I use a 32" Samsung TV -- neutered without wifi -- as my secondary monitor when I work from home. A single HDMI cable transfers sound and graphics to the TV. If you want to add a cable to a dock that provides all the other things you mention, you can do it with a single cable from a laptop to the dock. A phone may require a special converter, such as a Lightning-to-HDMI cable with passthrough power. Or you can use wireless charging if your phone is capable and simplify things a little bit.

The whole reason you want to use a separate dock is that interfaces and connections change very frequently. It's easier to get a dock with everything you want in it than try to get a decent TV also with every connector you want in it. For instance, this TV is going to need a wire with a plate for wireless phone charging, right? How long of a wire at what gauge? No, seriously, different wattage wireless phone charging solutions require limits on wire length. Same for the larger phone / tablet chargers, it often makes a lot of sense to use an electrical extension cord to get the wireless charger close to where you need it rather than extend the charger cable.

In the computer industry, different adapters have come and gone over the years, it's the same thing, better to have a dock you can replace than have a TV with the equivalent of yesterday's SCSi / serial / parallel interfaces on it.

No IP address / no wifi means it's secure :)

It's good to see someone else who remembers Sony's CD rootkit fiasco and their abrupt stance on their Linux add-ons. I won't buy Sony anymore either. My children got me a PS2 many many years ago and I still have it, that's the one exception.

I bought one before I knew about the problems. One fix: don't give the Samsung TV wifi access, and plug a Roku or such into it instead. The built-in Netflix and apps are so slow that they're almost useless anyway, apparently they skimped big-time on the CPU. Like you, I will never purchase a Samsung TV again.

I grew up in a different time. I'm sure things like this occurred infrequently. Nowadays people film bad behavior for laughs and share with their friends, each trying to be more outrageous. There seems to be little morality anymore, it's all selfishness and laughing at someone whom you've screwed over.

It really makes me depressed thinking about the future. It's like Clockwork Orange is being mimicked by the mainstream. How incredibly sad.

Absolutely agree. Craftsman electric tools have gotten worse over the years as many are rebranded Ryobi and others. Once Sears sold Craftsman rights to Lowe's they lost one of my only reasons for shopping at Sears -- note that was after Craftsman was purchased by Stanley. Maybe a better way to say that is here: https://www.chicagotribune.com...

I wear headphones for 2 reasons: I need to block out noise, and I want to listen to music in a place where I can't use my home audio system. That's pretty much it. I don't sleep with them, I don't even recline with them on, that isn't my use case. Mostly I wear them at work but not even daily, I have a lot of days where I would be constantly taking them off with interruptions.

My headphones' battery lasts well more than a workday, they claim 30 hours but I'm not exactly sure how long they last since I charge them every few times I use them. If you're wearing headphones so long each day at a power rating that eats batteries so quickly you need a second pair, you're at serious risk of damaged hearing and ear infections.

$60 for a pair -- or a second pair -- is probably trivial to most people, that's a night out at the movies for 2 people nowadays or a non-alcoholic dinner for 2, or a tank of premium gas, or a new game for your Playstation / XBox, or a few drinks in an upscale bar. If it's that important to you, you will find the funding for it.

A $5-10 pair of headphones is awful no matter what the connection choice is, you need to spend considerably more to have any quality. An inexpensive Bluetooth headset that works well for me is the Cowin E7, around $60 on Amazon right now. It offers automatic noise cancellation which you can turn off if you don't like it. I found with that on, and in normal ambient sound situations, it enhances the music by letting me lower the volume, sometimes to its minimal setting. If I am at home with one of my audio systems and everything is quiet and I'm willing to sit in the zone where everything is optimized, then of course the home audio system wins hands down. If I'm moving around, maybe cooking while listening to music, of course the staging isn't perfect and there is loss of quality.

So really the key is the environment in which you're using these. While staging for headphones can be really great, there is always something changed by using them. Same with a higher-end audio system in a noisy or acoustically poor environment. Even lower-end wireless solutions such as Rocketfish which uses radio to wirelessly transmit sound to speakers has better quality than you will notice in most environments.

Well to be fair, he had some comprehension, but the quantizing steps rounded it down to zero...

Huh? Did you even try to Google for that? Of course you can revert to an older version. You do need a computer. Phone store employees can help you also, they just want your phone to work so they can bill you for service.
https://www.newsweek.com/remov...
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I went back to look at some comments I made earlier today and although they're listed in the "comments" right-hand scrollbar, when I actually click on my comments list, they do not show. Twice also today when posting an anonymous comment and refreshing the page, it was no longer there. These weren't inflammatory, just things that revealed some personal info that I didn't want attributed to myself directly. Something is going on.

And sadly they are right. People suck.

Bingo. Where a prepaid label is available this is the best option. It follows their return process which helps make everything go more smoothly.

You'd better pay to have that tracked, and better make sure that you have the correct address AND that they're expecting it... otherwise they may come calling for it, and without proof you've sent it back (which really only proves you sent a parcel of a certain weight to an address), you may end up paying for that replacement.

You're usually better off waiting for them to send you a call tag so that the process can be followed.

Some of us read it in full. Thank you for taking the time to compose a well-thought-out post.

Some of us who used addons that are no longer available (Scrapbook in my case; I have hundreds of pages saved) are now on the fence... I don't want to support Google by switching to Chrome, but in researching the issue with Scrapbook -- it appears that the interface is no longer exposed to accomplish this -- Mozilla and others backing Mozilla have basically said "we don't care". The variants which sprung up afterward don't perform the same task.

All I wanted was a way to save a page's content into a searchable folder-based tree, and have the ability to delete ads and such that don't contribute to the actual content I want to save. Scrapbook was a really great quickie research / documentation tool.