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Browser would be simplest. Even though I prefer Linux and do run it, Windows might be better in your case with it having the DRM support and apps to run those services at higher resolution and HDR that sticking with browser might not allow.

For my case I picked up a cheap MiniPC and install Fedora on it to use instead of the TV interface.

People do pick up Pixel phones to install GrapheneOS on. How many people pick up Apple phones/tablets and are able to install another OS on it and have it as functional as GrapheneOS?

Same with smartwatches which from the Android side can be used offline with apps like Gadgetbridge to retrieve data without giving your watch internet access and not using the official apps.

Apple is very account and OS centric wanting to funnel everything through them. Exception has been MacOS devices which has had better luck with stuff like Asahi Linux.

My living room set up has been TV not connected to internet and hooking up a minipc running Fedora. Could run Windows if DRM content from streaming services is important to you.

Kind of fascinating the whole tinfoil spying angle was about governments, but turns out even if governments didn’t do it companies now have every incentive to do it to monetize your data.

You can paste urls into youtube transcript sites and skim through it in a couple minutes. Comes in convenient when you don’t want to sit for the entire length of the video and prefer to read.

Preaching caution is FUD? Like telling people to not trust Windows, moving to custom roms like GrapheneOS on phones, or taking steps tp cease online connection of smart devices?

All corporations are data harvesting these days, so not trusting them and taking steps to reduce exposure seems to be good advice these days.

You give off the vibe of just trust them unless proven otherwise.

A company that is harvesting data is better to not be given benefit of the doubt. I’m left trusting them less as opposed to trusting them to respect privacy.

Even if you never connect to wifi TVs can seek out open connections, so is there a way to disrupt or weaken the wifi signal range on TVs without physically opening it?

I lurk by using one of these redlib instances

https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/instances.md

I like the compact wide UI setting so less horizontal space is wasted.

I didn’t think people would sign up for tiktok when I first saw it flooding reddit /r/all full of Chinese clips. But, it ended up catching on on so I wouldn’t be surprised to see bilibili seeing the same success. Won’t make an account for it though like I didn’t for tiktok, but what I usually avoid turns popular.

Chances of me buying from them died years ago when they paid to pull Metro Exodus from being released on Steam.

I will take the free games though. I like free. Keep those coming I’ll claim them.

You can use redlib instances

https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib#instances

You can subscribe and filter out subs. Go into settings and you can set the UI to wide so text fills the width of the screen like old.reddit instead of wasted side padding.

And you can save your settings by copying some text that is generated to use across various redlib instances and have your subscriptions and filters set without having to set up it manually again.

There’s too many games even if you limit it to only well known triple a titles to get around to buying and playing.

Not surprising with how much the cost and barrier to entry to make and release games has gotten. Most challenging thing now is to get noticed.

I don’t think China would be naive to think a US company would actually comply. Even regular people don’t believe claims of respecting privacy and totally not spying on you assurances.

Surely China can’t be fine with the US poking around their government computers? Or are they?

I don’t understand how another country can use another hostile country’s closed operating system for sensitive material.

Yeah, redlib is great. Can subscribe and filter subs without needing an account, and I think compact + wide setting looks better than default reddit with it looking closer to old.reddit layout without all the wasted side padding.

I guess I better get a 3d printer while I have the chance to before those go up in price too, since I had been wanting one for a while.

I think people here know, but your comment leads people to misinterpret your intention as trying to discourage people from removing deleting stuff from reddit.

Yeah tesla is much worse. More pointing out that founders have so much more financial ties to their companies than regular employees that their actions become extensions of the company. Its why founders have to be much more careful of their behavior than even regular CEOs who a company can let go and claim to have gotten rid of the problem. Founders generally won’t give up their share of the company.

Same could be said of Tesla, but the profitability of the company provided funds for Elon to donate to who he wanted.

I don’t think business and founder separation is really possible.