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- Comment on Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs 1 week ago:
It might stop some depending on the block lists you have. You would have to set a firewall rule to block all other DNS, DoT and DoH servers so nothing can bypass your block lists. Blocking DoH servers is hard because it looks just like HTTPS. Even then, it could still connect to a hard coded IP address instead of doing a DNS lookup.
A better option would be to use an IPS to detect and block suspicious connections from the TV. Ideally, you would just keep it offline though.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Why does a car need an app anyways? I assume it’s just a way for it to vacuum up more personal data from your phone.
- Comment on Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand 1 week ago:
They can’t turn on a webcam that doesn’t exist. I have no intention of connecting one to my desktops.
- Comment on US | Seattle, home to Amazon and Microsoft, poised to pass moratorium on new datacenters 4 weeks ago:
That probably just means a larger bribe will be required.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 1 month ago:
I certainly won’t be upgrading until DDR6 memory is available. My PC still runs everything I need just fine. I just want a more energy efficient CPU. Mine uses 80 watts sitting idle.
- Comment on 'Think twice before posing with hand signs': Experts warn of fingerprint theft 1 month ago:
You leave your fingerprints on everything you touch. Fingerprints should never be used as the only authentication factor for anything important.
- Comment on YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts 2 months ago:
Does it remove every trace of shorts like the browser addons do?
- Comment on Senators Ask Tulsi Gabbard To Tell Americans That VPN Use Might Subject Them To Domestic Surveillance 2 months ago:
VPNs are good for torrenting without getting nasty letters from your ISP. Self hosted VPNs are good for securely accessing your home network remotely.
- Comment on Your Antenna TV Shouldn’t Need the Internet — But Roku Made It So 2 months ago:
They aren’t trying, they already did it. ATSC 3 broadcasts are encrypted in a lot of cities in the US. The FCC should have never allowed that.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Just don’t allow the students to have their phones when taking tests. They could be left in another room out of bluetooth range or be put in a faraday cage to block the bluetooth signals.
- Comment on “Educational” AI YouTube videos accused of teaching kids to play in traffic & eat toxic food 2 months ago:
What do you expect when the AI is trained on reddit posts?
- Comment on AI-Generated Passwords Are Apparently Quite Easy to Crack 4 months ago:
Any password manager worth using will generate secure passwords. There is absolutely no reason to use AI for that.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 4 months ago:
Around 25% for a 1080p 30fps youtube video played in MPV. Power consumption is about 10-12 watts. A video with hardware acceleration uses about 8 watts.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 4 months ago:
Software decoding is an option. My Thinkpad T480 can play 1080p AV1 if the bitrate isn’t super high. That’s a mid range business laptop from 2018. It’s the encoding that really needs hardware acceleration.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 4 months ago:
That doesn’t help with all the content that’s been encoded in H.264 over the last two decades though.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 4 months ago:
Hosting and development would just move to a country that doesn’t allow software patents.
- Comment on Ring is always recording and uploading to their servers, even with you're not paying for the subscription 4 months ago:
Cameras and DVRs should always be on an isolated network.
- Comment on Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardware 4 months ago:
Printer drivers have been deprecated on Linux too. CUPS will eventually drop support for them.
- Comment on Kiss goodbye to 8K as support from the TV industry 'dwindles' 4 months ago:
The screen size needed for 8K to make a difference doesn’t fit in a typical living room.
- Comment on YouTube seems to be blocking background video playback on Samsung Internet, Brave, and other browsers 4 months ago:
It works fine in Firefox on Android if you switch to the desktop site.
- Comment on Musk's Starlink to allow consumer data to train AI 4 months ago:
It’s always an opt out. Making it a mandatory opt in will never happen in the US.
- Comment on Musk's Starlink to allow consumer data to train AI 4 months ago:
There is an opt out. Sign into your account, go to settings then privacy preferences and uncheck the AI training box.
- Comment on This tech could keep EVs from stressing the grid — and save everyone money 5 months ago:
Using your battery to help stabilize the grid is going to put a lot of extra wear on the very expensive battery in your car. Whatever it saves you on your electric bill won’t be nearly enough to cover a replacement battery when it wears out much faster.
- Comment on Rumor turns true as Spotify hikes Premium subscription prices in the US, Estonia, and Latvia 5 months ago:
A lot of high school and college stations play music. You probably won’t hear many of the more popular artists, but they do play a lot of indie music.
- Comment on Rumor turns true as Spotify hikes Premium subscription prices in the US, Estonia, and Latvia 5 months ago:
In the US, non commercial educational stations are not allowed to have paid advertising.
- Comment on Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info 5 months ago:
I can’t even remember the last time I put a music CD in my computer to play it. I always rip them to FLAC and add it to my music player library.
- Comment on Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs 5 months ago:
Yes, it’s useful for things like text to speech that doesn’t sound like a Speak & Spell or motion detection that doesn’t go off because a bug flew past the camera. I consider stuff like LLMs that will lie to me useless though.
- Comment on MSI's fifth-generation QD-OLED gaming monitor embraces RGB stripe subpixels — 34-inch display boasts enhanced text clarity, boosted brightness, and improved black levels 5 months ago:
It’s about time someone made an OLED monitor that’s usable for more than games and movies. I can’t stand reading text without subpixel antialiasing.
- Comment on I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop 5 months ago:
Mod Organizer 2 works great on Linux. It’s a bit trickier to install due to the way Proton works, but there is an installer for it.
- Comment on I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop 5 months ago:
Linux has been very good for a long time. It’s just gaming that didn’t work very well until DXVK came out and Valve started putting a lot of work into it and Wine.