Why is "buttonless" being said like a good thing?
zod000
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Yeah, I was legit impressed both with the brazen threat of the hackers as well as Europe for somehow becoming a galaxy spanning union.
I don't disagree at all, but it is still a distinction that should be made clear, especially for people that already own such devices.
Sure no problem. I just found a link that talks about it if you were curious to read a bit more. https://spur.us/blog/smart-tv-apps-residential-proxy-sdks
These are the same SDKs uses in a lot of PC and mobile games too. This explains why bot/scraper traffic has exploded in the past couple of years. My small company's site gets well over a million hits a day, about 4% of that traffic is valid. It's total bullshit.
I get why they do it, but I also hate it.
Just so I am clear, everything I have read about the residential proxies in TVs (heavily leaning towards LG and Samsung) has been that they are baked into the shady apps the smart TV platforms allow you to install, not that LG or Samsung are directly running said proxies. This is obviously still very bad, but it isn't LG or Samsung doing it as much as not preventing it in any way, which they obviously should be doing. This is just what I am aware of though, do you have any additional info/links that point to them doing it directly? I'd really like to know, as I have two LG TVs. I have one locked down to an internal subnet and just use Jellyfin, but the family still likes using Netflix on the other one and I'd like to know if the proxies are essentially unavoidable rather than being tied to those shitty "ad free" games.
I wouldn't, but many of my friends that I finally convinced to switch to Linux would definitely consider it. They switched specifically because MS went too far and made things too awful, and gaming in Linux is now quite decent. They aren't using Linux for the open source philosophy, or to tinker in ways that Windows blocked decades ago, or even the free price tag.
Based on the crazy shit that Dario says in public, they probably already are making them and he got first dibs.
Fractal POP XL Air
I've seen that case, where do the optical drives go? I didn't see a visible slot for them.
The only thing worse than a ghost is an upper class ghost always talking down (haunting down?) to you.
This is very close to my exact PC build. I bought in December of 2024 because I was sure Trump with fuck everything up with his tariffs. While that ended up being true, AI bullshit made it far worse.
I actually just got one of these things (https://www.xteink.com/products/xteink-x4) that has a 4" screen (WITH BUTTONS) for $55 on Amazon and I kinda love it. I think my perfect phone would be something this size with GrapheneOS support and a headphone jack.