It might be reasonable for a new source you don’t pay for to make money from advertising. Not so, the company that sells you a tv

Indeed. Chances that it will be humans who turn out to be fittest?

I’m not sure that’s true. I’m old enough to remember the great British bread strike of 1977 https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/11045641.look-back-chaos-c...

One of the effects of the strike was that white sliced was in short supply and mangled people ended up with weird granary loaves etc as they were all that was left in the shelves. They liked them.

And from that day granary and seeded breads became a lot more popular over the bland spongy white sliced stuff.

I will say that whatever the failings of white sliced, I still prefer it to over-sweetened US bread.

There was an excellent fully featured version of Logo for the ZxSpectrum that got me hooked.

Came for the graphics, stayed for the recursion and string handling

Migration assistant can also use a TM backup, I’m pretty sure

I’m sticking with the 13 Mini as long as possible. iOS 25 public beta is probably faster than 26 on it.

Can you give some examples of a goal you can’t accomplish?

I am not who you asked, but lately it has been really frustrating for me that macOS locks portions of the filesystem when the screen is locked, which breaks rsync backups because they cannot read those files. I have been unable to find a way around this.

That being said, the security design that creates this problem is quite impressive, and I think much more tight than most people realize is happening on stock macOS. I just wish that I could unlock my whole home directory from the CLI somehow when I do my non-time-machine backup.

Ah, that’s interesting- I wasn’t aware and I can see why it would be annoying

From what I can tell from the project team, Apple aren’t being hostile. Just not contributing resource

The decision to not contribute when you have infinite resources is a hostile action on itself.

Mine is still attached to the network, but I’ve turned off all the ad/customisation &AI stuff. Seems to work fine, no ads etc. though usually I’m using it simply as a screen for the AppleTV.

I do have it isolated from other devices on my network, though.

If you're only using it as a screen for the AppleTV, why connect it to the network at all?

>If you're only using it as a screen for the AppleTV, why connect it to the network at all?

Not GP, but I do so to make sure my TV doesn't try to connect to a different network. I provide specific IP addresses to the ethernet-connected interface and then block those IP addresses.

I suppose I could also move the TV to an isolated VLAN, but I spent months (the device was purchased nearly, or perhaps even more than, a decade ago) monitoring network traffic to determine to where (via DNS queries and packet captures) my TV was trying to phone home and blocked all egress for the TV and ingress from the sites/IP addresses to which the TV tried to connect.

I suppose that newer TVs might be sneakier (with the kind of WiFi surfing mentioned in TFA and/or installing cellular modems) in their attempts to bypass user control and when I need a new TV, I'll burn that bridge when I come to it.

But for now, my TV can't phone home. Or I'd have thrown it away years ago.

So I can turn it on/off using Home Assistant and my phone.

Why not use cheap $10 IR blaster for that? it will connect to home assistant in same manner.

Because it's one more thing that I have to own and maintain; versus a built-in feature?

What a useless feature. Reinventing a worse remote.

It is precisely so I _don't_ have to touch the actual TV remote ever.

Similar, I was only using it as a screen for my shield so I factory-reset it and never re-connected it to wifi.

It's actually a lot faster now (it's an 8 year old TV, their OS can get a little heavy on older models)

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