wolvoleo

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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
No this is isn't just a US thing anymore. Every TV has automatic content recognition now, of some kind or other. Even in the EU.
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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
Why?
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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
Yeah and my worry is, TVs like this can use sidewalk to connect to when they are not provided with internet access by the user (either but plugging into ethernet or connecting WiFi). Leaving the TV with an always-available exfiltration chan
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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
Google staff might follow you but their actions speak otherwise. Closing off AOSP, convincing OEMs to lock their bootloaders. They really want to consolidate control over Android.
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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
Yeah but everyone buys from ali because it's much cheaper and you get more protection. The ones from Xteink are more expensive. It's sneaky that they're trying to cash in on the success of the custom firmware that they had no
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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
We shouldn't really want a silicon valley. See how much trouble the US has trying to get meta to stop abusive practices to minors. Not having a silicon valley is a good thing.
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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
And yet pretty accurate :)
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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
Oh yeah I didn't catch that, that's interesting. I wonder where the money is coming from.
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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
Isn't that just basic QoS?
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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
It was an optional part but without VoLTE you just could not call with 4G. For that the phone just switched back to 2G/3G. That's not a sustainable solution because 2G/3G are getting switched off. And it doesn't really h
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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
Yes but that's my point. Monopolies don't last. We have other ones now yes. But that's because the earlier ones died. And yes we still have windows as the major desktop OS but don't forget, in the 90s/early 2000s wi
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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
Remember when we thought IE's monopoly could never be broken? Or windows? Anything can and will go down. Nothing is forever.
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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
They could for a while but what's the point if it's not sustainable? Google is not going to turn around and make it more open again. With every Android release you will build up more feature base to replicate. Unless you cut all t
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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
Yes I think this is the main reason for WhatsApp's popularity in Europe. Our providers were hanging on to sms as a cash cow and they were pretty much the most expensive bits you could send. Malicious providers like kpn in the Netherlan
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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
Well that is if that user uses Google messages. I certainly don't even have it installed.
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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
In LTE and 5G there exists no cellular signal without data. That was a 2G/3G thing. Since 4G everything is data. The separate sms and voice services are gone. And 3G is rapidly being deprecated.
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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
Seriously, I don't see a mediocre android provider like Motorola running and maintaining a hard fork. Forking is all easy, keeping it up to date year after year as codebases diverge is a whole different story. I could see Samsung doing
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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
Yes RCS is a pig with lipstick. Invented by the carriers to recoup some control over instant messaging, then abandoned and picked up by Google for the same reason. They're the ones that added encryption to it. It was always meant to be
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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
They basically have opposite goals to Google so I don't imagine there will every be good feelings there. There shouldn't be. Yes Google wants android to be secure, but the problem is that to be truly secure it should be secure fr
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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
> Everytime u stream or buy, records of ur activity are created, and profiles are shared with brokers. Unfortunately this applies even if you pirate. Your own TV you bought with your own money spies on you these days through automatic co
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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
Yeah but I don't care about that. I'm not here to make the system work. It's skewed against us consumers anyway.
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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
Well some people have always been pirates, but when Netflix offered a comprehensive catalogue for a decent price very few people still bothered to pirate. That was a big break from the early 2000s when pretty much everyone here in Europe pi
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by wolvoleo 1mo ago
Buddhists don't eat meat for religious reasons. And lentils do taste very good yes. In Spain they make a really nice lentil broth. Though the traditional version has meat in it, it can easily do without. It's just that in Spain me
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
England is a European country. Just not EU.
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
Good but they should pull the rest too. Not just this small bit.
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
> Tech industry circles nowadays are sometimes tinged with individualist selfish "take whatever you can" thinking, and anarchic or even underhanded methods. Including the thinking "an express no doesn't mean no, if i
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
Hmm yes but the equipment cost moat is artificial. This scarcity was created by the big AIs by buying up all the future production capacity. That works for a while but it won't last forever. It's the same with the subscriptions. L
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
That's a good point. Somehow I didn't think of that.
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
Yes but on the warthog the discs are very far away from the pilot. Or pretty much anything else that matters. The fuselage can take a lot of a beating.
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by wolvoleo 2mo ago
The problem is they can come out at up to a 30 degree angle so that would mean leaving out a lot of seats especially on a wide body quad-engined plane. Even on a narrow twin you'd already lose like 6 rows which makes it basically unvia

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