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No, I think that such specifications are not simply to serve manufacturers, but also to communicate capabilities and compatibilities to consumers. (Although this itself also serves the interests of manufacturers)

It’s silly to say that complying with version X of a specification is exactly the same as complying with version Y, only with some optional stuff. It essentially makes the idea of having version numbers entirely pointless.

An obviously better option would be to say version X has capability set A, and version Y has all of capabilities of version X, plus capability set B.

That’s what consumers would assume.

It’s in manufacturers’ interest for such standards to actually make sense and convey capabilities to consumers, even from the purely greedy perspective of enticing consumers to upgrade hardware.

Doing what they did here essentially only creates a temporary benefit for hardware manufacturers who are making outdated hardware, at the expense of other manufacturers and consumers.

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On something cheap-ish, yeah, passing the burden to the costumer so that he buys a new one soon would be a new version of an old annoying trick. This acronym soup probably entices them to not try, especially since it’s driven by enthusiasts - 1080p is good enough for everyone, damn it :P

3139

As someone who only recently upgraded to 4K, do I actually need a different HDMI cable?

3140

Depends. You do if you’re using it for like a Xbox Series X or Playstation 5, but those consoles come with their own 2.1 cables. Similarly, if you have a nice 4K blu-ray player with dynamic HDR, you’ll want a 2.1 cable.

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Yep or at least I did as I wanted 120fps on HDMI 2.1 for my OLED.

Went with:

3142

My old cables could not reliably keep 4k 60 Hz (HDR off). I’d get drop outs every once in a while.

3143

Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant after it “challenged” a 10-year-old girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug.

The suggestion came after the girl asked Alexa for a “challenge to do”.

“Plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs,” the smart speaker said.

The dangerous activity, known as “the penny challenge”, began circulating on TikTok and other social media websites about a year ago.

3144

What. the. fuck. I think I’m going to junk my Echos. Lately they’ve gotten more and more aggressively un-useful. My latest pet peeve is when I say “delete my notifications” and it instead starts telling me what they are instead of deleting them. “Hey fuckhead, I didn’t say ‘Tell me what Christmas presents were delivered today.’”

3145

Oh my god. As the parent of two inquisitive kids who love to talk to “the google,” that’s horrifying.

Yet another reason to continue diverting my buying habits away from the Bezos machine.

3146

Alexa is simply helping me implement my plan.

3147

Why the heck would it ever suggest that?

3148

It was content scraped from the web. The web page was actually a warning about this being a dangerous thing being spread on social media as a “challenge”.

3149

Kids need to learn about alternating current eventually.

3150

if your kid actually does it, tell them they’re grounded.

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3154

They’ll get a shocking lesson in reality

3155

I’m Electrical Engineer rhamorim and this is my favorite joke on the Citadel.

3156

The arc of this thread is troubling.