The Smart 4K TV I have now is totally frustrated but fully functioning, so I'm not in the market for this gen. Every so often it takes over the screen and complains it has no network connectivity and that I'm losing out! I then massage the buttons on its remote, calming its fears until it returns to its slumber. Then I hide the remote so nobody disturbs the dumb thing. #tv#smarttv
@davidaugust The largest shareholders of most companies are institutional investors. They vote for the board of directors. The board approves the CEO's compensation. The board of directors and the CEO are the same kind of people. They went to the same schools, belong to the same clubs, and have the same view of the working class. If the shareholders didn't approve of CEO compensation, it wouldn't be happening. But they believe it's merited. And in just the same way, they believe that the working class has earned their suffering.
rooting and changing the OS of smart anything, especially phones, need to be at the center of the right to repair movement, not just getting access to software drivers or hardware.
PS: i have avoided activating the Roku nonsense exactly for what the article describes.
"To opt out of #Roku's ToS update, which primarily changes the "Dispute Resolution Terms," users must send a letter to Roku's general counsel in California mentioning: "the name of each person opting out and contact information for each such person, the specific product models, software, or services used that are at issue, the email address that you used to set up your Roku account (if you have one), and, if applicable, a copy of your purchase receipt."
@blogdiva Shit like this is why I pay extra for stuff without smart anything. It’s kinda funny (not in a haha way), that we now have a privacy tax in the form of non-IoT devices being more expensive than their networked alternatives.
Globally workers are striking. The days of wack-ass greedy corporations, entities and Hollywood studios exploiting workers and others with unequal bargaining power MUST END ONCE AND FOREVER. Without the workers you got NOTHING, baby. Not a pot to piss in. Or a thing to throw it out of.
Today, September 27, Quinn Mallory first enters the interdimensional portal he accidentally created in his San Francisco basement while trying to invent an antigravity device (Sliders, 1995)
More on busting the “all actors are just rich and greedy” myth in the piece from The Wrap linked below. A highlight (lowlight?):
“Earlier this month, ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ star Mark Proksch also told TheWrap that his residuals from ‘The Office’ are more than all the residuals he’s earned from five seasons of ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ combined.”
An anonymous Apple executive says out loud what we all suspected: they won’t deal because then they’d have to pay everyone what they’re worth for the work they do, and DGA’s proposed deal leaves them unprotected from replacement.
This information brought to you by my partner writing to complain about the relentless and mind-numbing gambling ads they show. (Although not #AloneAustralia I noticed, top shelf advertisers on that programme!)
@projectgus I've opted out of the gambling ads, wish I could opt out of the lot. I've written to SBS requesting an ad-free version of their streaming service, seems logical now that streaming-only services have ad-filled options.
I've heard tell that the US Library of Congress has a nightmare of a problem trying to preserve digital media. Storage devices fail, digital media formats and file formats become obsolete, it just goes on and on.
Today, December 31, in 2999, Phillip J. Fry is defrosted in New New York City, having fallen into a cryonic tube at "Applied Cryogenics" one thousand years earlier (Futurama, "Space Pilot 3000", 1999)