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- Comment on Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage 8 months ago:
It’s been a bit for me, but I used to run either Gentoo or Arch.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage 8 months ago:
I’m still on Win10, but the second I see yet another ad on my pro license, I’m wiping the drive. As long as I have some kind of choice, I will not run hostile operating systems on my own hardware.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 8 months ago:
Oh, absolutely. It’s just a bit big for my pockets is all.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 8 months ago:
This is such a great point. If ChatGPT suddenly started manufacturing cars, would you consider purchasing one? I would not consider buying a car from a company that doesn’t consider itself a car manufacturer. It would be like considering buying a Fisher Price phone when looking for your next cell phone.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 8 months ago:
There’s a ton of software running on these chargers, right? They need to handle financial transactions, metadata, etc. What happens when something requires maintenance in a month/week/day?
- Comment on FCC Imposes Nearly $200 Million in Fines on US Wireless Carriers (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon) for Illegal Location Data Sharing 8 months ago:
The government just tryna get it’s money back from buying the data from them first.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Devaluation = Inflation, right? This sounds like a terrible idea.
- Comment on Telecoms To Get $45 Billion In Taxpayer Broadband Subsidies, But Are Whining Because They Might Have To Deliver Affordable Broadband To A Few Poor People 9 months ago:
It worked out so well last time, it’s like sunk-cost fallacy at this point. Might as well be a Nigerian scammer.
- Comment on Tesla stops cybertruck deliveries—accelerator pedal may be to blame 9 months ago:
So…potentially unreliable, potentially unsafe, inefficient, expensive, bad quality control, bad customer support, and buying one supports a complete baby man to try to continue to mess with our country’s politics. What are the benefits of buying one of these again?
The 4/20 restart date makes sense for a start-up company that needs to grab headlines, but that isn’t Tesla any more. They are an established company in the industry now - it’s time for the company to act professional.
- Comment on Humane AI Pin review: not even close 9 months ago:
Interesting tech, but I can’t imagine trying to spend my entire day working with a dysfunctional equivalent of a Siri assistant. It can’t even set timers, what a strange feature omission.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 9 months ago:
Appreciate the response, but I will stick to my non-criminal protest against the ad industry.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 9 months ago:
That only works while this is still a niche use case. Just wait until they find out how many more places they can shove ads while we are forced to stand/sit somewhere for 20 minutes!
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 9 months ago:
I really can’t afford to commit a crime by damaging the pumps, but if I found a way to temporarily disable them I’d be all for it.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 9 months ago:
Custom DNS probably explains how the fucking thing throws a pop-up display informing me that I can watch the movie I’m watching using their Roku app instead if I want to. I was wondering how it knew the name of the movies I have been watching, lol. I will probably just go and reset my WiFi password on my router and 50+ devices, or rip the WiFi antenna out of the TV, not sure which yet.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 9 months ago:
I’ve tried pressing every button at every pump I’ve used in my area and this trick doesn’t work. I want to epoxy the speakers and screen and glitter-bomb the entire thing.
I won’t. But I want to.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 9 months ago:
Ugh. Both of these exist already:
www.adquick.com/media/transit/train
simpleflying.com/inflight-advertising/
Sigh. They also have them in the rain:
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 9 months ago:
I already have Pi-hole with a bunch of additional lists to be blocked. I also cancelled all streaming services that service ads, and I use Adblock. I still see ads occasionally. What do you suggest for dedicated ad-blocking hardware?
Also, I don’t know what to do about the environmental ads.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 9 months ago:
Is there an anti-ad community on Lemmy? Or another non-Lemmy place to work through blocking/avoiding this bullshit? I’m so fed up with the advertisement industry. I don’t want ads on my devices. I don’t want ads in my operating systems. I don’t want ads in my content. I don’t want ads in the sky. I don’t want ads in the ocean. I don’t want to be forced to see or hear ads while putting gas in my car.
I really can’t emphasis how much I am willing through to rid my life completely of advertisements.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 9 months ago:
I blocked my TV from using WiFi, but there have been times I have need to unblock it (like using AirPlay or Google Cast), so it gets updates occasionally. I’m open to throwing my TV straight to the dump and buying another TV to avoid this at all costs.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Nearly all auto companies were found to collect data, not just GM. They are probably all selling that data.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
15 years on Reddit before leaving. It was the only social media platform where I actually felt leadership personally hated its users.
- Comment on Roku got hacked 10 months ago:
Huh. It kind of puts that very recent mandatory arbitration agreement into question, doesn’t it?
- Comment on Check Out The First Images From The Live-Action Borderlands Movie 11 months ago:
Why do they look so clean? The BL universe is gritty, and they look like they are ready to step onto a catwalk.
- Comment on Spotify just changed TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks 11 months ago:
I wonder how many of these policies are being created in companies privacy policies not because of AI, but because it gives a “reason” to allow collection of all user data?
- Comment on Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” 11 months ago:
All of the purchases are through a few other vendors, not from MA directly, they just link back to that service.
- Comment on Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” 11 months ago:
I went full digital years ago because I saw the writing on the wall for physical releases. I knew damn well that this was a possibility, but if they ever take my library from Movies Anywhere, I’ll be the first to grab a torch and pitchfork.
- Comment on Disney Plus begins crackdown against password sharing 11 months ago:
Whaaat? 2 weeks per year? It wouldn’t have affected me, but how would traveling customers keep watching legitimately?
- Comment on Disney Plus begins crackdown against password sharing 11 months ago:
Wait…How does Netflix treat it if someone travels for a week? I thought you only had to “check-in” at the “home” location every 30 days or something like that.
- Comment on Disney Plus begins crackdown against password sharing 11 months ago:
I don’t use Hulu live TV, so I don’t know if the local channels are mapped correctly. They should be, as the geo IP for our address is in the correct county.
- Comment on Disney Plus begins crackdown against password sharing 11 months ago:
It doesn’t seem to be based on geolocation from what I can tell. My subnet hasn’t changed in a few years, just the last octet of my IP address. The geolocation when looked up has remained the same the entire time. If my IP address changes from x.x.x.23 to x.x.x.24, they consider it a “home location change”.