When your OS snitches on you, you should uninstall it

By that definition every war is a proxy war

I tried to report Linkedin for their practices and it was like spitting at the sky trying to hit God

> And that is insecure Wordpress: people lego-mounting sites without touching code, only with plugins.

Works as intended, that's why WP has been so popular

Pros: it has a low entry barrier

Cons: it has a low entry barrier

It's not a bicycle for your mind, it's a railbike draisine that only goes on the rails that Apple allows you to use.

I know that you're joking and that I'm late to reply but honestly thinking about the care and planning that has to go into laying railroad tracks and the efficiency of adhesion traction, I would kill for computer that came close to what I imagine using a railbike feels like (a long time dream of mine). Imagine if someone put that much thought into Finder (or Apple Music).

I'm only allowed either Windows or Mac at work so I'll just get less and less efficient until I'm replaced by an LLM.

Goobledygook laptops would be as much of an abomination as those Windows S laptops

It's not about right to violence, it's about all kinds of rights in a pyramid form. Feudalism is about fiefdom, in that context even LG TV spyware is a form of digital feudalism.

Enjoy watching a spinning wheel for the whole time then "Your TV is trying to connect..."

I've had great success blackholing and haven't seen this.

I have an LG I bought around three years ago. The first year-ish it was connected to the internet normally. That's when I first heard about the LG spying issue, and also had noticed that the TV seemed to slow down a bit with every new update it got (what a surprise).

I then isolated it to its own VLAN with no internet access whatsoever. Only other device on the same VLAN is a virtual interface on my Home Assistant server that allows me to keep using the LG webos integration and send Wake on LAN packets to the TV.

Surprisingly most of the slowness seemed to also disappear after cutting the TV from the internet. It's probably not quite as fast as it was when it was brand new, but the most noticeable difference is when turning the TV on. It's almost instant again now, compared to something like 5+ seconds it took when it had internet.

Just because you can call doesn't mean you can install an app, plenty of people use dumb phones

This is a better excuse

> a trail of liability you can use to sue LG.

The average user would not realize LG was the reason, if they do they will loose more money and effort; LG's reputation and public image won't be even damaged enough for them to take a notice. You are an ant for them and ants are only powerful if they work together.