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One we have more direct control over as Americans which we can influence by policy. The other we can't. "All it does is X instead of Y" is a naive oversimplification.

They're not really the same thing, but it all depends on what's most important to each person.

Now people also need to stop buying those Chinese streaming boxes filled with IPTV piracy channels. They do the same thing and most likely worse things. Samsung can only control the apps installed on their TVs.

At the end of 2025, analysts examined several models of the popular SuperBox device available from major retail stores and online marketplaces. The findings were deeply concerning: immediately upon powering up, the devices began pinging the servers of the Chinese messaging app Tencent QQ, as well as the Grass proxy service — effectively renting out the owner’s internet bandwidth to third parties.

Better to be bald than balding

Imagine leasing a laptop for only X number of charging cycles allowed.

Sounds like a way for a "glitch" to occur

Shout-out to Spectre TVs

I feel like something like yubikey that requires physical touch to the device would also fulfill this?

I don't trust that these photos and videos won't be used against us in some way later like advertising or tracking.

Are you okay?

Insulting lemmy for jobs while being on lemmy is moronic.

People having concerns for this stuff is how we have things like the fucking platform your on and many other things. You have too much shit to be grateful for to be saying some absolutely moronic shit like that.