I like this. Sharpest tool. Brightest bulb.
I call myself a rocket surgeon. I neither work on rockets nor engage in neurosurgery.
(graphic stolen somewhere years ago.)

Look this is funny and all, but the title isn’t quite accurate.
“Canceled After No One Wanted to Pay $1000 to Go” would be accurate.
I think the full truth makes a more interesting headline than this partially true headline.

They are on tour with GWAR. I’m gonna catch em again in November.

Its more than an opt in or out problem with LG.
You remember, oh a fukin month ago? LG installs spywear with no prompt when you plug in one of their monitors on a pc. This TV shit is more of the same and certainly more egregious than other brands.

And that’s why I have to neuter any device I buy.
Fuken pain in the ass, but that’s our world.

;)

YTPB is a comm. Search for You Power Trippin Bastards.
Good entertainment to be had there.

Go look at the mod’s profile page. That’s where I got that.
Honestly, I think its a bullshit statement, so I called him out.
And then you ate the onion.

Wait … are you lamenting the demise of the Micro$oft phone?
Seriously? In public and all? What the hell is wrong with you?
For the record, I DO blame the companies.

This article whitewashed the whole thing and accepted LG’s angle, right up to reprinting their bullshit in full.
Such crap is entirely insufficient for a tech publication, “Tom’s Hardware has not independently verified either the claims made by Gamers Nexus in its documentary or LG’s counterclaims.”

Why? Why did you publish and throw up your hands saying “we know nothing”?
Was there possibly some money involved? Don’t want to piss off your advertisers?
I reviewed this Stephen Warwick’s articles. He’s a corpo shill.
Miserable excuse for journalism.

i have all predictive text disabled everywhere i can find such a setting.
and i don’t swipe.
mine works fine.

Man, I agree with you, but these are the rules:

“All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed.”

How you execute a consistent set of policies when the rules say you don’t have to be consistent is beyond me.

There’s something subtly wrong here. Hmm…

I’ll accept that. People suck in general, but its the only game in town.
I’m perfectly happy to see the entire dating app thing die under a flood of slop and abuse.

Goddamn that is a janky website.
It is a decent article, if you whitelist enough of the site for it to render.

Oh, that will get ya banned.
Cya on YPTB. :]

This got me to look through my Insignia FireTV. Found some new settings to disable since the last time I did so.

I don’t mind the Fire, it allows sideloaded installs, so I mostly use my own software. The processor, ram, and storage space are quite good. It performs well, looks good, and its loud. (Cops recently showed up at my door with a noise complaint.) Plus, its fukin huge and only cost like $200.

I do intend to continue to use the FireTV as such. I put it on an isolated network, but I’ve not done any traffic filtering with it. I could look into firewalling it and blocking dns and tracking data. I did some web searching today, and all I came up with was a list of the same settings I just configured. No list of shit to block.

It sure sounds like Gamer’s Nexus and that 1stLevel guy are continuing to test other models. I’ll be watching for them to get around to Fire stuff.

all my furniture except my couches and a few scattered thrift store/alleyway finds came from ikea. this whole idea does not offend me like others have stated.

but fuk creation club.

Good men don’t need rules?