Tags: Vizio, data farming, selling info, personal information, sony, bravia, smartcast

Should it just go without saying now that all companies are actively farming personal data and selling it?

From ArsTechnica's Vizio TV buyers are becoming the product Vizio sells, not just its customers:



So, are you willing to pay less upfront but have personalized ads and god knows whatelse they do with your information?



I miss my old 55" Bravia. It's smartest feature was that it had ethernet but I don't know what for, maybefor surfing the web on a crappy ass browser? Aside from that, it was just a TV. Why can't we have things like that anymore?

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Tags: Trance Fridays, Braxton, Wilderness, progressive trance, vocals, podcasts

And we're back, after a prolonged break due to site issues.

Honestly though, I've been listening to talk show podcasts during my regular routine rather than music for some reason. Just trying to stay current I guess.

Anyway, here's some deep vocal progressive trance. Caught it on Anjunadeep while driving and fell for it.

Enjoy!

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Tags: Steam, Valve, epic, sotres, price parity, arstechnica, gaming

That's a hell of a title for an article but hear me out.

There's a lot to digest here but here are some snippets from an Arstechnica article about the subject.



One of the original idea behind Epic's lower "commission" fee on games was that the savings would be passed on to customers, but 2 years in and that isn't the case. Sidenote, would this be considered a kind of trickle down economics?

There's a bit on price parity and how Steam's policies are breaking things, but this is standard practice in an open market. I remember when Vikie was working at Expedia it was the same thing. If she found her "clients" were advertising lower prices on any competitors it was a big deal. They had to have the same or better pricing on Expedia for the same amount of time.

The article is an interesting read if you have 10 minutes.

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Tags: M1, apple, ppc, g3, g4, universal binaries, windows, microsoft, windows on arm, ARM, x86, emulation, virtualization

This reminds me so much of the G3's and G4's back in the day and trying all sorts of emulators to get windows running back then.



So there's a catch though. This is basically a virtual machine running Windows 10 but the Windows on ARM version. So programs for windows 10 won't run properly because there is no universal binary for windows programs like there is for mac programs. Seems like the idea of running regular Windows on Mac is going back to the emulation days rather than the more recent virtual machine route.

I am curious though, to see just how good the M1 would be at emulating an x86 architecture. The G3, G4 and especially the G5 were beasts compared to their x86 counterparts back in the day, but emulating the architecture was a slog, even on a top of the line machine.

It truly does bring back feelings of the old days.

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andrew - apparently it's not terrible, although have yet to use a M1 Mac. Because it's emulating an...
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