+TheBF Posted November 29 Share Posted November 29 On 11/24/2024 at 7:52 AM, dhe said: Last week, Microsoft took over my computer full screen to let me know, support of windows 10 was ending.. And maybe that means they will leave me alone. Now: I got the same message on my Dell. Thankfully I use Libre Office. I will be switching to Linux mint at some point in the future I think. Windows is just a snooping, marketing advertising machine now. Happy turkey. 3 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/346007-off-topic-dumping-thread/page/256/#findComment-5574707 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TheBF Posted November 29 Share Posted November 29 Found this on Xitter. That's gonna take awhile. 😟 1 6 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/346007-off-topic-dumping-thread/page/256/#findComment-5574909 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted November 29 Share Posted November 29 1 hour ago, TheBF said: Found this on Xitter. That's gonna take awhile. 😟 Especially with DD disks. Even formatted DMF you will only get about 880k each. I bet this ships on a palette 1 5 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/346007-off-topic-dumping-thread/page/256/#findComment-5574967 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted November 29 Share Posted November 29 4 hours ago, TheBF said: That's gonna take awhile. 😟 This is to run the 16-bit, SETUP(win.com)! That could take a week... 3 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/346007-off-topic-dumping-thread/page/256/#findComment-5575066 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted December 2 Share Posted December 2 "Brain rot" has been named Oxford University 2024 word of the year. 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/346007-off-topic-dumping-thread/page/256/#findComment-5576916 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrhodes Posted December 3 Share Posted December 3 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/346007-off-topic-dumping-thread/page/256/#findComment-5577620 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted December 3 Share Posted December 3 14 minutes ago, jrhodes said: Asmongold? Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/346007-off-topic-dumping-thread/page/256/#findComment-5577636 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrhodes Posted December 3 Share Posted December 3 2 hours ago, OLD CS1 said: Asmongold? Don't know who Asmongold is. That comic, to me, seems like it could have been a deleted scene from Joe's Apartment. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/346007-off-topic-dumping-thread/page/256/#findComment-5577747 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted December 3 Share Posted December 3 Want to get that place really clean... burn it!🔥 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/346007-off-topic-dumping-thread/page/256/#findComment-5577786 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted December 3 Share Posted December 3 53 minutes ago, jrhodes said: That comic, to me, seems like it could have been a deleted scene from Joe's Apartment. I thought of that, too! "Funky towel, towel's got the funk!" Asmongold is one of the most popular Twitch gaming streamers. His place is (or was up until his short suspension) a disgusting wreck, and he had been seen on stream in the past with roaches crawling on him. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/346007-off-topic-dumping-thread/page/256/#findComment-5577807 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted December 4 Share Posted December 4 https://deadline.com/2024/12/walmart-acquires-smart-tv-firm-vizio-streaming-advertising-1235831495/ Walmart‘s $2.3 billion acquisition of smart TV manufacturer Vizio and its SmartCast operating system closed Tuesday. The deal allows Walmart to collect Vizio’s automatic content recognition data to bolster advertising and positions the retail giant to be a bigger force in the connected TV world. 4 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/346007-off-topic-dumping-thread/page/256/#findComment-5578091 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted December 4 Share Posted December 4 1 hour ago, Gary from OPA said: 📣 Breakage! ...Aisle 3. 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/346007-off-topic-dumping-thread/page/256/#findComment-5578130 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted December 4 Share Posted December 4 4 hours ago, Gary from OPA said: Walmart‘s $2.3 billion acquisition of smart TV manufacturer Vizio and its SmartCast operating system closed Tuesday. The deal allows Walmart to collect Vizio’s automatic content recognition data to bolster advertising and positions the retail giant to be a bigger force in the connected TV world. Shame Roku already patented using snapshots of your content for various purposes (ostensibly to just run ads when you pause content, but it could easily watch your content to directly advertise to you.) You will likely have to sign in with a Walmart account to use the TV, which will link your purchases to your viewing habits, and vice-versa. It could then monitor your viewing and when a product commercial comes up, it can pop up a "click here to find this at Walmart" annotation. This will be worth billions to advertisers looking to directly correlate viewing commercials and purchases -- it is a marketer's wet dream. Just great. I never bothered to look into if an Amazon Fire Stick does this, already. Anyway, the "smart" revolution continues, and it is not in your favor. EDIT: Holy shit... I had not even read the article when I posted this, and lo! Quote The deal allows Walmart to collect Vizio’s automatic content recognition data to bolster advertising and positions the retail giant to be a bigger force in the connected TV world. The quiet part said out loud here is that your smart TV does spy on you. Stock up on dumb TVs, boys. You know that bit about killing all the lawyers? As misinterpreted as it is, I feel marketers and advertisers are slowly climbing this path as they try to inject themselves into every fekking thing we do. I am slowly but surely turning into a Luddite over the intrusive misuse of technology. 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/346007-off-topic-dumping-thread/page/256/#findComment-5578192 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted December 4 Share Posted December 4 Smart TVs are really not your friends. Here are a couple of recent articles from Ars Technica on the subject. They are currently viewed by the industry as a way to sneak into your life with unwanted advertising that you have absolutely no control over--even turning your TV on to display what "they" decide is an appropriate time to feed you more ads. That is why even when a smart TV in my house requires an internet connection to set it up, once I've passed that point in the process, I change the password on my router so that the TV has a dead connection. It can't feed data to its upstream masters if it can't reach the stream in the first place. . .obviously, not the solution for everyone, but it works for me as all of my inbound signals are old-school over-the-air channels picked up by the high-gain antenna in my attic. Of course, no one in my house is really much into TV anyway, so the free, over the air channels are more than enough to keep them pacified. 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/346007-off-topic-dumping-thread/page/256/#findComment-5578211 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrhodes Posted Saturday at 11:45 PM Share Posted Saturday at 11:45 PM 3 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/346007-off-topic-dumping-thread/page/256/#findComment-5580586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted Sunday at 02:25 AM Share Posted Sunday at 02:25 AM Forget 99.44% pure... ...This is 100%...SOAP... 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/346007-off-topic-dumping-thread/page/256/#findComment-5580649 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted 24 minutes ago Share Posted 24 minutes ago (edited) People are starting to get fed up. Getting sick of equipment that fails within a certain time frame or software that makes hardware obsolete. Edited 23 minutes ago by GDMike Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/346007-off-topic-dumping-thread/page/256/#findComment-5582307 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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