I just watched a LTT video comparing $30, $300, $3,000, and $30,000 TVs and what struck me throughout the whole video was Linus struggling with and getting increasingly frustrated by the enshittified controls. The $30,000 TV was less bad than the rest, but every single one was a crappy UI (or worse, exploitative) experience compared to old TVs.

We shouldn’t have to firewall our property to try to stop it from betraying us. It’s a fucking outrage and becoming intolerable to the point of radicalization.

Condolences for picking Samsung.

Not just software, online updates. Even things that were computerized used to have a lot more QA effort put into them when fixing a bug meant having to physically ship a new product revision, or at least a new disk.

Man, I really fucked up by not getting one of the last remaining 4K dumb TVs a couple years ago when I had the chance. Now it’s looking like my decade-old 46" 1080p one will be the last TV I ever own.

I’d been wanting to do it for years, but I was never willing to shell out the $$$ for a smart trainer until now. I guess $400 was the price that was finally cheap enough for me to stomach.

Never mind the tri-fold part; it’s ridiculous that anybody is stupid enough to buy Samsung’s DRM’d shit.

I joined Zwift today! I already did utility cycling, but it’s mostly using an e-bike so doesn’t provide all that much exercise. I think the gamification will help me stay motivated enough to actually do rides for fitness.

Advent of Code

One year I hope to remember that’s a thing that exists when it isn’t already several days into the month.

score updates to -$500

(Whoops, I got him mixed up with Brad Pitt, apparently. I guess you could say he was a figment of my imagination.)

What is Fight Club?

Uh… you do know that people don’t literally save a bunch of Linux ISOs, right? It’s a euphemism for collecting less legit things, like pirated media or porn.

By the time you want to install the same distro again, it’s likely that a new version will be out and you’ll want to re-download it anyway.

Hopefully they pick a different comet that arrives a lot sooner!

Why the state of the industry is shit, in a nutshell.

Not only do I expect it to produce nonsensical advice that results in combat losses and other negligence, I also expect it to be used as an excuse to deflect blame for war crimes.

Mine is version 2.41.0, obtained from F-Droid.

To be fair, it could be some kind of user error – maybe the option does exist, but I’m not seeing it for some reason – but I don’t really think so.

Edit: Ah! It’s a setting! Settings →General → Other → Share Links. Mine is set to “Voyager App (vger.to)”, but there are also the other options you mentioned, as well as “ask” (which is presumably what yours is set to).

I’m pretty sure vger.to is the default (perhaps for new installs – I changed phones relatively recently), which is unfortunate, since I definitely didn’t change that setting.

My Voyager app only seems to offer the vger.to link. It’s a recent change I’m not happy about.

That’s not a reasonable requirement of a salaried position. People might think it is, but they’ve been tricked.

Needing to work extra long hours occasionally during extra-busy times is one thing, but it should be balanced with being able to stop working early during slow times.

Where’s “my son at age 35?” 'Cause this pic is clearly from the '80s.

More specifically, he’s literally a traitorous Russian asset.

Reminder that it will never be over unless was actually take action to beat them. North Korea, for instance, is into its third generation of dictator with no end in sight. The idea that the regime is doomed and we just have to wait it out is pure wishful thinking.