I just don’t use the smart features. Maybe it’s because I run Pi Hole, but I don’t have any ad issues at all using Apple TV.
There are ads on YouTube TV, the normal ones you find on broadcast TV or cable, and that is all.
I just don’t use the smart features. Maybe it’s because I run Pi Hole, but I don’t have any ad issues at all using Apple TV.
There are ads on YouTube TV, the normal ones you find on broadcast TV or cable, and that is all.
Weirdly enough, not yet.
Why would a telecom company care what the content of the bits they are being paid to transmit?
The volume I can understand.
I posted a link to B&H photo and it found a couple
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I have experienced everything said here about USB drives failing.
What I do now is I have a pair of identical 6TB USB drives set up as a mirrored RAID.
So far so good. It has been a couple of years.
So you use Android? Or Huawei?
Surely not.
This picture does not look like what happens to a car when it is hit by a train
Marketing people achieving the opposite of the desired results
If they recorded at that speed for 1 hour and played it back at 1 frame per second, all the time since the Big Bang will have passed before they get through 40 minutes of recording.
Dammit we need a law against slap suits
It was better than X
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Here you go.
Pi-Hole
Combined with unbound
https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/
Will help loads
And it says that they are selling your personal data, including your personal conversations to target ads and to law-enforcement
WTF does that even mean?
Sure they are selling your private conversations, but I only care about the fact that they had to store it to do it?
What do you mean? Just because that set themselves up with a one click “accept all terms” agreement that gives them the ability to be judge jury and executioner? How could that be bad?
Google tracked the other links too.
So there’s that
Enshitification
As someone who owned a 1993, a 2000, and a 2008 BMW in succession, I cannot believe anyone would buy the pieces of crap they have turned into.
I stopped buying them when they started piping in fake engine noise into the cabin and dropped all pretense that the cars would last beyond the lease period (I don’t buy new cars).
It looks like they have gotten much worse.