Pretty unlikely they’re doing anything other than BTLE (bluetooth low energy) and mobile device tracking, like absolutely all other “tag” trackers. Anything else would require enormous batteries in the tags.

If you told me 10 years ago that people would be falling over themselves to PAY to build Orwellian tracking network on behalf of corporations for no reason at all I’d have called you completely insane.

Very helpful thank you.

That’s more of a you problem.

give up gaming

What? Most games run better on Linux

I just want Microsoft gone.

Yeah was standard pro I saw it on.

Good, it’s been my experience, at least on fully updated 10.

So all that effort to spare 1 watt of “suspend” power? Running home assistant all day long probably burns 500x that power.

I have to be missing some detail because that sounds absolutely insane in my head.

Hate to be “that guy”, and maybe OP’s no updates since 2019 exempt them from this, but modern 10/11 both immediately auto-restart the Windows update service when it’s manually stopped.

I haven’t had anything beyond a hug from my mother in 10 years.

A boss of mine some time ago would sneak up and pat me on the back, scaring me most of the time. Back then I hated it.

These days something like that would make my whole week.

Normal people (idiots) would rather spend 4 years of their overall life “hacking” with Windows to avoid 30 minutes learning to use a forward slash.

That switches you to a phone app platform that hides the ads but records everything about you from your telemetry and sells it.

Alot less convenient than synergy but do-able. I may take the time to try to understand it in the future, appreciente the info.
I tweeted @synergy and they say a wayland-compatible version is due later this year, so there’s a good chance I’ll just wait and be lazy.

Quite interesting- found it on github, so switching appears to be keybound with rkvm, huh?

Yeah Wayland rules- problem for me is I’m hopelessly addicted to Synergy for mouse and keyboard sharing, and it doesn’t work on Wayland yet>< I’m 100% team red and my fancy new display won’t do 4k@144hz on X11 so that’s frustrating. 144 and no Synergy or 1440p 144hz and Synergy

Sounds like a “you” problem, like you have a VPN connected.

The SMART thing to do is to buy a DUMB TV. Pay a little more and get a real TV- you know. A display, with speakers and HDMI inputs. Nothing else.

No argument there. Right now the realistic choices are standard Android, standard Apple, or borderline broken/fringe products. Nothing “good” yet.

I mean- sort of right, if you’re using un-googled, but I bet you’re not.