This seems like a sensible consumer protection to not let the ad company control the biggest web browser. I won’t hold my breath, but I’m glad they are trying something.

AWS should also be split from Amazon.

They are super common where weed is legal. People fly into somewhere like Denver for the weekend to catch a show. Rather than buying a reusable battery, they will get a disposable vape (and probably some gummies).

Then it ends up in the landfill or as litter. I am in favor of making these one time use electronics illegal (along with single use plastics like balloons, plastic silverware, etc… but that is another thread)

Well I updated my computer and my audio stopped working; to the logs! Lol I love Linux, but find myself asking “what now?” much more frequently with it…

With windows it is more like “wtf is this new ad on my start menu?” Or “how can I opt out of all these features no one ever asked for?”

I’ve been writing code professionally for nearly two decades, and I love having copilot available in my IDE. When there is some boilerplate or a SQL query I just don’t want to write, it’ll oftentimes get me started with something reasonable that is wrong in a couple of subtle ways. I then fix it, laugh at how wrong it was, or use part of the proposed answer in my project.

If you’re a non-corder, sure it is pure danger, but if you know what you’re doing it can give you a little boost. Only time will tell if it makes me rusty on some basics, but it is another tool in the toolbox now.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/10/io_domain_uk_mauritius/#:~:text=16%3A28 UTC-,The .,the basis for internet domains.

The other option is for all the mods to quit. AI can probably do a lot of basic tasks, but without mods they wouldn’t have a site pretty quickly.

Sorry i misunderstood, thanks for clarifying!

These tech workers are not Bezos. They are just developers and technical people that thought they had a good job with competitive salaries. It sucks they have to uproot their lives because management is being shitty.

They may work for a company without ethics, but that’s kind of the corporate landscape these days.

My Samsung I bought last year required an Internet connection during setup, but after it updated it “allowed” me to disconnect it. Just to be extra safe I connected it to a guest network that I changed the password on so it couldn’t remember the credentials. The menus have ads (that never change), but I set the TV to default to the last HDMI port when it turns on.

I wish they had an AOSP sort of approach to TV where I could install a new ROM and customize the TV OS with whatever changes I’d like, so I didn’t need extra devices to view Plex and my streaming channels. DRM shuts that dream down pretty quickly though.

I hope that some privacy forward brands will emerge, but there just doesn’t seem to be consumer demand or awareness.

Thank you daddy capitalism.

I hope I can continue to make the smart TV dumb by never giving it network access. When that fails I’ll have to hope the pihole handles some of it. The other fun option might be to put it on a VPN in the EU and hope that it enables some gdpr options.

Either way you’re right, it’s likely inevitable.

I was always torn over what TV brand to buy. This helps narrow it down further.

They are a huge tech company. They should have a checkbox in the checkout flow that lets you add a free cable if you need one.

That’s a good point. It is a simulation as others mentioned. I was thinking more from the aspect that it’s completely unrelatable to gen-z and alpha as they’ve never used a traditional phone. It’s like an 8-track player for millennials.

Really any movie that involves legacy telephones.

• Phone Booth: The whole movie
• Scream: “The call is coming from inside the house”
• The Matrix: “Pick up the phone!”
• Etc, etc.

That movie is hilarious!

Hope they don’t share this technology with Israel.

Neo Nazis need gold coins too!

Then call jg Wentworth 877-cash now!

YouTube is terrible without an ad blocker. The current business model is: bait users with free entertaining content, insert reasonable level of ads, stockholders get mad there isn’t exponential growth, really annoy users until they subscribe. I get that companies need to make money, but this cycle seems to be faster than ever now.