In Socal we’re scanned by more than 18 cameras just driving 8 miles to Costco.

Trump’ll drop the lawsuit like a hot potato.

Keepass & Syncthing has worked for years without an issue, even though my DB is opened on multiple devices at once. It is rare (once or twice a year) that I have a minor, easily solved sync problem.

When Logmein acquired LastPass in 2015 I moved to Keepass and haven’t looked back. If the word enshittification existed back then it would have applied perfectly.

Clearly all that’s needed is a couple of vats of Ivermectin.

Every accusation is an admission.

Add a big dose of Ivermectin and people Magats will be lining up out the door.

I start with DDG, but it’s far from a complete Google replacement.

I’ll make sure to give your opinion all the consideration it deserves.

Not convenience, I am choosing to pay the content creators. Outrageous, I know…

It seems a good part of Mozilla’s problems keeping users are actually being caused by Google. Besides the constant incompatibilities introduced by Google there’s this:

This is Firefox’s CPU utilization when just looking at Google’s search page in a private window since Google turned on AI by default. My laptop literally gets too hot to be used on my lap. The exact same search on Chrome takes less than 2% CPU. (Yes, I know about Duckduckgo.)

Recently disabling native AI features in Firefox significantly reduced CPU use, but a couple of days ago it shot up again only when on Google’s search page.

I prefer to pay the content creators for their work.

XDA is the authoritative source for rooting information by a wide margin. I only did a cursory search before realizing root wasn’t needed so there’s no question the info I found online (on Reddit or somewhere) was wrong.

You’re undoubtedly right that enshittification will make its way into this device, but hopefully we’ll have a few years before that happens.

The one I bought can be rooted and I had planned to do so, but found it wasn’t needed.

You can use ADB by itself, but this tool makes debloating a breeze. Deleted packages can be easily restored if you make a mistake. ADB needs to be running for it to connect. Be aware the remote is a Bluetooth device so don’t make my mistake and turn BT off.

They’ve upped the price I see to $19.88 in the last hour. The nearby stores are now out too. What prices are you seeing?

Move them to a cheap Onn Android TV device. You can configure it with a completely clean interface with no ads at all, and no asshole company’s changing the menus constantly once you install an alternate launcher. You can also debloat it like any other Android device and shut off most of the tracking (as much as is possible with Google involved anyway).

I bought my first one yesterday. After configuring it and seeing what a massive improvement it is over Roku I bought a couple more today. 2K ones are on sale for $15 right now.

The Fox acquisition was the last straw for me too. I’ve watched Roku go from a user-friendly streaming device to a front end for an advertising company. A couple of years ago it became so irritating it finally pushed me to implement an Adguard Home DNS sinkhole after years of thinking it wasn’t worth the trouble. Roku has also made it difficult to block ads, big gaps are shown in the UI when you do, and some apps can’t be updated without disabling Adguard and downloading a bunch of Roku’s ads too.

Yesterday I bought an Onn streaming box (Android TV) and it’s like going from a abacus to a computer. After a couple of hours configuring, loading a new launcher, and using ADB to debloat I’ve got an ad-free, clean interface with much of Google’s tracking disabled (at least as much as possible). Even better, some things (like the remote’s volume control) work that never worked with Roku.

It was such a breath of fresh air I just ordered a couple more ($15 for the 2k model right now) and will have completely dumped Roku by the end of the week.

It’s been a long time coming.

Why are we still pretending Trump, Gabbard and the rest of their ilk are not Russian assets?

You logged in yesterday and there was no response. It seemed you were ignoring the questions. Sorry to make that assumption.

You’re right, that’s really disturbing and there’s no reason to verify age for every single app. It’s just another government shot across the bow for open source apps.

You make an unsubstantiated claim, then fail to answer all questions about where it’s happening or who is sending you the notification and what’s involved.

I call bullshit.