You can just not connect these screens to the internet. Some of the more annoying ones that are really cheap will give you a bit of nagging when you boot them up before switching to your video.

Don't get me wrong we should properly regulate businesses but this is way down on the list of crimes a company might commit or laws that we refuse to enforce.

Every single TV manufacturer is doing this. If you have a problem with it just buy a really really huge PC monitor I guess. It'll cost you about $1,500 instead of $300 though.

And there is no point to getting angry at companies for doing what companies do. Not when people on this forum refused to vote for the kind of politicians that would properly regulate them. I guarantee you some of the people reading this will vote Republican on Tuesday. Even though the Republicans refuse to enforce laws against what Vizio is doing here.

When you figure out how to get to the logical world, please LMK

The problem is, they are all scumbags.

"even if they do require it there's almost never any requirement that the installers **NOT** change it back to the default"

Ok, but we already knew these guys were incompetent at security...

No, I'm not an apple cuck.

Apple supports Trump all day. If you support Apple, so do you. But I don't, because I'm against child rape.

Oh look, you're either Nazis or ignorant how much willful support the NYT gave literal, actual Nazis

So using AI to write a little bit of boilerplate code for you isn't what most people are talking about when they say using AI.

There isn't a single game publisher on the planet that is thinking about AI like that. They want AI to build the entire game so they can fire their staff.

Almost all of the cost of making these big AAA games is the staff that make the game because well of course it is it's art.

We all know the goal is to replace all the artists with bots that generate slop for us to pay for. With enough subsidies and with enough electrical bill and water bill increases the slop generators will be cheaper than employees. Especially artists. You can't really offshore too much of your artists because if you try to the different cultural barriers create games that don't translate well. Just like how Bollywood movies have a fan base in America but it's not the general public. American movies managed to do well overseas but that's because of the overwhelmingly high budgets. Take away the spectacle and make the movie without it and they would bomb.

So realistically when we are talking about AI in this context we're talking about games that were built almost entirely with it. Because that's the current goal of the industry. Get rid of the art but keep all the profits

He has a good video about the SpaceX IPO where he explains it. Basically it's very expensive for SpaceX to provide data services of any kind. They cannot compete with terrestrial data services when those are an option. Nobody is going to pay extra for satellite internet when they can just have a physical line to their house or apartment or can have access to Cellular radio service.

The market for SpaceX is people that do not have access to terrestrial services because they're out in the boondocks and they don't have any other options. That market exists however it's got a cap because if you ever get enough people in a single area that form a large addressable market then somebody runs some cable to them or builds cell towers and suddenly you just lost your market.

Mr Boyle brought this up in the context of how SpaceX cannot possibly generate enough income to justify its valuation and that it's very likely that SpaceX is just a scam to rip off our retirement savings and our 401ks.

But getting back to the point they're not going to use starlink for cellular internet because it can't compete with regular cellular service. It's just too expensive to keep all those satellites going.

I was right here saying that the merger should be killed but you do you.

If a company can't compete then let it shut down and then let other companies get the spectrum besides the big three. This isn't hard wireless is a natural monopoly because of physics. Impractical terms this means that you have to tightly tightly regulated like you do with any natural monopoly. This means that if one of the players collapses you don't let the existing players buyout their spectrum. You bring in a new player and if you can't find one then the government itself spins up a new player and then eventually privatizes it.

And if the big three have a problem with that they can fuck the fuck off and we can give the spectrum to somebody else who will play ball.

You don't have to bend over and take it in the ass every time a corporation says you should. I know it sounds crazy but you can actually advocate for your personal well-being and the well-being of your community. And when a corporation does something bad and tells you to suck it down because capitalism you can tell them to fuck off and that's allowed. At least as long as we're still a democracy but the corporations are working on that. Maybe don't help them along...

Multiple industries depend on the price of RAM and it's playing havoc with all of them but we can't do shit about the obvious antitrust violation done by The Big Three ram producers.

If we can't do something about an antitrust violation that obvious and that out in the open and that has been repeated over and over and over again there's fuck all chance we can fuck with somebody as politically connected as Elon Musk. He dropped a half billion dollars on two elections nobody is going to go after him.

If you want and he trust law enforcement you need to somehow convince your relatives to stop voting Republican long enough that we can get back on track. We are also going to have to do something about all this county level voter suppression. In North Carolina for example they have a law that requires a second envelope that you seal your mail-in ballot inside and they use that to invalidate 3.5 percent of all Democrat votes. I guess technically there's some Republicans mixed in there but the majority of them are Democrats because Democrats are much more likely to vote by mail because when you vote as a Democrat you wait in line for 7 hours...

Even if you're a republican for some god-awful reason if Democrats can't vote then there's no reason for Republican politicians to listen to you because they can't lose their elections anymore.

The NYT should just fucking fail, fuck them.

Real papers could charge for access. But only Nazis would pay the NYT.

Flock is potentially an enormously useful tool, but most cops aren't smart enough to use it correctly. That does make it a poorly designed tool, since they are apparently the primary target market. It's also too easily abused to be allowed to exist.

If the wrong equipment is used it absolutely can cause this kind of damage, and your comment only proves that you have no idea what you're talking about AND didn't bother to do a web search as a sanity check like a competent person would have done.

Those people are voting for violence. You left that out of your analysis, despite it being of critical importance. It's that because it destroyed your argument completely?