Quote from: catdlr on 09/11/2023 09:50 pmQuote from: daveglo on 09/04/2023 02:13 amI get annoyed at the YT ads that pop up right at staging when watching replays, but not going to vent about it.I understand that you get ads while watching YouTube or Roku directly on your Smart TV. That can be annoying. But, as Yoda would say; "There is another." Ad blockers are available to eliminate that entirely for PCs and smartphones. Just screencast or drive the PC screen to the TV via HDMI and voila, no ads.I wonder how long Google will allow that.
Quote from: daveglo on 09/04/2023 02:13 amI get annoyed at the YT ads that pop up right at staging when watching replays, but not going to vent about it.I understand that you get ads while watching YouTube or Roku directly on your Smart TV. That can be annoying. But, as Yoda would say; "There is another." Ad blockers are available to eliminate that entirely for PCs and smartphones. Just screencast or drive the PC screen to the TV via HDMI and voila, no ads.
I get annoyed at the YT ads that pop up right at staging when watching replays, but not going to vent about it.
Quote from: catdlr on 09/11/2023 09:50 pmI understand that you get ads while watching YouTube or Roku directly on your Smart TV. That can be annoying. But, as Yoda would say; "There is another." Ad blockers are available to eliminate that entirely for PCs and smartphones. Just screencast or drive the PC screen to the TV via HDMI and voila, no ads.I wonder how long Google will allow that.
I understand that you get ads while watching YouTube or Roku directly on your Smart TV. That can be annoying. But, as Yoda would say; "There is another." Ad blockers are available to eliminate that entirely for PCs and smartphones. Just screencast or drive the PC screen to the TV via HDMI and voila, no ads.
New version of how plugins are managed in chrome (Manifest 3) will stop a lot of what adblockers can do. Google.
I'm glad that NSF livestreams will still be an option at least. I don't see myself coming back to Twitter/X anytime soon as much as I miss following Eric Berger/Jeff Foust and watching SpaceX livestreams.
Quote from: Barley on 09/08/2023 02:03 pmQuote from: catdlr on 09/08/2023 06:12 amI can recall a time when news about space was only available on the three major Network evening news shows, Time, Life, Scientific American, Popular Mechanics, occasionally Rolling Stone or Playboy. There was plenty of coverage. But tell kids that today and they won't believe you.Right,Kids now want to live-stream their personal media display equipment (smartphones, etc.) with chat alongside the stream to ask silly questions. I was excited to wait a month to read an in-depth space-related article with diagrams and a few well-composed photos in any of the aforementioned periodicals, delivered to my mailbox via snail mail. ( .....but perhaps not Playboy). Thanks, Barlrey.
Quote from: catdlr on 09/08/2023 06:12 amI can recall a time when news about space was only available on the three major Network evening news shows, Time, Life, Scientific American, Popular Mechanics, occasionally Rolling Stone or Playboy. There was plenty of coverage. But tell kids that today and they won't believe you.
I can recall a time when news about space was only available on the three major Network evening news shows,
Quote from: Metalskin on 09/12/2023 03:11 amNew version of how plugins are managed in chrome (Manifest 3) will stop a lot of what adblockers can do. Google.That marks the time to be off Chrome and on to FireFox or other browser full time.
Quote from: catdlr on 09/11/2023 09:42 pmQuote from: Barley on 09/08/2023 02:03 pmQuote from: catdlr on 09/08/2023 06:12 amI can recall a time when news about space was only available on the three major Network evening news shows, Time, Life, Scientific American, Popular Mechanics, occasionally Rolling Stone or Playboy. There was plenty of coverage. But tell kids that today and they won't believe you.Right,Kids now want to live-stream their personal media display equipment (smartphones, etc.) with chat alongside the stream to ask silly questions. I was excited to wait a month to read an in-depth space-related article with diagrams and a few well-composed photos in any of the aforementioned periodicals, delivered to my mailbox via snail mail. ( .....but perhaps not Playboy). Thanks, Barlrey.Why do you assume it's "kids"? And what's the point here? Can someone not express disappointment that something that was pretty good is now just meh at best without the cliche "back in my day" retorts?
Who really cares?I think this is the case of people not liking Musk for other reasons again, thus exaggerating how important different changes are. (And I get why people don’t like Musk. He has dipped deeply into politics lately and made increasingly questionable decisions about the kind of folks he sort of associates with… all a very bad look.)
Quote from: Robotbeat on 09/13/2023 02:48 amWho really cares?I think this is the case of people not liking Musk for other reasons again, thus exaggerating how important different changes are. (And I get why people don’t like Musk. He has dipped deeply into politics lately and made increasingly questionable decisions about the kind of folks he sort of associates with… all a very bad look.)I think there is an effort by folks to sort of separate Musk from SpaceX in a way, or rather focus on SpaceX on their own merits instead of putting the focus on Musk. The subject of this thread only ties SpaceX closer to Musk personally which is a little bit distasteful if you're not part of the cult of personality surrounding him.Aside from that, the video quality is objectively worse on Twitter as others have said. You can't spin this into an improvement on the quality although you can think what you like about the Twitter/X platform as a whole.
...Who really cares?I think this is the case of people not liking Musk for other reasons again, thus exaggerating how important different changes are. (And I get why people don’t like Musk. He has dipped deeply into politics lately and made increasingly questionable decisions about the kind of folks he sort of associates with… all a very bad look.)
Quote from: chopsticks on 09/13/2023 03:21 amQuote from: Robotbeat on 09/13/2023 02:48 amWho really cares?I think this is the case of people not liking Musk for other reasons again, thus exaggerating how important different changes are. (And I get why people don’t like Musk. He has dipped deeply into politics lately and made increasingly questionable decisions about the kind of folks he sort of associates with… all a very bad look.)I think there is an effort by folks to sort of separate Musk from SpaceX in a way, or rather focus on SpaceX on their own merits instead of putting the focus on Musk. The subject of this thread only ties SpaceX closer to Musk personally which is a little bit distasteful if you're not part of the cult of personality surrounding him.Aside from that, the video quality is objectively worse on Twitter as others have said. You can't spin this into an improvement on the quality although you can think what you like about the Twitter/X platform as a whole.Im not trying to spin anything, just saying reality. I think Elon got SpaceX streams to be higher resolution on Twitter. Actually look at the most recent ones, they’re 1080p.
The codec is older and worse quality. They are wasting a lot of bits streaming that 1080p and it is still worse than any Youtube 1080p.The streaming also does not support rewinding or starting late.It is "my bobbys first fisher price streaming service" vs the industry leader. Viewers not impressed.Should have first made an actual good streaming feature before jumping to the "force people to watch here because reasons" bandwagon to try to get users to a service that is not interesting users.Frankly my biggest beef is that I can no longer promote the fact that hey, there is a launch happening. If I link to the X tweet (which is appearing very late so I can't do that an hour in advance like I could with YT streams), people just say the won't sign into X to watch it. So I can't really share it. For a social media service that supposedly is designed to share things, this is... mind-boggling.
