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by 3RTB297 9d ago
I usually go for Samsung TVs, but same, I never give it network access. I use a Fire Stick that gets its power from the TV's USB port. Best as I can tell, turning off the TV turns off power to the Fire Stick.
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by 3RTB297 9d ago
I would be willing to bet the TV's demo mode used by most box box retailers disables that by default, specifically to avoid such an issue.
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by 3RTB297 9d ago
Also noticeable as the first buildings show up - each one isolated and miles from anyone else? Generally not how human habitation clusters up, even if it was all farms to start.
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by 3RTB297 10d ago
A lot of government software moved into some cloud-based, browser-accessible platform during COVID. It depends on the office and the government, but especially with how easily a vendor can modernize legacy software with an LLM, this isn&#x2
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by 3RTB297 10d ago
Office is very much not a problem. LibreOffice has UI plugins that arrange everything in a standard Office pre-365 layout. I've been using it for years and I can't recall a single time I've ran into any issues. I think Excel
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by 3RTB297 10d ago
Came here to mention Max Miller as well. Amazing work putting together historical context and recipes. Always fun, fascinating, and the recipes are generally very approachable. I've also made the Babylonian stew from this recipe, and i
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by 3RTB297 15d ago
From the article, it's some national-chain hotels, car rentals, casinos, dispensaries, and a couple maybes like if you bought alcohol at Target and they scanned your ID or sent something via FedEx that required an ID scan. Your ID migh
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by 3RTB297 15d ago
He speaks with all the conviction of a classic "Fire and Brimstone" preacher. Someone for whom the only metric is stirring emotion, not accuracy of statement.
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by 3RTB297 24d ago
It really can't be understated how many non-profits operate on a shoestring budget and over-extend that few staff they can afford as a standard operating procedure, and have very low technical skill among everyone as they're missi
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by 3RTB297 1mo ago
As much as the original author bemoans having to do the labeling themselves, 99% of people don't care or don't have such a mix of cables as to make it a challenge to find one to suit the task. If you care, then care enough to do s
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by 3RTB297 1mo ago
Banks are only a part of the larger issue. Imagine traveling somewhere, and run through the things you'll need to work without tinkering. Camera, eSIM, GPS/maps, more "exotic" messaging apps that for some reason people u
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by 3RTB297 1mo ago
As an alternative to actually talking for them and being near them, maaaaaybe. Though, at that point you're introducing trust to something that attackers might learn to emulate enough to make it part of the scam one day. The solution i
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by 3RTB297 1mo ago
Honestly, not really. The problem is that often the scams are symptoms of a larger problem. The elderly still want autonomy, and the scams adapt and change faster than education can get most of the elderly caught up to the risks. That'
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by 3RTB297 2mo ago
You can easily selfhost a redlib instance and keep reading. I stopped logging in to reddit a year or two ago, but there's still a couple niche communities that are worth it for me to read. Meanwhile, I'm back to a half dozen inter
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by 3RTB297 2mo ago
My issue is that they're touted to the consumer as secure, and they're not really doing much more than a complex password. How do you generate a new key if you need one? Same process as a password reset. Does it prevent session st
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by 3RTB297 3mo ago
Thanks for making this privacy-forward. I had been using Heliboard and then a kludge to get another language they don't support via Simple keyboard. It worked well as a workaround, and then an update last week broke my workaround. Futo
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by 3RTB297 3mo ago
It does, actually. Do a loop around the doubled letter. It's a common swipe gesture on most keyboards, IIRC, for at least a decade. Not sure why it's hardly ever mentioned. iphones only got it a few years ago. So for feel, you sta
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by 3RTB297 3mo ago
Unless you've had fraud committed against you, that's a hard sell. What dollar figure do you use as the basis? Are you suing for years of credit monitoring? Because that's typically the solution for people who are the victims
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by 3RTB297 3mo ago
Having worked with telco companies, 99% of it is "Yeah, but this stuff still works just fine;) And if a government compels us to change our equipment for reasons other than national security, we're going to pitch a fit and demand
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by 3RTB297 4mo ago
The most amazing part of Blue Zones, IMO, is the staying power of a few mythological health Shangri-La places. Debunked or not, people will repeat this idea for a generation or two until, ironically, anyone that's read the book has shu
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by 3RTB297 4mo ago
At some point we all have to remember that the monitor showing these commands is also an actor, and not actually a computer hooked up to a special laser that scans your body, destroys it, and pulls you into a 1980's era computer still
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by 3RTB297 4mo ago
I imagine people won't like the comparison, but this is exactly how changes in leadership work for developing countries. Anyone tied to the old regime that isn't immediately, obviously, and hugely beneficial to the top of the ne
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by 3RTB297 4mo ago
For a while CBS refused to put Northern Exposure on streaming platforms due to the rights needed for all the songs that appeared both in the soundtrack and just in the background on KBHR. I ordered the DVD box set during COVID, later sent i
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by 3RTB297 4mo ago
Having done data broker opt-outs manually using the Big Ass Data Broker Opt Out List ( https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li... ), very little of the process can be automated. Intentionally. A few
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by 3RTB297 4mo ago
That's the point of the comment, humans do things all the time that aren't part of some larger cultural-ritual-religious aspect. We spend a lot of time and resources doing things that seem cool at the time and only seem cool to a
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by 3RTB297 4mo ago
Had a similar problem in 2013. Fitness tracker showed my partner and I woke up at exactly 4:00am every day. Barely audible TV from neighbor through a shared wall the source. Literally 5 minutes of online search and a white noise app solved
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by 3RTB297 5mo ago
It goes much deeper than that. The John Deere ecosystem is designed to trap farmers using a combination of the closed ecosystem and financing. They've been at it for years, selling precision agriculture advances as the thing that will
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by 3RTB297 5mo ago
So the formula is basically: (Late 90's Pop Group Framework)*(Dead Internet Theory) = Clicks and Streams
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by 3RTB297 5mo ago
Everyone knows how much the bribe is: Collusion! Cartels! Calamity! No one knows how much the bribe is? "Relationships are Important", "Cost of Doing Business", "An Investment in Us"
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by 3RTB297 5mo ago
If it has an HDMI port, and even better if it has a USB port for power, is you can buy an $40 Amazon Fire Stick and use and upgrade with your TV until it physically dies. Truly, no one should ever connect their "Smart" TV to the i

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