• hirihit640@sh.itjust.works
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    14 hours ago

    FYI: this video has zero actual substance. It’s just advertising upcoming videos and asking for support. Which is fine, but for a 30 min video I expected more.

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    A bit click baity. They won’t get sued.

    I have some very specific examples where I can prove MS teams is scraping conversations and selling data. Twice I’ve had meeting about very unusual specific chemical compounds where I was then solicited by synthesis companies within 48hrs.

    Don’t discuss novel IP on Teams.

    But the TV market is highly competitive and they are all basically the same thing (sorry nerds). You would think a truly disconnected TV would be a sales feature at this point. Unless the TV business is not actually about selling you a TV.

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      Don’t discuss novel IP on Teams.

      Because my company forces us to use it, and because I know they’re both watching every conversation and believe it’s kept only within the company, I feel no compunction to keep company secrets off of there.

      They had Mattermost set up and working well, but somebody in the C-suite got FOMO.

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      There’s a bunch of products that clearly aren’t selling to consumers anymore. Cars were the first one I noticed, about 15-20 years ago. When I was growing up, cars came in an absolute rainbow of colors. Ever since the early '00s, all the colors have disappeared, except corpo friendly colors like white, grey, gold, silver, tan, black, and the occasional blue or red. Almost no green, orange, or yellow cars even exist anymore. The car manufacturers don’t care about us consumers buying a single car. They’d rather sell a fleet at a loss of profit per unit, but so many units they don’t care.

      The same thing is happening to electronics, TV’s, and to a certain extent, housing. If you want a “dumb TV,” search for a “commercial display panel.” You’ll pay like 3 times more, but those don’t have the intrusive data collection crap.

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        You can also buy computer monitors up to about 32" to use as a TV. Above 32" all the OLED displays seem to be curved or ultra wide.

        Also projectors don’t tend to have smart features.

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    I never bought the whole bullshit line of “The device could technically be recording you, but it isn’t. Trust us.” Good on GamersNexus for doing the legwork to prove it isn’t true.

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        Well… No. And opamp output is fully different than an opamp input. They aren’t reversible.

        The electronics would have to be specially designed to be a transceiver instead of just a speaker output (I mean, they definitely can do it, it just is more work and more cost)

        It would be 10x cheaper just to put a microphone in it.

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    Smart TV’s are terrifying. I’m still rocking an old 2008 flat screen that can’t handle 1080p…

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      i only got rid of my 20in CRT television about two-and-a-half years ago.

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      I have a “smart” TV. It wouldn’t let me get past setup until I put it on wifi, so I spun up a hotspot, then immediately killed it and just plugged in a micro PC running Linux to the HDMI port.

      Occasionally, I’ll sit on the remote and a pop up happens saying I’ll need to connect to the Internet for <feature> to work, but that’s about it.

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      2011 TV here, it thankfully is 1080p capable, and I’m clinging onto it for dear life. If anything in it fails, I’ll definitely be attempting a repair.

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    I have a newish TCL that runs android’s TV OS and I’ve never connected it to a network and it never has bothered me again about connecting. I am sure it’s recording our convos but it isn’t uploading them at least.

    I did scramble a few settings like a BS static IP, a BS DNS, gateway, etc.

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    This is almost as exciting as them just coming right out and saying “New Merch Drop”, which is to say very.