Really interesting that you’ve encountered this, I have no trouble at all watching super-high bitrate media in Infuse. I may be spoiled with my gigabit internet, but the Apple TV caches entire 4K Blu-rays in minutes on my local network (you can watch the seek bar fill up, it’s really satisfying) so I never thought about this. I’m curious why this hits some users and not others.

As others have said, Jellyfin server with Infuse as the player on Apple TV is the best experience, especially for Dolby Vision, which works flawlessly. Anyone in your house should find the interface super-easy to navigate. But if the price of Infuse turns you off (which I get), the native Jellyfin app on Apple TV isn’t terrible (Swiftfin), and there are some other less-polished apps for way cheaper than Infuse (MrMc I think?). The native Jellyfin app struggles with Dolby Vision, otherwise you’ll have no trouble with it, but definitely a slightly clunkier experience than with Infuse. I personally find the price of Infuse way too high, but I can’t argue with the stability and slick UI.

The Apple TV also caches content really well, so you won’t run into any issues with high bitrates over streaming. I regularly watch full 4K Dolby Vision Blu-rays (50-70 GB files) with buttery smooth playback, no issues at all.

Most do. You can tell a lot about the health of your population by testing wastewater. Hell they can detect levels of albuterol, the medicine in asthma inhalers, to correlate with increases in air pollution. WHO has global programs for this, and the majority of countries treat their wastewater already, so it’s not a huge leap to run some tests on it.

It’s clearly on his mind, he’s been mentioning it out of nowhere lately. He doesn’t want to be impeached for a third time. Now you’re right it won’t actually do anything to the administration, but this is one of those times when the principle matters. It’s worth doing it because he deserves it and it would infuriate him.

It’s unethical for companies to force you to buy overpriced essential parts. If you find a compatible battery for cheaper, there’s no reason not to buy it. Unless the company prevents third-party batteries from working in their products…

Nothing unethical about finding a better price.

I came across this post after checking the rules to see if there was a “must credit original artist” rule, and was frankly shocked to find out there isn’t, which means Beep isn’t breaking any rules by plagiarizing other people’s comics.

So yeah, we need a place to discuss this type of thing, and hopefully the mod will be responsive and add the new rule.

It shouldn’t be controversial, I’m sick of seeing uncredited art.

I think you’re useful! I have Voyager’s tags on for votes, and it shows that I’ve upvoted your posts hundreds of times, so your content definitely has value for me.

Your account always stands out to me, I notice your posts and am happy to engage with them.

That said, do you, if you’re not feeling good about things lately a break probably couldn’t hurt (though my feed will suffer!).

I frankly don’t have the patience to explain why you’re so wrong, but I can’t let this kind of comment go unanswered, so here’s an article that links to a number of studies about the benefits of diversity:

The Scientific Case for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

This one bugs me a bit. I’m sure it’s said with good intentions, but I have a client who calls everyone on my team “friend” whether or not she knows us, and it always rubs me the wrong way. We’re not friends, she’s the client in a professional setting, and she has never shown any interest in getting to know me enough to actually call me “friend” and have it mean something, so it always comes across as superficial and unnaturally folksy.

As someone who doesn’t have a ton of deep friendships, the ones I do have matter a lot to me, which means I don’t like to throw around the word “friend” lightly.

Could just be my own emotional hangups though.

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Her team didn’t personally conduct the background checks either. Her team submitted names of potential employees/contractors for the security detail, and then the agency responsible for conducting background checks took it from there. It was completely out of her and her team’s hands.

Other commenters and I are trying to explain to you how the process actually works. She is not responsible for the outcome of any background check. The independent agency that conducted it is. When this guy’s background check (wrongly) came back as clear, there was legitimately no reason for her not to hire him.

She was told, by the authority on the matter, that he was good to go. They were wrong, not her or her team.

Elected officials don’t personally conduct the background checks for their staff, that would be absurd. There are entire investigative agencies most people have never heard of whose job it is to run clearances and background checks for federal employees and contractors.

There is implied bureaucratic trust that when an elected official submits a list of names of prospective staff who need background checks, that the results of those checks are reliable and trustworthy once they are completed. Sometimes they’re wrong.

You may not like Crockett, but this is not on her.

We’re talking about Israelis. I’m a Jew and I find these crimes to be completely disgusting and unacceptable.

Your casual conflation helps no one, especially the Palestinian victims of genocide and these particular crimes against humanity.

In grad school I remember being encouraged to submit a paper to a journal that would have charged me a few hundred dollars to put it in for peer review, and I told my advisor no, I needed to buy groceries, I would not throw my money away for an extra line on my CV. He got all flustered and it was a great example of why higher education is so fucked. My advisor, who ostensibly understood my background and means, could not understand how such a relatively small fee would be so prohibitive. He was incapable of understanding that I was essentially unemployed while enrolled as his grad student, and every dollar of funding went to bare essentials so I could continue breathing. He had access to discretionary funds for this exact kind of issue (I found out later), and didn’t think to offer.

Without independent wealth and deep personal connections it’s incredibly difficult to succeed in academia, regardless of the quality of your research.