement-ai-images/

Hmmm only supports HDR10 and not HDR10+ though so the only way to get dynamic HDR metadata is to use Dolby Vision. Fuck that proprietary bullshit that’s nigh impossible to transcode properly.