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fits my needs posted:lmao you're the same techlord who paid a taskrabbiter to take down a bunch of boxes down two flights of stairs you’re alive! I was worried, because I’d gone several months without you posting about boxes but yes, I was very depressed and had a huge amount of cardboard filling my place, so I paid someone to fill a pickup truck and take it to the recycling center. if it could have fit in my apartment’s recycling receptacle I probably would have done it myself...but maybe not, because yeah, depressed brains aren’t great at motivating that stuff I’m glad your version of it brings you such joy, though!
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Aug 11, 2019 12:59
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lol subjective is a very sensitive tech millionaire but seeing the ridiculous poo poo he gets defensive beive about is a very funny. so it's impossible to say if he's bad or not
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Aug 11, 2019 12:59
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yospos is a land of contrasts everyones just a depressed six and a half figgie plus techlord who has to divorce their wife at some point
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Aug 11, 2019 13:02
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Lazyhound posted:no loving way This has been common knowledge for a while but there were so many smart TV abuses discovered in the same timeframe it's hard to find the source. I'm pretty sure it was LG that was caught doing this but it wasn't brought up in the initial discovery that LG TVs report back all media filenames it can see on your network whether you disable data collection in the menu or not and I'd expect it to be there so it must've been discovered after that. Vizio of course was caught doing the same and agreed to a FTC fine in 2017 and Samsung stated that it uses microphones to record users in 2015 (and just tweeted this year that you should probably run antivirus software on your Samsung TV). The best you can do with TVs is get one with the streaming device of your choice built in since they don't have the OEM tracking and you were planning on using a Roku/Chromecast/Android TV anyway. Of course if you were planning on using an Apple TV then you're back to hoping the software wifi switch in the TV works which has been shown to be less than truthful in the past.
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Aug 11, 2019 13:04
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remember, if you don't pay for it you're the product, and if you do pay for it you're still the product
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Aug 11, 2019 13:05
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LastInLine posted:The best you can do with TVs is get one with the streaming device of your choice built in since they don't have the OEM tracking and you were planning on using a Roku/Chromecast/Android TV anyway. Of course if you were planning on using an Apple TV then you're back to hoping the software wifi switch in the TV works which has been shown to be less than truthful in the past. even this is bad because then if you want to upgrade your roku/chromecast/whatever you have to upgrade the entire tv even setting aside the obvious massive privacy concerns, it works way better to have a dumb tv that never requires updates and just displays images from other sources, and then a separate streaming box, because then if you want to update or change either thing, you don't have to buy an entirely new tv with the correct smart os attached
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Aug 11, 2019 13:10
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Loving my piece of poo poo 55 inch 1080p insignia. It's just a panel and 4 HDMI inputs. I don't even think it does motion interpolation. Cost me like 350 a month or so ago. gently caress 4k.i rule.
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Aug 11, 2019 13:18
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Why buy a TV when you can just buy a big PC monitor with a HDMI port?
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Aug 11, 2019 13:21
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Subjunctive posted:you guys really want to believe that this camp is unbearable for the kids just because they let parents see photos online, don’t you? "Torturous for the children" - nice strawman  Many places doing something doesn't mean it's automatically good and can't be questioned. Being followed by photographers all day every day really takes away from an experience that is meant to be a chance for children to develop and grow as individuals outside the immediate umbrella of parental authority, as well as fostering the idea in impressionable minds that everything you do should be recorded with an external audience in mind who will be judging you on it. Not to mention that the kids are expected to be photographed regularly throughout the day while also constantly showing happiness and joy in every photograph or their parents call the camp wondering what is wrong, as mentioned in the article. Happiness is mandatory, citizen.
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Aug 11, 2019 13:21
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vyelkin posted:even this is bad because then if you want to upgrade your roku/chromecast/whatever you have to upgrade the entire tv Nah, you can just buy your whatever and use that instead. You don't *have* to use the stuff in your TV but it sure is more convenient vyelkin posted:even setting aside the obvious massive privacy concerns, it works way better to have a dumb tv that never requires updates and just displays images from other sources, and then a separate streaming box, because then if you want to update or change either thing, you don't have to buy an entirely new tv with the correct smart os attached This is true but the problem is finding one
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Aug 11, 2019 13:21
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bring back old gbs posted:Loving my piece of poo poo 55 inch 1080p insignia. It's just a panel and 4 HDMI inputs. I don't even think it does motion interpolation. Cost me like 350 a month or so ago. gently caress 4k.i rule. I bet it’s low-latency too, nice. even with all the motion bullshit turned “off”, too many TVs still do who knows what with the signal for dozens of ms and it sucks.
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Aug 11, 2019 13:21
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Enfys posted:Being followed by photographers all day every day really takes away from an experience that is meant to be a chance for children to develop and grow as individuals outside the immediate umbrella of parental authority I’m used to camps with younger kids which are, for better or worse, closely supervised by adults, so that was less of a factor for me. I don’t know what the camp experience is “meant to be”, but you describe something nice so I’m happy to believe that it’s the intent. tbh, it’s also Just Childcare for a lot of families in addition to any enrichment opportunity. I agree that happy all the time is bullshit. we have a picture taken moments after my kid fell off something and had started to cry, where two of her friends are leaning over her to help, and it’s a favourite. those parents have sadly already established that “everything must go right in your life or you’ll be mocked or scolded” baseline for their kids, and I’m sure they were phoning camps about ennui in letters home in years gone by, but it is unfortunate if the camp is reinforcing it.
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Aug 11, 2019 13:33
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https://twitter.com/onekade/status/1160216725549457408?s=21 Are they grooming them to be influencers?
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Aug 11, 2019 13:43
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Rhesus Pieces posted:https://twitter.com/onekade/status/1160216725549457408?s=21 who gives a fuuuuuck the future is digitally gaslighting broken brained rich people by making snapchat filters that re-upload their photos slightly modified with bigger/smaller features jsut completely ruin their psyches with the thought of someone seeing a photo where their chin is extra pointy and it got more likes than their original upload. and you know their entire family is grieving over it lmao
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Aug 11, 2019 13:51
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it's an amazing indictment of society that techbros with all the wealth and accoutrements of modern technology tend to struggle with basic social interactions, depression, and alienation
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Aug 11, 2019 14:12
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You can just go to a pawn shop and buy a decade old TV for like a hundred bucks and it won't have wifi. Living below the poverty line is great prep for this brave new world where you don't feel safe buying literally any new piece of technology
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Aug 11, 2019 14:57
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bring back old gbs posted:who gives a fuuuuuck the future is digitally gaslighting broken brained rich people by making snapchat filters that re-upload their photos slightly modified with bigger/smaller features Do Hollywood style EMPs exist? Could I set up a luddite hippy camp that sets off an emp at random points throughout the day to stop this Panopticon nonsense?
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Aug 11, 2019 15:46
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you could make an EM cage around the entire compound, but that's basically just building your own prison cell
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Aug 11, 2019 15:52
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Subjunctive posted:you’re alive! I was worried, because I’d gone several months without you posting about boxes This is the communism forum not YOSPOS. Post about your middle class sadbrains elsewhere
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Aug 11, 2019 16:36
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lol if you don't think cspam is full of middle class sadbrains
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Aug 11, 2019 16:37
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purple death ray posted:You can just go to a pawn shop and buy a decade old TV for like a hundred bucks and it won't have wifi. Living below the poverty line is great prep for this brave new world where you don't feel safe buying literally any new piece of technology I dread the day when my 12y old 32" Mirai finally breaks. All I want is a tv that doesn't broadcast all the pirated movies and weird porn I watch out to giant corporations.
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Aug 11, 2019 16:55
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bloom posted:I dread the day when my 12y old 32" Mirai finally breaks. judging you would get in the way of making money. shame and embarrassment are anachronisms
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Aug 11, 2019 17:21
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:lol if you don't think cspam is full of middle class sadbrains there are a lot of lower class sadbrains
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Aug 11, 2019 17:45
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the fact that we are posting on the internet at all means we are extremely privileged and should repent with our blood
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Aug 11, 2019 17:56
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purple death ray posted:Living below the poverty line is great prep for this brave new world where you don't feel safe buying literally any new piece of technology
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Aug 11, 2019 17:56
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i bought a 28" samsung dumb tv for the RV five years ago and it still runs great. i live in a shoebox so i dont need a bigger one. and im old so my eyes are bad so 1080p and 4k poo poo would be wasted on me
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Aug 11, 2019 17:56
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Poniard posted:the fact that we are posting on the internet at all means we are extremely privileged and should repent with our blood I think internet is probably easier to find at this point than clean water and nutritious food.
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Aug 11, 2019 17:57
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shitposts get you through times with no money better than money gets you through times with no shitposts
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Aug 11, 2019 18:07
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I think you meant weed, dude. That's a real deep Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers cut there. And it's remarkable how prescient Max Headroom was on the whole TVs watching you business. 30 years ago.
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Aug 11, 2019 19:22
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FRINGE posted:I think internet is probably easier to find at this point than clean water and nutritious food. if i skipped my cellphone plan i could buy, uh, five cucumbers
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Aug 11, 2019 19:24
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Dont worry my cellphone plan is an expensive one and is still only 1/10th to 1/15th if an average rent payment lol
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Aug 11, 2019 19:46
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next thing you'll be telling me that tv's are not the most expensive purchase one makes in a lifetime
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Aug 11, 2019 20:23
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https://twitter.com/Millerheighife/status/1160411467830550528
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Aug 11, 2019 21:42
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of course interactive vr porn would cater to rich people's taste first instead of normal people's.
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Aug 11, 2019 21:45
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Tubgoat posted:Unironically, sorta. not being remotely ironic
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Aug 11, 2019 22:40
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with the deluxe version of the software, Barry returns to the office with a machine gun and you get to do active shooter training.
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Aug 11, 2019 22:49
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Do Hollywood style EMPs exist? Could I set up a luddite hippy camp that sets off an emp at random points throughout the day to stop this Panopticon nonsense? Build your hippy camp in the United States National Radio Quite Zone.
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Aug 11, 2019 22:54
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Subjunctive posted:I bet it’s low-latency too, nice. even with all the motion bullshit turned “off”, too many TVs still do who knows what with the signal for dozens of ms and it sucks. I bought a cheap lovely Insignia TV for $200 canadian years ago and the latency calibration in Crypt of the Necrodancer and Cadence of Hyrule both report 0 ms latency obviously it isn't 0 ms but it's some negligible amount compared to the poo poo more advanced TVs pull if this one wears out I am no poo poo going to buy another Insignia TV as long as they're still similarly capable because gently caress "smart" and image processing bullshit, just show me my goddamn pixels in a timely manner
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Aug 11, 2019 23:11
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I listened to piece on a guy's experience working undercover to take down a telephone scam operation, and god drat, scammers are empty inside."NPR posted:FERNANDEZ: There was this time a victim called, and she had already lost about $60,000. And she was crying. She was crying, saying that, I have to go to Salvation Army to get food. You took all my money. Like, I have nothing. And they actually put it on speaker, and they started laughing. Using laughter to dehumanize your victims is just such a sociopathic concept. I know that often we talk about the horrors that big businesses wreak at a much larger scale, but the people who do the whole thing with a personal touch are really something else*. *Although the line between scammer and big business starts to get blurry in some cases, like banks knowingly giving loans that couldn't be repaid, milking fees out of customers, and selling off debts to extortion artists, as well as how many of these scams similarly benefit from the same lax legal standards that were cultivated in the name of making big business thrive
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Aug 11, 2019 23:34
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SlothfulCobra posted:I listened to piece on a guy's experience working undercover to take down a telephone scam operation, and god drat, scammers are empty inside. don’t a lot of these scams hinge upon the victims being greedy in some way. probably makes it a bit easier to justify
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Aug 11, 2019 23:37
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