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by alt227 4d ago
On LG TVs there are about 5 separate agreements you need to accept. You dont need to accept them all to use the tv, but in the initial setup LG puts a handy 'Accept All' button front and center, which agrees to all 5 incrluding th
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by alt227 4d ago
It was enabled when you accepted the terms and conditions when you first turned it on, or did a firmware update. LGs statment says this: > ACR is an optional feature that is turned off by default. To enable ACR, a user must accept LG’s
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by alt227 4d ago
It may not be needed, but it will certainly be rolled out.
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by alt227 4d ago
How are they supposed to drive themselves without monitoring whats going on outside the vehicle?
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by alt227 4d ago
Taxis, busses, and trains are all private spaces with cameras in them. Public infrastructure has been run by private companies for a long time.
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by alt227 4d ago
> Eventually not charged Theres your answer.
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by alt227 5d ago
If people have a right to privacy, why is it disappearing?
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by alt227 5d ago
Right now governments in western societies are pouring more money and resources than ever into support programs, and yet we still have record high levels of mental health, unemployment, poverty, waiting times for doctors and support staff e
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by alt227 5d ago
> Define bad parenting? Parents that do things that are bad for their kids wellbeing. > Should the state do nothing about children not being sent to school? Yes it should do nothing > Should they go hungry when not fed? Yes t
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by alt227 5d ago
You sir, are very aware of how the average computer user thinks!
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by alt227 5d ago
Im arguing against the parent point that "Site freezes machine, user stops going to site." Its a gross oversimplification, and it doesnt hold water becasue there are lots of other vectors to a user coming across this than just &qu
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by alt227 5d ago
> children with shitty parents deserve as much safety and support as they can get too. I know my opinion is not popular, but I do not agree that it is the states responsibility to pick up the slack for bad parenting.
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by alt227 5d ago
Why do people have to be fun for you to hang around with?
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by alt227 5d ago
That would also then require them to invalidate caches and rerun scripts to rebuild those lists and recommendations, which costs extra compute.
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by alt227 5d ago
This is hilarious, and what if an bad actor abuses this and makes a script or browser plugin which goes to this url every time a browser is launched? What about url shorteners and redirects? You seem to dismiss the issue based on a very na
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by alt227 5d ago
Wow, a very literal whataboutism!
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by alt227 5d ago
Recently listened is an automatic list like a log, not user curated. I would never expect to be able to delete things from that list.
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by alt227 6d ago
Was it this documentary?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f19hF7-nT8g /s
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by alt227 6d ago
Exactly. I hate the fact they gamified answering questions on Google maps to help keep their system updated for free.
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by alt227 7d ago
Meta certainly do give the impression that they are burning through ridiculous amounts of cash with not much to show for it, and thats just from the outside.
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by alt227 7d ago
In the same vein, dont assume that anything negative said about a group of people is racism.
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by alt227 10d ago
The hardware is designed to last, the software is designed to force you to buy a new device after 7 years at most.
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by alt227 10d ago
2 more years and your mac will not install the latest MacOS version, which then means you will no longer be able to update any software on your own computer or install any new software either. If you could install linux or any other OS on i
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by alt227 10d ago
Not even things like batch files and visual basic scripts on windows? Everyone seems to forget we had decades of dodgy scripts and activex controls in our browsers for years before javascript became the thing it is today.
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by alt227 10d ago
Literally any scripting language? I have managed to get 35 years into a sysadmin career without knowing or writing a single line of python. I see a python script, I run a million miles away and wont touch it with a barge pole.
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by alt227 10d ago
So that you have to keep buying Macs every few years of course. If they gave you a way to install linux easily then you could use it far past their intended lifespan and wouldnt keep you locked into the apple ecosystem. They have proved tim
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by alt227 10d ago
To be fair this is the thing that is likely to be the most difficult due to it being closed proprietary apple/intel tech.
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by alt227 11d ago
The Veritasium documentary on this is very informative: https://youtu.be/SC2eSujzrUY
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by alt227 11d ago
Just watch the Veritasium documentary, its full of horrible truths and real information and not dramatised. https://youtu.be/SC2eSujzrUY
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by alt227 11d ago
The only thing that allowed them to be this 'fucked up' is allowing the creation of corperations which can make your companies actions not directly responsible to you. If boards of directors were able to be jailed for their compan

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