Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 5 days ago
Haha. Are people even supprised? I mean come on.
The best thing you can do, is just DIY your own display with a microcontroller and have some fun in building it. Maybe run Linux on it and voila.
alphabethunter@lemmy.world 5 days ago
While we still have that option… I’d bet money that the second when most people start deciding to DIY their own home tech, they’ll lobby these techs as unsafe and dangerous and potentially ban their use outright, or require special licenses and degrees.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Whatever accelerates us getting off our asses and seizing the means of production quicker I’m all for. Take the TVs, I fucking dare ya
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
They have a strong foundation in the DRM built into HDMI. I suspect this is exactly the real reason it is there.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 5 days ago
F*K the HDMI forum. Those people are the cause I can not run 4k 120Hz TV on HTPC using AMD video kernel drivers on Linux. Because these drivers are open-source and the HDMI folks do not want this support in the open source drivers.. FK them hard.
derry@midwest.social 5 days ago
Cool, I have a degree and multiple technology certifications. Happy to help people with tech that pulls them out of oligarchs fiefdoms.