Wednesday, December 03, 2025

A Net Connection and One's Location

Day 033 of Our Winter: It was a perfectly relaxing day with nowhere to go and nothing that needed to be done. We did throw a load of wash into the machine and put it out on the line to dry. I guess that would've been my photo opportunity of the day but I missed documenting that. 

Rather, I spent a great deal on my phone looking at 2025 television technology. This is what I added on Whatsapp to a friend back home. 
"You never commented about your new TV. I've been using my time to try to catch up on where the tech has gone over the last six years. AI is extremely helpful for scouring reviews and making comparisons into tables. Changes that used to take decades is now accelerating over a much quicker timeline. I think the profound shift in viewing choice selection is going to be the developing news story of 2026. That will be in the software side as much as hardware."
Even though we've only been home for four of the last six years, I'm thinking it'll be time for an update when we return to New Westminster in the spring.  Our last screen was dropped off at the apartment during our COVID quarantine.  Screens seem to have improved so much during the interim years.

I've also spent a lot of time looking into replacing my old mini- Nvidia Shield with a new Google streamer.  By the time I'm ready to buy, Gemini AI should have replaced the old Google Assistant on those devices.  I'm guessing until the end of the decade, software will continue to profoundly change the experience of how we choose what we watch.  

With an adequately robust Internet connection, one's location no longer dictates what one spends time learning about.  Weird, eh?  So, rather than any photo showing the beauty of Sri Lanka, this is the living room here as I complete this journal entry.
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