The benefit of the 4k is that you get HDR. On a good TV, that’s far more noticable than the resolution improvement and certainly worth it.

But then you’re looking at 60-100 Mbps bit rate for good quality (50-80 GB file size for most movies).

Where are you getting that? This says 15 Mbps.

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306

I’m sure you’re going to have a worse or slower experience particularly when scrubbing, but it should be just adequate.

The issue is energy density. There’s a reason why boat tanks are ~6 times larger than a cars gas tank. That’s why they’re so expensive (plus batteries are much heavier).

The Bolt EV or the Leaf are just that.

That is certainly a better value option if you can still get the drivers and amps for a reasonable price over there.

I went the DIY route as well and build 2 of the VBSS style subs. I wanted to build something bigger, but my wife vetoed that. AVS forum has plenty of information on design options you have.

It absolutely makes a massive difference. But you unfortunately need to spend $500+ on a subwoofer to get something that outputs the full range of what you can hear. There simply are zero subwoofers below that price point with adequate output in the 20-35 Hz range.

With regards to 4k, I can understand not caring for it. I agree that for most viewing distances and TV sizes, there’s not a massive difference. However, 1080p TVs also don’t have good HDR or the wide color gamut.

Upgrading to a 4k TV with a good peak brightness (at least ~1000 nits) will be very noticable. I especially notice it in anything with fire. It looks so much better on a 4k HDR TV than on a 1080p SDR TV.

It’s more that do far I haven’t seen anything wrong with the browser itself.

If it were full of shit, then you wouldn’t be discussing the exact he pointed out in this book.

There is some racist discussion in there, but that’s secondary and doesn’t detract or impact his main point about what increasingly complex labor does to a society.

This was exactly the problem that Charles Murray pointed out in the bell curve. We’re rapidly increasing the complexity of the available jobs (and the successful people can output 1000-1,000,000 times more than simple labor in the world of computers). It’s the same concept as the industrial revolution, but to a greater degree.

The problem is that we’re taking away the vast majority of the simple jobs. Even working at a fast food place isn’t simple.

That alienates a good chunk of the population from being able to perform useful work.

My opinion is that the next biggest upgrade is a receiver and a 5.1 (or at least 2.1) sound setup.

Yes, exactly my point. That’s only about the search engine not the browser.

You mean the post about the brave search engine?

That article you’re talking about isn’t about brave as a browser. It was a out the brave search engine.

It doesn’t take much to have more energy than little boy or fat man. Those were tiny bombs.

Plus the thing about bombs is their high power for ms duration. Not that they have a high energy output.

NACs is now an open industry standard.

For me it’s because Firefox is (or at least was) noticeably slower. Didn’t support all the extensions I use. And didn’t allow YouTube playback with audio beyond 4x play speed.

All of those items led to me to choose brave over Firefox since I encountered every one of them on a daily basis.

Also I hated the default font (or perhaps it was some other quiirk of the layout) of Firefox. I couldn’t figure out how to fix it.

That’s been true, but I wouldn’t expect the year over year differences of phones to continue indefinitely.

Advances were very rapid when it was a nascent industry, but it’s already slowed down significantly. It will slow more by 2027.

Being friendly is far more effective than trying to punish people to make them agree with you. Especially when there’s no immediate and obvious consequence of their individual actions.

We’ve had that experience in years past, but ended up picking several items that were the lowest price in 1 to 6 months.

There weren’t any crazy discounts, but it was better than nothing.

How did they send it out to you, via message or email.

I submitted my gdpr a couple weeks ago, but my accounts all used temp emails that I can’t access anymore so I wouldn’t get it if they sent it there.