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If my relatives want to talk to me, they can pick up the phone.

Fine, but I don’t want the smart features to be installed at all in the first place.

I don’t want a WiFi antenna or Ethernet port in there.

I know that sounds ridiculous, since I can “simply not use them,” but I want to spend my money on an appliance, not a consumer data collection tool.

I don’t want them to have any of my data, and I don’t want to spend money “voting” with my dollar for these data collection devices.

Some of these devices have even been known to look for other similar devices within WiFi range, and phone home that way (i.e., send analytics data via a neighbor’s connected TV as a proxy).

Fuuuck that. I don’t want my dollar supporting this, at all, plain and simple. And I don’t want to pay a premium for the privilege of buying a technically simpler device. I do, but it’s bullshit, and I’m unhappy about it.

I don’t care about 8k.

I just want an affordable dumb TV. No on-board apps whatsoever. No smart anything. No Ethernet port, no WiFi. I have my own stuff to plug into HDMI already.

I’m aware of commercial displays. It just sucks that I have to pay way more to have fewer features now.

¿Por qué no los dos?

Linux phones I guess. I really don’t know.

I swear to god, there are people who want these meetings to last longer (and they purposely wait until near the end of the meeting in order to try and drag it out), and for the life of me I don’t understand it!

We didn’t see this one coming a mile away.

Palantir execs and shareholders are buzzing with anticipation.

How very “libertarian” and “small government” of him.

It’s time to abandon the internet and build a new one from scratch.

Nobody should be living on Spider Island.