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- Comment on What is the current best smart TV software/brand/ecosystem option? 1 month ago:
I like the Mii TV 4k sticks. They run android tv and have the usual apps, or you can install your own launcher, apps (look into stremio!) and everything through downloader or adb. Then you can disable the bloatware through adb, theres a few lists online if you search. With a launcher manager app, mine loads straight to productivity launcher (I also like flauncher).
Do not try a firestick, theyre heavily locked down now.
I then just deleted the network on my smart tv so it can’t send anything. Along with my pihole, hopefully theres no telemetry getting out, although not checked it. Its impossible to find good TVs that aren’t smart anymore unfortunately, the data selling either subsidises the costs pricing out dumb TV’s, or more likely they make so much from the data selling that they only sell those.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a series of coincidences... 6 months ago:
Just had to double check that Mick Lynch hadn’t passed away or started moonlighting as an actor…
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 6 months ago:
I am born and raised in England to Indian parents so always had some internal tension. Sometimes, I don’t understand my patents culture and sometimes I don’t understand English culture. However, I’ve realised I am who I am, and can take the best bits from both. There are some bits I don’t like so I’m the better for being / having that mix. I married an Irish person who moved over several years ago. Irish used to be the “other” and were screwed over, but now are sometimes considered “white”, so just shows the target moves.
There has always been racism in British society and unfortunately I have felt it pick up since the Brexit vote and Trump’s election (I think it empowered them). However, it is from a small minority of people. In some areas it comes from ignorance, which I can kind of forgive. Others will always see us as outsiders with our foreign names (and my brown skin) no matter what we do. I just think, screw them. I mean, can they trace themselves back before the Normans, the Romans or the Vikings etc? Where do you draw the line exactly?!? England has always been a mix of people and culture so they’re the ones missing out. I’m happy driving my Korean car to a German store to buy ingredients for a Thai green curry. Oh, I’ll grab a French pastry for breakfast, Chilean wine for the weekend and well, you get the idea! Let’s make the most of this multicultural place and ideas, and who cares about bigots who you can guarantee, like a cheeky korma and Belgian beer…
- Comment on ‘Definitive proof’ of second Post Office IT scandal found in 30-year-old floppy disks 7 months ago:
My parents had a Post Office which I effectively grew up in. I remember them having to report things on a desktop and loading these discs. I also remember when they got the Horizon system and how much trouble they were having trying to get it to work.
They moved to the city I was born and raised in just to buy the PO, and both worked full time in it. I feel so lucky they didn’t get caught up in it all. I have asked if they paid anything they weren’t sure about and they said there was nothing, although my mum paused before answering so think there might’ve been something.
It would have ruined our lives completely so all this scandal stuff really hits me hard. I couldn’t even watch the Norman Bates show past 20 minutes as I just got so upset and angry. Fuck all the people involved (at every level) and hope they suffer for all time…
- Comment on USBip Hot Plug Implementation 8 months ago:
Interesting! What would be some good use cases for this?