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Facebook is free too you know. Subjecting your brain to consumerism brainwashing is itself a cost.
by Pristina 8y ago
Facebook is free too you know.
Subjecting your brain to consumerism brainwashing is itself a cost.
- Scoundreller 8y agoAt least with the HD antenna, nobody knows you're watching (with a dumb TV anyway... and with the microphones ripped out of every inter-connected electronic device you have).
- hamandcheese 8y agoIt may be possible to passively detect what channel you are tuned to. I’ve read anecdotes of billboards scanning cars as they pass to determine what FM station they are tuned to, however I can not find a source. Similarly, though, radar detector detectors definitely exist.[0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_detector_detector https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_detector_detector
- microcolonel 8y agoI mean, distinguishing an attenuation related to receiving a signal from an attenuation from literally anything else seems a bit difficult, though I would imagine much simpler with radar.
- toast0 8y agoThe way to detect receivers is by detecting the characteristic radiation from the most common type of receiver circuit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheterodyne_receiver#Local_oscillator_radiation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheterodyne_receiver#Local...
- mikestew 8y agoIt's how radar detector-detectors work. If they can tell if you have a radar receiver, I imagine turning a knob is all it takes to change it a FM radio detector.
- untog 8y agoThen only tune your TV to PBS, that way the rest of us will get to avoid having this tedious conversation yet again.
- wideasleep1 8y agoHmmm, I take it has been a few years since you've visited PBS..
- RobLach 8y agoWhat’s up with PBS?
- Fjolsvith 8y ago> Facebook is free too you know. Only if you give away your privacy for free.