I am an Apple critic that has long bemoaned their practice of trying to lock people into their walled garden.
In the past, I used gaming consoles to stream, which I thought worked well.
I finally, angrily caved and bought an Apple TV because I had an app (LFC TV) that would only stream via AirPlay. After using it for a bit, I have to say I love the thing.
I liked it so much that I bought a second for my other TV.
Reasons:
- Build quality. The remote is machined aluminum and feels like a weapon.
- HDMI CEC implementation. I used HCMI CEC on the consoles I owned, but there was always something that didn't work quite right. The Apple TV seems to nail it on both setups I have YMMV.
- AirPlay. This one makes me a little angry, but if you find a need to stream from an iPhone, the Apple TV is pretty much the only game in town.
AirPlay is a killer feature for me and I love the AppleTVs I have. However, for kids TVs or the TVs that I don't use often, I just get an AirPlay capable 4k Roku stick. They're small, simple and work great as AirPlay receivers.
I'm the author! I've had tons of corroborating experience, and many readers with it, but I will say that there are two extreme exceptions.
I have two readers with no FAANG experience that consistently find jobs with their CVs at serious companies with no trouble. Both are outside the U.S but in the first world. When asked, neither of them knows why they have such luck, and we've looked at their CVs together and been unable to see anything that distinguishes them, other than obviously being competent and some open source contributions.
> Betteridge's law of headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
> That's a good rule of thumb, but it's not infallible.
A basic critical thinking skill that helps here is to try to disprove these 'truisms'.
It is easy to prove Betteridge's law is not universally true.
If I wrote an article that Betteridge's Law got right (meaning the headline's question could be answered with 'No') I could then change the title's question to make it 'Yes', intentionally, which would then violate Betteridge's Law.
I get that provocation and outrage are currently the driving force in media, but clearly it is not a Law in a natural sense.
(Sorry to those to whom this is obvious, but if I can help anyone see past the surface it is worth seeming like a pedant to some nerds!)
> If the purpose is to stop the gang violence, why not remove the gangs from the country?
Because the stated purpose is only the sales pitch. The full list of uses will never be stated publicly, unless someone like Snowden leaks it at great personal peril.
> If I don't want their products I don't have to buy them.
You see thats why there is so much negative sentiment toward these glasses.
Meta, in their insatiable hunger for data, is trying to convince people to pay to record my life.
I have chosen not to use anything Meta, I will not purchase these abominations, yet I still have to deal with morons who pay to do their data collection.
Don't run the pihole on a rpi, a basic computer with a real disk controller will handle the job much better. I ran pihole on an rpi but it kept corrupting the filesystem on any power blip.
Past performance is not necessarily an indicator of future performance.
Having only one life means it only takes one 'out of character event' to be out of the game. If I were looking for protection, I wouldn't be trusting 'new people' from an app.
In the past, I used gaming consoles to stream, which I thought worked well.
I finally, angrily caved and bought an Apple TV because I had an app (LFC TV) that would only stream via AirPlay. After using it for a bit, I have to say I love the thing.
I liked it so much that I bought a second for my other TV.
Reasons:
- Build quality. The remote is machined aluminum and feels like a weapon.
- HDMI CEC implementation. I used HCMI CEC on the consoles I owned, but there was always something that didn't work quite right. The Apple TV seems to nail it on both setups I have YMMV.
- AirPlay. This one makes me a little angry, but if you find a need to stream from an iPhone, the Apple TV is pretty much the only game in town.
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