Must be a regional thing because for me “our” always sounds like “hour” no matter what

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Why do I feel like there should be a saddam hussein silhouette hiding in there somewhere?

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The Samsung tries to “identify” what’s on an hdmi input before it will connect. It seems to call out to the internet to do that because it takes forever to fail and show you the display anyway when it’s not connected to the internet. Even when it is connected, it takes a stupidly long time to switch to a new input. I super hate it and will never buy another samsung tv.

I guess the lg needs to boot tizen before it works, because I see the logo briefly but then it goes directly to the last used input with no other bullshit, so it’s fine with me.

I love how literally nobody is answering your actual question.

I agree that this is problematic and we need TV reviews to include at least some of the information you cite.

If it helps, I have an LG smart TV. It complains if you don’t let it access the internet at setup, but if you connect it once and let it do its initial patching, you can decline all agreements and not get nagged until it tries to update again. To keep it from further updates, you can disconnect it from wifi and it doesn’t seem to try to reconnect. I can’t speak to public wifi because there aren’t any open access points near my TV.

In contrast, I have a samsung TV that loses its mind if it can’t connect to the internet and becomes basically useless for all the nagging.

If you’re talking about the florida gov not taking Biden and Harriss’s calls, that won’t hold up aid at all. He has spoken with the head of FEMA, which is what actually starts the ball rolling.

If you’re referring to the GOP voting against FEMA and disaster relief funding bills… fuckifiknow

Paprika 3 recipe manager does that too, plus it adds it to a local database, without any AI bullshit or HP account.

I have been, but I ate beans or potatoes, not rice. I know lemmy loves to bang on about beans and rice but it’s not my thing. Growing up in a farm community meant there was a lot of cheap food to be found locally.

Dude! I thought you were dead! Welcome back!

Wait… people actually like rice? I thought it was just a thing you ate with other things because of reasons I don’t understand. It never occurred to me that people would eat it on purpose, because they enjoy it.

You can debloat an NVIDIA shield android tv box, replace the default launcher, then install whatever else you want. It’s probably not perfect but it’s pretty darn good. That’s what I use and it can be updated without losing any of my customization.

Possibly as a consolation, the French film “Une hirondelle à fait le printemps” (A swallow that made the spring) was called “The Girl From Paris” in English.

I must admit I’m a little sad that you forgot to label the mysterious human figure. Who could it be? We’ll never know.

These are really idiotic but I keep laughing and thus keep upvoting

It depends a LOT on where you are. In the USA, Canada, and (I think) Mexico, such a thing is not possible, at least in any way that the services you mentioned will care.

It might be possible in places where phone numbers don’t have a fixed length, like (again, I think) Germany.

Never forget that the baby bells slowly reassembled themselves. They’re not a single company but they’re down to 3 or 4 now

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I never use wifi outside of my home. I have unlimited cellular data, so why would I bother?

Back in the dark ages of the 1950s or 1960s, there was a fairly common slang initialism “BMOC” which stood for big man on campus. So this panel riffs on that with “HBOC” meaning hunchback on campus.

Firefox with uBlock Origin should always be your starting point. It’s not an either/or thing. I use ff+ubo and NextDNS for two layer ad filtering. There’s literally no need to choose.