“Still” implies I was ever going to buy a Tesla. :)

Yup!

See my “set 2” links above. (at the time) $3,200 8K television, “If you want the brightest image possible, use the default Dynamic Mode settings with Local Dimming set to ‘High’, as we were able to get 1666 nits in the 10% peak window test.”

HDR still trash.

Yup, yup. Highly rated when I bought them, but in actual usage? Not so much.

I WISH it was the default settings. I went through every calibration and firmware update I could find. Even the model specific calibrations on rtings.com. Nothing made a difference.

It appears to just be a flaw in Samsung’s implementation. After going through all the Samsung forum information, the only suggestion that’s guaranteed to work is “turn it off”.

Set #1:

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/ks8000

Calibration:

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/ks8000/settings

Set #2:

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/q800t-8k-qled

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/q800t-8k-qled/settings

Best bet?

Figure out what you want to do, then look for those locally.

Say you want to work in industry “x”. Search for that in your town, hit up individual web pages and see what opportunities are out there. Go there in person if you have to.

Here’s an example… Say you’re in the Portland area and you want to get into knifemaking.

https://www.google.com/search?q=portland+knife+manufacturer

Sub in your own city and industry of choice.

Apache Pistol FTW!

I’ve been told HDR is not for bright rooms, you have to make everything dark…

Yeah…

“Even playing in HDR…”

Maybe that’s part of the problem? HDR implementation on my Samsung sets is garbage, I have to disable it to watch anything. Too bad too, because the picture is gorgeous without it.

HDR On:

HDR Off:

They’re going to be surprised if it gets to the Supreme Court:

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/577/411/

“the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding,”

Woman bought a stun gun to protect herself from an abusive ex. State of MA charged her saying that stun guns didn’t exist back in the day, and were “dangerous and unusual” so the 2nd amendment doesn’t apply.

The butcher and candlestick maker were taken!

Punk is a small part of the whole story…

Think of the early issues as using the same stable of actors in multiple projects.

Yeah, Maggie is a space mechanic and yeah, she’s also living in a run down part of LA with her crust punk friends.

It’s like watching Wes Anderson movies, yes, Bill Murray is a scuba diver here and a millionaire businessman there… Same actor, different stories.

The First Fifty set is worth owning.

Yup. Money.

$400 million is a significant lever.

If you stop to ask yourself “Well, that’s really stupid, why did they do that?” the answer is typically “Money.”

Getting a million people to Washington D.C. is a tall order when places like CA, OR, WA are 3,000 miles away, plus people have to, you know, work and stuff.

Yeah, no. Your career ended during the debate.

When I’m on camera, I never do a background replacement and I’m always in front of bookshelves. Anyone can ask “What’s that thing behind you?” and I’ll take it down and show them.

Personal information from 50-60 years ago is still relevant?

Aha… makes more sense now:

“One of the newly unredacted documents, for example, discloses the Social Security numbers of more than two dozen people seeking security clearances in the 1990s to review JFK-related documents for the Assassination Records Review Board.”

Also a good idea to have a password or code phrase. This is something that’s been advised for child abductions for years now.

“Your mom sent me to pick you up.”

“What’s the password?”

“. . .”

https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article231037078.html

The hand in front of face thing is interesting, and in the video you can see clear distortion around the headphones which could have been a result of a replacement background.

I’d have requested they turn off all filters and see how they react to that. “Oh, I’m not running any filters.” would be a clear lie and a reason to end the interview.