All the Tizen
All the Roku OS ones.
All the Amazon ones.
All the VIDAA U (Hisense, Toshiba
As far as i know, every TV bigger than 32" is smart and running Linux inside.
And probably every streaming device except AppleTV, which runs their own unix derivative.
The internet will be dead soon.
If only we could learn from history.
Back in the 70s and before, they put a minimum age on driving, made cars have seatbelts, imposed speed limits, emission controls.
And now, the inevitable result, cars are dead and we have to walk everywhere or ride horses.
They're quite positive.
We make things worse, more of us die, the issue is blunted. Make it bad enough, civilization fails, lots of people die, and the surviving population will be environmentally worse individually but few enough in number it won't be a major climate factor.
Then the Sun expands, bakes the planet sterile, and possibly burns it into a puff of plasma.
Long term it's a losing game, but short term we could play to win if we didn't lack the required strategic thinking as a species.
I use AirBNBs as locations to produce adult content. I'm not joking.
An AirBNB is perfect for my needs; it's a literal godsend. I want a clean home-like setting that is relatively generic and free from personal items, that also doesn't look like a hotel and can be unique for the amount of content being produced there. I believe this is a relatively common practice.
That being said, I bring my own bedding, towels, pillows, cleaning products and tools and I take my trash with me when I leave and dispose of it elsewhere. I am conscientious that I'm staying at another individual's property.
In one case, I found out the property owner was still home, in his basement, while I was working with performers upstairs. He wanted to know what we were doing and didn't actually have a problem with it, but talking with him informed what I should do going forward. Even if I wasn't responsible for messy human activities, I'd still choose to leave as little work as I can for service staff.
I realize that many AirBNBs are owned by property management services and in some cases even hotel groups, but what I'm paying for is exactly the thing I want: clean and not-a-hotel.
No one should have a pepper ball gun or rubber bullet until they have been shot with it.
I believe that rule does apply to Tasers, at least for our police.
The funny thing is the left wing has wanted it rebranded as the war department for some time.
The correct term is "West Wing".
Don't worry, greytree. I understood that this is heavily ironic. Sorry you're getting the clueless responses.
With all the subtlety of a SJW or alt-right youtuber. Clueless-in, clueless out.
Lets start by acknowledging that Facebook is evil (despite cool stuff like pytorch and llama).
New Mexico has only 2 million people, and $25B is more than enough to pay all their debts and unfunded liabilities. Brilliant move!
But extrapolation $25B on a per capita basis to other states applying similar taxes and you get a total of four trillion dollars [evil laugh] . Is that sustainable?
Even Meta does not have that much, so they'd better get in quick.
Q: Why on Earth is the US still using juries for civil cases, when it is clearly stupid? is this related to pennies and the customary units?
You know you don't have to install Adobe Reader, right?
FWIW, I had an interaction with the person responsible for PDFGear online somewhere and I've been using it since I found out about it. It's a free (gratis) PDF viewer and editor. Maybe the full, paid Acrobat product can do more things, but if so I haven't noticed.
The thing you are looking for is the Group Policy Editor. There are Group Policies that can disable the prompts to use Microsoft accounts and the ability to use OneDrive or Windows AI features, the hook Bing has in Windows Search (i.e. no more searching in the start menu and having it list web sites before the file or application you wanted) and all the "consumer experience" features in non-Enterprise Windows. There are a few GPO settings that get ignored unless you're on Windows Enterprise or Education. Most of them related to Microsoft Datamining.
It is also possible to transition a Microsoft account back to a local one without losing your Profile. This is done in Settings > Accounts > Your Info in Windows 11.
gpedit.msc is normally only available to non-Home Windows SKUs, but it is unlockable with a tiny bit of Powershell:
Get-ChildItem @(
"C:\Windows\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package*.mum",
"C:\Windows\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package*.mum"
) | ForEach-Object { dism.exe
Open an Administror-elevated Powershell or Terminal session, paste that in and even your $200 Acer vomit-grade notebook can work the way you want it again.
The reason we need GPOs for this stuff is that Microsoft's software updates will occasionally re-set registry changes. If the changes are made with GPOs, the settings get reapplied and overwrite changes no matter what state Windows is in. This is particularly annoying for stuff like OneDrive, CoPilot and Edge preferences. You either have to regularly re-run scripts to alter the registry to the state you like it and hope nothing makes a structural change to where those settings live, or you set a GPO.
Speaking of history, I can't believe this Rick & Morty reference is ten yeas old:
What is my purpose?
It's a professional near-necessity for me to have a presence on LinkedIn.
It's that the AI guys respect people's right to say "no" about as much as your average rapist.
The easiest workaround that seems the most difficult to defeat is to run the AI agent's actions from your preferred browser on your phone or computer, and still extract whatever data they want from the response to be relayed back to them for ingestion into their data centers.
They'll be every bit as respectful of websites saying 'no' to them as they were to writers, performers, and artists who told them not to use their work to train AI.
Thus spake the master programmer: "When a program is being tested, it is too late to make design changes." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
