My fear is that this will change. We already saw LG load malware via windows when connected. So in theory future devices like Roku and Apple TV could act as a proxy for the tv.

<CIRCULAR FINANCING INTENSIFIES>

The dollar is collapsing

Simpler times

Looks like SOMA in space instead of the ocean, and I’m here for it. Can’t wait for next year!

That’s a quarter of the whole world’s broad money. From a single company? GTFO Anthropic

The uber rich in India are doing ok. It’ll probably be like that. A caste based society

It’s by design.

Once upon a time, the USA had a strong middle class. Billionaires got taxed heavily, and our public schools were the envy of the world. Well funded and produced a lot of great students.

But educated people are difficult to control and even harder to dupe. The GOP realized that if they can gut public education, the masses will become malleable again. Meanwhile, the children of the rich can continue to go to expensive private institutions for their own education. So the rich stay educated, and the poor’s go in the gutter.

You have to start somewhere…feel free to start a thread

Done! New updates from Endeavour are now bot posted

Retrotink makes boxes that scale them for modern tv’s. Check em out, highly recommend

Oh most perfect! <chefs kiss> ty Rick !

I’d like to see AI sit thru a 90 min retro

That’s a great idea. I’m new here so not 100% on how to spin up a bot; but will look into it

Come join us in https://lemmy.zip/c/endeavouros

I’d be done with new games. Time to bust out the N64 and SNES, fire up some rom hacks on my everdrive.

“I think the fact that everything is scarce is fantastic for us”

Little does this joke of a man understand that it’s not all about him.

Windows 11: The worlds premier Sloperating System

You’re correct OP. I think the difficulty of modern times is multifaceted. A lot of other comments here speak to various parts of it these days, but I want to add one I’ve noticed related to this issue.

Pre mid-2000’s, technology worked for us. If you look at the hayday of tech (1980 thru early 2000’s), it seemed like every tech innovation was aimed at the consumer. The tech got better and we did too. The tech worked for us.

Nowadays (and I think I can see all this turning course around the time of the 2008 collapse), tech is not for us. The consumer has become the product, and tech is built around working through us instead of for us. Manipulating us instead of helping us. It sucks.

I have no doubt that if the washing machine was invented today instead of like ~100 years ago, they would be the size of car, and only installed in corporate offices. You’d have to go to an office to get your clothes washed. Consumer-level washers wouldn’t be a thing. They’d tie it to work like healthcare. It seems like no one is interested in making quality consumer devices. The consumer devices we do have are designed to become obsolete quickly without any repairability, so you buy another fast (i.e. all modern cars).

So yea, I think when you add this on top of everything else, it help explains what is amiss with life today. My 2c

If OP can wait, GrapheneOS is partnering with Motorola, but those phones won’t be available until 2027.