Oh yeah, that’s the problem… All the companies falling over themselves to give out extra discounts to consumers.

“Why is the government stopping us from charging our customers LESS??”

Also, IUDs are not particularly risky. That’s just bad marketing.

Please don’t put water on a grease/oil fire.

Yes! This drives me crazy. I will sometimes go back and edit posts to add more info months later.

We have all been in a situation where we are looking for a very specific answer, and the answer only exists in one obscure forum from a decade ago that has the exact info we are looking for.

It’s hard enough to ensure lemmy’s long-term fidelity without people axing their own content.

Never heard of Scout or seen the logo, but that’s a big swirly poo, right? I’m not crazy, am I? This feels like being punked.

It’s most definitely a poo.

You forgot they called it Bing in the middle too

I believe that is correct as far as lemmy goes. The AP protocol is open by nature, but there may be a private implementation —I’m not sure.

There are several Discord-like projects, but I don’t think they are federated.

Wait, I knew about the potato, buy I didn’t know you can play doom on doom itself! How does that work?

On the other hand, this is how companies fall. In my area, many small businesses are foregoing Google entirely. SEO is expensive and complicated, and so are websites, map prominence, and most of the things Google sells. They’re not worth the investment.

Mostly, companies are shifting toward Meta products, so it’s not as though everything is hunky dory (want to know when that hip new boutique is open? Don’t bother with the web search, just look up their Instagram). There is a very real threat of collapse if Google keeps up the antics.

Exactly.

Not the flex he thinks it is

I see what you’re going for, but… No thanks.

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I feel like this is a “baby in the river” scenario. You know — after the third or fourth one, you should stop just diving in to save them and go look upstream to figure out who is throwing all the babies in!

We need to stop saying “wow, another person abused their position and inside knowledge to make money on polymarket.”

Of course they did. Polymarket is practically purpose-engineered to be abused by people with inside knowledge. It would be more shocking to discover that no one was abusing it. It’s basically a casino that lets you bring your own cards from home. I honestly don’t understand why it wasn’t shut down a long time ago.

Always a concern. They will eventually require a Walmart account I guess. I’ll have to remember to disable updates.

Well… People have been doing this with Raspberry Pis and Kodi forever. Add a bluetooth remote and you basically have an open source streaming box. You could even install LineageOS and run all of the android apps you want.

I got some cheap ONN boxes, Which seem like the best value for true Android TV devices. If you have the funds NVIDIA Shield TV is probably the way to go.

It’s possible to skip the Walmart account login at setup, but probably not possible to skip the Google account sign-in (let me know if you find a way!).

Setting up side-loading is trivial, although largely unnecessary. I loaded Stremio, Jellyfin, and a VPN for better streaming experience and control. I replaced the default home screen with Projectivy Launcher. You don’t need to go into ADB shell or anything like that. There are also other home screen launchers that fix the major problems with the default GoogleTV screen; Emotin UI (closed source), FLauncher (dormant), Leanback Launcher, ATV Launcher (closed-source).

There are lots of options for web browsing, File Explorer, on-device media, stores, etc. that are easily available.

Roku is another prime example of enshitification.

Now I have all my “smart” TVs disconnected, and I hooked up some inexpensive Android TV boxes (with a couple minor modifications). No more ads!

I have no love for the Iranian regime that has killed tens of thousands and oppressed millions. But Iran has been strategically ahead of Trump from the start.

They view themselves as a 3000 year old civilization and they will always outwait their foes. The only leverage against an enemy like that is the threat of imminent destruction. It seems that ship has already sailed.