Ads subsidise the upfront cost to the developers. Try buying a dumb TV.

Fridge screen with recipes would be great for my family. If it was smart enough to track the contents of the fridge and create meal plans, that would be a helpful reason to add smarts.

In 3.7L?

Here’s what I mean, in an excerpt from the Internet Manipulation section of Wikipedia’s article on Disinformation.

Internet manipulation is the use of online digital technologies, including algorithms, social bots, and automated scripts, for commercial, social, military, or political purposes. Internet and social media manipulation are the prime vehicles for spreading disinformation due to the importance of digital platforms for media consumption and everyday communication. When employed for political purposes, internet manipulation may be used to steer public opinion, polarise citizens, circulate conspiracy theories, and silence political dissidents.

That’s everybody’s business.

While we may weigh up the pros and cons of these tools, it’s a start to recognise that there are significant social risks here that shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand.

Others are using it on us. Can you understand why we prefer it stays down?

Tell the people using it ON us to stop then.

It’s dumb.

Johnson, it’s perfect. Fire me immediately.

Mood.

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. - Edsger W. Dijkstra

Wayland is breaking sudo?

China.

This group is excellent. This number is from their 1982 album Mint Jams and all the jams are indeed all mint. Highly recommended.

Still working on my backlog of 10 year old games…

EA: please take it out of the game.

And if it’s as he says, and eventually all games get labeled that way, what’s his problem with that? Man just doesn’t want to compete.

Has he had his nussy replaced with neck-nuts?

Now you’re so poor you’ll have to eat Campbell‘s soup.

Needs more skeletons.

Indeed, the good and free ones are value for money. There are a LOT of terrible ones though. I enjoy Josh Strife Hayes’ YouTube channel, which covers most of them.