My television sending me to prison wasn’t exactly the dystopic future I had imagined but it will do.

Same. Still like their support and community too. It’s not so far behind that I feel like it’s a compromise to the point where I can get it to do everything I want it to do. I’m paying for my open source preference and the support / community instead of the most modern fancy features. I want both, but I’d still choose the former especially when the latter seems to involve more and more privacy infringement.

Great move for those that don’t want to migrate, but I’d recommend just switching to Vivaldi if you like chromium browsers, librewolf if you are used to Firefox, and if you use edge you aren’t even reading this so whatever.

Edit: I guess if you can get this to work on a work computer where edge is your only browser option perhaps, that would be nice.

Is poopoo superior to peepee? Come back next week to find out!

And if you do care you can use Google voice (I know, I know, but not aware of a better alternative?) without a carrier.

Trust me, pc manufacturers and Comcast are imagining this.

They are built well. Used market historically not a whole lot better than retail. The pro has aged better than the original. Would not shy away from a used pro if the price were right

Not sure if prices ever dropped but I love my shield and shield pro. Very powerful / flexible but still can be easy to use. Some nice ad free launchers available.

Boy I miss when no meant no.

Sony has always been shit at supporting their TV line. I certainly don’t slthink this means things will get any worse per se. Maybe some hope for improvement.

Hate to break it to you but that is not what Amazon AI is.

Curious if you don’t mind explaining why? I can completely understamd not wanting Amazon Spyware in your home, but if you already have it and use it, what about this upgrade becomes a turnoff? Alexa was always a frustratingly dumb hands free AI. The upgrade seems like it should have happened a long time ago and at least brings a little bit more intelligence to the conversation and better natural language processing. I’m curious why people wouldn’t want that?

Here is a clue. Jensen Huang is a billionaire.

That’s a cool project thank you. Will check this out further

I just got a colonoscopy and the doc said she found some copilot in there

Deflock.me is absolutely depressing to see the amount of surveillance present.

Would be great to have a navigation app that could map routes that avoid or minimize the number of surveillance points.

Currently I just try to be diligent about marking any police or ice activity in waze but a FOSS option would be great.

Seems like this has some teeth at least. Elon usually doesn’t budge at these sorts of legislation changes but this cleary has him a little nervous at least.

Careful what you wish for. The silent ones can be worse.

My palms hurt just reading this.

Executing them effectively is extraordinarily difficult though. They are a gimmick in the sens most of the time they give a false sense of security. Trying to get the working in a way that allows kids to use devices effectively but blocks what you want them to block is a very hard line to walk. When you finally feel like you are close there’s a new app or something changes and it’s like you are starting all over again. Apple perhaps has the most usable and consistent ecosystem for this, but it’s still not all that good and the cost of the relative simplicity is a lack of granular control when you want it.

I’m not claiming to have the answer, but I can understand why people are scared and frustrated with the current state of parental controls.