This is exactly the point I’m making. Once a few companies effectively own the market, what’s stopping them from programming their devices to communicate with each other without user knowledge? I remember seeing some post about a reddit guy asking why his Samsung (or other smart brand) dishwasher was using several GB of bandwidth daily.

You’ll have to rip the networking chip out pretty soon to stop them from sniffing out and connecting to WiFi or other devices connected to the internet.

The new problem is AI running on the TV taking the images sent to it and processing those separately from everything else, and using that to see what you’re doing and watching.

I had to look it up. The RAM I bought 12 months ago for $99 is now $350. This is insane.

I really miss that “I’m feeling lucky” button. I found a lot of good music with that.

I’m using a Moto G Stylus 2023, about to upgrade to the 2025 version if they have a good sale on Black Friday. It has expandable storage with a Micro SD Card and a standard headphone jack, plus a built in stylus which is nice.

I just copy and paste things into the terminal until whatever I wanted is installed and running.

Something tells me that won’t stop someone from getting in trouble for misusing his name. Straight to deportation with you!

Sir that’s called sexual assault.

Risk vs reward. I could see reddit swinging either way depending on which they think smells like more money.

Probably because OF gets a lot of their business through promoting on Reddit.

I actually still have mine somewhere. I didn’t use it much, though.

I’m still waiting on my Soundband headphones.

500Hz … OLED

I don’t have the money for this.

Christian Right:

Write that down!

CEO probably cheated when he played Monopoly too.

Unfortunately, this is exactly what is turning (and has been turning) the US into a shithole country.

Another reason why I’m glad I made the switch to Lemmy.

If you aren’t ready to fully commit to installing it on a hard drive, you could probably make a live USB stick of Linux. There are installers built to run on windows that will install Linux onto a USB drive, which you can boot from after turning off your PC. That way, you don’t need to worry about wiping or resetting an old computer just to see if you like it.

Unfortunately, most Windows users are not tech savy and will never move to Linux, regardless of how user-friendly Linux becomes. It would take large-scale retailers switching their computers to have Linux pre-installed instead of Windows before any meaningful transition happens.