Roku’s slide into corporatism kinda hurts. I really liked their product and their lead developer came from the Amiga Universe.

Is the recommended ONN streamer (see above) as good as the Roku at all the same shit?

I honestly don’t now. I haven’t owned a Google Streamer since the Asus days.

The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters only after injustice sufficiently compromises order.

Baby toys with tiny parts, jewelry loaded with lead, and clothes covered in dangerous chemicals. Which do you think it is?

Nah, it’s a pittance. No one should be simping for a $50 billion dollar company, especially when that company is built around abusive labor practices and dangerous products.

LLCs are pass-through entities and not corporations. Thankfully no pass-throughs have been granted personhood yet.

Limited Liability Companies are expressly discussed in the article and the court filing.

shouldn’t a few rounds from a mig 29 be able to bring a balloon down without any effort?

Nope. The U.S. did this to the U.S.S.R. constantly during the Cold War and the Soviets had less than a 5% success rate shooting down the balloons.

The US struggled with the one from China three years back. In the end it took an F-22 and a very expensive missile to get the job done.

I think I read that licensing for the transcoding or something was the hang up.

There’s several problems. Transcoding is one but there’s also issues with content providers requiring the use of their own apps along with Linux not (until very recently) being able to use any HDMI spec beyond 2.0.

I’ve been a ROKU user for over a decade but the last year has had me thinking more and more about boxing up my devices and sending them to their HQ with a note “Since you treat these like you own them I figured I’d just send them to you.”

I am really REALLY tired of them dicking with my boxes and updating / reconfiguring things however and whenever they see fit.

There isn’t enough AI code out there (yet) to cause this. IMO what’s really happening is that AI Code Review is finding vulnerabilities and creating ways to exploit them way faster than they can be patched by Human Dev teams. An easy example of this is the Linux exploits like Dirty Frag that came out last week and the week before.

It’s going to get worse before it gets better.

If that happens, that hypothetical progressive government would put guns on a back burning.

LOLNO. There isn’t a single leftist / progressive politician currently in office in the United States that would willingly “back burner” the 2A issue. That is not going to change in my lifetime either. They want them gone.

It wasn’t widely known to the general public. If you were / are new to the community it’s highly likely that you don’t / didn’t know.

As someone with a BL P2S I really appreciate other people helping with this fight. I won’t buy another BL product but I’d like to keep using the one I already have.

The current cost for what they’re calling “windows 365” is $99/yr per user.

Windows 365 Enterprise basic starts $31 per user per month and goes up from there.

I suspect you are confusing Windows 365 with Microsoft 365. The former includes a virtual (Cloud) PC and licensing for Windows and Office, the latter only provides Office licensing. Additionally the price point you quoted makes me think you are looking at Personal / Home pricing because Commercial & Government Office 365 pricing is calculated per user / per month and will vary wildly in price from $10 pu/pm to $50+ pu/pm.

For getting a big pile of money from the state and deferring contributions to city pensions?

Me neither!

Mint has worked fine with my 1060, 2060, and now 3060.

First the US isn’t mentioned in this article. Second this is NOTHING like Minority Report. Your comment is dumber than a bucket of hair.

It’s not enabled by default.

Since we’re whipping out credentials, I’ve been in IT almost 30 years and I can tell you it’s not going to work like that.

I’m not the person you were replying to but I’ve also been in tech since 1996 and lots of things have worked just like that. All successful technology starts off barely functional and improves over time until nearly all members of it’s intended audience can successfully use it.

As an example in 1996 setting up a router was a specialty task that required training, by 2016 any moron could buy one off the shelf and have it running in an hour. As another example basic HTML was a specialty skill in 1996 but by 2003 you could do it with Microsoft Word. Smartphones are another example, they went from barely functional Windows Mobile and Blackberry devices which required ridiculous amounts of back end skill to deliver email to iPhones and Androids that any numskull can use for nearly anything at all.

My point is this; too many people are stuck on the “What use is a newborn baby?” question without realizing that the infant is growing-up at blinding speed. It’s also the first technology to carry the promise, real or not, of self-improvement when it reaches sufficient maturity. Assuming that happens all further improvement will be increasingly automatic and happen even faster.

AI isn’t going away and it’s only going to get better as time goes on.

A comment up above says that in Canada the age limit is 50.

Yep it’s tiring but comment aged link milk because the very next day a bill was introduced to Congress.