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Just did this. Appreciate the tip. I had to select In Store Demo, which made it a Dumb TV. Its perfect.

I just did a factory reset per another reply and I selected to set up as Store Demo, which makes it a dumb TV :)

Wait. How are you guys drying your butts after the bidet? Are we not supposed to be using toilet paper? (asking for a friend)

The most common kind with the cap attached to the metal hinge thingy rattles/jingles.

Perhaps a beer helmet and 2 bottles of liquor?

Never heard that particular slang but sounds like it’s from the Twisted Teas brand

I just wanna say I appreciate when a wholesome/earthporn post gets on the frontpage and as I’m typing this I just noticed it’s on Shitpost lol I may have misunderstood the purpose of this community.

Anyway, we talk a lot about The Circumstances, but it’s nice to remember that one of The Circumstances is a not-yet-fucked environment and this is a pretty nice planet sometimes.

Ooh, definitely gonna try this first. I actually assumed that factory reset would use the 1y old firmware that introduced the problem, but it could well roll back to the 6y original.

That’s not something I would have considered and thank you for pointing me in the right direction. Now I know about silicon diodes.

Oh good to know. Much appreciated. Thisnines still going strong after 6.5y, great panels honestly. If LED neutering failed I was only going to look for other brands because of this thing so this is super good news

TCL TVs (whose OS is just Roku, and I imagine Roku is the same situation) blink the front LED as an Error when there’s no network connection or it can’t hit whatever servers it has configured for FW update check. It can get stuck on partial firmware updates when it can’t cokplete every check it wants to make. The LED has a diffuser on it so it’s a significant negative impact.

I can’t even tape that LED because that’s also where the IR sensor is. My next step is to disassemble the thing and snip snip.

I don’t use any smart features, just HDMI input like you. Finding a Dumb TV has been a challenge.

That’s OK-ish sounding but I’m going to give the example of NY. NYC is a very different animal from the northern part of the state and local issues matter a great deal depending on which portion you live in. I imagine it’s like that in other very large states and major cities in general.

I think perhaps there should be some accounting for population centers. Major cities simply have different concerns from rural areas, and it seems reasonable to have each be represented. But we may be getting into a “where does it stop” thing here.

I’m not sure how to skin that cat or if it’s worth skinning. I generally agree with your proposal - the way it’s currently done is absurd.

Syncthing Fork works well for Android

the old crowd is still going strong and have been proven largely correct because what they/we were really against was going from a “you own this software” model to a “perpetual licensing” model with price hikes, lock-in, and everything becoming a service.

it’s not completely enshittified, there are lots of great cloud-based services. some long-term, some at various stages of the enshittification curve.

same with AI. it doesn’t all suck, and it won’t all suck. but a lot/most of it does and will absolutely suck and it will enshittify many things.

This happens in rooms that have 2 panels, and when it does skill cross a room 2x to get them back to up=on.

We turn things UP to increase and DOWN to decrease. I’m not going to die on this hill but I will do everything I can behind the scenes to erode and undermine the hill of the enemy. Up to and including using my multi tool to flip your switches upside down. For the realm.

keys tend to be organized (that’s a horrible word for whatt he registry is lol) in a handful of locations depending on context. so those chrome keys are next to the other chrome keys. in enterprise we mod that area pretty often.

the 2 was to discover a new key are:

1. reg watcher that takes a baseline, then you install soemething, and you see the diff.
2. in the case of no new key has been added (like for this new setting), most softwares have support articles aimed at Enterprise Admins who need to control deployments granularly. So the regkeys tend to be available.

Sometimes some dev figures it out, sometimes word spreads from the devs themselves on Discord/etc. Sometimes if you contact Support they have that workaround (after escalating to engineer). Not that you can easily get to Google Engineers, but you have a much better track with say a paid Workspace account.

It’s a FT job though to maintain a set of controlled software in an enterprise environment. Constant fiddling/tweaking. SOmetimes it’s a RegKey, sometimes a GPO setting, sometimes you’re modding a config file in AppData, or adding some lines to a Logon Script. And a lot of the info spreads by word of mouth still and to really answer your question - sometimes, no one knows where the hell it came from but after days of searching, you’re happy some random forum post finally worked and you hope to never have to touch it again. Then you close your ticket and move on to the next one.

I don’t miss it lol

I’m 100% with you and this is my mantra, but at this very moment am having trouble finding a TV that can operate without ever connecting to a network and would appreciate any brand/model reccs in the 55/60" range. All I need is HDMI.

I don’t think efficiency would be the thing, but I suspect that a generalized package could have trouble accessing certain distro specific/unique things. Some packages don’t have 100℅ compatibility with every distro.

That said Ubuntu’s very ubiquitous/popular and tends to be top of the list when you’re looking at the compatibility list of an application, so I think it’s the least likely to have trouble.

But… I’m answering generally here from a systems perspective, not a developer’s. There might be quirks about how a native vs added package can/does interact with an OS… And I’m joking someone else can chime in

Imagine that OS is your apartment that you rent in an apt building. Your landlord/super announces he’s going to install a home robot in every apt.

The difference is whether someone else should put something like that in your apartment, or whether you should get something like that if and when you want it. It’s not a toaster, it may have the ability to throw your cat into the trash chute.

A package is simple enough to remove. But almost everything that shoves AI down your throat makes it every difficult to remove it. Certain rollouts have been heavy handed and people kinda just want choice not force.

Know that scene from Finding Nemo with the seagulls? AI. AI AI AI AI. Every app, every device, every site and service. Then your OS (the last and possibly dying vestige of “I control this, this is mine”), esp one built on ejatbised to be touted as Choice.

Anyway, all depends on how it’s implemented.

you can just set up containers on your bare metal server. in fact if you’re going to install insecure services you definitely want to containerize them, though tbh you need to run really far away from whatever it is you’re doing that requires sql5, or at least don’t let it be reachable on the internet, that should be network-isolated, which really limits its utility.

Just price out S3 compatible storage and use backup software that can encrypt. Then it doesn’t matter who holds it.

Wasabi is reputable and has fair pricing. iDrive is well priced.

I’m still sending to B2 until the price actually changes for me.

I personally use Duplicati (and yes I’ve tested restores).