Yes, because this administration would never blatantly violate the law.

No wait, they do it every single day when they deny people due process as they get swept up by the ICE gestapo and held without charges, without bail, without hearing, and without legality.

Wake me up when someone is interested in enforcing these laws. Otherwise "has no authority to" is meaningless if nobody is enforcing such restrictions.

Fine.

If ISPs want to take on "Common Carrier" status to keep Section 230 protections, so be it. But then they need to actually be "common carriers" and not choose any traffic over any other traffic, for any reason. They become "dumb pipes" so that they get the protections.

Deal?

And what about the speech protections none of us have when one platform gets to act by different rules than any other platform, simply because "internet"?

Inconsistency in law is a bigger (and very exploitable) problem.

So glad we installed solar in 2022. I'm laughing at the utility rate increases, and we calculated an RoI of about 8 years, which only gets shorter each year.

Exactly.

It's very noticeable how many replies we don't have to this article telling us how expensive solar is all of a sudden. Probably because nowhere near this amount would have been installed, if it were even remotely true.

Even with the headwinds from the shitbag-in-chief opening his big fat mouth and saying shit that doesn't even make any kind of sense, it's still increasing.

Please show us these magical thermal power plants that can get their boilers from ambient to steam instantly without exploding.

It takes hours for a coal plant, burning fuel, to get to temperature. During those hours of burning fuel at full pace, the plant is making absolutely no electricity because the boiler isn't making steam yet to drive turbines.

Natgas is a little closer, but a combined-cycle turbine still takes the better part of an hour to go from not-spinning to grid-synced and generating.

If that's a requirement of a solar generating system, and you don't install some load-shifting technology (like a battery) with it, then you are installing a system that doesn't meet the stated requirements.

That tells us far more about the people who are doing the work than it does about the tech. They are stupid people that shouldn't be designing electrical systems that don't meet the stated needs.

You can always do that, by buying a $40 streamer that hangs off the HDMI port and saying FUCK YOU as loud as you can to LG.

Even an Amazon streamer thingy is better than the shitty software LG ships anyway. Stop using that spyware slow junk.

Oh, so that way it's an obfuscated spy that is stealing all audio happening within it's microphone's pickup range.

Still a giant fucking "NOPE"

"AI Search Experience" is a euphamism for "we vacuum up each and every morsel of data we can aquire from you whether you approve or not, and then spit it all back out at you as advertising"

Fuck that, and fuck them. Do not want.

In which case I open a support case with the manufacturer and say that the device isn't doing it's primary function, for reasons not made clear up front when I bought it to be a fucking dishwasher instead of a browser.

And if they can't make it be a dishwasher, then they get to pay for someone to come out and uninstall it for a very expensive return. And if they don't want to play ball, then I chargeback on my AMEX.

Fuck them.

Or just a router that allows you to say "any traffic going from this device to anything outside the local network goes to /dev/null"

Fuck them.

Which is why I gave the one LG TV I have a connection to the internet, and then black-hole routed anything it tries to do with it other than talk to my local network.

Fuck their updates - I don't use their software anyway, other than to enable control of the TV over HDMI-CEC so the set top box I actually want to use can adjust volume / power on/off. Same thing I do with Samsung since they started enshittifying their TVs too.

But mostly I just don't buy from either company any more.

I don't use my skills for evil, so I won't work for this government regardless of what they might offer. That juice isn't worth the moral squeeze.

I meant to say trademark. So fuck off.