You’re not wrong but people are fucking dumb. It just means we’re all going to get kicked in the nuts now while my ass is still hurting.

That might be true but voting in fascists (who will make every single one of the problems worse) was the rational response?

Come to California. We have the best tacos and xlb.

Do better? Hahaha. It’s cute that you think we have a chance to do better. That opportunity was this time and we (doesn’t really matter who the we refers to) blew it. They’re not gonna let us do anything; there is no more next time.

Wtf you have to login to use notepad now? Wtf???

My BIL is a Google engineer and he gave me (an iPhone user) a pixel 8 pro to test drive for feedback. The hardware is pretty darn solid and felt good in my hands and to my eyes. I really liked that it had both a fingerprint sensor and a facial recognition system to unlock. This made contactless payment a lot easier to use than an iPhone in my opinion. In general, the software is not as polished as iOS, but is more customizable and you can side load apps from alternate app stores like f droid, which is great. The killer feature as far as I am concerned is Firefox with uBlock.

Some people like the Apple ecosystem.

Dude, a conservative headcount for COVID deaths in the US is a million.

I mean, even if they “reach” you doesn’t mean you have to pick up the phone or respond to texts. As a matter of policy I don’t answer calls from numbers not in my contacts. If it’s important they’ll leave a voicemail.

There is a Mythbusters episode on this. Rose literally and figuratively fucked Jack.

https://youtu.be/IPDxtclZzVU?si=73q9yJst9eaD8_wM

A basketful of deplorables, as it were.

In fact, forget the EV!

You could set up a dummy LAN with no internet access for the tv. Unless it actually has more than one network card, it would need to be able to have the ability to virtualize network interfaces to connect elsewhere, and I really doubt these TVs are that smart.

I have the Ubiquiti Edgerouter X. I got it mostly because at the time it was on sale 😂 but it seems to have decent support. Note that you will have to get a wireless AP as the Edgerouter is a pure router without WiFi function. Lots of people also like Mikrotik products.

pi-hole ftw. the vast majority of my pi-hole’s DNS drops are from various Roku and Roku-like devices. Also, put all your IoT stuff onto a guest network, or if your gear supports it, on its own VLAN.

Their goal is not to be logically consistent. Their goal is to make you subservient.

Linux runs great on Intel iMacs. Just sayin’.

That’s true but Grandpa Joe is maybe a step too far

dude why do you hate David Spade? Fuck Grandpa Joe

Jealous that you’ve seen them in the wild!