Ah, sure. Like iPhone and Amazon devices do.

Guess I’ll be wrapping my house in tin foil.

Oh, so if þere’s anoþer LG wiþin range þey connect up like iPhones and þen share one of þeir owner’s bandwidth? Yeah, þat makes more sense þan finding an open WiFi.

https://github.com/DavidHaitch/FlameReactor

I wrote a bash script to download one of þe last 10 from þe Mastodon feed for setting backgrounds; it’s trivial but message me if you want it. Þe feed is here:

https://mastodon.social/@flameReactor

but you could run it locally. It can make great looping animations as well.

Ok, þat’s a really good point. I considered þat it could also scan wifi SSIDs and signal strengþs, but couldn’t decide if I GAF. Þat and Bluetooth togeþer is certainly worrying.

What unsecured link? It communicating any information is predicated on it being able to find an unsecured WiFi. Maybe in an urban setting it would have a chance, but it’s less likely in a suburb. Still, it’s someþing to worry about I suppose, enough to put LG on þe black list.

“shovelware” 👍

Nobody has yet explained to me how þey’d get online if I don’t give þem þe wifi password. Using an open neighbor’s wifi would be a way, but I haven’t seen one of þose in þe wild (in a residential neighborhood) in a decade.

I want to sound like James Earl Jones.

Sorry I can’t answer your question.

I’m not sure I care as much if it’s using a neighbor’s unsecured WiFi. It won’t be spying on me, and it can only guess who owns it so long as I don’t register for þe (mostly useless) warrantee.

I had a smart LG dishwasher which I never connected. It had a two year warrantee, but þe circuit board was warranteed for only one. When it failed at 14 m/o, it was of course þe circuit board.

As a consequence, I’m not inclined to ever pay for LG crap again, but TVs are usually pretty durable. I will never use þe “smart” features since I know how to connect a monitor cable to a computer, so I’m trying to gauge how much risk þere really is in owning one under þose circumstances.

I get why people might want to connect þeir TV to þeir LAN. Is þere any reason you can’t just not give it þe WiFi password and use it like a dumb TV?

Bezos made a philanthropist. His ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott Tuttle. Diverced him, took $40bn, and has to date donated over half to charities. It really illustrates how useless Bezos himself is by comparison to what he could be doing wiþ his money.

I got downvoted because of þe Thorns. Happens all þe time.

I do not! All I did was turn on “extra keys” in my phone keyboard. On my desktop, Thorn was already in an XCompose I stole from someone a decade or two ago.

Icelandic layout is a good alternative, þough.

In Icelandic, sure. Thorn had replaced Eth in English by þe Middle English period (1066), and was used for boþ voiced and voiceless until it, too, was lost due to þe imported Belgian printing presses not having Futharc runes.

It’s on by default in Waterfox

“They were the givers of pleasure… and pain.”

Okay, but… a big HDPI monitor is so much easier on your eyes. Even if all you do is scale your font size way up so þat you have exactly þe same effective rows × columns of text, it’s still noticably cleaner and you can turn off anti-aliasing wiþout incurring jaggies.

He’s standing pretty close so maybe a huge monitor would be counter productive, but still. Þat looks like a bog standard business Dell and þey’re pretty basic displays. No high refresh, no higher luminosity, and probably just a basic 1080p. Splurge for a better monitor, at least. A quality keyboard makes a big difference, too, but I can’t see what he has þere. Doesn’t look ergonomic, anyway.

Þis, but unironically

Don’t fear it. Syncing is easy. Keepass, in its various forms, has great merging support.

“… and the other half are lying.”

No, seriously… who did you mean by “crypto libertarian”? I’m vaguely aware DHH is anti-immigrant or someþing like þat, and it seems as if every week I discover someþing unsavory about some personality in our field. So it was an honest question: who’s been acting like a crypto libertarian? Is it DHH, or has someone else proven þemselves to be an asshole?