limonfiesta

They aren't poisoning the data with disinformation.

They're poisoning it with accurate, but irrelevant information.

For example, if a bot is crawling sites relating to computer programming, or weather, this tool might lure the crawler into pages related to animal facts, or human biology.

I'm confused. Are you saying YOU can't tell the difference, or that their is no technical difference?

Because, anecdotally, I've owned a variety of these devices, and I can absolutely tell the difference. Which sucks, because I bought cheaper devices hoping for reasonable parity of experience. I'm not saying my cheaper devices are bad, just that clearly the Shield TV performs better.

As to the actual specs, there is also clearly a real world difference between the bog standard Amlogic SoC (1/8, 2/8, 2/16), and the Tegra SoC.

It's entirely reasonable to argue that the difference isn't worth the extra cost, fine. But it's dishonest to say there is no appreciable difference.

TBF I haven't used the newer "low cost" Shield with the 2/16 Tegra SoC, so I can't really speak to how it performs relative to something like Chromecast with Google TV.

Fuck me. You might be right, as I haven't actually used the stock launcher since the big ad update years back.

I just remembered my original launcher having a lot of a Nvidia specific integrations, but I guess those could have just been bolted on at the system level.

I said Playstore Certified, and yes, they are mostly the same when you look under the hood, at least for those classes of devices, per generation.

Same, or similar SoC, with 2/8 (sometimes 2/16) specs.

Once you get up to the 4/32 range, you're already looking around the same price (+/-) of a Shield TV.

Also, lol @ citing LTT, for anything. Just because a broken clock is right twice a day, doesn't change the fact that it's broken.

And for the sake of being fair, I didn't even mention the 1/8 boards.

Yes, Google is an inextricably linked to all Google TV issues, but they didn't force Nvidia to ruin the Shield TV'S launcher with ads, and other bloat.

At least, not as far as I know. If you have sources saying otherwise, I'd be happy to take a look.

As someone who owns both Nvidia Shield TV and standard cheap (Google certified) devices, all running Projectivy, it's not really comparable.

The Shield runs smoother, has significantly less minor/annoying issues, and actually receives fairly regular updates.

Now, the new Chromecast with Google TV does get updates, but it doesn't resolve the first two differences.

If you can't afford, or justify the extra expense, for an Nvidia Shield TV, completely understandable. But don't pretend that the user experience is the same, because it's not.

And you're so worried about people getting in front of you, on the freeway, that you instead opt to drive without a safe breaking distance when traveling at 70 mph?

Again, as someone who has lived in, and had daily hell commutes in many dense urban cities, that's insane.

In your defense, anecdotally, you're clearly not alone in that mentality.

Personally, I found, over many years, that simply staying in the "slow" lane, while keeping a safe distance, never made my commute meaningfully longer.

I'd prefer AI cores, just like I prefer HW based AES instructions: present and up to my discretion as to how I choose to use them, or not.

Are you seriously driving at speeds of 70 mph in dense urban environments....?

Because, speaking as someone who has lived in many dense urban environments, that's insane.

The only time you should reach those speeds is on the freeway, in which case, there's no reason not to maintain safe distances, again, when at those speeds.

Nvidia has destroyed the stock Shield TV experience with ads, but it's easy to install custom launchers like Projectivy. The underlying system is still a privacy nightmare, but I don't care that Nvidia knows what TV shows I watch.

I mean, I do care, just not enough to use something like Kodi as my primary TV interface. Maybe if I used any ad supported services I'd feel differently, but I don't, so meh.

...and how will that be disseminated? That's what organizations like VOA and USAID were for.

Trump has the capacity to destroy organizations, but I find it doubtful he could recreate them out of whole cloth.

That's my point.

America cannot dominate the world militarily, nor could that even serve the goals of its contemporary brand of neoimperialism.

Soft power i.e. culture, propaganda, and diplomatic/idealogical relationships, are the foundation upon which it's built.

Yes, military hard power plays a critical role, but it cannot replace soft power.

This isn't empire for the sake of raw nationalism, and nothing would accelerate the American collapse faster than dismantling the state's soft power tools. The end result will be attempts to maintain power by spending its military resources on peer, or near peer conflicts.