You can still blame the way ads are bought and sold on the internet. It invaded your privacy and made advertising worse on every other medium.

Internet advertising poisoned the well for everyone.

This thread sort of went in a different direction, but hopefully you learned a few things about over-the-air TV broadcasts in North America!

What’s really strange is… I work in radio, not TV. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 5/5

Fun fact: this is why you have to “scan” for over-the-air TV channels now. A station branded as channel “14” from the analog era might now actually be broadcasting on channel 32. Your TV needs to search for signals and populate a lookup table so you can go to “14” and get what you expect. 4/

When the US was transitioning to digital TV broadcasts, you couldn’t put the digital signal on the same RF channel as the analog signal, so the concept of “virtual” channel numbers was implemented so you could enter the same number and get the same station. 3/

RF channels 13 and below are VHF. However, unlike the old analog days, the number you see on your TV is usually NOT the actual RF channel a TV station broadcasts on anymore. 2/

Not super at liberty to give specifics at this point, but it is a hybrid + multicloud approach.

Smart broadcasters should know what parts of their operation to run on-prem *where appropriate*. People freak out about latency, but there are points in the chain where that just doesn't matter.

Sometime next year, we should talk about cloud-based automation... I'm piloting it at one of my stations (and it did NOT go down yesterday).

Perhaps I should only use a PipeWire installation on servers where I don’t plan on using physical audio devices and just interact with ALSA directly otherwise. I say this because PipeWire has native support for AES67, which is easily configured using the API or statically.

⬆️That guy knows what he’s talking about (and replied from the wrong account) 😂

Time to put my IT experience to good use for broadcasters

If you don't see a "boot menu" or "choose boot device" prompt, you can usually plug " boot menu" into your favorite search engine to find it (mine would be "latitude 7430 boot menu" for example).

There's a detailed guide at linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/in...

Once that's done, make sure your testing computer is powered off, then plug in the USB stick and turn it on. Depending on the model of the computer you're installing it on, there will be a certain key you press on the keyboard as the computer is starting that will let you tell it to boot from USB.

Download the ISO image file from linuxmint.com and if you're currently using Windows, you can use a tool called Etcher (etcher.balena.io) to create the installer media on the USB stick.

If you're just starting out, I would recommend finding a secondhand older machine (preferably manufactured after 2014) to try it on first! Linux Mint is a good distribution for people new to *nix. You'll also need a blank 8 GB USB thumb drive (or one you don't mind erasing).