Yup. I did this with my Vizio TV and it worked great for a while. Then the TV started rebooting mutiple times a day. If i disconnect it from the WiFi or let it have full internet access the problem stops. It seems that their "Smartcast" app will crash and force a reboot if it can't phone home when it wants.
I paid good money for this TV back when Vizio wss considered a good brand and I hate to retire it just for this, so I've given up my nice Home Assistant integrations and it's just a disconnected dumb TV now. You can't downgeade the firmware either so they've essentially killed the smart features for me. Should be illegal.
Yup, this can get used for very scary stuff. As you said it's low bandwidth, but since edge devices are more powerful that's less of a limitation than you might think. A TV could easily do speech to text, rough ACR, and device fingerprinting all locally without any internet connection, then summarize and compress that data for a daily or weekly upload. No need to send the large data itself, just a a small report that's a few KB in size.
Read up on Amazon Sidewalk. I'm not saying your TV is using it, but with 5G and mesh networking companies are finding ways to get data back to them without relying on you.
What? Even if you're right that CSAM was included in training data (and that's highly debated), it would absolutely have been inadvertent and due to the Internet dragnet style of training. I don't know where you get the idea that AI companies would ask for more CSAM and drive up demand to "improve" their model.
What do you find bad about the 9? I bought a used 8 to try GrapheneOS on, but the HW isn't as good as my S23. I was thinking of maybe going to a 9 or 10 if I could make GOS my daily, not just for the better cameras and ultrasonic FP reader, but the desktop mode on the 8 is god awful. The output is so heavily compressed and only does 1080p, DeX just crushes it.
I haven't read the books, but have heard recommendations for the show. I tried to watch it, but had to turn it off after the first three episodes. The visuals were great, but I found the writing and dialogue to be really bad. So many heavy handed references to that girl being smart. Counting prime numbers for fun while swimming or something up to an impossible number, etc. There were other things but that's what I remember for some reason.
Usually when I notice something like that it persists, so I stopped watching. Did the dialogue bother you and did it get better, or is this just a subjective a taste thing?
Same. My small town high school wasn't even in a farming community, but no one said anything to the leatherman wave I had on my belt.
I'm sure if In was showing it off or brandishing it around I would have gotten told to leave it at home, but I was responsible so it was never an issue. Got bullied, never once considered reaching for it as a weapon.
We have a societal failing right now where people for some reason think violence is OK. A knife, a gun, a car, or a hammer can do incredible damage and people should treat them all with the respect they deserve. If citizens start thinking about "arming themselves", even when they have easy access to such tools, we've already fucked up.
You're bang on that religion encompasses more than just faith. They've been around so long that those institutions carry within it culture, community, art, etc.
Since you're on the fediverse I'll use the analogy of Reddit. It had incredible communities, talented people, and wealth of knowledge, but it wasn't on the right course so we left. Now we have to build all that up again. None of those things were intrinsic to Reddit, they were just collected under it's roof.
So back to religion, recognise that generations of people of all talents lived under it's roof and I think it's perfectly reasonable to enjoy it's art and philosophical teachings (when applicable). We live in a go-go-go world right now that doesn't give people the time for reflection and introspective thinking, and religions often did. What you shouldn't do, however, is assume that gods have any relevance today. They are nothing but superstitions used to explain a confusing world, and then harnessed to control populations. Religion itself deserves no respect.
I loved the "idea" of the Chromecast and used them exclusively for over 5 years. However the implementation was always the issue. Phones would always disconnect leading to the inability to control it, and after recent updates, kill the stream mod session.
A hybrid approach is the best IMO. A remote for ease of access and quick things, plus casting for when you alreay have your phone out and want to use the better interface.
I unfortunately can't remember the video and I stopped watching after. The opening scene was him going on and on about maps and unfurling big maps dramatically for the camera. He got a bunch of facts wrong, people caller him out on it, he did sort of a non apology thing and then kept on being doing his thing. He's basically a videographer who does "reporting" to fill his videos.
All MHBHD brought to the table early on was YT polish, back when tech channels were about the tech. He gave surface level reviews for a "The Verge" style audience. I think you could always do better than him or LTT, regardless of any controversies.
I've been following @imaqtpie and your posts in this thread (haven't looked through your history) and I think you are both making reasonable but unpopular statements. Much of the problem seems to be different goals and investments in conversation from different parties.
You guys are raising what you think are rational nuanced views on controversial topics, assuming others will respond with their own take, pushing back on your ideas in some cases and validating you in others. This is the "healthy debate" ideal, where there are no high stakes, just banter among friends or like minded individuals who enjoy fleshing out ideas and learning.
The issue is you're not sitting in a living room with people you know, or at dinner table with a mix of acquaintances and strangers where you can read the room. You mentioned this in your original post, how the text format of social media can be more challenging than face to face. I posit it's not only the fact that you can't read body language or have to give your whole argument in mini essay form instead of conversational chunks, but the fact that the "dinner table" is actually composed of a flow of people with different motivations, dispositions and attention spans.
Social media is often likened to a town square for this reason. You have huge reach to get your "message" out, but the kinds of conversations you're having are not ones that you would likely print off as manifestos and shout/distribute while atop a soapbox in real life. Yet, that's what can happen in a place like this. You start a conversation in a small sub thinking it's a dinner table, then all of a sudden everyone and their dog is there and has an opinion.
If you imagine yourself on a streetcorner engaging random passerbys then it starts to make sense. Sure, some regulars stop for a friendly chat each morning and engage in constructive banter over a coffee before going to work, but others are just waiting for the bus, or walking their dog, and they hear fragments of your conversation and are upset by it. They didn't agree to your terms of debate, hell they don't even want a debate. They just heard you say something slanderous and are pissed! They call you a name, flip you the bird, and walk on in disbelief that someone like you could be so ignorant and spew your backwards views on innocent bystanders. Why, you must be some kind of radical. You have the panflets and are saying discriminating things, what's your motive? It can't be good.
You on the other hand are shocked by this engagement and are crafting a rebuttal. What are they talking about? Which part of the conversation upset them? Did they misunderstand your point or miss some context? You prepare a whole speech but they're gone. Your reply never reaches them because they weren't in a debate to begin with, they were just walking by.
As I write this now, twice I've thought about stopping and deleting it. Not because I don't stand by what I'm saying, but because I'm lying in bed typing on my phone, and what would have been a 5 minute conversation has now taken me over 20 minutes to type with my thumbs and I'm going to be late for work. I'm replying to a the bottom of a comment thread so many layers deep will anyone see it? I know you will, maybe @imaqtpie, but that's probably it. Was it worth it? What do I get for all this effort? It's easier to not engage and just leave you two hangning.
In your case you probably get a lot of downvotes for your effort and negative reactions, which have to be discouraging. But again, I think that's all you can expect when you realize that the vast majority of people aren't like you, aren't your friends, and aren't at the same table. If it's possible to enjoy debating for the few people who do come by and enrich you, while sluffing off all the low effort jabs and thumbs down, then the soapbox might be for you. Otherwise yeah, it doesn't seem worth it.
Anyway this has turned into quite the ramble. Cheers from a guy who enjoys talking on his way to work.
iPadOS has really a really good music production ecosystem. I bought Loopy Pro and 3D printed a mount for my MIDI keyboard. It's now a dedicated MIDI controller / looping interface.
Update: I just saw that CrossPoint has has an affiliate link, and that if you buy the reader direct from the manufacture you can still get unlocked USB devices. It's only on the international stores like AliExpress that you may get a crippled version. https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader
It's an interesting question that I think is highly subjective. Exclusivity could also play a part In your ring example. Was the grandmothers ring bespoke? If so, even a replica will still be "two" of a kind and I could see the sentimental attributes remaining. However if it was a mass produced item then the only special part was that it was hers, which the replica has lost.
I personally am OK with digitising photographs, and sometimes even pictures of items, because the memoroes they spark are most important to me, however a physical object definitely does have an extra kick if it's special enough.
In the end sentiment is not very logical, and I think because of that we can never have a true answer.
I was interested in them but all the listings on AliExpress expressly said they didn't support custom firmware. I started looking into it and it seems to be something theu did after they got popular.
But XTEINK is actively working to combat the flashing of open source software. It seems they had a spike in sales and interest due to their affordable hardware, but if they continue to lock aftermaket software out tech savvy people will be looking for different options.
Update: I just saw that CrossPoint has has an affiliate link, and that if you buy the reader direct from the manufacture you can still get unlocked USB devices. It's only on the international stores like AliExpress that you may get a crippled version. https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader
Yup. I did this with my Vizio TV and it worked great for a while. Then the TV started rebooting mutiple times a day. If i disconnect it from the WiFi or let it have full internet access the problem stops. It seems that their "Smartcast" app will crash and force a reboot if it can't phone home when it wants.
I paid good money for this TV back when Vizio wss considered a good brand and I hate to retire it just for this, so I've given up my nice Home Assistant integrations and it's just a disconnected dumb TV now. You can't downgeade the firmware either so they've essentially killed the smart features for me. Should be illegal.