-credit to nedroid for strange art
When our last TV which was ‘smart’ died, we just bought a big lcd monitor at the pawn shop. We already were only using Kodi on an Android box, so a monitor with external speaker is fine. (Seemed spyware free last time I checked, but beware no-name android media boxes on=from eBay etc., use a tiny or old spare PC instead if you wish).
One must ‘sail the high seas’ tovget content, of course…
Too little, too late :(
Isn’t the Senate supposed to have a Marshall who has authority to haul people in who ignore subpoenas and the like?
The USA seems to have an awful lot of ‘regulations’ and ‘laws’ that have no real enforcement, it would seem.
Enough of ‘courtesy’ and ‘expectations’ for all governmental things such as this. Anything that isn’t mandatory apparently will be ignored. Close the loopholes. Amend every law and regulation with the full expectation that every person it might be brought to bear to is a slimy grifter wannabe-fascist that will only listen to the very real threat of incarceration and jailtime from this point forward.
Oh, and give the President 2, maybe 3 pardons max and none exercisable in the last year of office. Or something. Geez, anything.
Because the infection of Fascism and White Christian Nationalism has too many others in power who were in a position to soften her judgement; or too many are still in denial and aren’t willing to mete out definitive judgements to stop things before they can go further.
The rot goes deep and is nowhere near to being rooted out, and the US legal system seems to be locked in ‘kid gloves’ mode in dealing with these people.
So much for ‘checks and balances’ hmm U.S.? Wow.
You can, but now it’s called “a big monitor and your own server with a personal media library”.
Wow, today is a banner day. Drumpf getting hammered for over $350M for realestate fraud, and now this.
It’s Friday night, I was already planning to down a few, but this makes it an occasion! :)
Hah, no – oops, will fix :) Thanks
Gee, no one could have predicted that AI might be dangerous if given access to nukes.
Yarrrr, mateys. Back to the Seas it is then!
Assistant (Home) has already gone to shit and it’s obvious they’re just cruising. I fully expect they announce within a year or two that all of our assistant devices are deprecated and brick them. 'Cuz that’s what Google does.
They removed all games AND custom 3rd-party apps. Just what, three stupid ‘games’ now – “Tell a joke”, “Crystal Ball” and “Tell me what any animal sounds like”.
And when I say “Hey Google, play the latest episode of blah-blah- podcast” it always responds “Here’s where you left off on blah-blah podcast…”
Like FFS, I said play the LATEST episode, not resume the previous episode I was playing. The workaround for this obvious, annoying and months-old bug is to instead say “Hey Google, play the <current month> <current day>-st episode of blah-blah podcast…” even if the “latest” episode was days ago. At least it plays the “latest” one.
Assistant is dying and they are obviously letting it die.
You mean West China right? :)
(I hear the Pooh Bear hates that)
Fine with me, I don’t need those :)
So surely there must be an easy way to cut/disconnect whatever antenna(s) are used for OnStar, LTE, Bluetooth etc. in modern cars? I know when I finally am forced to get a car with always-on systems I will be looking for ways to disable them.
I sincerely hope it turns out to be the case. I don’t pretend I haven’t torn out my hair on multiple occasions fighting with xorg.conf… that’s for sure.
Just being provocative for the lulz on a memepost, mostly :)
:) I’ll try it again, promise. I just didn’t have a good experience around two years ago. I do hear it’s much better now.
I’ll confess I’ve avoided systemd to this day however. Devuan/Funtoo are fine, and I don’t miss any of the supposed improvements systemd brings. So I’ll probably be rocking Wayland/open-rc or Wayland/sysv-init until I drop dead.
I’m starting to think Wayland is the systemd of desktop graphic environments. Might be amazing eventually, but pushed onto the community too soon by opinionated devs who have fallen victim to the second-system effect.
Mod me down, don’t care.
Edit: Woohoo, into the ground! Mod me down further, and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine :p
I don’t troll often, but when I do… it’s about Wayland and systemd. Nyah nyah.
Honestly if Wayland will work 100% on my next setup and apps appear as expected, I won’t give a damn what system I’m using.
My first thought too, with that thumbnail :)
Or, please consider Devuan as well, to ensure there are distros without hard dependencies on systemd, an expansive attempt to cement IBM/RedHat’s control over the direction of Linux through foundational changes to the init, filesystem, login, homedir, and other components…
Please don’t bother replying to change my mind… never gonna like systemd no matter what. If it works for you, fine. Some of us still find it wholly unnecessary.