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Yes, this works actually. I recently bought a Samsung Frame and was very annoyed by the ads in the interface. I now have a Raspberry Pi running PiHole and it removed almost all ads. Sometimes I still see an ad, then I know it's time to update the block-list of my PiHole. When looking at PiHole's logs, it's unbelievable how many requests the TV sends to Samsung servers. These are blocked now luckily, but this TV (and I suspect other Samsung TVs as well) is a real nightmare with regard to privacy. It's the first time I actually read all the privacy statements on the TV. The remote has a microphone (for an 'assistant' called Bixby[1]) that I absolutely do not want turned on, but it's very unclear how to disable it. I wish I could buy a dumb TV.

[1] https://www.samsung.com/uk/support/tv-audio-video/how-do-i-u...
You've missed out on the substance of the discussion too, then.

Expensive enterprise SSDs make crash-proof data protection automatic. Consumer SSDs require the host system's software to explicitly flush the write cache when necessary. This tradeoff works extremely well in practice, and consumer SSDs don't have serious data loss problems for consumer workloads. Enterprise workloads that are much more paranoid about syncing every single transaction cannot safely use consumer SSDs without unacceptable performance loss, but that certainly doesn't mean that consumer SSDs are playing fast and loose with your data safety.
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Hard but doable. So far everything hardcoded of that sort has been successfully extracted (or leaked). I don't think they'll be adding expensive TPM chips.
There are professional displays (e.g. panels used for conference centres, offices, etc.) which are usually large and have no smart features.

But you can forget about common TV features like HDR support, DTS/DD audio decoding, usable remotes and other useful features.
I concur. This is also likely the reason why Oculus stopped selling the Quest in some EU countries. Their planned EULA update will make it impossible to use the device without a Facebook account, which might make them legally liable to provide a refund in case anyone complains about it.
I don't trust most smart TVs, that's why I bought a dumb TV from TCL. If I want any fancy smart functions, I'll just connect an android box via HDMI.
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Not working for me either. Firefox 80.0 on Linux Mint 20. Dragging outside svg's doesn't do the trick either.
The most obvious and direct reason for this is corona - what's the point of attending college if you don't get the full experience? I imagine despite your political affiliation, you want your kids to actually experience college for all it is and not just attend a bunch of self-help courses where you're responsible for teaching your self.
Precisely Amazon is one of the few companies that make this explicit with their Kindle, here the Paperwhite without ads costs 10€ extra. I'm curious, does anyone know other examples?
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I have a Samsung TV and the best decision I made was buying the Apple TV; right now I don’t care about the applications it has, the fact that Netflix has been removed for my model as it’s already 4 years old, etc.
My next TV will be as dumb as possible as Smart-TVs are a pain in the ass and never as intelligent as an Apple TV or similar.
I've been using DuckDuckGo exclusively for several years now. But while privacy is a nice thing it has never been the No.1 reason. I just prefer their search result page design much better. I love customization options. I like !bang searches. And I almost never have been unhappy from search results.
I think if your main value is privacy and nothing more, you're lost. Most users would value privacy, but it's almost like pie in the sky thing, that's vague, hard to define, hard/impossible to prove and most importantly you don't "feel it" right away. Quite contrary, using google will give you "better" ads. But some small annoyances (like design flaws) are provable and feelable immediately and will mostly win or loose you an user.
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Worth noting that Sony also produces Android TVs AFAIK which I guess have the same prob. My older Bravia doesn't, but then isn't all that smart ;) and the lcd technology is outdated.
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Yes, and based on my research, Samsung, Sony, LG, Panasonic all connect to NetEase servers in China, if you grant them internet access.
Once I got above a threshold compensation package where my time became far more valuable than occupying it with attention-grabbing activities around driving and flying, I came to appreciate trains. I can see how this calculus can change yet again back to valuing money more than freed-up time when one has a family though, if one were strictly evaluating as homo economicus: non-working spouses and children can add significantly to travel costs. However, I've frequently seen families prefer train travel for the time spent together it engenders, with one challenge being coordinating travel logistics once at the destination while wrangling children (ride sharing has alleviated that, I'm sure).

On the super-long transcontinental trips, apparently the cell reception with the right gear on trains is much better than when I rode half the country westward many years ago. That makes the train travel mode even more valuable to me if I'm not on a tight schedule and the seating arrangement enables me to look forward to getting work done.

What prevents me from using trains more than I do is the demands of many clients upon my time. Not quite lucrative enough for me to justify a satellite data link, but if my financial picture improves by many orders of magnitude, a digital nomadic life with a private railcar set towing shipping container footprint custom structures as a "home base" that I operate vehicles from would be an enjoyable way to my mind to get deeply into locales, while staying in touch with the Net and maintaining full fabrication capabilities with me.
> The bigger problem is that at some point there will not be any "idiot box" models at all. The TVs will refuse to work if they aren't seeing the Internet. Then we'll be truly fucked.

We're closer to that than you think. My Philips Ambilight television (purchased this year) throws a popup every few weeks already complaining that I've not completed setup and connected it to the internet.

As sold as I am on Ambilight (it is actually brilliant), I wont be buying another Philips television.
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The Optane half of the H10 doesn't need power loss protection capacitors, and the QLC half of the drive doesn't have room for them. Intel has stated that their caching software for that drive will sometimes send writes directly to the QLC half without buffering them on the Optane half, so the package as a whole does not offer enterprise-grade power loss protection and shouldn't be listed as such.
I’m not sure I follow, perhaps I’m missing some context. Can you elaborate?
I have a GSYNC LG OLED who has never had internet and it's connected to a barebone PC.
>Why not make freight fast, too?

Money. Most goods need to be on schedule, not fast. More speed costs more money.

>These standards were written in the blood of thousands of people who died or were severely maimed in accidents.

The standards were also written for a world who's conditions were very different from those of today.

I know that you can score easy virtue points by pretending like any rollback of regulation that is intended to protect something is a bad thing but let's be real here. With modern signaling infrastructure there's no reason that dedicated passenger rail can't be equally safe or safer than legacy passenger rail that has to be interoperable with legacy signaling systems and freight rail.
Do they have sound?
I never said to focus on TikTok. I’m saying they aren’t mutually exclusive at all.
That in turn reminds me of a challenge [0] that was set to find the filming location of a video somewhere in the rural US. It was made significantly easier because they were filming a solar eclipse, but still impressive how people can do this kind of thing when determined enough.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGqEBvlmFAQ
just thinking what would happen if I block connection to Ads services in my router...
Sounds like fox news denialism
Yes, that works! I have a Samsung Frame + PiHole. Incredible amount of network requests are blocked now.
But only clones on write, which is a useful optimization.
> A common root of the issue, I believe, is looking at already successful products and imagining how they could be iterated upon or diverged from in new and interesting ways. Such divergent ideas are often very reasonable, good even, the problem is that they require the same scale to work as the products they are based upon.

This assertion just assumes there's no room for optimization and / or improvement on already commercialized products and that the originating company got everything right in the first place.

A product can be sold a ton of ways. Slights tweaks to the strategy and / or to the product itself can sometimes be game changing.

That's not because a product is successful at huge scale that it can't be successful at smaller scale.
I wonder if there are aspects of this that would make it difficult or impossible to port to, say, the Esp32 microcontroller? An inexpensive and ubiquitous hardware implementation would make this perfect!
+1. Also, chats imply a semi-synchronous conversation, which IMHO is the worst of both worlds. Talking to people 1:1 is disruptive, but at least very efficient. E-mails are slow, but very non-disruptive. Chats are slow, inefficient _and_ almost as disruptive as talking.

You could use them in an async manner I guess, but Slack isn't really made for that, it's clumsy as an e-mail replacement.
On the Mac I have 2 input sources configured (one with, one without dead keys) and a shortcut to switch between them.
> A smartphone, you mean

I actually mean a mobile phone, because I don't know anyone who only has a "dumb" phone. A know a few people didn't have a smartphone for a while, but they've all got one now.

Maybe some of my great aunts don't have a smartphone, but everyone else I know between the ages of 11 and 70 does have a smartphone with WhatsApp installed on it.
It’s more boomers AND TikTok. The whole enchilada. Wave after wave. That’s the scary part.
They're being intentionally vague. Their argument is that they're only mapping from palm to credit card number and mobile phone number, which isn't the same thing as mapping from palm to real identity name (unless you also link to your Amazon account). Which belies the fact that it's much easier to map from a credit card number or mobile phone number to a real identity name.
That's another design flaw of this terrible mess that is "Ethernet" and these horrible protocols that we cannot change ever
In cars, you usually just connect your phone with a cable. I would be happy to connect my phone to a TV and then just have it mirror the screen.
You might find our Polish workplaces a refreshing change. Employees are often treated like feudal peasants.

Poland never really had bourgeoisie/townsfolk class. Jews were the closest, in part because they were forbidden by law to own land.

It was almost entirely peasants and gentry(20% at most), with clergy also playing a big role but the last two would pretty often overlap.

The time when social changes happened in Europe Poland spent partitioned, under foreign rule. Progressive changes, like freeing of peasant class, were often imposed, even by Russian tzars. They were rarely a result of internal consensus.
I don't see any recent TV-specific CVEs for Samsung but it would be surprising if none exist.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=Samsung
That, and the fact that I have a keyboard shortcut to switch quickly when I need.
Sadly google has started serving ads on the android TV home screen, which will presumably affect the shield.
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In the UK contractors actually have to be very careful to bill for deliverables and not just for time sitting on a seat.

The HMRC's IR35 regulations would regard someone who just comes in and does whatever is asked of them as a "disguised employee" where as those who have fixed deliverables can be treated as external suppliers (even if they bill for the number of days it took to deliver).

The difference is subtle but very important.
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i declined any agreement i could on a Samsung TV and it does not show those large banner ads to me but sometimes it shows some smaller ad near the source selection area. It looks like if you are paying enough you still get a spot there.

Whats more it constantly installs some partner apps and puts them for quick start into the menu sometimes removing the applications i actually use from there in the process. I prefer using these apps for Netflix and co but every time i plugged it into the ether i feel like i should not and a fear of it getting even worse somehow.
I have a 7 series TV and it came with some arguably bloatware apps but I could remove them (from the menu, not uninstall them, which leaves me with not even a few mb to install Spotify). The one thing I can't get rid of is a stupid program guide I have to go over when going from sources to settings. That's it so far. I'm in Europe and disagreed with any data collection they asked about.

Does it now even still do the ACR? Are they going to retroactively install me ads? Are there specific domain names one should block? Alternative firmwares?
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Not the same at all given the sophistication of targeting allowed.

Yes, ads have always been this. But no, it’s never been like this.

All that data on the internet is being used to train algorithms to sway global sentiment. This emerges as bots, ads, interactions, content. It’s mind blowing.
There are several large sites which are famous for poor UX and content quality which consistently rank high on Google. Like Pinterest, w3schools to name a few. That has been talked about here on HN also many times. Those are too prominent and obnoxious to assume Google Search isn't aware of it.
Was it first proven that it's possible to unambiguously determine the world seed given the information in the PNG or were they just lucky?
I don't know how old you are, but I'm old enough to remember when the Berlin Wall fell. I'm sure you remember 2019, when it seemed impossible that international travel would essentially shut down.

The seeming inevitable isn't. Things change.

> this is starting to look like it's going to be just one of those very unfortunate facts of life

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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TVs can refuse to get the EPG over the air and insist on getting it from the internet. I'm not aware of one where this happens, though.
It wouldn't have to be some form of virus to be deadly though, right? Something like prions or unlike anything we know could be equally (or more) deadly to us or even all life on earth. Our imagination is quite limited in this domain and well let's hope it stays this way..

(not that I find any such scenario to be even remotely likely)

Edit: well, that's basically what's being said in a parent comment
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I think people really underestimate how complex autonomoous driving is.

Even the best tech today can only drive reliably and safely in good daylight weather conditions, with no chance of protests.
"The aspect that stands out most about recycled plastic products is the beauty of their appearance. What is often overlooked is how strong and durable they can be."

The first traditional popsicle decks in the world to be made from 100% recycled plastic!
Jason from MANDIN put years of development, testing, failing and refining into making it happen.
I worry that these manufacturers will collude with xfinity to do an "iot workaround" to exfiltrate "customer preferences"
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It’s not a possibility that another company is doing it, it’s about the state actors involved in doing it and otherwise unknown parties. In the end it’s no specific company that is responsible as the aggregate whole of all data available and the mechanisms to algorithmically control content is the sophistication of manipulation going on today.
Plastic is not biodegradable, which is what is desired from an environmental perspective. But it is photodegradable [1], which results in eventual breakdown to microplastics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photodegradation
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does that apply to uber drivers too?
Why does English has all those random "s" at the end of the Greek-borrowed words? AFAIK, most other languages that borrowed the same words don't have those.
There have been rumors about TVs connecting to open wireless networks.
It sure does.
What you’re describing is exactly what’s going on. Cambridge Analytics was the smoking gun. That unraveled what sophistication of technology is being used to mine the internet and control sentiment.
That's pretty much what a pi-hole is. According to my friends who use a pi-hole to filter their connection, it makes almost everything ad-free
I've tried to look it up and it seems that ZFS doesn't work on OpenBSD. Is it some new development?
Well, it was 10pm when they started. I was planning to pay a locksmith not for someone to break into my apartment.

But I have to admit that everything was paid for by insurance. So at the end it wasn't much trouble and now it's just a good story.
The reason is that the U.K. is not Sweden. Nobody knows why Sweden was so relatively mild, but the fact that the U.K. had a worse outcome even with a lockdown strongly indicates that their no-lockdown outcome would have looked more like NYC or Lombardy than Sweden.
makes me want to give up TV
"an estimated 140 mph if behind schedule" - the Mallard set the steam speed record of 126 mph. Perhaps you're thinking of kph? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Class_A4_4468_Mallard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Railroad_class_T1 says "there was a drawback of the metallurgy used; the poppet valve could not withstand the stress of sustained high-speed operation (meaning over 100 mph (160 km/h) on production T1s)."
The problem isn't that it's "so good", it's that it's "usually perfect".

Most California weather driving is very mundane and boring. ...but the moment you throw an outside variable into the mix - the computer cannot identify objects, and therefore cannot predict outcomes.

We're still teaching them to recognize Stop signs. How are they supposed to distinguish between a floating plastic bag and a 5 year old child?
> Everything that goes on within it is designed and controlled and can be explained by _a_ human.

Emphasis on _a_ human.

I've heard that there's so many layers of abstraction and obfuscation, that there is no one person who can explain thoroughly every layer of a modern computer, from the volts in the bits, to the web front end, through the cloud.
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Motorists kill more motorists than they do cyclists. Did your car calculation include the odds of getting hit by some other moron in a car while you were driving to your destination?
In some stupid meeting somewhere:

A: ...and in conclusion, it's a win-win situation. Users will benefit from ads and our revenue will go up.

B: People don't like ads on their TV.

A: But they do. I refer you to slides 18 through 25 where you can see engagement metrics for our ad rollout on the old model. If people wouldn't like ads they wouldn't be clicking on them so much .

B: I don't like ads. Do you like ads on your TV?

A: No.

B: Does anyone here like ads?

A: That's not the point. No-one here is in our target group or representative of our user behaviors.

C: Ok, if there are no more objections we're going with A's plan then. B, can I see you in my office after we finish here?
This is an article from March. Has Samsung responded? Are ads still being shown?
As everyone else replying has already said: option 2 is fine.

However, your option list has enough glaring omissions that it seems as much of a hit list as the article:

1. Eliminating disposable packaging is a worthy goal but reducing the harm of individual disposable packaging materials is always going to be part of the solution in the medium term, and there is PLENTY of innovation in this area. Not least in less environmentally intensive disposable yoghurt containers.

2. You keep repeating "recyclable" but never "reusable". e.g. ceramic is also used for yoghurt containers where I live, as well as glass, and it's common to see both types of familiar-looking pots reused throughout households.

3. Other commenters have mentioned larger containers (which incidentally is what I do). Reusing every reusable container might become unwieldy if you're buying a few dozen single-serves per shop but if you're consuming that much yoghurt then big containers are going to be much better in many ways.

4. I haven't seen this happen with yoghurt just yet but it's extremely common to have bulk stores with refill facilities for milk, syrups, honeys, peanut butters, dry foods & washing liquids, so I see no reason this couldn't happen for yoghurt.
Being a ZFS (on FBSD) user myself, it is a bit sad that everyone seams to forget NILFS2 (checksum s for Meta and Data)
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How do you force WebOS to default to HDMI? I replaced my parents TV with a LG LED last year, and it defaults to showing "No signal found" when turned on, then you have to switch to HDMI.
> Then there's quite generous warranty for 2 years, up to 3 years, but that's when things break.

I disagree with describing this as 'generous'. A TV manufacturer should guarantee that the TV will not develop a manufacturing defect for a minimum of 3 years, if not longer. I have CRTs that lasted decades (plural) without issue, while I've had multiple LCDs fail in under a decade.

There's nothing generous going on here, they're systematically making inferior products in order to drive an increase in sales.
Of course it has a huge drawback: opportunity cost.

If you look at two recently constructed wind farms in The Netherlands[1][2] then by a conservative estimate the offshore one costs around 5 million/MW compared to 2.5 million/MW for the (mostly) on-shore one.

That conservatively gives you a cost difference of around 1.5 billion for building it offshore. Or around 1 million EUR per the 150 turbines that make up Gemini.

So yes, I agree with you about the importance of preserving nature. I just think it's a better investment to place 150 relatively low-footprint turbines around the country and use the 1 million leftover EUR for each one to expand the public land around them into a park or outdoor area.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windpark_Noordoostpolder

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_Wind_Farm
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