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These guys are reverse engineering Skype now too. Really cool stuff. https://nina.chat/news/120500000101270/icq-now-in-open-alpha...

I only purchase Sony TVs, and I simply just connect an HTPC to them. If there are any smart features, I just choose not to accept the EULA and not to connect it to the Internet.

This is excellent news!

The Writing Tools are a gimmick, but the improvements to Siri on the iPhone 16 are great. I haven't used the visual intelligence yet, but I always thought Google Lens was cool, so …

Call me old fashioned but I'm fine with a few AAA batteries.

When I think cheap and works out of the box, Mac is the last thing on my mind.

It pretty much is. You will find that barely anyone actively uses XMPP, let alone anyone you know.

Plus them watching people through their cameras. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39067178

Yes.

Why is this legal? Who allows this? What do we do?

Dumbest shit I've read today. Nice job!

No, it hasn't. Never seen anything relatively nice from a Chinese company, even when it's another one of their piles of manure with a different name like OnePlus.

I'm completely OK with American brands making Americans their primary target again.

Clearly they have been just letting homelessness be an issue if they're able to pull all this as of recently to freely house random people for political brownie points.

Anything that uses slot machine styled reward mechanisms should be outlawed with our consumer protection laws. I support a TikTok ban only due to national security concerns, but th…

I live in central Alabama. Would take over 4 hours to walk or bike to get groceries. Not everyone lives in a huge city and the ones in Alabama are too dangerous to walk around in w…

We keep reusable bags in the car for every time we go to the grocery store. I think the entire country would only benefit from banning single-use plastic bags nationally, and I'm n…

I use a Pixel 5a with CalyxOS and do not have a Google account.

If you buy technology that treats you like a product and has a rape mentality because it's popular and easy, you don't deserve technology.

How did it even get in there in the first place?

WebTV actually had a really neat sound system. They were one of the first clients of Headspace Inc (later Beatnik) which was started by Thomas Dolby because he felt there was a lac…

Did you have anything to do with the track "as-dream"? That's my absolute favorite, it's a 20-something minute long ambient track.