Not an April fools, but it might have been a plan they (whoever it was) chose to later not follow through with.

I vaguely remember the Sony fiasco.

Both of these were in the USA. The first was with a friend’s purchase, the latter was an article he sent me. It’s been a little while, but I know one was Samsung, but can’t remember the other brand or which was which.

Not all tvs allow you to do that. Some require you to be online. Some took it a step further and are equipped with 4/5G modems to bypass your network restrictions.

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The smart ones are sold at cost or at a loss, and your privacy is then sold to subsidize the profits. A dumb tv costs more money up front (since it’s not subsidized by your privacy), but it costs far less in overall value. It’s a tradeoff that the consumer needs to make. The lovely thing, is that (for now, at least) it is still a choice we can make.

I haven’t finished going through all of it yet, but it seems pretty extensive and inclusive. This is great!

As is, one can only hope. Until a source of animal-like protein can be perfected and become cheap enough for sustained consumption by a lower class individual, some people (more than you realize) will not be able to get off animal proteins due to various medical conditions. I suppose accessible cures for these conditions would be a proper solution as well.

I’m not even going to touch on the luxury of choosing your next meal here, since that’s been addressed already.

I agree. I’ve used them for so many side projects over the years, one of which I upgraded to their paid.

I used to use them, too, and they were my first checkin, but they closed as of June-2024.

I do consider the French steam engine as the first automobile, yes. Though, if I remember correctly, the French name translates to automatic cart (since he modified a horse cart).

Grav looks awesome, by the way. Who is your hoster?

French and English, respectively. But the Americans popularized them.

But that’s what makes it so good

Didn’t know about !webdev@programming.dev thanks!

I thought about asking !selfhosted@lemmy.world, but didn’t feel it fully fit there, since I’m not specifically asking about self-hosted service or app, but, instead, about a standard .com (or whatever tld).

I checked the rules for ask Lemmy, and didn’t see anything that would suggest that this question wouldn’t fit, but I would also understand if it didn’t fully fit under the “open discussion question” rule. Basically, I completely understand and don’t hold it against the mods if it were to be taken down haha

The vps solution might be where I end up. But $5 vps? Which ones are those?

That’s a really cool space for hobbies and such, and I will totally use this! For this particular project, though, I need proper tld and hosting service. Doesn’t have to be a .com, per se.

Just have it ready, I’ll have someone pick it up.

Either option would be good for earth, as a whole, but bad to really for humanity.

Might be better than what we have now, no? At least a paperweight has a function.

Maybe we can focus on fixing the ‘human’ race condition, too?

At this point, just turn it off and back on again.