The best part about smart TVs is that they DO collect your data. This supplements the price of the TV and lets you get one for much cheaper. With the money you save you can buy a streaming device (Chromecase/AppleTV/Shield/etc), ideally using this device and never even connecting your TV to the network/wifi/internet. In the end you have a cheaper TV, and you have a platform that you choose (Apple/Roku/Google/etc), and your sharing less of your data.

I love going to the movie theater. I even used to subscribe to one of those clubs that let you see several movies a week for like $20 a month. I found that I wasn't interested in going to many of the movies that were playing. When Hollywood, or whomever is making movies these days, offer something worth going to see, I'm there.

If students quit taking out huge loans to get a piece of paper that employers seem to value/require to hire them then the schools will figure it out, because they will go bankrupt if they can't keep feeding the beast.

"truly low-latency broadband and ubiquitous mobile connectivity to all Americans " If they're claiming to be able to service all Americans, I can't help but question if they really have the capacity for this.

Bitlocker keys are required (if bitlocker is enabled as it should be in certain production environments.)

If you don't have privileges, you're better off leaving it to the pros/your IT team.

Unfortunately this trick doesn't work on Win11 any more, however another little work around worked for me last time I setup Win11 without a MS account. https://www.tomshardware.com/h...

As long as it's air gapped (on a closed system/network), has a readily available way to turn it off (cut the power) and isn't given control of any kind of robots or other autonomous mechanical devices). Why not? That seems realistically safe.

I don't read facebook for the news, I read it to see what my friends are up to.

It's already the law in Texas to verify that one is over 18 in order to view, purchase and possess pornography.

I fixed it: "Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys. Don't let 'em pick guitars or drive them old trucks, Let 'em be doctors -OR- lawyers and such." (not both)

Not only see all the transactions (this already happens on public blockchains) but reverse the bank could also change those transactions, or make some on your behalf. Also they could restrict anyone else from seeing those transactions but themselves. This explains why China is all about CBDCs and pushing forward with their own. There are already digital dollars out there, stable coins. They are (supposedly) backed up by real dollars. Why isn't the USA using these? My guess is it's in large part because they want the control a CBDC would give them. So yeah, stupid for everyone except the issuer of the CBDC.

So, was the phone fixed or not?

The Ethereum upgrade should be happening in the next year (unless it gets postponed again, and if so no one will be surprised). Part of the upgrade will basically end all Ethereum mining with GPUs. With Ethereum being the most profitable GPU mined crypo currency, as well as the most common, it stands to reason that the demand for GPUs will drop significantly. In fact it seems as if this is already beginning to happen. And while there are cryptos one can mine with video cards, none are as profitable as Ethereum. Also, with the price of all cyrpto crashing has taken a toll on mining profitability, reducing GPU demand.

Apparently not. I was curious about CNN+ but their marketing must not be that good. I looked for an app on the Google Play smytore for my Android TV and saw none. Oh well. Easy come easy go.