Username checks out. Your own article you linked dispels this.

the opt-out mechanisms implemented on LG and Samsung smart TVs are working

A better solution is to disconnect your Smart TV from the internet entirely… Smart TVs cannot utilize ACR when they are offline.

Funnily enough, the Rivian CEO talks about exactly that in this interview

In that scenario, we would be using one ECU to do everything I just described. In this case, it’s a much larger computer, but one computer. It’s a massive simplification for how we think about software development and also drives a lot of cost out of the vehicle because instead of 70 to 80 little boxes — little computer boxes with wiring and connectors and everything else — we have, in our case, seven.

So when one small thing stops working, you now have to buy their proprietary, expensive ECU instead of a cheap little microcontroller.

Arcade racing: Burnout Paradise

Sim racing: Assetto Corsa

• We’re fucked
• We’ve always been fucked
• Everyone’s always been fucked
• Everyone is close to being really fucked

That’s just not true. It’s transphobic to make it a big issue. Normally when you don’t want to sleep with someone, you don’t go out of your way to tell them and cry about it. You just… don’t sleep with them.

Not surprising, considering Tesla autopilot sees trains as a bunch of semis bumper to bumper.

“Hating on anything the Nazis did is stupid because they can build ok cars”

Doing one ok thing doesn’t negate the fact that Meta is one of the most evil, unethical hellholes of a company. Anything they touch is absolutely rotten.

Literally sounds like a teenage boy who spent too much time on 4chan

Yeah, for sure. As frustrating as it may be, I’m always understanding with the support agent. They’re just doing their job, it’s not their fault there’s a procedure they need to follow.

Lol wait, I’ve had to do that too. I think it was for a dead pixel.

The worst for me was with the Nexus 6P, the last phone before they rebranded to Pixel. There was a known issue with the battery, where it would die when the phone said it was at like 50%. I jumped through all their troubleshooting hoops when it was obviously a hardware issue. They eventually agreed to send out a replacement and I was assured it wouldn’t have the issue. Lo and behold, it did the exact same thing as soon as I got it. I went through all the trouble shooting again and they sent ANOTHER replacement that still had the issue. I was so fed up and just kept requesting to talk to someone higher up and they eventually just sent me a Pixel 1 to shut me up.

Contacting IT is always my last line of defense and I get unreasonably frustrated when they refuse to help without walking me through basic troubleshooting. It’s like, I’ve already figured out the cause of the problem, just tell me where the button is to fix it. The worst was when I had to RMA my Pixel phone and they made me go through every step I’d already been through just to come to the same conclusion I initially came to them with.

Tell that to my wallet. I hold a little crypto and it’s down over 50%

AI is just what crypto bros moved onto after people realized that was a scam. It’s immature technology that uses absurd amounts of energy for a solution in search of a problem, being pushed as the future, all for the prospect of making more money. Except this time it’s being backed by major corporations because it means fewer employees they have to pay.

True, but there’s also just something cool about being able to do it on actual hardware, like that one guy getting VR to work on the N64.

You’d have to remove the DRM protection to get the same results. But by that point it’s no easier than ripping a blu ray, and with ripping you get the added benefit of having a physical copy.

It’s the classic “get people hooked with a free service then force them to pay”

That’s basically how the Android app Tasker works. You do the programming through its UI, but when you export/share your tasks, they’re saved as xml

That is fucking amazing (pun intended)

Only because they haven’t figured out a way to do that yet