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Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service

See title - very frustrating. There is no way to continue to use the TV without agreeing to the terms. I couldn’t use different inputs, or even go to settings from the home screen and disconnect from the internet to disable their services. If I don’t agree to their terms, then I don’t get access to their new products. That...

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You can't always get what you want.

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I've yet to run across a smart TV that I couldn't just use as a dumb TV by NEVER CONNECTING IT TO WIFI. Literally NEVER connect it to WiFi. You will never have this issue. You don't need a list of models, because there isn't a TV that won't function as a TV if it's never connected to WiFi.

Do you understand now?

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Here's hoping you're not, and never will be, anyone's boss.

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@brain_in_a_box

You might want to check that box...

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Russia can’t even conquer a quarter of Ukraine

Without NATO, all of Ukraine would have fallen a year ago.

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Twitter was a cesspool long before Musk bought it.

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Seeing as you seem to have misread what you replied to...

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Power abhors a vacuum. History tells us that.

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Haiti would be right up your alley this time of year then.

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The whole skipping 9 was so older programs wouldn't misidentify Windows 9 as 95 or 98. They might have put other spin on it in marketing materials, but that was the actual technical reason for skipping 9.

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ME was an afterthought for Microsoft. Kind of an "oh shit" moment. Windows 2000 was meant to be the only OS in that release cycle, with a Home version for normies and the Professional version for the enterprise. They chickened out on moving normies to the NT kernel so soon, so ME was born.

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Even ".NET" is a dumb name.

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Not very many people want dumb phones, actually. Certainly not enough for anyone to mass produce the things.

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Complaining about the right banning books out of one side of your face and complaining about the left not banning books out the other side is a truly fucking psychotic state of affairs.

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So, I'm confused. Are we for or against censorship?

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Don't take any story at face value that comes out of a warzone.

Can KBin not like, freak out at any turn when surfing on it?

I forced myself to go back a little to Reddit recently. Because while I endorse and love the existence of the Fediverse, I can't in good conscience, tolerate the instability of it. Any other time I go somewhere, I'm met with a page that says KBin is working on resolving issues, then I go somewhere else and it's fine....

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Not a big enough issue to go and try to replace him with like 8 months to go before the election. Who, exactly, is a better fit?

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