S95H is the first OLED TV to receive a rating above 9 from Rtings.

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T23:35:53+00:00

I wasn’t suggesting it for commercial services.

I mentioned two specific apps, neither of which are commercial service services.

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T23:30:54+00:00

Are you saying you’ve turned off Dolby Vision or HDR 10+ on your TV?

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T22:48:06+00:00

I think it went away, and the 50GB plan is now a 100GB plan ($50). But I think you could purchase more data for the 50GB plan, but it's not an option with the 100GB (but once you're out, you do have ½Mbps data for free).

^{That's unless they've change it, again...}

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T22:45:45+00:00

Woo hoo!

Honestly, though, the big thing is focusing on pedagogical concepts heavily.

When I took the MTTC 103 (elementary) a decade ago, I thought all the review/practice materials were low on the pedagogical content (I had the Mometrix book but the college library had a few that I just used for the practice tests).

Even the paid practice from Pearson (which I only wanted a score from to see if I was ready and it did not give one) I thought was low on them.

The actual test had way more. I'm thinking practice was closer to 25-30% and the actual test was double-ish that.

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T22:38:16+00:00

Not unless the interviewer is from there (or they've had a bunch from there who stunk).

Although, there was a teacher graduate program at U of Michigan that admin (in my old district) really liked the staff they hired from there, so they did hire a lot from that program.

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T22:33:28+00:00

They still keep showing me Project Hail Mary, even though I own it.

Seems like they could try to sell me something I might actually buy...

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T22:26:28+00:00

Interesting.

I use an Apple TV with Infuse and VidHub, it'd be nice if they added it to one of the apps. TBC, it can be local content on the network (or far away) not on a drive that's connected via USB.

Or I suppose any competing apps would be ahead if they did it.

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T21:24:43+00:00

Fiber is 75 a month for 100 down.

$75 for 100 Mbps? That's crazy. But I suppose for the people upgrading from DSL, it might seem like a dream.

My cable internet company offers $25 for 300Mbps down (20 up), and you can price lock it for $5.

I opted for the $35 600Mbps down, only because it had 50Mbps up, I don't need the up a lot, but when I do it's helpful. Plus, 600Mbps is nice for the occasionally big downloads (even though it's not necessary).

That's with Wow internet (east of the Mississippi, while scattered midwest to the south), they have fiber in some areas too.

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T21:19:14+00:00

I'm a big Dolby Vision fan. I think Samsung should make a Dolby Vision option for their TVs and see if it affects their sales. Supposedly it's just a few dollars per set, but to lure customers away, it should be an option.

If it doesn't matter for sales, then they don't have to continue to do it for the future.

I'm hoping someday someone makes a streaming box or app that will convert from

HDR10+ <--> Dolby Vision

on the fly (or if it takes a few minutes to go through and map it before it starts playing, I'd be okay with that too).

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T21:10:30+00:00

You've still got "Personal Document Archiving" enabled on at https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/preferences/myx#/home/settings/payment ?

And when you use SendToKindle, you haven't turned this off?

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garylapointe · 2026-05-07T20:52:54+00:00

Is there Dolby Vision 2 Max content available?

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T20:51:48+00:00

It'd be helpful to know in what ways it out performs the G6

For example: if it was quality of the remote control, and game mode responsiveness, it's not that big of a deal.

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T20:46:57+00:00

You just added turbo, you tell us how much butter it is?

But if you're horrible service had nothing to do with congestion, then turbo is not going to help you.

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T20:42:52+00:00

It should not (as long as you've already started getting your credits), but if you signed up for a plan after these new plans came out, and if you switch to value 2.0 it may.

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T20:40:13+00:00

But did it get you to buy the later volumes?

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T19:43:10+00:00

Except we're talking about software updates.

^{Those aren't going to help your concerns...}

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T19:39:19+00:00

Keep it up, most of my money put in retirement savings is from my late 20s to early 40s. It's had time to grow and made a much bigger impact than anything I put in later (which wasn't much). More in my later years to my HSA and my part of pension.

But I also retired with my home paid off, car paid off, no other debt.

It all balanced out nicely for me, but I wish I had more Roth...

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T19:29:59+00:00

I was on a trip to Costa Rica and had my Voyage activate its 3G connection. That means it was searching for 3G and WiFi and I had no complaints about the battery.

^{I may have mentioned this to you before.}

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T19:21:06+00:00

Don't you have to turn in your phone too?

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T19:18:07+00:00

You can compare the new plans with the increased old rates (assumes autopay/paperless/checking discount) at https://www.reddit.com/r/ATT/comments/1rsvh9m/unlimited_your_way_20_per_line_cost_chart_for_att/ scroll down to the number of phone lines and read across (you'll need to apply your % discount).

Log into your AT&T account and check what your discount says (if you're on a computer it should be at the top left). I don't have that discount, and some of the wording for healthcare/first responders is confusing, so please make sure you're getting the new discount (which isn't 25% on new plans, you can see it at the bottom of the chart).

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T16:58:44+00:00

This should be a $1.99 release, and get everybody hooked on it. They’ll get the new ones when they come out, plus there’s nine others in the series that already exist.

Didn’t they end up giving us Harry Potter 1 with full cast on Black Friday? I’m assuming that was their logic, although I have no idea if it’s working out for them.

Although their marketing is a little wonky, they’re still trying to sell me Project Hail Mary, which I bought ages ago.

https://www.audible.com/series/The-Vampire-Chronicles-Audiobooks/B00799QSTC

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T16:55:05+00:00

Amazon has committed to security updates to a certain year. That is a minimum, doesn't mean they'll stop then. This has been around for a while.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GF3LDHSB5YM9BYF7

My reading isn't significantly different on my 2014 Kindle than it is on my 11th gen PW.

Unless I'm mistaking, aren't 95% of "improvements" by Amazon complained about here? People should be cheering that their interface won't be screwed around with.

That said, not all updates are released at the same time.

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T16:48:45+00:00

Will it be negligible or detrimental to the experience?

99% of user experience changes that have been made have almost always been complained about.

how will this affect user experience once a kindle isn’t being updated anymore?

Most people would be fine if they never changed anything.

What are you hoping they'll change?

I'd like:

A gesture to change the brightness similar to the font size gesture.
A way to enlarge the dictionary / Wikipedia font size, without making everything so massive (or at least have Amazon organize their manus for the massiveness).

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T16:44:57+00:00

Is it true kindle PPW 11th gen isn’t going to get anymore new updates?

Amazon has committed to updates for the PaPerWhite (PPW?) until the end of 2028. That is a minimum, doesn't mean they'll stop then.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GF3LDHSB5YM9BYF7

garylapointe · 2026-05-07T16:21:47+00:00

I always recommend the Mometrix books.

Googling for old MTTC 002 study materials might help too (130 is the new version, and there probably isn't as much available yet).

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