Really need Theodore Roosevelt to rise from his grave and start taking his big stick to all the big, monopolistic companies again.

its a fucking tragedy theres no one making decent dumb TVs anymore. But dumb TVs last longer cause they dont run as hot or are as complicated… and disposable society needs products to burn so they can churn for extra profit.

Which is supremely funny, because the religious states always have the highest porn consumption. Which I guess means they wont get many customers.

if they are so concerned about children, how about doing something about the mormon church and the fucking horrible crimes that are committed against women and children in it?

Who hurt you?

altavista, lycos, infoseek, ask jeeves… i feel old.

I didnt realize ask.com was still around.

Iremember when it launched… another relic of the old internet.

For serious, tho: people change. I don’t expect mega corporations to ever change for the better.

at the very best, they can, on occasion, do something thats accidentally good.

But that never really meaningfully alters the trajectory of evil.

If Microsoft wants to win users back, the only way to do that is by re-releasing Windows 7, and make a legal contract to never add spyware, monetization, adware, AI, service accounts to install/log in to the PC, or anything else to it.

Windows 7 was the peak of their capabilities. everything before that was building up to 7, everything after was a series of missteps and fuckups.

But thats never gonna happen.

corporatism is a plague all over the world.

because America keeps giving money to broadband companies, who promise to improve internet speeds and access… give the money to executives as bonuses, do shit all with speeds or access, and their reward is another dumptruck of money to expand access and speeds… Which they 20 return to 10 and give it all out as executive bonuses again and do fuck all for the customer/citizens

oh, and when municipalities try to run their own broadband, they force them to shut down because its not fair for them to compete with the monopolistic internet companies. 🙄

Gotta have an other to point at.

social media has been twisting itself to protect conservatives and right wing political terrorism since damn near the beginning.

Its where their bread and butter are. Right wing idiots following right wing demagogues spouting right wing bullshit are the ones that dont run adblockers, that click all the ads (Especially if its for merchandise for their chosen political team), and generate disproportionate amounts of money.

Are they better than they were 2 decades ago?

Cause last time I had a netgear router, they screwed up their hardware too… Fucker got so hot that it literally liquefied its plastic shell.

Youtube: “GOD PEOPLE KEEP SKIPPING ADS, WHAT CAN WE DO TO STOP THIS LOSS OF REVENUE?!”

Viewers: “Maybe have standards for length and content and moderate the platform to prevent malicious actors?”

Youtube: “I KNOW, I’LL JUST MAKE FORCED ADS LONGER AND MORE OBNOXIOUS!”

Viewers: “JUST MODERATE YOUR FUCKING PLATFORM, YOU HAVE THE MONEY AND RESOURCES TO FUCKING DO IT”

Youtube: “Users are just so selfish and entitled, trying to skip ads…”

Viewers: " Fuck it installs ublock origin

I’m sure he appreciates you rushing to his defense trying to somehow justify it.

Still, if this TV came out tomorrow and Wendell from Level1techs said “your Linux pc can get 4k, 120hz, HDR FreeSync out of this” and showed it working, $3500 dollars wouldn’t stop me from buying it.

I wish I was this rich to impulse buy something that expensive because a man on the internet said something positive abouti t.

What you say is true but it’s off topic because that’s not the current situation. What we’re actually seeing right now is that parents literally do not want to take their devices away from their kids and they don’t want to supervise their kids. It really is that simple.

So saying its a parental responsibility is off topic, and what we should focus on is… parental responsibility.

The typical under-13 social media user is not a sneaky kid. It’s a family making a decision together.

Yep… Theres an idiot in my family that gave their grandkids unrestricted, flagship phones, with full social media account access, at 7 years old.

And no, they are not too old to understand technology. They perfectly understand technology, the internet, and everything else. They are just stupid.

Its on the grandparents for doing it. its on the parents for not taking the fuckin phones away. and its also on social media companies for being algorithmic predators.

Saying stop ignoring parental responsibility, doesnt mean ignore everyone elses culpability.