MegaUltraChicken

MegaUltraChicken , 20 days ago

Oh Sony is all over it, here's one of the diagrams of their patent.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/975fc799-1aa1-432b-a2ee-fb0c179dafc7.png

MegaUltraChicken , 20 days ago

Yeah absolutely, here's the filing:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454?oq=8246454

MegaUltraChicken , 20 days ago

Honestly I think it's just a shit idea. Only way I could see it flying is if you heavily (or completely) subsidized the cost of the television. There's already a company giving away free ad supported TVs.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjxj_HNhtqGAxUcIjQIHX7BCiYQFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telly.com%2F&usg=AOvVaw0alFgFQTc-6Uz1bt-Q55d1&opi=89978449

MegaUltraChicken , 20 days ago

I mean, Telly is giving away TVs that have a camera and second screen to play ads. Sony might not think they could get away with it a decade ago, but consumers seem to slowly accept more bullshit over time so I could definitely see their calculus changing in the future.

MegaUltraChicken , 20 days ago

Yeah it's awful, I really hope they fail but I'm not entirely sure they will. Most people who sign up are probably pretty good advertising targets.

MegaUltraChicken , 1 month ago

Yeah I learned this lesson by starting with Smartthings and grew to hate the lack of reliability pretty quickly. Home Assistant and a raspberry pi has been significantly better.

MegaUltraChicken , 1 month ago

They didn't accidentally do shit. They ignored the consequences of their decisions for profit at the expense of everyone else. You don't get to make $100 billion dollars and feign ignorance about how you got it and the damage you caused to obtain it.

MegaUltraChicken , 1 month ago

I mean we see that with Sauron and Frodo in the films. It would appear that having the ring on your finger when severed does fuck all to help you out.

MegaUltraChicken , 2 months ago

not if we have anything to say about it

-Cats

MegaUltraChicken , 3 months ago

Just don't ask how they got all that corgi cum...

MegaUltraChicken , 3 months ago

The writing feels so close to Shitty_Morph from Reddit I was prepping myself to hear about The Undertaker and Mankind about halfway through.

MegaUltraChicken , 3 months ago

For example, if you have a Bluetooth xbox controller that's acting up you can use the Microsoft Xbox controller app to sort it out really easily/intuitively.

Just did that this week to get a new controller set up with my Steamdeck, works great.

MegaUltraChicken , 4 months ago

Pretty much all of history dealing with fascism disagrees with you. That alone justifies the concern. I haven't seen anyone say the world is a year or two away from unimaginable suffering or death. But there is a very clear path to unimaginable suffering or death in front of us. We've seen the path of fascism taken before. We know what happens. We have historical and academic research that backs it up that we can compare to today.

Saying (without any evidence) that people are overreacting sounds much more like a coping mechanism to me. People are saying "hey we should really check out this smoke billowing under the door" and you're telling everyone they're being silly because you can't see any fire.

MegaUltraChicken , 4 months ago

So what exactly are you disagreeing with? You just don't like their word choice? Because "Hey we should he careful or the extreme right will take over and dismantle our rights" is exactly what I get from OP. They specifically stated this is the beginning, it's happening slowly, and they feel they would be a target if we continue on the same trajectory. What's incorrect/hyperbolic here?

MegaUltraChicken , 4 months ago

I think the solution is for all the non assholes to work together to stamp out the assholes and remove them from having power. Incredibly difficult, but not impossible. It's the same class war that's been waged by the wealthy for decades. Theyve never stopped attacking, we just suck at working together and have allowed them to gain waaaay too much ground.

They're always going to be on the bus, but we can at least push them to the back where they can't fuck with where we want to go.

MegaUltraChicken , 4 months ago

I tried to convince my wife we should come up with a dope new last name for both of us to take but she wouldn't bite. "Mr and Mrs Bonesaw" sounded pretty cool to me...

MegaUltraChicken , 5 months ago

You wouldn't download a head injury.

MegaUltraChicken , 5 months ago

He's still a giant piece of fucking shit that can die in a house fire for all I care... Fuck. Stuart. Little.

MegaUltraChicken , 5 months ago

They did a lineup with the cashier too I believe. Just another example of eye witnesses being useless.

MegaUltraChicken , 5 months ago

My favorite thing about the pandemic: anonymous in public anytime I want.

MegaUltraChicken , 5 months ago

With most digital forensic tools thats exactly what they do. There's a specific threshold that gives a match probability. It's designed as a way to point someone in a direction, not to confirm identity.

I can totally see cops using this as probable cause but it would get totally laughed out of a courtroom.

MegaUltraChicken , 8 months ago

Just popping in as a former user to say Smartthings is fucking garbage. Use Home Assistant or any other self hosted solution. Don't waste your effort with Smartthings.