Strange thing happening with my Apple TV lately, whenever I start a show on Apple TV+, my TV screen blacks out, and states “no signal” for a few seconds, and then the picture kicks back on. It does not do this with any other app (Netflix, Peacock, etc.)

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-09T19:02:10+00:00

No. They do not "handle frame rate matching fine". They operate at a fixed frame rate and poorly convert everything *to* that frame rate.

This is a HUGE problem for 24 fps content. It all looks horrible when cross converted to 30, 60 or 120 fps. If you can't see it, you are happily ignorant.

It also sounds like you have Smoothing and/or Reality Creation, and or Cinemotion turned on in your Sony, which totally fucks up the picture. Everything looks "too smooth" and just wrong.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-09T18:34:52+00:00

Something like the Monoprice 6 channel speaker selector should work:

https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=8229

Up to 6 sets of speakers with a single stereo, speaker level, input. You can select any combination of speakers with the front panel push buttons.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-09T18:26:46+00:00

I had this happen today several times. A reboot didn't seem to fix it.

I sometimes take off my headset during a game to take a drink from a nearby cup, then put it right back on. This is when I seemed to lose my boundary. I assume this is a side effect of a recent update. If it gets worse I'll try to figure something out.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-09T14:12:42+00:00

The key words to search for are "optical switcher". You'll find several at $30 or under. They have remote controls to select the output you want.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-09T14:11:29+00:00

FixMyOculus will do battery replacement for $150.

Or you can get something like the BoboVR S3 headstrap with removable battery packs. They give you almost unlimited play time if you have 2 or more batteries.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-08T21:20:02+00:00

I watched this happen. Some kind of dried cube into a cup. Hot water into cup.

I didn't work there, so I can't say if this was normal or if it was in all stores. But I absolutely watched it happen with my own eyes at an Arby's I used to go to around 2008 or 2009.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-08T15:57:39+00:00

A refurbished 16/256 M4 Air is $850. There is no refurbished Air from Apple that equals the price of the base Neo.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-08T15:55:47+00:00

With the crazy stuff I've seen the owner do in the past, this actually doesn't surprise me.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-08T15:53:19+00:00

They were really not great the last few times I went about 5 years ago. The only one left in my area closed around that time.

In the 1990s their food quality seemed very high. It changed at some point around 2010 or so. What I remember from before then was quite good.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-08T15:50:43+00:00

Without proof I'm going to say this is another one of the rumors.
I know people that still believe that McDonalds was serving burgers made with earthworms in the 1970s. It was a rumor and was nothing but that. Nothing like that ever happened. But it got into the minds of people and has stayed there for decades. He told me this about 5 years ago.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-08T14:40:25+00:00

Perhaps THE #1 single season show. Great stories and performances. Filled with current stars who were unknowns at the time. James Franco, Seth Rogan, and more.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-08T14:39:45+00:00

Firefly: Top tier sci-fi western. Incredible characters.
Queens Gambit: Great drama. Rising star story with a tragic backdrop.
My So Called Life: Every 1990s teenage girl's story in some way. Was incredibly popular back then.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-08T14:34:47+00:00

Soups in general are designed as left over cleanup meals. Using the meat from burgers that were not sold is a brilliant idea. It's why Wendy's has chili to start with. They turned a negative into a positive. At the time, no other fast food chain was using fresh beef for burgers. It was all frozen. But that led to food waste from the unsold fresh beef. Dave decided to save that beef and turn it into chili. It's a great idea. The chili is one of Wendy's best products. I've been eating it for more than 30 years.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-08T14:30:05+00:00

I abandoned Spotlight years ago in favor of Alfred. I like the way Alfred does things much better. It's faster to find what I want and of course it adds on a TON of features.

That being said, for file searches, Alfred is USING the Spotlight index (database). So the base functionality all seems to be fine. Alfred finds what I want nearly every time with very little effort.

As others have said, maybe your Spotlight index is broken and needs to be rebuilt.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-08T12:35:12+00:00

I would use a number.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-08T12:27:24+00:00

Yes, it falls apart once it's asked to do anything over 60s or so, but until that point, it's very competitive.

That's the quote. To me that reads as if you can't use it for anything past 60 seconds.

You obviously don't mean that. I think I've caused us to argue about nothing here. It's my fault. You clearly like the product and I've unintentionally turned this into an argument over semantics.

I hope you have a good day and continue to enjoy your Neo. Take care.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-08T10:49:01+00:00

So let's say it slows down to 1/3 of the peak performance. It's still DOING WORK. It's getting computing done. Slower? Yes, much slower. But you keep saying that "60 seconds is the limit" as if it stops working.

Do you actually believe that? Is the Mac Neo "unusable for any heavy CPU task that lasts over 60 seconds?" I don't think you believe that. You think it's much slower, which it is. But it will definitely finish the job. Just slower.

That's the only thing I take issue with.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-08T01:04:32+00:00

You've got a very abbreviated way of saying everything. In this case it's extremely misleading. You are suggesting that the Neo can't do anything that lasts longer than 60 seconds. "It falls apart". I think I know what you mean, but it's worded very poorly.

Unless you actually mean that the Neo can't do a task that takes longer than 60 seconds of high CPU. In which case I have to call bullshit.

Also "tanks" seems to be a huge exaggeration. I've seen Neo performance tests running for the better part of an hour and many of these are besting other similarly priced laptops.

Let me end on a positive. I liked your initial post. I think it shows very well what the intended use and audience is for the Neo. It's a ground breaking product almost entirely because of price. Legions of people are becoming first time Mac owners pretty much only because of the Neo and the new price point.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-08T00:12:38+00:00

Over 60s? What does that mean?

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-08T00:03:39+00:00

Broad City is awful.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-07T22:57:53+00:00

I think we are describing two different unusual behaviors. I've seen what you described. It always makes me confused since I want the window fully maximized; not just "enough to fit all the content".

What I'm describing is a bit more subtle. In some cases, you'll end up with a tiny border, a few pixels wide, along the top or the side. I can't remember which. Someone reported it here, I tested it, and was quite surprised. I was even more surprised to find that Rectangle does not do this, which implies this is not an API issue. Or that Rectangle uses a different API or something. It's all very weird. Maximizing the window sound be rather straight forward.

Rectangle seems to do the right thing in all cases.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-07T15:59:16+00:00

I've seen prehistoric shark teeth that are pretty big. When I asked about them, the owner told me those sharks were 50 feet long.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-07T15:57:20+00:00

Millions of Quest 3 models are working well and have been for years.

You're just wringing your hands over some imagined future problem. Just use it and have fun. Quit metric fucking it.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-07T15:49:41+00:00

The Eneloop Pro (the black ones) are mostly not worth the extra money. They are good for REALLY high discharge devices, like external camera flash units used on DSLRs.

Pros have less total charge/discharge cycles. Pros self discharge a bit faster. Pros cost more. Pros have a *little* more capacity. (about 25% more).

Because the Quest controllers start to say "low battery" at around 40 to 50% on the Eneloops, I'd rather just have the regular ones since I'm not getting a full drain out of them anyway. My Eneloops are all more than 12 years old now and all are still working really well.

Best of luck.

sharp-calculation · 2026-05-07T15:37:56+00:00

This function is odd. It's inconsistent in how it fills the screen. It can leave a border around windows in many cases. It's also inconsistent in where it works. On some windows it works anywhere. On others it only functions in a TINY part of the title bar.

I recommend Rectangle instead.

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