With the Echo, it's pretty easy not to buy. In this case, the suckers freely chose to participate.

It's not a secret who Amazon is, and wasn't a secret when the Echo Dot came out.

Not just kill switches, much of the push for safety in AI has been theater. Even the proclamations by the AI wizards about how dangerous and rogue their technology is have been to the end of co-opting any real push for regulation. Screaming about safety allows them to control the narrative - defining what the problems are and how to fix them. Meaning, never the real problems, and never the real fixes.

The real "kill switch" for this stuff is the switch you throw on the electric chair, with an A.I. executive strapped inside. Stops it right away.

It's hard to grasp because Susan From Accounting doesn't have any conception of access control. It is easier, maybe even faster, for her to click "Allow" on the admin elevation prompt, or whatever it is, rather than learning about the architecture of multi-user OSes.

Good pedantism is correct and elucidating. This is someone pretending to be pedantic.

It speaks to his impotence. He can't take these countries, but he can order people to start calling them something else. He shits on whoever he can. Increasingly that means Americans.

This is what happens when everyone you have contact with is a yes-man or a tech shill. You think this kind of baby-babble makes some kind of sense. You think it sounds like anything but shilling.

Sounds more like a Hegseth thing.

You know the term "Edumucashun" was created to make fun of people without one? Are you trying to reclaim it, like the N-word?

"Adult on Facebook" isn't functionally much different than "child".

Some run through Proton, many don't, even some that are claimed to. You may want to take a closer look at those compatibility ratings.

Outer Worlds is listed as "Playable" on Steam, but cut scenes don't work. A story-driven RPG is not "playable" without cut scenes.

The "Verified" rating is what actually denotes a playable game. With those, you still often get graphical glitches and performance issues. Everspace 2 was definitely playable with Proton, micro-stuttering made the Windows version the clear preference.

The games that I've ran well on Linux tend to be older, low-key graphics, or more "casual" fair. Klonoa, Digimon Story: Time Stranger, and Psychonauts 2 all played wonderful on Linux.

Yeah, I think he's got a platinum record out.

So what's your solution for the McAfee adware, don't plug the monitor into your computer?

Running Linux almost works, but I bought this ultrawide for gaming, which still unfortunately means Windows.

Thanks, Steve.

After he called them out on the McAfee adware, and now this data exfiltration, there must be someone at LG getting very upset with him.

For my part, I'm wondering who I'm even going to buy my next monitor from. I have two LGs on the desk right now, not because they had the best specs, but because the company seemed less slimey than Samsung. I don't know who else even manufactures OLEDs or mini-LEDs.

IIRC, even some of the "passworded" Xfinity routers will still let devices initiate a connection, some kind of semi-mesh network feature (they needed another product to sell).

There's no option for me to be in charge of it. It's a question of which them do I want. The option of Microsoft, Google, LG, etc. having sole control isn't working out too well.