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WetBeardHairs ,

The assumption is that legitimate companies who sell software will sign it and that signature proves it came from that company who you trust because of their publicly known legitimacy. It's a bit of circular reasoning. But it does round back towards that legitimacy - if it is found that they violate your trust, they lose public trust and thus lose sales.

Luckily new OSes (cough NOT WINDOWS) are able to sandbox applications and prevent them from accessing resources without declaring the need to access it.

And as for the signing certificate, I think the MS Store will allow any signed app. They just offer the cheaper signing service.

WetBeardHairs ,

You could let people host their own as a method of scaling. But that limits it to geeks like us.

Use kubernetes and let it scale and pay for hosting on cdns.

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Those displays are not televisions - they are for menus at restaurants. They cost a fortune because they are low volume, high reliability devices that come with service contracts and repairable components.

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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Dang... mine is on 12.5.5 and the newest they support is 9.4.0

WetBeardHairs ,

Sounds like a good way to get a new tv and move away from roku. They're really piling on the ads lately and making their os really slow.

WetBeardHairs ,

The downside is those are meant to be ultrabright for viewing in a highly lit restaurant counter with a really slow refresh rate and they tend to cost thousands of dollars. They are simply not meant for use as a display for movies and games.

WetBeardHairs ,

HDMI CEC will let your other devices turn on the monitor and switch inputs as appropriate. You'll need some kind of AVR to play audio. Plenty of low cost, highly capable solutions out there like the WIIM Amp that lets you use multiple sources such as your PC or a dedicated streaming set top box.

WetBeardHairs , (edited )

Yeah, computer monitors are manufactured to a different spec than television displays at the pixel level. This is usually called chroma subsampling.

Computer monitors typically are 4:2:2 or 4:4:4 which gives nice crisp and legible fonts. Anything less than 4:4:2 gives me a headache (also Windows....).

Television displays are usually 4:2:0. That's fine for rendering large text that is visible across the room. But trying to edit a word document would be a terrible experience.

I believe they manufacture the television panels with fewer pixel address lines and that reduces the cost. Also, smart TVs sell ads and your usage patterns which are used to subsidize the cost of the tv.

That's why computer monitors are so much more expensive than televisions.

WetBeardHairs ,

There is no hardware reset switch and in order to perform a software reset you need to get to the menu and to do that, you have to agree to the terms.

WetBeardHairs ,

OK how do I go about getting Roku to refund me for my TVs? That sounds like an excellent approach to take.

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It just has an absolute ton of calculations to perform on hardware that is not made for it.

WetBeardHairs ,

It ran while simulating a distance of one chunk at a time. Computers could simulate much more because the game was written to let software define just how far from the user to render. Phones rendered hardly anything which let them at least play the game.

WetBeardHairs ,

Minecraft is deceptively hard on cpu and gpus for what the game appears to be. It looks simple, but that simplicity comes at the cost of very high computational loads due to how dynamic and interactive everything is. They add in new features pretty frequently for a game I bought 12 years ago. Those features aren't free and they stress the system even more. Be happy it is playable at all on a phone - it's nice that they added in tuning parameters to let your phone be capable of playing it instead of saying you need the newest RTX4090 just to get 30fps

DuckDuckGo Introduces E2EE Backup and Sync Feature on Browser (restoreprivacy.com)

The project announced today the introduction of a new feature called “Sync & Backup,” which allows users to import bookmarks, passwords, and personal settings from other browsers to DuckDuckGo. Moreover, it enables users to move that data from one device to another or restore it on a new device in case they lose their...

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Uhg it drives me nuts when I search for some obscure programming topic and then I get links to local restaurants. That's not what I was searching for!

WetBeardHairs ,

I buy the bulk pack of general purpose gift cards. Some have got flowers on the front. Others say Happy Birthday in gender neutral styling. They're all blank on the inside. I write messages to people. The pack of 20 cards costs about the same as two of those shitty pre-written gift cards.

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God damnit they're going to start making tiktoks into gift cards or some shit.

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Five guys will let you fuck your burger

This echos my last five guys in restaurant people watching experience.

WetBeardHairs ,

There was also the Scooby Doo episode of Supernatural. Maybe not as much of an adaptation as it was a crossover... but it was still great.

WetBeardHairs ,

Hear me out. They should've put someone's brain in a dog to make Scooby.

Why the everliving fuck they didn't do that when the big bad guy was cutting brains out of people is just beyond comprehension.

WetBeardHairs OP ,

My main concern is that cloudflare knows what content it is serving and it is certainly fingerprinting your browser. So regardless of how you request the data, cloudflare knows.

WetBeardHairs ,

That seems so... odd. It's like building a working computer out of tens of thousands of usb thumb drives.

WetBeardHairs ,

Yeah and if you do it enough times, the usb drives might assemble into grey goo.

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"Drone, please sort the following letters alphabetically 5 times in a row. AZBDFASDAA1AAAAAAAAAAA"

Invasion averted.

WetBeardHairs ,

They've taken over moderation too. I criticized a local restaurant that got passed down from father to son, and got banned. I did call the son a trump loving shitstain so that might've had something to do with it.

WetBeardHairs ,

They're also engineered with the assumption that there is nothing within a 6 in radius and it is kept in a 70F room. Those are assumptions that often aren't true and lead to them overheating all the dang time.

WetBeardHairs ,

time spiders. You don’t want to know.

They're really more crab-like than spider-like. If you bring a net back home from vacation, you can snag a few. They're delicious steamed with butter.

WetBeardHairs ,

"Oops I sent that goatse meme to my boss, not my friend" is not a fuckup I want to have. Segregation of apps is sometimes a virtue.

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