if you’re paying more than what most people make a month for a fuckin phone, then you should be able to do what the fuck ever you damn well fuckin please with the phone.
No I dont own these afflicted phones, I’m not that rich, I’m just talking on principle
And the kids were hyped over it, like i said.
never know, you’d be surprised the assumptions youtube makes about you based on what you watch.
I watch a couple fishing channels, and it seems that anything outdoorsy youtube automatically registers as conservative republican, and increases the right wing/prageru propaganda significantly during the times I dont have adblock (When I used to use xbox to watch youtube on the big TV, I replaced it with an old laptop entirely to get adblocking running)
and a mutli-hour ad. Who the fuck would watch that, who the fuck would pay to put a multi-hour ad on an 8m video that nobody is going to watch?
People who are hoping to get a captured audience that cant get up and click the skip button for whatever reason.
but like, man, like… its totally new, like, and like, totally amazing man. you just, like, cant comprehend, man!
the 1% is the people who say “well, sure, 99% is a scam, but theres a legit 1% thats totally real!”
“the ads help us make more money above and beyond all the apps who’ve paid us to pre-load their shit on our product”
i dont have an LG, but I’ve only had to firmware update 1 TV in like… the past 13 years, and that was because it had a horrible issue with the image vertically splitting in half and green corruption across the bottom. Which makes you think hardware failure, but it wasnt, the firmware update 100% fixed it for the rest of its life.
So unless you are facing a major, catastrophic issue like that, I’d say fuck updates.
For now. That can change at any time with an update.
Exactly this.
“Smart” TVs never go online, never connect to anything but power and an HDMI, and quite frankly…if it didnt risk causing warranty headaches, I’d open teh fucker up and unplug its wifi antenna too.
Always use an old PC/Laptop/Raspberry Pi/whatever to get them online/on youtube/streaming/etc. You have full control over those devices, and can update them as desired and modify them at a whim.
Fuckin hate smart TVs. a bunch of fucking spyware and adware that just makes the device run hotter and die sooner.
This is the cyberpunk future that the 80s kids were so hyped for.
Youtube: “People are blocking are ads and costing us money, what should we do?!”
The People: “Police your platform and stop advertising scams, hate speech, pornography, and all the other shit.”
Youtube: “I just have no idea what to do, so I guess I’ll just invest millions/billions into making ads harder to block, and make the ads longer and unskippable. You know, Just make the platform almost completely unusable without adblocking”
The People: “YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO, JUST POLICE YOUR FUCKING PLATFORM ALREADY. IF YOU DID YOU WOULDNT NEED TO DO ALL THIS SHIT”
Youtube: “Oh, btw, heres another PragerU video thats 3 hours long and talks about how the black man should be grateful for the white man uplifting them via slavery, followed by a ad thats basically a woman fingering herself to advertise chinese AI girlfriends”
The People: adblocking intensifies
Sure buddy.
Keep it up, maybe you’l get to pay a license fee for repeatedly posting, too.
nope. Just a frustrated, blueballed gamer sick and tired of shit ending in clifhangers with no finish.
Doent help that valve have openly admitted in the past that they have little interest in making games outside of experiments to play with new technologies, who cares about the players invested in the narratives they’ve created and refuse to bring any conclusion too.
Really?
I don’t recall having to pay a fee every time I redownload or reinstall my game…ever
real disappointed all that HL3 hype a month or 3 back ultimately ended up being a big fat fart of nothing.
The North Dakota and Tennesee officers involved in this need to be arrested, and convicted, for kidnapping, abuse of authority, elder abuse, and whatever fucking other charge they can be trumped up on.