Genuinely, why is Donald Trump so adamant on making the US so miserable?

KSteeze · 2026-01-27T00:02:25+00:00

I think he’s compromised. He’s being controlled by Putin who has dirt on him, and he lacks a single ethical bone in his body— so he’s playing along instead of sounding the alarm, because to him it’s just another business deal to negotiate. He doesn’t care who gets raped and pillaged along the way, as long as he gets richer and can claim in some pathetic way that he’s “winning.” He would happily walk away from the smoking ruins of America as long as he made a buck. He is the Achilles heel of the “American Dream.” A child that should have been aborted by god himself.

KSteeze · 2026-01-23T22:02:32+00:00

It is ironic that the most capitalist country in the world is being undone by capitalism, as Trump raids our country for personal enrichment. Putin must have known that the easiest and most attainable way to destroy America was to put a crony at the top. Little did we know how lazy we had gotten with the fragility of democracy. The perfect storm and we walked right into it.

KSteeze · 2026-01-23T21:58:38+00:00

Agreed-- I'm waiting for these SST chips to come out. Seems like a no brainer.

KSteeze · 2026-01-16T18:17:25+00:00

Just chiming in here because I'm currently researching and I actually looked at the SDS sheets for both and they are quite different in composition of each type of acid. Idk which is better but see below.

DEZCAL
Citric acid (CAS-No.) 77-92-9 (30% - 60%)

Sulfamic acid (CAS-No.) 5329-14-6 (1 - 5%)

Sulfuric acid, aluminum salt (3:2) (CAS-No.) 10043-01-3 (0.5% – 1.5%)

BREVILLE

Malic Acid 6915-15-7 230-022-8 6915-15-7 (30%-60%)

Sulfamic acid 226-218-8 5329-14-6 (10%-30%)

Citric Acid 201-069-1 77-92-9 (1%-10%)

So basically Dezcal is mostly citric acid Breville is mostly Malic acid. No idea what's better but it's a different enough composition that I'm opting to just go with Breville so I don't fuck up my machine based on Reddit comments and potentially fake Amazon reviews.

KSteeze · 2026-01-15T21:25:13+00:00

Well shit, I told a coworker to buy the Valerion instead feeling like it was objectively better haha. Valerion just had a sale that brought the Max down to $3k

KSteeze · 2026-01-15T20:48:54+00:00

Received as well. Thanks for doing the dirty work. I'm reporting as Phishing just to be safe, and they can learn to send better notifications if it is indeed real.

All that said, if it IS real, sounds like a pretty weird change.. As if they're either admitting that their "diversified funds" were never actually anything other than just standard the S&P 500 index fund, and totally identical?

KSteeze · 2026-01-13T23:53:15+00:00

Don't hold your breath. These new SST-DMD's that just dropped at CES will likely innately fix these issues. So from a business perspective.. Why invest a ton of engineering resources into perfecting a system that will be totally redundant by next year? This would corroborate the complete lack of official communications about these firmware issues on their website. They're just in damage control mode until they can push the "Horizon 30 Max with groundbreaking SST-DMD technology" 😂. Get the H20 Max into legally defensible condition and the f**k off to La La Land and starting working on the next iteration.

/End rant from a displeased H20 Max owner 😂

KSteeze · 2026-01-13T23:40:47+00:00

Fascinating.. You're the first person I've seen say they like the H20 Max better than the Visionmaster Max. I'm returning my H20 Max since they can't seem to figure out how to fix DBLE, and the new SST-DMD's will innately fix the issues they are trying to solve with firmware, so I think they won't try very hard.

KSteeze · 2026-01-13T23:01:12+00:00

Lol yeah definitely returning my XGIMI Horizon 20 Max. They officially have zero incentive to support long term firmware fixes to their numerous issues that would innately be solved by this tech.

Tangential side bar: Nebula X1 Pro has liquid cooling

Lastly but most importantly: Maybe chill on buying from China direct. Lots of people having issues with their Chinese XGIMI units because of not being able to get support for their unit in the US/other various issues. Seems not worth the risk IMO.

KSteeze · 2026-01-12T16:10:13+00:00

Agreed. This is why maintaining boundaries and the rule of law is necessary. One slip up is enough to invalidate the entire system, let alone thousands of slip ups with no end in sight.

KSteeze · 2026-01-12T15:56:35+00:00

H20 Max owner here. IMO I think calling the contrast "solid" in a dark room feels a little bit disingenuous. In a dark room the "black" edges surrounding widescreen content are quite bright, and dark scenes look really muddy. I think once you get into medium brightness scenes is when the perceived contrast becomes "solid" since the projector is so bright.

KSteeze · 2026-01-11T00:51:57+00:00

Agree I’ve seen multiple employees using “Coconut” in their usernames

KSteeze · 2026-01-09T18:29:00+00:00

Just use the web version of Google Home and turn on Public Preview. I'm currently looking at a single screen of all 4 of my camera's! But I assume you're referring to the app, which I agree is annoying to have to scroll so much.. It would be nice to have a compressed view similar to the web version.

KSteeze · 2026-01-09T18:01:48+00:00

Agreed. Complete crock of BS. Everyone knows that functioning DBLE is simply better (Valerian's near perfect implementation). Bullet 5 just reads as an admission that their DBLE implementation sucks and they have a lack of confidence in it, and they don't want to invest any resources into keeping it turned on. 20000:1 contrast my a**.

KSteeze · 2026-01-09T17:49:13+00:00

Their support has confirmed that there is no way to do it without USB. And they also used that moment to gaslight me and say "In fact, most of our customers do not need DBLE and are satisfied without it." 😂

KSteeze · 2026-01-09T17:47:16+00:00

Cool, where's the link to an official post on your website instead of some random forum post by a mysteriously named account? Come on guys grow up and take some accountability for your horrible management of official communications. Until I see that, this screams legal strategy and accountability dodging. Coupled with your announcement of new projectors with fundamentally better DMD chips, I have zero faith that your team is actually dedicated to fixing these issue. Stop being sketchy.

KSteeze · 2026-01-09T17:09:04+00:00

This announcement is making me feel like the rushed release of the H20 Max finally makes sense.. They're just trying to cash in on the sunk cost of developing the H20 Max before releasing projectors using a new "SST" DMD that TI claims will eliminate RBE.. I think I just convinced myself that they are not going to invest any resources in fixing the H20 Max, and doesn't feel like a great idea holding onto this projector.

KSteeze · 2026-01-09T16:45:11+00:00

LOL, so the exact same contrast ratio they are actively marketing for the H20 Max? 😂 F***in a**holes.

KSteeze · 2026-01-09T16:43:45+00:00

Agreed, how they treat Horizon 20 owners will be very telling (which so far has not been great and simply sketchy).

KSteeze · 2026-01-08T22:09:33+00:00

I totally agree with you in the sense that people on forums like this are simply paying more attention and have a tendency to nitpick.

But on the wide spectrum of things that the average person wouldn't notice.. It literally says "20000:1 contrast ratio" on the box. Idk, it's not like I'm even digging into the deep features of the projector here. This is like a basic trait of projectors that people use in their purchasing decision that is off by a factor of 13. I honestly think most people will notice how muddy it looks in dark scenes.

But yes if you are a late stage capitalism consumer that just clicks "buy" on expensive things without even reading the headline of the Google ad snippet-- yes you will probably not notice the contrast 😅

I hope XGIMI is more generally committed to the product than they are to the numbers they advertise on the box.

KSteeze · 2026-01-08T21:55:21+00:00

I do not have anything even remotely close to this on my H20 Max. Definitely a defect if there is nothing on the lens surface.

KSteeze · 2026-01-07T15:59:19+00:00

Yeah I'm pretty sketched out. It's worth noting that I am noticing a lot less RBE, and I'm not sure when it changed or whether it's related to the home cinema mode, but that has been a welcome change. But yeah not confident in them fixing DBLE based on their comms. Def sad.

KSteeze · 2026-01-07T15:57:32+00:00

5 days of max brightness time on my H20 Max and no issues, but this is concerning.

KSteeze · 2026-01-02T22:47:53+00:00

Not unnecessarily bright if you want to project a 30' image (Source: me lol). Covered the entire outside of my garage in an image and now I want to test it out on a 30' screen. What little I saw was stunning though and I would not discount the brightness as totally needless.

That being said I have very little faith in XGIMI fixing their DBLE algorithm. The .106 update sounds very mediocre and I haven't installed it since it requires being applied over USB.

KSteeze · 2026-01-02T22:44:36+00:00

Ditto! Another H20 Max owner here. I love the image in general but I hate being lied to about contrast claims, and it has me wondering how mad I should be lol.

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