Lots of TV stations in the US are moving to the new broadcast standard, ATSC 3.0, encrypting the channel, and stopping their ATSC 1.0 broadcasts. This makes an antenna useless. And the only digital boxes that are allowed are ones that have to be plugged into the TV directly with HDMI. This means you’d have to have an antenna and expensive converter box for EACH TV.

Basically, broadcast TV is an unreliable mess now.

Of course it will be the porn.

Thunderbird in 2024 still doesn’t give you the option to use 12 hour time.

It is, but not enough to move the needle. It also carries a bunch of bloat.

Quick, everybody pick a different app! Chaos ensues.

Exactly. There is a huge potential safety issue.

So broadcast TV currently broadcasts on ATSC 1.0. You get an antenna and a box or TV that has a digital tuner and you’re good. Industry is pushing for ATSC 3.0, which allows for DRM. So even though they are broadcasting on the public airwaves, they can decide you can’t watch. It sets up the local broadcasters to be the new cable with ever increasing prices AND play king maker on devices by choosing which can and cannot produce tuners. In my area, 5 channels have ATSC 3.0, and 1 of them turned on DRM. Meaning I can’t watch it because HDHomeRun devices aren’t approved, likely because it has the ability to record. Luckily, that channel still broadcasts in ATSC 1.0, so I can still watch it for now. 3.0 isn’t a fully adopted yet, but that can change in the future (2027?).

Pay attention boys and girls, this is also what they want to do with over the air broadcasts with the ATSC 3.0 format.

Thank you!

Something that can’t be taken away from you by the whims of an artist, studio, or streaming service. Something you can re-rip as audio codexes change.

Would that work for Blu-ray? I’m guessing not.

MakeMKV to rip them from disc. Handbrake if you need to compress them.

Half? That’s optimistic.

Hyperloop did exactly what Musk intended.

It’s not hardware on Android I want. I want pure Android on these phones. All these overlays and additional OS bits from these companies highlights why they aren’t good software companies.

Back in the day Microsoft cracked down on overlays like HP Personal Page. Some bitched about it, but it was absolutely necessary. Google needs to do something similar.

That will do it.

AI is the big, bad boogyman on Lemmy. Unreasonably so.

What has Marc Anderseen done to be on this list? I must be out of that loop.

For now.

Until a Libertarian decides he wants to drive a car. You can’t expect discipline from these assholes.