dan

Yes, I’ve got one. I did a couple of (fairly unscientific) tests and couldn’t see a difference in temps or fan volume though.

With the big chunk of alumunium? I don't think they actually improve cooling (certainly, the fan doesn't run any less), they just put the heat in a place where you can accidentally rest your fingers on it.

It's not subscription business models that will be affected by this, it's ad-supported ones.

The problem is you're running Chrome now*. Google are in the process of severely restricting the mechanism by which adblockers work in Chrome and its derived browsers - so it's happening now. The only viable alternative left is Firefox, if Google manage to get this proposal past then there's nothing stopping ad-supported sites from forcing you to use Chrome or another browser they know they can serve you ads with. Those types of sites are already comfortable with aggressive anti-adblock tech so no doubt they'll be comfortable with this too.

Switch to Firefox!

* statistically speaking!

You can trademark dictionary words.

You can't trademark anything too generic, like you might struggle to trademark a drink called "drink" or something (although you might be able to trademark, eg, shoes called "drink"!), but there's nothing stopping you trademarking words.

Oh, and, Adobe is an english word, too.

It depends on the movie and how they market it. Usually once it hits streaming services good rips will be available very quickly.

Personally I don’t bother with CAMs or TSs, I’d rather wait until there’s a good rip.

Use Radarr, set the quality you want, watch stuff when it shows up.

Downvoted because that website is absolute ad-ridden dog shit.

I want to buy one. Since Musk outed himself as a complete nutcase, and Tesla’s quality control either got worse or more people realised it was always bad, I can’t find one I like that doesn’t cost the earth.

I think you should find a way to try it - even if it’s just to convince yourself it won’t work! Perhaps take the bulb out and just shine some blue light in there to see what happens.

I don’t know whether it’ll look blue or orange or greenish or muddy and dull (depends on the filter and the bulb) but it sure as fuck won’t look white :)

If the orange is only on the reflector, and the front of the bulb shines straight out through the transparent part then you might be able to block the light coming from the back of the bulb (in fact blue might work for that), but if there’s more complicated optics going on I don’t know what you can do. It’s just not very possible to get white light out if most of it goes through an orange filter or reflects off an orange surface.

I don’t have an example to show you I’m afraid.

You’re thinking of mixing two separate light sources. You’re right that if you had a pure blue light and a pure orange (well, yellow) light, and pointed them both exactly at the same spot (and you balanced their relative intensity properly), the resulting light would appear white.

But you’re not talking about that. You’re talking about filtering light, which is subtractive not additive like mixing light. So your blue light will either be pure blue (eg led) and have no red or green in it, or it’ll be white light that’s passed through a filter removing red and green. Then you’ll pass it through another filter that will remove the blue to leave the red and green. But there’s no red and green to remove, so with a perfect filter and a perfect blue light you’ll get nothing.

(Actually a bit more complicated cos you can have pure orange/yellow light, it doesn’t have to be red light plus green light, but the result is mostly the same)

So probably you’ll end up getting some muddy coloured light out. Which might end up looking blue or orange from different angles.

It looks like the orange part is the reflector, and the front is actually transparent. Perhaps you can cover the back of the bulb to reduce the light hitting the orange part? Long shot tho.

Yeah I’ve noticed the same thing. I’ve been deliberately trying to do a bit of Firefox advocacy for a while (cos I honestly believe increasing its userbase is our only chance to avoid google ruining the internet). But yes every time there’s a bunch of people confidently complaining about how bad/slow Firefox is and advocating for brave or chrome.

Initially I thought it was just a bit of historical baggage but it happens very consistently and aggressively so I’ve had the same thought.

How much access do you have to the inside? It’s an orange reflector rather than an orange filter, right? Can you cover the reflector with something?

I don’t think the blorange option will work as well as you think it will, it’s going to end up looking primarily blue or primarily orange, or different from different angles or something equally not ideal.

Insurance is supposed to be a service where everyone pays a predictable amount so that they have some protection in the event of something catastrophic happening. It’s reasonable for them to assess risks, and it’s reasonable for them to charge higher premiums for riskier situations, it’s reasonable for them to ask for remediation and eventually cancel policies if someone doesn’t abide by previously agreed terms.

But there’s a line between that and “it’s fire season, send up a drone so we can cancel the riskiest x% and boost our profits”, particularly if that’s happening mid policy, and particularly if it’s in a situation where those people will find it hard to get new insurance.