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UnreachableCode commented on Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted   techpowerup.com/344075/mi... · Posted by u/akyuu
kburman · 5 days ago
My rule for modern TVs:

1. Never connect the TV panel itself to the internet. Keep it air-gapped. Treat it solely as a dumb monitor.

2. Use an Apple TV for the "smart" features.

3. Avoid Fire TV, Chromecast, or Roku.

The logic is simple, Google (Chromecast) and Amazon (Fire TV) operate on the same business model as the TV manufacturers subsidized hardware in exchange for user data and ad inventory. Apple is the only mainstream option where the hardware cost covers the experience, rather than your viewing habits subsidizing the device.

UnreachableCode · 5 days ago
What's wrong with Roku? They have a few ads here and there but I've always found the interface to be super slick. And they aren't Google, so not as harmful to share my data with? (a big assumption, I know)
UnreachableCode commented on Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?    · Posted by u/ferguess_k
yownie · 18 days ago
yes. next question.
UnreachableCode · 18 days ago
Hey bro, I saw your reply to my comment elsewhere asking if Revolut works on GrapheneOS. But I can't reply to it because the thread is locked.

Anyway, it does. https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...

UnreachableCode commented on Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?   economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/harambae
UnreachableCode · 19 days ago
Not sure if it's been missed or I'm an anomaly. But as a senior level software engineer who graduated in the 10s, with a wealth of experience, I too (like the juniors who get reported on) am struggling to get a new job. Either I'm just not as good as I think I am, or the barrier is ridiculously high for the next type of job I'm trying to achieve (high paying, product focused developer).
UnreachableCode commented on We're losing our voice to LLMs   tonyalicea.dev/blog/were-... · Posted by u/TonyAlicea10
glitchc · 23 days ago
Do LinkedIn as well. I got rid of it earlier this year. The "I am so humbled/blessed to be promoted/reassigned/fired.." posts reached a level of parody that I just couldn't stomach any longer. I felt more free immediately.

N.B. Still employed btw.

UnreachableCode · 23 days ago
LinkedIn bothers me the least, even though it definitely has some of the highest level of cringe content. It's still a good tool to interact with recruiters, look at companies and reach out to their employees. The trick is blocking the feed with a browser extension.
UnreachableCode commented on Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'   9to5mac.com/2025/11/14/ti... · Posted by u/achow
loloquwowndueo · a month ago
Wow such anger.

> I am confronted by Apple performance and bug pain every hour of my life.

Why do you keep buying Apple then?

UnreachableCode · a month ago
Is it at all possible he has an Intel Mac from 2018 that he hasn't been able to upgrade yet, likely due to insane cost?

Because that's my thing

UnreachableCode commented on .NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser   avaloniaui.net/blog/net-m... · Posted by u/vyrotek
debugnik · a month ago
Teams is not older than MAUI because MAUI was mostly a rebrand of Xamarin Forms.
UnreachableCode · a month ago
This. Xamarin is MAUI. Xamarin was founded in 2011, acquired by Microsoft in 2016 (a year after Flutter was created).
UnreachableCode commented on Smartphones and being present   herman.bearblog.dev/being... · Posted by u/articsputnik
UnreachableCode · 2 months ago
https://untrap.app/ for YouTube customisation has been a lifesaver for me. It can even be added to Safari as an extension, for £2.99.

Also UBlock Origin for blocking specific elements on the screen is a lifesaver for reading articles or tutorials.

UnreachableCode commented on F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree   f-droid.org/2025/09/29/go... · Posted by u/gumby271
jackstraw42 · 3 months ago
Apple has made policy changes and changes to the app store to make it clearer which apps to avoid. Apple really cares about my privacy, or they tell me they do and I believe them. I think they do because they know how important brand loyalty is to their customers. It's pretty much the thing Apple lives on, never losing the customer's trust. Google clearly leaves it more or less up to nature.
UnreachableCode · 3 months ago
>Apple really cares about my privacy, or they tell me they do and I believe them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

UnreachableCode commented on F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree   f-droid.org/2025/09/29/go... · Posted by u/gumby271
jackstraw42 · 3 months ago
That's fair. Unfortunately, like with the national politics here, we have two shitty options.
UnreachableCode · 3 months ago
GrapheneOS.
UnreachableCode commented on FreeDroidWarn   github.com/woheller69/Fre... · Posted by u/josephcsible
CalRobert · 4 months ago
You won’t be able to do much with the second. Web sites will force login with google, etc. and only work for attested browsers.
UnreachableCode · 4 months ago
I don't use Google login any where and have a lot of accounts with many different websites? Youtube and other Goolag ecosystem being the exception, but, of course they are?

u/UnreachableCode

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