You need to keep the frame rate matching on and motion smoothing off. On an LG you turn “Real Cinema” or “Cinema Screen” on and turn “TruMotion” off. On a Sony, you set “CineMotion” to High and “MotionFlow” on with both sliders set to minimum.

You can make the Samsung even better by turning off the energy saving to make it brighter and turning off the motion smoothing so it doesn’t hallucinate extra frames in 24/25/30 fps video.

If you use the built in smart apps, then 100% YES. However if you leave the Wi-Fi disconnected then plug your own box in then they’re fine. The same applies to most smart TVs, except Roku and Fire models.

Most let you use the HDMI ports and antenna. Only some like Roku models block everything.

People have them because there is no other option. I would love to see a TV version of GrapheneOS with no BS come out some day.

You can get a smart TV and set ut up without Wi-Fi. You can do that on Google TV, Tizen and WebOS. You will have to turn off the eco mode and motion smoothing so it is not dim and blurry.

Get a smart TV which lets you go through set-up without Wi-Fi. Google TV (which is suprising for GOOGLE) models support that.

It could be picture settings. Make sure the Fire stick’s HDR is set to adaptive (it defaults to always on which looks horrible), and on the TV itself the power saving is turned off.

Read this last bit again: "Without Grok providing users with easy access to “undressing” capabilities, his family doubts he ever would have generated the harmful images, which he allegedly trafficked online in trade for “CSAM produced by other child sex predators.” He traded them for CSAM of other girls.

There is a setting in the update manager which deletes the kernels for you. Regular Mint is also the better option because of the Ubuntu base.

Games should work in Steam with “Steam Play for all titles” enabled. What are the apps?

And Sony “solved” the issue by requiring you to use software called Sonicstage to transfer music, and that software re encoded everything as ATRAC with OpenMG DRM.

It’s not just ipad kids. Those who just want to work and not mess with the system are better off with Mint or Zorin. If you have to google how to install VLC then an OS has already lost for productivity.

They want your ID because they’re legally forced to. A VPN will fix it.

They should implement bot detection that looks at the volume of posts and duplicate posts posted across the whole fediverse from one account, bayesian and LLM based filters to detect spam programmatically, PoW to slow down bots which get through.

As well as checking for signs of automation (Puppeteer/Selenium/Playwright) and suspiciously fast or perfect mouse movement in the web client, and showing a captcha to post/comment in the mobile client.

I don’t think most instances do any of that at the moment, and what looked to be a fake Gofundme ended up on the front page, from an account which was absolutely spamming Mastodon relentlessly.

Look at MVNOs. They use the big three networks (Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T) but are much cheaper because you are not paying the uninformed tax.

It doesn’t. They said “if you close the windows”, although leaving the doors open and opening one window slightly will get CO2 down significantly.

CO2 always builds up in the room with no airflow, and when jt gets above 1000 PPM it starts causing fatigue.

Have you tried asking why they want to move back?

You should give Timeshift a try. It is Mint’s own backup tool, and it is focused on the OS rather than the whole drive, so if you write a document then the system breaks, you can roll back without losing the document. You can then use the seperate Backup Tool to backup documents.

You should also turn on the built in firewall, increase the frequency of notifications in the update manager, and install Flatseal to disable permissions for things you don’t trust for better security.

You should then turn on unverified Flatpaks in the software manager. It does give you security warnings however you should be okay if you only use unofficial ports for open source software and you quickly check that the ports themselves are open source.

And finally for MS Office documents, you can install OnlyOffice and FreeOffice for in case LibreOffice doesn’t render a file correctly.