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It's SUPER hard to use. I had to download an .iso from my distro's website, make a bootable USB drive, plug that into my computer and boot into it, answer a few questions and wait a few minutes, A FEW MINUTES... can you believe that??
And then It had the audacity to give me a super easy, working, private OS! Like what the fuck!
How bloody dare you make my life difficult. I was expecting to be TRACKED and EXPLOITED and BOMBARDED with ads all day.
Instead I get all this calm and happiness??
FFS!

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Tower Records was my cult. I miss that place the most.

Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)

A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...

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Sounds like a class action lawsuit waiting to happen.
Imagine that you pay for an ad free streaming service through your roku, like HBO for example. And now you have ads streaming over it?
People will sue for a way to disable it over ad free paid content.
Also, this will lead to way more pirating. People are sick of advertisements.

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My masculinity is so fragile I must have vroom vroom to let the world know how "manly" I am.
I really must you guys.
You guys, I'm sooper MANLY!

Threads is automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed (mastodon.social)

For anyone wondering if Threads and Facebook at large will be a fine neighbor in the space and compatible with other apps/services in the fediverse: they’re already automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed https://mastodon.social/@dansup/112126250737482807

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Oh damn! If the suckerburg empire is already censoring Pixelfed, wait until they find out about Loops.
Fakebook is not a social media site, it's a place to stalk and scam people, just like the other suckerburg tracking apps.

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Install a Linux Distro. Connect to external monitor, plug power into wall.
Use it for a dedicated torrenting machine or use it as a test machine for whatever you like. If you kill it, whatever.
Otherwise I would just take that SSD out and recycle the machine.

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I use my "smart" tv as a monitor to stream. It has never connected to the internet and it does not pester me.

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It's always nice to read good news.

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"Grunge cat will pop you!"

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Just an FYI, he actually wrote a book. You could buy it from Bronners for $2.00, not sure the cost now.

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That's not it. It's called "The Moral ABC I & II" by Dr Bronner himself, 98 pages 1997. You might need to email the company and see if they still sell it. Maybe they do an eBook version now.
It's interesting and crazy wild at the same time.

Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service

See title - very frustrating. There is no way to continue to use the TV without agreeing to the terms. I couldn't use different inputs, or even go to settings from the home screen and disconnect from the internet to disable their services. If I don't agree to their terms, then I don't get access to their new products. That...

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Not for a dumb tv but I own a newer Vizio. I actually use it as a huge desktop monitor through HDMI. The actual tv itself has never been connected to the internet. You could connect a streaming stick (roku, amazon, google) if you wanted to. I stream everything from the net. Vizio has a horrible "free" streaming tv service that tracks you. But you can still use the actual tv in other ways if you don't connect it to the net. It will act as a dumb tv.
Until we have a federal privacy law that allows us to opt out of being tracked on every device, you have to "work around" the problems.

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Agreed!

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It's larger than 6 olympic swimming pools and fits in my pants.

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Had you purchased a Samsung this never would have happened!!

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Here is some info about the decline of truth on google search.
https://bbbhltz.codeberg.page/blog/2024/02/seoshenanigans/

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All google products are spyware. Although technically they should be called "trackingware".

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Kool meme!

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Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.

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My next room will be in Suffer, Snowbonk, Stanky Bean and Testing!!! What a sexy room this will be.
Turdly tracks.
And I am so proud to see a color with my drag name on it, Clardic Fug!

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Just an FYI. I saw a program that had some of the big paint companies on it and I learned that, they all agreed to never reuse a paint color name, or each others names.
Apparently there is a master database that contains all the names. And that is why paint color names are so utterly weird.

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Me: "Do you carry panties?"
Shopkeeper: "They are on the bulletin board in the entrance."
Me: ???

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Wetlandia. Famous for it's seafood.

Teon ,
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Robot sex never ends well. :(

Teon ,
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Anal?

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We are Borg!

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Anytime you see the word "smart" in the name of the product, remember to mentally replace the word "smart" with "tracking".

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We already have Dickopedia elon, it's called twitter and YOU paid $44 billion for it.
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

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