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Same same

If they made a 1:1 easy to deploy Gnome-like template, I’d switch in an instant.

If a song isn’t recognized, a short digital fingerprint may be sent to Google to securely search the cloud. Background conversations and audio are never sent to Google.

And, of course, Google will honor this and any other setting, as always, right? Right?

Well, no shit.

I guess Sceptre Is the brand to go with then. Thanks.

In theory, with a usb-C hub that has an HDMI port you should be able to make do.

I’m buying 2 Sceptre TVs. That’s the only manufacturer that I’m aware of that still makes dumb 4K large panel TVs. 86" are all 2,500, 75" are 1,000 and they only drop from there.

If someone knows of another brand that’s still making TVs like this, I would really appreciate the info.

I get that, and it would be a fair assessment if it wasn’t because the real problem here is that parents are not parenting, plain and simple. This is yet another part of this that the social media and tech companies are using to their advantage. They get people hooked, that we agree on. Then they lobby for all this surveillance and forced identifications that uses… (Drumroll) companies owned by the same tech giants, in partnership with the other giants. Now they have made it illegal to not provide them with your data and identity, while removing many underage individuals from the equation. Win-win for them, as their liability drops, and now they can serve more ads directed at each individual, effectively increasing the price advertisers are willing to pay, increasing their revenue. There is absolutely no way to keep children out of any platform without full identification, its that simple. Then the same governments that are pushing this have access to all this data as well, which makes them basically all-knowing about every single person in the population.

There is no universe in which any of this is a good thing. Look at the whole picture, and it’s not the UL, it’s every country in the world doing this, at different levels, with varying level of success and oppression.

These are only some of the many reasons why I will never agree with something like this.

Right

Only to be told “your system is up to date” 🤣

I only use my Roku for…

Never mind, I got rid of that shit like 5 years ago.

We just use home Assistant. It works great.

Trackar is also a very good and lightweight option.

Funny how this is being imposed on the population at large, but the same politicians pushing it are exempt. So self-sacrificing that they will put their children and grandchildren in peril to protect ours. They’re heroes.

Another factor is making executives of those companies personally responsible for all the havoc they have created while only thinking of their profits. Do that, make the penalties tough enough, and the problem ia fixed.

Wao, you really believe this too, don’t you? Kids are smart enough to circumvent most barriers you put around them. No amount of government bullshit is going to keep them from doing something they are laser focused on doing. Now, parenting does have a chance to keep them from harm (a CHANCE) if the parents put on the effort and are raising their kids with values.

You have to be a special type of moron to believe tour own post, honestly.

Like when I smoke weed and my wife wants me to do the dishes? Yeah, that’s not happening while I’m high.

Yeah, I’ve heard some stuff over the vines lately, which is one of the many reasons why I use Firefox forks only. But for the ‘I only work in chrome’ bullshit sites (which are not that many as far as I’m aware), I just use Brave.

Thanks, your way of putting it does make much more sense.

We must be, “sadly”, 2 rare exceptions. My kid is still playing on the switch with no hope of getting the switch 2 until he is old enough to leave my house and buy it himself. Fortunately, he hates Nintendo’s bullshit behavior as well, and has been playing more on steam instead. And yes, I am brainwashing him against all the corpo crowd. Sue me.

Fair enough