Is it true that it's full of furries?

I've always taken issue with smart TVs and their probable accelerated obsolescence. The TV vendors are not motivated to maintain or update the software on old models, instead focusing solely on next years model. That seems OK, until they intentionally fuck over the consumer.

This was born out for me personally just last month. I own a few Vizio Smart TVs. Their smart apps were being supported by Yahoo!, strangely enough. But, after several years, Yahoo! was discontinuing support for the smart apps(Amazon, Netflix, Plex...). That's fine and understandable. What's not fine nor acceptable is that on the deadline date, Yahoo/Vizio wiped all perfectly functioning apps off the devices. The apps all ceased to exist with the recommendation to buy new TVs.

Fuck Smart TVs! I want a display screen with a built in digital tuner. Everything else is a scam and spyware.

In an interesting aside, switching from from the Yahoo! Amazon app to the Apple TV Amazon app brought be unskippable ads. While there were no ads when watching through the Yahoo! Amazon app, every Amazon show via the Apple TV Amazon app has unskippable ads. Makes me want to sail the seven seas.

It's hard to believe these numbers.

Government spending shows up in GDP. With the MASSIVE recent government spending, I feel like there should be more than 0.1% GDP growth without tech.

That's not to say that GDP growth due to government spending increases is good. Quite the opposite, that sort of artificial GDP growth is very bad. But, I do feel like the over spending from the last two administrations has been done with significant specific intent to drive GDP.

Who is the audience for an 8 minute commercial?

I'm certainly not watching it. I doubt their putting that on TV either. So, WTF?

Can you setup a Mac without an online account(iCloud)?

I'm not opposed to these technologies, nor even their use.

I'm strongly opposed to the imbalance of power that is created when authorities and major corporations are the only ones that have access to the total body of data.

If I could perform facial recognition on Jeff Bezos or Senator shithead and track their movements for the last few days/weeks/months, as easily as they can me, then I'd be fine with it. But, it's a one way street where they can use it against me and there is a massive power imbalance.

If it's the worst in decades, then the more accurate though redundant headline would have been "The worst ever".

So 230 people from every fucking country on the planet?

Or is it thousands of smog-spewing-shit-stains from a handful of self-righteous and hypocritical countries planning to tell us what sacrifices to make?

Fuck every single one of them with a hot poker.

Daikin is available in the U.S. it is overshadowed by the Chinese Gree in the lower cost market.

Time to buy stock in Japanese air conditioner companies!

What are the top selling brands in Japan, Panasonic, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Toshiba???

WebKit from Apple? This made my knee jerk. How could they have forgotten KHTML?

Then is realized that it's been like 20 years since WebKit started. 20 years?!?!

Pissy publishers should be happy to hear that AI agents will now be viewing their ads.

Now, the advertisers might not be so happy, but pissy publishers should STFU for awhile.

-- Microsoft

Farming is constantly under attack over environmental issues. Cow farts causing global warming. Excessive water use. Run off and water contamination.

Most of the attacks are hyperbole based on cluelessness and misinformation. But, the mob mentality against farming is terrifying. I don't know what the pearl clutchers plan to eat.

I will totally believe it when I say it.

There has been an awful lot of $500 billion promises from the tech sector lately. I don't believe a word of it.

openAI seems to be at the heart of all the bubbly news lately. There are too many promises and too much irrational exuberance.

I want to defend the IT crew. Defending against ransomeware is not easy and recovery is a huge undertaking. It can really happen to anyone.

But, LandRover Jaguar do seem to be making some epically shit decisions on an industrial scale. The vehicles are garbage and look like shit. The advertising is unbelievably laughable. Management decisions are highly questionable...

If they survive at all, it will be a miracle. IT will take the blame. Of this I am sure. But, I am personally loath to blame IT without so much as a root cause analysis and post-incident review.