It's a shame because they were so good for so long. I used Rokus for 10+ years.....back when you had to actually pay for them. Once the $30 Roku stick became a thing it was all over.

Narcissits falling for a syncophancy machine? Who could have predicted such an outcome?

I dumped Roku a couple of years ago when they made it clear that I was the product rather than the customer. Generic android boxes work just fine these days and if you're just running Plex/Emby/Jellyfin or whatever you don't even need to sign into a google account - in fact you can remove the play store all together if you buy one that is ASOP. Add to this projectivy or some other sane launcher and you don't have to worry about ads or things changing that you did not ask for or want.

People with my genetics start dying around age fifty - polycystic kidney disease.

I'm ten years older than that, my blood pressure earlier this evening was 120/70something, my last fasting sugar was around 85, I weigh ten pounds more than I did in college, and I've walked 1,393 miles in the last year. My last vice is caffeine and I will go off it periodically, in one instance for seven years.

I got dealt a terrible hand, health wise, Lyme at forty that triggered a complex immune condition, but I refuse to feel (or look) bad. A lot of it IS in your hands, you just need the will to change. It's not easy ...

Typical magat response. You can't refute the facts so you attack the poster. What a fucking loser.

SearXNG. It's far from perfect but it's doing hte job for now.

If you want "jellyfin that actually works" try Emby. They're on the same enshitification path as Plex because they also made the same lifetime pass revenue mistake, but they're not quite as far along yet. I dumped plex when they started pushing their own shitty ad-littered content over things in my own library. The plex apologists cry out that I've configured it wrong - which I didn't. The clients love to go back to user-hostile defaults on updates. But that was just a bug! Multiple times? Yeah, I don't think so.

What a beautiful strawman you've built.

It doesn't sound like you know much about or work on cars. You've dunning-kruger'd your way into demonstrating that.

There have been increasingly more updates for vehicles for powertrain and safety systems for years and it accelerated with connected services because they can now be pushed without bring a car into a dealership. It's very clear to everyone working in and around modern cars and has been confirmed by automotive sofware engineers that this is intentional and they are simply doing the bay area "we'll test it in prod and send otu updates" thing.

Thanks for demonstrating your vast ignorance on the topic though, it's such typical slashdot.

So do you or do you not understand that allowing tons of obscure code to be loaded dynamically (hint: modules) that you certainly don't need or want is a security risk? Meaning TFA solution, which addresses modeules, is a good methodology for many systems, especially servers?

Now I know this sounds crazy, but stick with me for a moment: How about we require car manufacturers to deliver finished products to customers? And how about we also require them to provide meaninful service and repair data along with the vehicles? No more connected services unless they are non-essential to the car and trivially switched off, removed or replaceable. So that means no more repeated software updates will be required.

This is comedy, right?

That is an incredibly simple problem domain. It's search engine level, not "AI" or AI.

Stop falling for hype.

I think you're thinking about the wrong decade. I have seen little of consequences or shame in the last 10 years.

While universal basic income is a useful policy tool and I think we WILL reach it eventually, there are economics papers out there that demonstrate that, sans Pigouvian transaction tax, AI is a race to the bottom.

The AI Layoff Trap by Brett Hemenway Falk and Gerry Tsoukalas is still sitting on my desktop. A quick Google search reveals they are not the only ones who are pursuing this line of thinking.

BUt here in the U.S. "muh freedumb" will ensure that we run that race till the bottom falls out. Hopefully Asia and Europe play this transition a bit smarter, so something of our society continues.