It was probably tainted.

Those shit-pissing fuckwads can take my offensive language when they pry it from my cold, dead cunt.

Dammit.

Yeah, Eternity (the Infinity fork for Lemmy) is comparably new.

I’ve really been enjoying it.

May be called hairpinning depending on the device.

I’ve seen a lot of those and tend not to go there. Good luck to them, but I hate the gimmicks.

I visit the farmer’s market pretty often where it’s families selling things they grew or made. I like the tomatoes there and I get to buy better meat that isn’t factory farmed. There’s a regular independent grocery store where my parents live. The prices are a little higher but the produce tends to be better (mostly fresh and local) and there’s actually a butcher in the meat department. Those kinds of places are dying.

Do you mean greatest as in most grievous or greatest as in most awesome?

I’m full l having flashbacks to Fantasy Empires. I don’t know if I ever had the manual. I think I just got a list of words from someone.

True, but if it ain’t a mom and pop sized shop then it ain’t my business. Go on down the road to the store that came in underpriced in order to drive out ma and pa so they could raise prices once those stores are out of business.

I killed an old exchange server with an auto reply to a coworker who had an auto reply to me.

Those were the good old days.

I was specifically talking about what the original commenter said.

with proper support, privacy, customization options and no crap like ads

Dumb TVs are already a thing as mentioned elsewhere. Commercial Displays cost more but you can beat someone to death with them and they’ll still work.

I’m with you on hoping for more options. I’d hate for my next TV purchase (hopefully years from now) to be forced online under the guise of firmware updates to steal my viewing habits.

We used to put warm beer, ice, and salt in a cooler to cool the beer down quickly on Friday after work. It worked great for that.

Order them well done, or if that’s too much you can order light-well.

No hate from me but two is almost too many people for me. I love my SO, I just have a really hard time being around anyone for any length of time. Different strokes for different folks.

This is news to me. I was too cool for everything at the time and still enjoyed it.

Same. I played it on stadia and it was pretty stable. When I went to that other site to see what people were saying I was absolutely shocked at the amount of bugs and hate it was getting.

If you don’t want kids to have participation trophies don’t give them participation trophies. You didn’t go out and buy yourself a trophy for everything, did you?

How many more times? If a regular TV costs $100 then they’re making $20k plus marketing data. The PrivaTV would need nearly a $7000 markup for the same return.

Obviously these are made up numbers for illustration. I think that for big manufacturers it’s not worth it for the return and amount of effort they would need to spend. Maybe a small manufacturer could do it. Maybe that would spur the big guys to buy them out and take it over once the hard work is done.

I think they know it, I just don’t think they care. It’s a niche market. On top of that, they’d have to convince the people in that market to trust them.

If they can get a 10-20% return on 10,000 Smart TVs, why waste the effort on properly developing and supporting 3 PrivaTVs (patent pending, exclusions apply, see your local drunk for details)?

I could be wrong, I just don’t think the market is large enough that they’d be willing to throw manpower at it.

Sadly no one would find it because of SEO.

That’s a classic. We did it for a while. We moved on to all out warfare.

We had a script that backed up the current desktop exactly the way it was then changed everything about it. It would change all system sounds to the original My Little Pony theme, change the background to a Friendship is Magic wallpaper, change the mouse pointer to a tiny pony with trailing sparkles, and remove edit rights to those files from the account using it. To get things back to normal you had to take ownership of the affected files.

One guy couldn’t figure it out and disconnected his internal speaker because someone had set up some policy deep in the system where he lost sound settings. I don’t know how that worked. Apparently neither did he.

Another guy worked remotely the next day so his computer just kept playing the song while he was gone.

The guy who created it didn’t get a normal birthday cake. The boss got him a My Little Pony birthday cake that year.

What a lot of folks didn’t realize and never asked about was that there was a reversal script in the user folder.