Ah, there’s the problem — you connected it to the internet. I’ve had decent experiences with Samsung TVs, but I just plug them into an apple tv and let the box do the work. I’ve had to see their UI on a couple occasions though and yeah it’s trash.

Every consumer TV is subsidized by the advertisements they (plan to) put on it and your data they’ll sell. I bought a mid-range Samsung TV last year, used it for TV, movies, gaming, and I love it. But I haven’t connected it to the internet, I use a separate device I can easily discard if need be. Not blaming you because it’s counter-intuitive, but you can’t update consumer TVs. They know it will live in your… living… room for several years and want to make money off displaying ads. Do you really think they’ll update it to be less intrusive and show fewer ads so they make less money!?? Obviously, I just guessed right; I’m not a genius, nor do I have precognition. I’ve even heard stories about TVs connecting themselves to open networks, but I’m not sure sure I believe them…

Why oh why is your Samsung TV still connected to the WiFi? I kicked mine off WiFi within three months of getting the device and I’ve used it for four years now and it works like a charm!

Not a shill, but I honestly love my Samsung TV. I took it out of the box, plugged in an HDMI cable to connect it to my PC, and use it as a monitor. I’ve never connected it to my wifi, so it has no internet access. I’ve never had to enter my Samsung account info to use it.

I heard turning off Samsung live tv and removing the app helps the performance tremendously, I have yet to try it as my wife for some reason is willing to tolerate a menu that takes over a minute to navigate one click at a time so she can keep the live tv feature, it is unusable to me

This is standard Samsung TV behaviour.

I had one and never again. Friend only just got one a few months ago and already loathes it.

We have one of the Samsung frame TVs, it’s a nice TV, it fits a specific need for us in a bit of a weird spot in a bedroom where a regular TV would look out of place.

But man is the software trash. It’s laggy, a lot of the apps seem really poorly-optimized, and half the settings are just randomly unavailable for no apparent reason.

And since I had to install a box in the wall to hide the one connect box behind it, I kind of don’t want to use it with another streaming device, something about putting too much stuff in that box kind of rubs me the wrong way.

I got a Google TV box and disconnected my Samsung TV from the internet. A week later I got an email about how connecting them helps me because it sends the data and my preferences back to Samsung.

… It sends thousands of information pings each day.

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Same. Young and stupid, and I already had the Xbox…

Use it for ripping.

You have clearly not been to the library.

And unsurprisingly, this is one of the less cunty things Apple does.

should just install Linux and be done with it.

There is a patch to update macOS when it’s not compatible. One I have used before is from dosdude1.

You can also put Linux on it, or dual boot. Older Intel Macs I remember being really wasy, the T2 Mac’s need special drivers but it’s not too hard, and the new Mac’s have ashai Linux.

Hey I did the same! Thought hey I know tech, I know car audio, this will be great. It wasn’t. Some bottom of the barrel android tablet that barely run a music player let alone navigation. Ended up putting back the stock and getting a 15 dollar phone mount instead. Worked way better.

How the fuck.

I got a used one for 100 eur and it’s better than that, damn

I bought one of these. It’s a bit clunky, but it was the best option for my application because it uses the stock touchscreen from the infotainment system instead of the aftermarket stereo which would have 2 screens on top of each other and look shitty. It’s not cheap, and I wish it was a little more polished, but it does everything I need it to.

https://gromaudio.com/vline/?srsltid=AfmBOopqUVGKB-ToRqCqMa_JIbd041ZytmLBTFd-ZbM2vYJWTRPl3xm3

I agree with your frustration and dislike of Adobe but you can still get a permanent license through Steam. It is unfortunately an industry standard, only toolbag comes close afaik but it’s still a long way off

I remember when I started using Plex it was great. And then each update made it harder and harder to use, until I was struggling to find my own media. I still don’t understand what was wrong with them. Jellyfin just works. It’s infinitely better.

On the flip side, it was one of my best purchases. The sync feature has historically been great and I’ve had over a decade of use out of it for that single payment. I hate every update they make, but Jellyfin clients still don’t have as good of a sync feature and that’s what I use a ton of for traveling.

So just out of curiosity, did the dash cam not work for dash cam purposes?

As in, did you end up getting into an accident and have no usable footage?

Or was it just a piece of shit that didn’t work?

Mine was the Powerglove. I begged for it for my birthday and the price was high enough that was the only present that year.

One of my gaming buddies is in Thailand, but plays on the American server with us. His ping is regularly 2000-3000ms. When he hits a button, he doesn’t actually “do the thing” for 2-3 seconds. But dude is a fucking genius, and he’s mastered the timing. He regularly outperforms folks with a 28ms ping (It’s me, I’m “folks”).

I’m one of the few.people.that really liked tbe Ouya. At the time it was the best living room retro gaming system out there. I bought 3 of them. And I had no problem with the controllers.

I supported them on kickstarter unfortunately

Maybe they shouldn’t have put Lord Sugar in charge.

There’s also the fact they started showing adverts on the screen when it wasn’t in use, and the adverts were usually for sex phone services - often showing nudity and with a quick-access button for the premium rate number, no less - right there in your hallway where everyone saw it.

I used to go for Xiaomi phones but I stopped because I had too many issues with the OS. The amount of times it would close an app almost as soon as it leaves the screen was too much, tried every setting ever to fix until I just starting doing 2FA with a floating/split screen.

8 years ago the OS was one of the best, 3 years ago it was one of the worst, not sure how it is now.

I bought the Poco F1, which i think was the first with a internal heatpipe back then? Well, geared at gamers. Still was fairly powerful 7 years later when it broke. So, there’s that at least.

What app are you using to log the requests?

What happened about the bootloader? Afaik there’s “only” a 7 days waiting time but that is to be done only once, if the serial number is tied to the Xiaomi account that makes the request, the next bootloader unlock has no waiting time.

And devices that run a ROM for the Chinese market only accept a bootloader unlock request from a Chinese IP address

I bought my first iPad back in 2011, and, being a Mac and iPhone user at the time, it was great. I’ve had a few over the years, and always considered them indispensible.

Then I got a 6th gen mini. I didn’t actually buy it, it was a gift from my dad who has a tendency to buy Apple stuff tax free when he’s on holiday on New Hampshire. My one was £600 at the time. For its utility it’s worth maybe half of that.

The first thing that pissed me off was that Apple decided that it wasn’t worthy of Stage Manager. I understand not wanting it to be able to run a multiple app desktop on such a relatively small screen, but you can’t even hook it up to an external display. Or, you can, but it doesn’t scale. It’s just a bigger version of what’s on the iPad’s screen. The mini is a PERFECT candidate for Stage Manager. Small, portable, easy to carry about. But no, because Apple.

Then iOS 26 came along, and suddenly every iPad was getting Stage Manager. Finally, I can use my little iPad to its fullest potential.

No.

My one still doesn’t support scaling. So I can have multiple apps, but just bigger.

Then I replaced my iPhone with a Pixel running Graphene, and started using Linux a lot more, and suddenly, out of the Apple ecosystem, my little iPad made even less sense. It can technically run SyncThing, but it’s so restricted as to be functionally useless. So 95% of its use now is as a MIDI controller for Mixxx on my Mac when I’m doing my radio show.

£600 for a half-baked MIDI controller is pretty fucking steep.

Friendly reminder that you should purchase Nintendo products secondhand if you absolutely cannot emulate and pay to get that bad boy modded cause fuck Nintendo

I am still very fond of MiniDisc and have all my old discs and equipment, which still works and plays just fine. But yeah, the 2000s were the decade of DRM and Sony’s tech side was constantly at odds with its media side. Limitations on optical recording & dubbing from MD to MD, using their horrible SonicStage software for NetMD, and horrible marketing overseas handicapped them constantly.

They finally got it right with their very last flagship NetMD portable (apart from its OLED screens dying after a few years) but by then Apple had made the iPod the default portable listening experience and Sony had very obviously lost.

They did make some excellent MP3 players, but once again: proprietary data connectors, restrictive media transfers, poor CODEC support, and freaking SonicStage made using those a nightmare as well. They never did learn.

Their appliances are garage. They aren’t even overpriced, they shouldn’t exist because of how big of pieces of shit they are.