I just got a 4k TCL QLED TV from Costco a couple months ago. Have been quite pleased with the image quality so far, but I keep it disconnected from the internet, and only use it with my nvidia shield running the projectivity launcher as the home screen to switch between smart tube, Plex, and steam link.
Not an ad in sight.
If the phone rings, by the time I get to it they’ve usually already hung up or reached voicemail, so I only end up answering if its important enough to call me twice.
Apps that depend on talking to specific hardware ( including the GPU) do not always work in a VM.
Unless you go about setting up IOMMU groups with QEMU/KVM… (And have a second GPU to hand over to the VM.)
Somewhere in the ballpark of 50 DeVito’s
Nextcloud.
Does everything from GSuite that I need it to, but without looking through everything I upload, and analyzing it for advertising and other purposes that I wouldn’t consent to.
Meanwhile it is your capitalist bosses giving out free lunch to justify the lack of a payrise in the last 5 years.
Reddit.com/r/piracy is also a good place to avoid. Especially their well documented megawiki with lists of loads of sites that facilitate copyright infringement for all forms of media. Avoid at all costs.
For learning the terminal, Manpages.
Not sure what a command or program does, how it works, or how to use it? Just type in your terminal:
$ man {command}
And (usually) it will provide just about everything you need to know about it.
I bought a new TCL TV recently. Stunning visuals for the price. But I had to jump through a load of unnecessary crap to keep it from phoning home, letting every tech company on the face of the planet know what I watch at 3am every morning before heading out to work.
Need to keep it disconnected from the internet, plugged into an Nvidia Shield that had the projectivity launcher installed alongside plex and steam link, and with a whitelist on my router preventing it from accessing anything other than my media server and linux pc, because that covers all I will ever use the TV for.
End result: a near dumb TV that is able to watch anything I want to watch, and play any game I want to play, but without all of the ads and tracking nonsense.
Learn something new everyday
Assuming its midday, and the moon is on or near the horizon, it would actually still be seen for an additional 1.3 seconds after we see the sun disappear. If its high in the sky however, it would disappear only a few ms after the sun, unless it was in a full or partial eclipse, where it would disappear at the same time to our eyes.
Yeah, but this requires that the light be travelling through a dense medium to slow down. It still speeds up again when travelling through air or vacuum
That’ll work too, along with any USB webcam
Raspberry pi and motioneyeOS. Getting to a state where you have a live view of the camera shouldn’t take more than an hour.
Ain’t that some Canadian bacon
If you’re tech-savvy, or willing to learn, A nextcloud instance would be my goto
If this is what’s scaring you about the death of liberty, then boy do I have a dumptruck full of passed acts and legislation that dwarfs this in comparison. Liberty died a long time ago.
First OS, WinXP.
Later when win7 was discontinued, I kept windows 10 on my desktop and Ubuntu on my laptop. It wasnt until Valve started working on proton and most of the games I play became playable on Linux that I ditched windows entirely.
I distrohopped around for a while, but always found myself landing back on Ubuntu, so it’s what I’ve stuck with to this day, although if anyone else asks me what distro they should get, I will usually recommend mint.
Kerbal space program. Its the one game I consistently return to when I’m not in the mood for anything else, and recently I haven’t had much time or energy for videogames, so a slow burner like ksp where I can just design crafts after getting home from work, and fly them when I’m off during the weekend has been good.
But damn take2 for what they did to the sequel. I understand it was going to be a Half Life 3 situation with unbelievably high expectations that won’t please everyone, but holy shit they could not have failed any harder.
Yes.