Meanwhile, remember Logitech's Harmony remotes? They made you set up an online account too. Apologists mocked those of us who called that out, and then a couple months later Logitech shitcanned the entire product line and orphaned them all. I didn't quite LOL, but I enjoyed their come-uppance.
The Atari computers (except the 400) had S-video from the very beginning, and the JVC-made Commodore 1702 is a great match for them because it has separate luma & chroma inputs.
Interestingly, LaserDisc players, the best consumer video medium until the late '90s, mostly didn't have S-video outputs because the luma & chroma signals were mixed on the disc; providing a separate output for each wouldn't have gained you anything.
I believe the Atari 8-bit computers' CTIA/GTIA chips generate their video output through pins in much the same way as the TIA, with digital luminance and a color output, so it makes sense that S-Video (or I guess I should say "some sort of separated luminance/chrominance", since the S-Video standard didn't exist yet) would be the way to go for a higher-quality picture there.
Apple is a scummy, back-stabbing business "partner." Everyone from small-time developers to publicly-traded companies gets screwed by Apple burying their apps (or simply not showing them at all) in searches that spell the publisher's name exactly right. They lie about app discovery to developers, lie about it to judges, and lie to the users doing the searches.
However, the public hysteria over "big tech" should not be dragging Apple into everything, because developers are essentially the only aggrieved party. Unlike Google and Meta, Apple is not the gatekeeper to the Internet for millions of people. And I can almost always get a human being on the phone or chat from Apple, which today is truly worthy of praise.
It's bad enough that loads upon loads of sites require people to use their E-mail address as a user ID. What a stupid policy, one that embarrasses many companies that should know better (YES, THIS MEANS APPLE).
When you force people to log in with their E-mail address, what percentage of the public also thinks they need to use their E-mail password? I'm going to guess at least half. Now, if that site is compromised by a hack or disgruntled employee or whatever, people's E-mail accounts are wide open and identity theft galore can ensue.
Not to mention that your E-mail address is on thousands of spammers' lists. Combine that list with lists of common passwords, and you have a shitload of compromised E-mail accounts right there.
Nobody should have tolerated this amateur-hour policy, but here we are.
It's not about the price YOU, the customer pay. It's about the scumbaggery that these lowlives perpetrate on restaurant owners. The best one is how they impersonate the restaurants online, hijacking their online presence and setting up fake numbers as the restaurants' own.
Never use food-delivery services. Not only are they scammers, but they (and this is first-hand observation) mess with, eat, or take your food into a public shitter.
It's actually also about the price the customer pays. I've seen plenty of restaurants raise their prices across the board (even if you call them up yourself and order carryout) because DoorDash et al take such a high cut. It's one thing if only DoorDash orders were more expensive, but those fuckers made it expensive for all of us, even those that don't use DoorDash.
Amen. BUT, be aware that the delivery assholes often hijack restaurants' online presence and put up fake phone numbers that go to the middleman, not the restaurant.
Also some restaurants have apparently started contracting out some of their 'normal' deliveries to these entities, so it can be difficult to avoid them entirely even if you're deliberately trying not to do business with them.
Yeah, two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37594377
Meanwhile, remember Logitech's Harmony remotes? They made you set up an online account too. Apologists mocked those of us who called that out, and then a couple months later Logitech shitcanned the entire product line and orphaned them all. I didn't quite LOL, but I enjoyed their come-uppance.