If you connect your TV to the internet, you are an idiot. Being a part of a bot farm is the least of your worries here.
The only connections TVs should get is HDMI and power.
What is the point of school when all answers to the home work are in the answer book?
AI really making people so dumb, they end up writing articles like this one.
Ever since I installed it many years ago, I don't remember needing any new features. As long as it can launch apps and allow customization to remove vendor BS, it is feature complete. This also makes it hard to justify ongoing payment.
If there is a paid version, I'm fine with that. One time pricing pretty much does not matter, subscription will have to be priced well.
If there are ads, I'll just uninstall it. It would suck, but there is no world in which I'm tolerating ads.
They may not be irrelevant, but there is certainly not a lot of value in the actual distribution part. All interesting documents that are published there are available elsewhere.
Removing the paywall just shortens the current algorithm:
1. Google search for some terms.
2. Find ACM paper that looks interesting, but paywalled.
3 Copy the exact title and search for that. Download a PDF from a random source that has it.
This is from a pure "user" of the articles perspective. It might be of a bigger benefit for people in academia.
Valve has it too, but they can't make support public in the drivers until the spec is pubic.
If they were working with proprietary drivers, there would not be an issue, but Valve are not assholes, and they also can't violate NDAs.
I can't imagine worst service. I have not heard a single good thing about them, every time I hear anything it is in the context of them doing something annoying.
They created it, so they have something to do with it. It was an era when they wanted to be on the phones (ha ha), so they decided to bring down the quality of a DE to the phone level. They had to abandon it and go back to Gnome because it was unusable mess. The gnome managed to devolve in that time, unfortunately.