Yea that’s definitely possible. I completely agree. But some people just have like a stress cap, ya know? It can put you over. There are definitely multiple reasons why it could happen.

Kids can also completely ruin marriages. I know multiple people who have straight up told me “my marriage used to be great and then having kids ruined it.” Of course kids can also bring tons of happiness! But it’s not universal.

I thought you meant like all apps, ha. My bad. Yea there are def apps that you’d wanna use old versions for.

You update twice a year?? Enjoy your security vulnerabilities i guess.

Agreed, but to be fair, retail has been doing this for over like 10 years at least lol. It’s the most common with clothing shopping. It’s nothing new.

They are told to try to convince people to sign up. So they’re going to act manipulative in order to get you to. It’s just part of their job. Just keep refusing and don’t think much of it.

Thanks! Yea that’s super important information and this changes my opinion on that because I was thinking about cost.

Do you have a source for that? I’m genuinely curious. Because I thought about that a lot too and I would have assumed that it costs way more to keep someone alive, fed, and supervised for 50 years vs. a death penalty.

Yeah I’m worried about that too. Like Pihole can’t block youtube ads because they’re served from the same domain. Same with Twitch. So that could become even more common.

I have bad news for you. Literally every TV has ads now. Every. Single. One. That’s why I keep harping on Pihole. It blocks them.

I wouldn’t know. I use pihole to block all ads on my TV OS. I’m curious though, which service/app is giving you ads on pause? Do you mean like on a Roku TV where the screensaver is ads? Many TVs let you disable that (i.e. LG WebOS.) otherwise pihole is your friend :-)

AI is the buggest pile of dogshit to come out of tech in the history of the human race

Rooting (assume you meant this by jailbreak8ng) is not required for this process. Only some apps reauire root. Kodi and the youtube adfree apps don’t require root.

But you can just block all the ads on the home screen with pihole. Then you can still use the native TV apps. It’s a win-win.

If you turn off Internet access then your parents can’t stream.

This is untrue. You can use Jellyfin or Kodi natively on LG WebOS on the TV and stream whatever you want locally. You have to grab it from the homebrew channel or sideload it. It’s a little bit of a process though. Nothing crazy. But it works!

Edit: you can also get YouTube without ads off Homebrew.

Lemmy has some sort of slander campaign going against Signal. Can’t tell if it’s just misinformed idiots or a paid shill smear campaign being run here (likely the former, Lemmy is too small for companies to give a shit about.) It’s really annoying. Same with Mozilla and Firefox. Not sure Lemmy likes anything?

Fair point. I agree.

Is this a serious question? There is NO WAY to use Meta products privately. Private Meta is literally an oxymoron.

I’ve used govee stuff before and it absolutely did NOT require an account. Just the app. Are you sure you have that right?

You can’t do anything besides the usual precautions. I get a notice of a data breach in the mail like every 3 weeks from companies who got hacked. It’s fucking ridiculous. My social security number has probably been leaked like 900 times. All of ours has

All you can do is:

• change passwords
• use good passwords
• check your accounts frequently
• freeze your credit
• use 2FA with literally anything and everything
• try to limit the number of one off accounts you have to create (hard to do when every fucking thing requires a fucking account, i.e. PSN account to play fucking Sony SINGLE PLAYER GAMES on Steam)
• cross your fingers