I have mine connected to a Raspberry Pi and a Google Chromecast. I can update the Pi myself and if the Chromecast fails, gets EOLed or just enshittified, I'm out $30 and still have a functional TV with the Pi. Then I just throw some other inexpensive device on it.

By contrast, the 'Smart' TV leaves me stuck. If it gets enshittified or EOLed, I don't have much in the way of options unless I can figure out a way to lobotomize it and make it a dumb TV.

Meanwhile, the all-or-nothing Smart TV removes real disincentives for enshittification.

So no, for the consumer, it really does NOT make sense. For corporate executives rubbing their hands waiting for enshitification day, it makes a lot of sense, unfortunately.

The way integrated GPUs typically work is they're a chiplet: a separate die in a package with some other dies, like the CPU. If you shove a Blackwell or whatever die into a package with a CPU it's going to have the same power and heat dissipation requirements as if it were by itself, but complicated because it's physically co-located with the other hottest part of the computer.

You save a bit on cost and maybe a bit on space with integrated graphics, but not really that much. the actual GPU chip isn't very big, and it's the same die you have to shove in that integrated package anyway. The big advantages to integrated are not size, weight, power or head, but a fast bus between the CPU and GPU and, usually, direct access to system memory.

So what benefits from a fast GPU with high CPU bandwidth and lots of relatively slow memory? Not games. AI.

It's not just that. People exhibit overconfidence all the time. From social media and casual conversation to public policy, It's a deep cognitive bias in our species.

Religion is maybe the best example. Don't know what the fuck is going on? Just make up a story that sounds good.

I have an induction oven that can melt the steel your wok is made of.

Reading comprehension is important. As is attention to detail.

The thin is, the artists WANT to keep the prices down because they (or at least their managers) understand that fans able to get tickets and see concerts is a driving force for their fandom. You don't get big or even stay big by only being seen by a few wealthy patrons (or their kids).

Actually, they own a few and have a contractual lock on many many more.

The big problem with these "smart" things is that it's getting hard to avoid them. Several years ago I was looking for TV. A few dozen "smart" TVs to choose from but exactly 2 non-smart TVs. I don't mean 2 models, I mean 2 TVs in the whole store. Luckily one of them was suitable.

Some of it will take care of itself. You can only veg on the couch so long before you die from otherwise preventable disease.

The percentage affected may be smaller than it seems. Some want to veg and watch sports all weekend because they were forced to bust their as all week in a job they hate. Take away the job (and the need for the job) and they might get more active in their free time. The unemployed who sit and veg mostly have no money to do anything and have lost hope in getting a job.

Though I'm sure there are some di-hards that reallywould sit on the couch until they de-compensate and die. But that is a choice they make and it would solve the problem.

Much of the world's Capitalism...

Do you really think a significant portion of the U.S. Adult population really want to go to work?

I don't know my own FICO score. I have zero debt and pay the statement balance on my CC every month. It's useless to me.

That's not good: https://develop.trustedcomputinggroup.org/ is only a default web server info page, and a mismatched SSL cert. Not reassuring.

Don't see any utilities there for reading my TPM chip. I don't trust these chips at all, seem like something to put other people's data on and keep hidden from me, even though it's my machine. Do not want.

I am not anti-bitcoin, but that is completely pie-in-the-sky thinking.

This! G3 is just pointless to me, cannot stand it.

Never heard of it before, but it's not bad, I like the look! The opposite of looking at (the new and old) Gnome 3 - Some kind of abortion of a Mac interface, it sucks horribly. WTF is wrong with those people? Gnome 2 was my favorite at the time, Cinnamon for me now.