Know_not_Scotty_does
@Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 day ago:
I bought one of these from Flirc but never used it.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 day ago:
A totally valid option I had not considered. Imo, the solution needs to be controlled by a standard remote. I tried for a couple years to get my family to use a media pc that used a media keyboard and no one would touch it. I turned it into a server and streamed to emby and now they will use it but only after I showed them it works even when the internet is down.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 day ago:
No doubt. The market is shriveling up for people who want a new tv that isn’t garbo. Outside of commercial displays which are like 3-4x as expensive and have lower image quality, I don’t know of anyone making dumb tvs in a 55" plus size. Yes, you can opt not to hook them up to the internet but in a house with non-tech people, its a huge hassle to get them to want to use anything other than the built in apps. Even diy set top boxes running on a pi or shield are not as user friendly for kids or grandparents.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 day ago:
I basically left it vanilla after switching the launcher and borking the updates. We use emby for our home streaming but I am always looking for extra functionality
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 day ago:
I will 100% jump over to it if that does turn into a thing
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 day ago:
Oh cool, I’ll have to checkout those other tools!
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 day ago:
I have a HiSense TV and use ADB AppControl to disable/remove the telemetry or forced updates, and Projectivy Launcher to get a home screen/launcher that doesn’t show adds. Both are free and work really well. I don’t see trash on my homescreen anymore.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Counterpoint: I bought one and its very nice hardware, its new so (hopefully) it will last a while, supports native hdmi, and supports wireless controllers out of the box. I paired it with an everdrive x7 and the 8bitdo controllers so the entire package is new and works like a modern console.
I sold my og n64 in like 2000 so re-aquiring that setup would have cost me nearly as much and would have been time consuming to modify to what I wanted.
Yes, it isn’t original hardware so if you care about the experience of the power switch clicking on or some other tactile quality of the original, it isn’t that. For me, the games are the memories I wanted and this was simpler and works better than an emulator (I tried a bunch of them and never got them where I could tell my kid to just go play and have him be successful at finding the emu, picking a game, using the controller on his own).
- Comment on American Foreign Policy 1 week ago:
The absolute betrayal there was amazing.
- Comment on American Foreign Policy 1 week ago:
Its worth a listen, season 4 just started but you should start at the beginning.
- Comment on American Foreign Policy 1 week ago:
They did for a while, I was going to buy one for self defence but didn’t want to have to explain it to everyone on the news.
- Comment on American Foreign Policy 2 weeks ago:
Its the penetrator from Saints Row
- Comment on American Foreign Policy 2 weeks ago:
Anthony (Ghandi/the brother) has a D&D podcast called Dungeons and Daddies (not a bdsm podcast) that is also excellent.
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 3 weeks ago:
Careful, thats region dependent. You’re likely to get attacked if you add beans to chili in some parts.
- Comment on What else can we do with sugar (sucrose)? 3 weeks ago:
Iirc, that is one of the major ways that Brazil produces bio-ethanol, a lot of it was from the waste products too. It’s been a while but I think the energy density vs ag production cost is also higher vs corn. You can then used the remnants from that for biomass pellet production for essentially full cycle use. You get the sugar, ethanol, then either fertilizer/biochar or biomass pellets for energry production.
- Comment on OpenClaw developer is moving to OpenAI 3 weeks ago:
For context, there is a BUNCH of potential issues with OpenClaw. This recently happened and then ARS used fake ai quotes of the author when publishing an article about it.
- Comment on What do you recommend I carry in my first wallet? 4 weeks ago:
Make sure you get a good one with multiple fold out compartments too, maximum leather. Bonus if it’s ostrich skin or crock skin to really bulk up the wallet.
- Comment on Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So 4 weeks ago:
It really depends though, if you want to do analog in or out, relay control, or use existing hats, you are bought/forced into the ecosystem. If you are just using it as a small computer, yeah roll with whatever. To me, it’s always occupied the void between an arduino and a sffpc or when I wanted to do compute and analog/digital control on something.
- Comment on I've colored jenga pieces to play uno stacko. House rules for extra blocks? 4 weeks ago:
Thanks! It was a new build so I did the finish work on it after doing a “dry” build first to make sure the fit was okay with the parts. Then I dyed it, sprayed poly, and assembled it again.
- Comment on I've colored jenga pieces to play uno stacko. House rules for extra blocks? 5 weeks ago:
I did a greenburst. I think that I used 3 different greens to get there but its been a few years now. I wish I could have gotten the poly flatter on it but its good enough for a first try.
The tutorial I followed was from BigDGuitars on youtube.
- Comment on I've colored jenga pieces to play uno stacko. House rules for extra blocks? 5 weeks ago:
Fyi, if you ever want to tint wood like that again, leather dye works REALLY well. I used the Angelus stuff on my guitar and its treally nice to work with.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 5 weeks ago:
Good Eats radicalized me too. Not for plex but for cooking.
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 1 month ago:
I had an 8350 machine with 32gb of ram when if was in season and while it never really left me short of power, the intel 4770k and 4790k were better performers. That may not be the case anymore with stuff being more multi-core optimized but at the time, the intel single core performance was so much better than the 8350s which made a bid difference in gaming.
My old rig was an 8350 overclocked to 4.5 on liquid, crossfired 3gb 7950hd’s, and 32gb of matched corsair dominator ddr3 all in a corsair 230t chassis with the bright orange paint and led fans.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 1 month ago:
The danger of most things that explode, goes away once they explode.
- Comment on Kids would encourage parents to get gas here so they could see the dinosaurs 1 month ago:
It also doesn’t really matter, those gas stations still exist in Colorado and they still have the big fiberglass dinosaurs hanging out. That picture could have been taken recently and still been roughly the same.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I hereby grant you the rank of Jody.
- Comment on Modded Consoles saved my retro gaming experience... 2 months ago:
Which version of thd slim do you have? I’m fine with a hardmod of it means I can just leave it alone. I just want to run games off the hdd. I don’t really care about anything else.
- Comment on Modded Consoles saved my retro gaming experience... 2 months ago:
What did you use on your 360? I am about to install project stellar on my og xbox and was looking for something similar for the 360.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You should check comment history before making accusations like that, otherwise you look uninformed.
- Comment on Protein bar 2 months ago:
60mph, no hands on the wheel, no eyes on the road, but they are right about the cheese.
