Have you tried Chromecast 4k, though? I’ve bought one, as my LG TV’s webOS became so sluggish that it became pretty much unusable.
I have an Apple TV 4k in the living room and it’s great, but I find myself drawn to the Chromecast experience way more. Apple TV is more refined, but Chromecast’s remote is far better than ATV’s (1st gen, at least) and Google’s voice assistant is obviously far smarter (especially if you’re multilingual).
My family is all-Google so we have 5 Google TV devices. We're not dissatisfied enough to get rid of them, but it's pretty shocking to me how poorly it integrates with other Google services. I just keep finding ways in which it's clear that Google TV was developed in a silo relative to other Google services. Plus, Google's "Family Link" parental controls are so poorly designed it makes me wonder if anyone at Google actually has kids.
Granted, I am not an Apple user at all, so it's possible there would be similar frustrations on that side, but anecdotally I hear that Apple is way better about these sorts of things.
The original Apple TV remote was awful. It was the achilles heel of the product. The newer silver Apple TV remote with the round click/touch surface is what it should have been; it's worth trying if that's your primary pain point.
Are you talking about Google TV? I haven't used that one, but I've used Chromecast 4k and was not impressed. It doesn't have a remote - or really a TV UI at all - which was my biggest gripe.
Chomsky wrote this article without self reflection that he told everyone to vote for the dude who repeatedly voted for regime change wars and served as the VP while they destroyed enough countries to bring slavery back to Libya.
Can Quora still be described as locus for intelligence discussion? A few years ago it'd be the place to go for in-depth yet concise explanations from experts in all different kinds of fields, and for some very interesting perspectives on different subjects.
Lately I've visisted Quora only to find a series of inane replies and silly questions dominating the website.
> A few years ago it'd be the place to go for in-depth yet concise explanations from experts in all different kinds of fields, and for some very interesting perspectives on different subjects.
If by "a few years" you mean "a decade", then yes. Quora went down the drain between 2012-2013.
There's certainly a lot of that. However, there are still people who really know what they're talking about, who aren't just repeating what they read elsewhere on the Web.
I liked this one... I searched for 'George Harrison' and among the first results there was a page with interesting comments about Harrison's solo career; someone reminiscing about the time they got to talk to him about guitars for half an hour at a bar at the airport; a transcript for an interview he gave on TV... Whereas on GOOGLE: an instrusive 'People also ask' which I was not interested; thumbnails for videos on youtube that I was not looking for; previews to garbage clickbaity news articles; and then finally for the search items: a bunch of websites for lyrics; his Instagram (!) and fb pages; his imdb page; some more news articles I was not looking for...
Granted, google's web results above are perhaps what people are looking for 75% of the time, but how limiting and boring.
I'm also a sucker for the simplistic text-centric, information-laden pages from the pre-facebook era.
For 'global warming', however - since Marginalia excludes modern web-design pages - the results are of dubious relevance and interest, since they are, well, 'old'.
Palm... I just remember, as a 12-year old, being fascinated by my older cousin's Palm Pilot Professional. The thought that you could have a tiny computer in your pocket, with all sorts of programs, read articles and books, play games... Two years later I would buy my beautiful Palm Vx, while staying in Montana as a foreign exchange student (and be made fun of because of it by my farmer American father hahah). I actually though Graffitti was extremely intuitive and I was able to write faster on the palm device than with a pen on paper. I think I read five or six books on that tiny screen as well - and I thought it was great.
My handwriting changed after getting used to Grafitti. I still mark Xs on forms with the symbol for X (like the K, but mirrored). This is over two decades after the fact.
To this day, trying to hand write an e when printing quickly?
Your hand still does a double joined c.
And a T is written like a 7.
It's amazing how the muscle memory stays with you.
It was so simple to learn, and stayed with you.
Swype is the first phone writing technique, that has beaten Palm.
> It's amazing how the muscle memory stays with you
It is because it made sense. Not just a convention, the graffiti gestures are a convincing set of compressed (minimal full information, simplest one line per character) glyphs.
I have an Apple TV 4k in the living room and it’s great, but I find myself drawn to the Chromecast experience way more. Apple TV is more refined, but Chromecast’s remote is far better than ATV’s (1st gen, at least) and Google’s voice assistant is obviously far smarter (especially if you’re multilingual).