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In a word: lobbying.
Corruption. FTFY.
From the Department of Redundancy Department.
Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition
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Tasks versus goals, same as always. It's exactly the same as the question of why it was once recommended to carry a rifle for safety when traveling from St. Louis to Portland, and now it's recommended you leave it at home. The goal was always to make corporations money. The task necessary to accomplish this goal just happened to flip.
Wait who would recommend making that journey unarmed today?
Anyone who would prefer that there be fewer armed jackasses in our midsts.
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#633I'm getting ready to go full Battlestar Galactica in all of my appliances. It's now difficult to find high end washers and ovens without these features. At least right now we can choose not to connect the devices, but what happens if iot LTE connections get cheap enough that the choice is removed altogether, like with Tesla and other high end modern cars? I don't think I'm just being a Luddite. This really seems like…
> It's now difficult to find high end washers and ovens without these features.
Look for quality antique appliances. They also look better and likely are better for the environment than buying new.
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I’m sure the antennae will be impossible to physically disconnect as well. I really hoped we’d never get to Fahrenheit 451 but the wall to wall TVs that watch you are pretty close at hand.
One terrible but effective solution is to turn your home into a Faraday cage.
I'd like for just one of these people offering the "solution" of turning our homes into faraday cages to show us that they've actually done this with their homes.
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#635Few reasons why I prefer dumb TVs, just a flat LED panel: 1. You have control over bullshit like this 2. You can make them smart by attaching the external box 3. You don't have to throw the TV because your Software is now old, just change the box. 4. There's new format which requires hardware support (av1 is coming), change the box. 5. Want to add new hardware? Upgrade the box.
https://ironcast.tv maybe? I want to buy a new TV in the next few weeks and I'm really tempted, but worried about this being a Kickstarter project and the display quality not being up to par.
I guess their clean design philosophy bleeds into their website by making it devoid of useful information.
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I had an S5 too, and actually still have it in case I ever need a backup (e.g. last week when _my_ Pixel started getting caught in an infinite boot loop!) Though I hadn't noticed the S5 being destroyed by software updates - the only reason I stopped using it is because they stopped updating it and it was locked from custom ROMs, which was a sad conclusion because it had still decent hardware. Could you elaborate on t…
My personal S5 experience leads me to believe that there was some trickery afoot from Samsung's end. When I realised that my S5 was starting to get a little bit dodgy (having owned it from April 2011 until around December 2018) I went and bought 8 of them. Surprisingly, they were still available for purchase on the Samsung website over 7 years after they were originally released, although they quickly ran out of stoc…
I had the same happen on my Nexus 7, after aggressively disabling apps, including things like the Google app.
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#637Interesting. So say a couple likes to take nude photos . . . Samsung reserves the right to collect and use those photos if you store them on "your" tv. So you decide that you won't store them there to be "safe", but Samsung can take a screenshot of them anyway?
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Infinite expansion with finite resources. What could go wrong?
"We'll have it figured out before we run out of resources" - every generation, forever
And even intelligent people respond to that problem with, well we've always managed to have unbridled growth before, as if there are no absolute physical limits in the World.
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#639Who offers a non-abusive tv?
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#640Earlier quoted context omitted.
Automatics are still too dumb to keep the clutch engaged while braking. Officially automatics and manuals are a wash for mileage, but I think driving style can make manuals the winner. All that kinetic energy getting dissipated by brakes instead of turning the engine and all of its accessories in autos. I’m quite surprised auto manufacturers haven’t implemented engine braking for émissions, reducing brake wear, and q…
> but I think driving style can make manuals the winner. Everything you can do, a machine can do better.
If that was true, you wouldn't be behind the wheel at all.
The transmission can't see the road ahead and prepare in advance.