Once they mandate intrusion into the OS you install for age....they'll next want it to make sure no nasty files for 3D printing firearms is present.....etc.

I have two Zen3 PCs hooked up to it, one with 5900X and one with 5850U. In the living room there's just a HiSense Google TV for WAF reasons. It's slightly irritating but also does everything properly including SmartTube, and the ad load is light, plus it never spends much time at the launcher anyway.

It might be old enough now not to, since I bought it 7/2024, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Depends, is it an OS update, or a Play services update? If the former no, if the latter yes...

I use a LG TV as a monitor because it was by far the cheapest way to get this much screen real estate (42.5" in this case.)

I also just do streaming, and I've never connected it to a network, but it remains a TV.

The TVs are partly subsidized by crapware, so it's reasonable to expect them to remain cheaper than monitors.

It's simple, their every accusation is a confession. "Not me, you."

That happened because Trump was in office, this is about what happens if Trump is not in office.

that calls women they disagree with fat and ugly

I think people calling some women "fat and ugly"...is because they are, well.....fat and ugly.

9 times outta 10 they also have blue or purple/reddish dyed hair so where on the troll doll spectrum...septum rings...etc.

They're really pretty easy to spot (and hear...as that they are almost always shrieking or crying in front of a camera phone).

Oh look, commentary from a corporate cock swallowing hipster.

Who's faking?

I worked food service, bartending, retail sales, etc all through High School through Grad school....

I schmoozed a ton of money in tips....being happy, attentive, friendly and doing my best to give good service.

Not everyone is a grouch and non-social.....

Those jobs really set up up with people skills that I later VERY MUCH profited from in real jobs....especially getting up in front of people.

In the tech industry especially.....minds MUCH better and smarter than I were just too afraid to talk in front of people..I took advantage of this and excelled in position and money while smarter people stayed closer to the bottom.

People skills are important....and jobs as a youngster dealing with the public help...I feel they should be mandatory.....

Good thing I've never connected my LG TV to a network.

Sucks that I have this malicious turd squatting in my home just waiting to betray me if anyone ever plugs a network cable into it.

It's a non-problem. Make them take an in-person conversational exam for 100% with the TA at the end of the semester. If they fail, they don't graduate.

Thank you....this was my line of thought too.

I know it has been a LONG time since I was last in school....but today is ALL test taking, essay writing, etc done online?

It seems a quick way to by pass AI taking the tests would be to make sure and do the old fashioned way of tests....having the students take hand written answers on physical test paper sheets....where you show your work, write your essays, etc in real time.

Do they not do this in any more at schools anymore?

This is a lot less common now than it used to be. e.g. back in the 90s Audi started compiling harnesses from sections, so there would be a main harness that's in all cars and then they'd add in sub-harnesses for optional equipment which go to a junction box under the hood, inside the vehicle, or both. This avoids the situation where customers buy a car and then add content later when you want to charge them for all of that up front, AND it makes the vehicle cheaper to construct.

My originally $300 MiniPC has dual 2.5GbE, WiFi 6, and Bt 5.2... That stuff is REALLY cheap and throwing more goodies in helps make the sale. It's weird to me if anyone is even still making machines with 1GbE. BUT, for the average person it's irrelevant. They probably don't have multiple machines, even if they do they don't have a NAS, and their internet connection is typically well under 1Gbps.

Learning anything is really not the primary reason reason for education anymore

I ;guess it depends on your field of study.

If you're studying the effects of gender studies on underwater basket weaving....sure, let AI do all the "learning" for you.

But, if you're a physicist, or say a structural engineer designing oil platforms at sea, you might need to actually learn something.

Not only is it too late, but they only have 2 memory slots, limiting your options.

I have 4x16GB which cost me $110 or so, replacement cost is now $380. But if one DIMM dies I can limp along with a mere 32GB...