Hurricane Katrina, 2 weeks no power and no internet or cell service. The local store was literally giving the cold foods away, as the coolers didn’t work, but they ended up getting a backup generator in for basic power to the lights and pumps, and they had like a mile of cars lined up to get gas, and buy dry goods and canned goods.

This was back in 2005 ya know, in a small town flooded in and struggling. Even the people running the store were struggling, they had to resort to taking a tractor to work. But we all helped each other, and the store was glad to sell whatever viable goods they had, for cash, and kept up with everything on pen and paper.

In the event of a disaster where the power grid and/or data communication goes down, how the fuck you gonna buy groceries, or anything else for that matter? 🤔

Now that it’s daylight and I’m fully awake, I just verified, that neither our Hisense/Roku TV nor our separate Roku dongle have any microphone in their respective remotes, verified by disassembly, and I disassembled the dongle and verified the dongle doesn’t have any microphone either.

Whether the TV itself has any microphone or not, I’m not quite sure, and I’m not about to disassemble that to find out, nor do I care as that TV will never be connected online.

But I can 100% confirm that neither of our Roku remotes have a microphone or microphone button.

Guess what? It might be the year 2026, but our TV was manufactured in 2022, and the Roku dongle was manufactured in 2019, so the microphone thing must be a newer feature in recent years.

Thanks for the heads up, I’ll never purchase any new Roku device again.

Ignoring our Hisense TV (we’re never gonna connect that online anyways), we do have a separate Roku dongle adapter that is connected online.

I just disassembled it to verify, it does not have any microphone, nor camera.

Umm, then we must have a pre-spyware HiSense/Roku, no microphones to be found here, none that I know of anyways.

Also, no WiFi connection either, so…

Where do you get this information that the microphone is in the remote? That’s about the dumbest shit I’ve heard all year, unless your remote is now Bluetooth or something.

Infrared remotes are output light flashes only, and only work when you point them in the general direction of the television.

Now if I’m mistaken about the most modern ‘smart’ televisions, well just let me know, with reference. Because I’m an infrared hacker, and Hisense and Roku televisions still give to my infrared hacks, output signals only.

Graphene is still only for Pixel phones right now isn’t it? I heard something about them working to expand out to other model phones eventually, wonder how that’s going and how many more devices it’ll eventually support? 🤔

You could take extreme measures like Louis Rossmann has said he does to his phones.

He said he disassembles his phones and desolders and removes all the microphones. He said if he wants to make or receive a call, he’ll use his Bluetooth headset or earpiece.

I don’t see why the same can’t also be feasible for televisions either, aside from how difficult they can be to properly disassemble and service.

We don’t need you. Hell, you don’t even need yourself.

You’re literally working towards a future where machines replace humans.

Thanks for your help fucking up the cause of humans being humans.

• Its scary this technology even exists at all.
• Its scarier to think they’ve been developing and testing this already.
• What’s even scarier, is realizing they probably already have recorded WiFi/XRay (whatever you wanna call it) porno videos as part of their tests…

I had actually effectively nuked my Linux log files permanently on my first Ubuntu install back in 2011. I did that by mapping all the log files to ramfs on startup, and clearing all the logs still on storage to zero bytes.

I didn’t do that out of any paranoia or anything, I did that because I had Linux fully installed on a mere 4GB USB flash drive, so I wanted to eliminate as many unnecessary write cycles as I could possibly manage.

I also set the temp folder and internet cache to ramfs, much improved performance over the typical setup on a USB2 flash drive.

It’s FOSS, not FFOS

Interesting enough, as annoying as Google is about that, I can still access Google Drive documents through Fennec browser (Firefox fork), even on devices never signed into Google (including this one).

It’s sure annoying as hell though…

Working just fine on my phone 🤷

Oh shit, you said high ideas…

https://420waldos.com/

https://www.windows93.net/

I’ll toss a few links into the hat…

https://repairfaq.org/

https://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/

https://acko.net/

Disclaimer: I’m a nerd. Hope you enjoy, and perhaps learn a thing or three.

Try this…

• Force stop the YouTube app
• In the YouTube app storage settings, clear the cache and storage

The YT app, even not logged in, stores your data locally…

I’m no expert here, but I think your problem starts when you said “I open YouTube”

Whether you’re logged into Google or not, the YouTube app still tracks your video watch preferences and such. Try Grayjay instead…

https://grayjay.app/

Don’t worry about magnetic screwdrivers, the drives themselves have way stronger magnets for the head arm actuators.

Glad you found the failing drive though 👍

Interesting approach, makes sense.

Coming from automotive repair and using a section of hose to narrow down sounds.