pickleprattle

@pickleprattle@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You aren’t wrong, that’s all true. But also there are a lot of reasons to want to “free your TV”. The literal answer is that rooting your TV is difficult or impossible depending on the brand, and the technically true answer is that you can at least get away from the horrible manipulative interface pushed on you by the manufacturer without doing anything difficult. Better than nothing, IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why has no one mentioned Projectivy?

  It’s a regular app, doesn’t require root (though it benefits from it). It’s free unless you want complicated parental controls (I pay for it but otherwise have no relation to it).

  I have a Bravia TV, and with it I no longer have ads, I can change exactly what apps show up, including hiding Sony apps, and can totally customize the whole window.

  Finding it was a huge relief for me, as there’s no point setting up parental controls for a small child when ads showing horror products show up anyway.

  Hope that helps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Make sure it has friendly words on the front line Don’t Panic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The return of pneumatic tubes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… Bank drive thru, too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One of capitalisms biggest tragedies⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s ironic that capitalism is missing out on more efficient workers who could maximize production and profit because of this. Who knows where we would be if we actually helped people pursue their goals regardless of current income?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First game you played⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jump Man, Space Taxi, and Ghostbusters on Commodore 64. I was using that version of the Ghostbusters song as my ringtone for years, back when I got phone calls ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's humanoid warehouse robots will eventually cost only $3 per hour to operate. That won't calm workers' fears of being replaced.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering how each generation of Boston Dynamics robots becomes more and more graceful, I don’t see how the problems you suggested won’t be non-issues incredibly fast.

  Also, unrelated to your comment, people are delusional if they don’t think this is the ultimate goal, right? Amazon’s reassurances are bunk - if they could eliminate people they would, they just can’t do without them yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sunbird worked - I was in the beta - but it turned out to have no encryption whatsoever. I am skeptical.