. Nice to know there are options.
I hook the antenna and a usb hard drive up to their device and I can view and record over
the air tv from any device on my network. I think there is a way to sling it to other
networks, but I never do. I pay $5/year to get the tv listings. The device will work
without it, but it's harder to use, as you can imagine.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 11:32:20AM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 07:13:02PM -0700, Gary wrote:
I find that in the evening, sometimes, I enjoy
exploring a topic with AI for an hour or two. If done right, it can be very informative,
and well, relaxing.
I started to wonder, "Why didn't I do this with regular old Google?"
Then I remembered that I did. Maybe 10 to 15 years ago. Back before the search results
go so bad. By bad I mean tilted a lot toward selling you stuff as opposed to providing
you with information.
That took all the fun out of Googling for things. And, something else must have changed,
because the results became much less diverse and it is harder to get around the just plain
stupidity that occurs naturally :)
But, I can't help wondering if, or perhaps when, the public and free AI will become
the same way. Perhaps you will be able to pay for "better" AI, just like ca
ble TV used to be. But, it will end up being the same, only different LOL. Jus
t like cable TV.
I guess there is no way to avoid it :(
But, in some ways, it is a trip down memory lane LOL.
I get 60 channels or so on my TV antenna these days. Have you tried the
Silicon Dust converter that puts your TV on your network? I recall a
little over ten years ago, we were talking about the MythTV. I had it
running for quite a while until my machine died....
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make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
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The 1980 Turing award lecture
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