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Bingo. Shield pro, and blacklist the MAC address of the TV and NEVER update the firmware.

I’d wait for one of these.

iOS DID have Yattee, but it’s basically unusable at this point unless I’m doing something terribly wrong on my end. Every time I try to use it, even when signed in, I get errors no matter which back end I use.

That’s the Steam Deck.

Because “AI” isn’t actually “artificial intelligence.” It’s the marketing term that seems to have been adapted by every corporation to describe “LLMs…” which are more like extra fancy power guzzling parrots.

Its why the best cases for them are mimicking things brainlessly, like voice cloning for celebrity impressions… but that doesn’t mean it can act or comprehend emotion, or know how many fingers a hand should have and why they constantly hallucinate contextless bullshit… because just like a parrot doesn’t actually know any meaning of what it is saying when it goes “POLLY WANT A CRACKER…” it just knows the tall thing will give it a treat if it makes this specific squawk with its beak.

Scrolling to find out what “EE” is… I can’t find anything. Can someone fill me in?

Oh man, I LOVE introducing folks to Robert Evans from Behind the Bastards. The guy is an internet legend.

I still remember the first time I recognized his voice on an old pre-shit era Cracked video feature about how cops won’t help you when you’re being stabbed. I submitted it to Reddit a while back and it ended up making the front page.

Can’t recommend his stuff enough.

I hate to break this to everyone who thinks that “AI” (LLM) is some sort of actual approximation of intelligence, but in reality, it’s just a fucking fancy ass parrot.

Our current “AI” doesn’t understand anything or have context, it’s just really good at guessing how to say what we want it to say… essentially in the same way that a parrot says “Polly wanna cracker.”

A parrot “talking to you” doesn’t know that Polly refers to itself or that a cracker is a specific type of food you are describing to it. If you were to ask it, “which hand was holding the cracker…?” it wouldn’t be able to answer the question… because it doesn’t fucking know what a hand is… or even the concept of playing a game or what a “question” even is.

It just knows that it makes it mouth, go “blah blah blah” in a very specific way, a human is more likely to give it a tasty treat… so it mushes its mouth parts around until its squawk becomes a sound that will elicit such a reward from the human in front of it… which is similar to how LLM “training models” work.

Oversimplification, but that’s basically it… a trillion-dollar power-grid-straining parrot.

And just like a parrot - the concept of “I don’t know” isn’t a thing it comprehends… because it’s a dumb fucking parrot.

The only thing the tech is good at… is mimicking.

It can “trace the lines” of any existing artist in history, and even blend their works, which is indeed how artists learn initially… but an LLM has nothing that can “inspire” it to create the art… because it’s just tracing the lines like a child would their favorite comic book character. That’s not art. It’s mimicry.

It can be used to transform your own voice to make you sound like most celebrities almost perfectly… it can make the mouth noises, but has no idea what it’s actually saying… like the parrot.

You get it?

Yep. LG OLED disconnected from all web connections - literally has its MAC address blacklisted from my router, changed the launcher from stock Google for my NVIDIA Shield to a non ad-riddled launcher called WOLF, side-loaded SmartTube for ad-free YT, and Plex = non-dystopian media experience.

My next experiment will be to install a glue-tun bound Invidious instance via docker on my NAS, and then point Yattee on my iPhone to it for a mobile version of YT that’s not filled with non-stop ads… now if I can just figure out how to launch it correctly… 😓

Actually 100% agree. Was more about the meme than real life though.

Communication, honesty, boundaries that are mutually agreed upon and respected is the sign of a healthy relationship… not any artificial external construct set by religion, peers, or some perceived “norm” from society.

That being said, I couldn’t think of a more clever comparison to make. 😅

Ah yes, the ol’ “joking about a threesome” trick.

“What?! Oh, no I mean… I was just joking, honey. I’d never do that… I mean unless…”

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In the long run Metal Gear certainly outshined them, but I think the Syphon Filter games were ultimately very different and so it wasn’t like one was just a better execution and you had to ignore the other.

One of my favorite little bits of goofy trivia between both series though was the joke in the dialog of MGS 3 : Subsistence where Snake asks the Colonel why “Sam” (presumably Sam Fisher of the Splinter Cell series) or “Gabe” (presumably Syphon Filter’s protagonist) couldn’t do the Ape Escape side mission instead since Snake said it wasn’t really his “thing.”

I hate MS Teams so much.

…Like I said… “a few members of the Squad…” not “the Squad.”

And most of the time they do the best they can rather than actively try to make things worse like so many others clearly do.

Well there was a very short couple of periods where it’s wasn’t perfect but better in at least some respects - one when Lincoln was president, and the other when FDR was in office and when the Warren Supreme Court was in session.

Things like the Rural Electricification Act and the right to an attorney even when you couldn’t afford one were passed during those brief windows of time…

Sure there were Japanese internment camps and black people were even worsely treated than they are now, but things were finally on track to be improving for non-rich moreso then than almost any other time in history at the time.

…But in general, yeah it’s always been the rich fucking us all over and they’ve never let up and never will.

Because both political parties have limited the power of said government to do so were replaced by the ruling capitalist class decades ago in an effort to neuter any and all attempts to even mildly curtail the nearly limitless power of unchecked capital.

FTFY

Many people like to pretend it’s just the Republicans, but also nearly all of the Democratic party members (save for a few members of “the Squad” and a couple of independents like Bernie Sanders) are either members of that same ruling class (Nancy Pelosi for example - has a net worth of $120,000,000) or act on said ruling class’s interests nearly exclusively (except on wedge issues that largely have no direct financial impact on capital like abortion rights, gun legislation, etc.).

This is what the non-sarcastic versions of “both sides” commenters mean when they say as such… Not that both parties are “completely equivalent in all policy regards,” but that an overwhelming majority of the representatives of the U.S.'s 2 main political parties are effectively slightly different shades of the same branch grown by the oligarchs who basically get to run our country.

Why has Apple not come out with an e-ink display in any of its watches? Or really anything for that matter…? Seems like a no brainer for massively increasing battery life.

Dammit! And here I was thinking corporations had suddenly developed a conscience that put decency above profit… Stupid stupid stupid me. /s

Synology’s smaller units are great and with a few docker configs you are ready to go.