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Aasikki

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Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)

Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.  ...

Aasikki ,

And those have taken over all the damn tv remotes. I designed and 3D printed a replacement faceplate for my Samsung tv's remote that hides them, out of retaliation (they were in a spot where I accidentally hit the netflix button when trying to pause what I was watching, which was annoying af).

Aasikki ,

I have been screwed a time or two, but honestly, most of the time I've had a pretty good experience dealing with Chinese sellers. Of course that's partly because I choose who I buy from carefully, as yeah there are a lot of scanners out there. I've also been scammed by local people and I think it's important to not immediately judge people based on where they are from.

I'm pretty sure the reason there are so many scammers in china, is because of the amount of poor and desperate people there, and the fact that the situation has been like that for so long, is the reason it seems to have now been ingrained in their culture. There's a huge amount of scammers in other poor countries like india as well.

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Any docker solution to control smart light bulb?

I own a couple TP-Link Tapo Wi-fi light bulbs. Currently, each family member installs an app on the phone to control the light bulbs. I wonder if there's a way to do the same but in a browser (via docker app on my NAS). And because we may use smart devices of other brands in the future, it seems too much trouble to install yet...

Aasikki ,

I started on home assistant with just a couple Smart bulbs and oh boy has it gotten out of hand since then lol. Home bridge sounds good if that's all that's needed though.

Aasikki ,

Not to speak of the battery life that hasn't improved at all.

Aasikki ,

I thought MacOS barely does any legacy support because apple isn't afraid to cut support for old stuff unlike Microsoft.

Aasikki ,

As someone who has sometimes watched wan show etc, it's actually quite obvious that he actually knows quite a lot. The problem is that their channel covers so many topics that it's almost impossible for one single person to have in-depth knowledge about all of them. Hence they have a writing team and Linus is more often than not, just a host.

None of that is an excuse for the issues in their videos for sure, but as long as they realize the problem and work to fix it, it's all good imo and their recent releases schedule is a good indicator that they have taken it quite seriously, as they no longer force themselves to upload daily.

I also quite like a few of their writers, they also host and those are often the most fun videos to watch these days.

Aasikki ,

Also lots of those "upgrades" are things that wouldn't have happened at all, if it weren't for a video. And seeing how much fun the workers have in those videos, I find it quite unlikely that they feel insulted doing them.

Also, did we forget that the ultimate tech upgrade is a thing? The series where the workers get quite beefy upgrades to their very own homes, and it's not even limited to pc's. Linus even personally painted at least a couple of the workers walls lol, so I'm pretty sure "the workers being held as peasants" is quite far from the truth.

Aasikki ,

And the workers make just as much fun of Linus, if not even more. It's not a one way street, and it's clear that Linus only does it when he knows the other person will also find it funny. It's nothing more but humorical banter between people that know each other quite well.

Aasikki ,

It's not that deep bro.

Aasikki ,

That might be the worst video of them all to be mad at. Absolutely no harm done and everyone was clearly having lots of fun, the store owner included. There are videos with actual issues but this ain't it chief.

Aasikki ,

He definitely has life-changing amounts of mine for sure. But it's definitely good if he puts effort into teaching his children not to take it for granted and be nice to other people. From the videos his kids appear in, they seem very well mannered.

Aasikki ,

The whole point imo was supposed to be to test linux from a point of view of a regular user, and that while surely a bit extreme, isn't too far from what might happen when a newbie stumbles on an issue (which may or may not happen depending on luck).

Then again he did test it on uhh, quite interesting hardware that's almost guaranteed to have issues. Maybe it would have been more fair for him to switch to a more conventional desktop for the duration of the experiment.

I didn't really see that affecting the market share of Linux much either way. Luke who has a normal desktop also had his fair share of more minor issues and so did I when I ran fedora for a bit over half a year on my desktop last year ago, as a similar experiment. What has and will affect the market share, positively too, is the steam deck, which Linus is also a big fan of.

I still use linux a lot in my daily life even if not on my desktop, my home server runs on TrueNAS scale and I have a couple projects running on raspberry pi's (more probably coming). But for desktop use, I'll let it cook for a couple more years before giving it another try. Running Linux on my desktop is absolutely my dream and end goal, but unfortunately it still has too many issues specifically for my (actually very broad) use case of video editing, Photo editing, 3D modeling, graphics design, gaming and more. If it was only one of those uses, I'd be able to fairly easily come by with solutions, but when it's all of them combined, it adds up and becomes a real chore, unfortunately.

Aasikki ,

I meant as a regular computer user who's new to Linux. Like most of them would be.

Aasikki ,

More cleanup

Aasikki ,

The US is also a third world country just like china.

Aasikki ,

The problem is that Firefox desperately needs more users and even those who use the WebKit version are better than nothing. The WebKit version at least gets the name of Firefox out there.

Aasikki ,

Fair point. Honestly had no idea as I've never owned any apple devices myself, but yeah that sucks and I'd probably also reluctantly stick to Safari in that case.

Aasikki ,

I love gnome overall and it's my favorite de, but the missing features and extensions being almost mandatory for basic functions definitely are a pain.

Extensions are cool but the basics should be built in.

Aasikki ,

Inkjet printers as a whole are a bad investment.

Aasikki ,

Well if you print lots of photos then maybe but that's about it.

Aasikki ,

I kinda agree about the photos, but when printing documents, it's almost always something I need immediately. Going to the library is quite inconvenient.

I bought a used brother laser printer for 15€ and got two 1000 page toner Cartridges for it for 20€. That's quite a lot of printing for 35€ total and that will be enough for years with my needs. Definitely worth the convenience imo.

Aasikki ,

If someone owns a house, they kinda have to own at the very least some land around it. I just don't really see any other way for that to work. Would be interesting to hear how that could work otherwise.

Aasikki ,

I've been using the intermet since 2003

Then you should remember this:
https://youtu.be/48rz8udZBmQ?si=81BQVmYGYRhpPCsw

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