TVs have streaming services, those need internet to function.

What else does anyone (average consumer) use their TV for? I don’t want a separate device to plug in and remote just to stream things.

> What else does anyone (average consumer) use their TV for?

Xbox/Playstation and free over-the-air channels. Great for major & regional sporting events - free ABC/NBC/CBS/FOX - tends to have less of a delay as well (for me anyway)

Pretty sure consoles have all the streaming apps too

Isn't that what a streaming stick is for? Who needs those complex TV remotes anyway. I've been running on Roku remotes for years and haven't missed anything. Even TiVo remotes are too complex.

Streaming sticks also collect your data. Roku does ACR unless you opt out.

Sure but some are just regular computers that run windows, easily converted to Linux.

Which streaming sticks are regular computers that run Windows?

If you mess with the firmware or try to build your own, you’ll not be able to play the higher quality formats because of DRM software.

They shouldn't though honestly. TVs should go back to basically being dumb monitors and the smart features should just come with a box. They can even sell the box as a bundle

But surely you know the TV will have ads, and spyware and screenshots you every few seconds to send to manufactures, and in some cases even has microphones involved?

The apps built into the screen literally meet the definition of trojans which any casual search on most brands would tell you.

All avoidable by plugging in an $20 dedicated source device for streaming or whatever.

Is saving the $20 really worth it?

> But surely you know

No? It's hardly written in the advertising copy for the TV, is it.

This is a technical website with technical users. You are failing to put yourself in the shoes of non-technical, ordinary users who just want to watch Netflix.

> All avoidable

If you know that you should avoid it but people don't.

A nutritionist, a dermatologist, a plumber could all say the same about many of the things we do or don't do day to day. There's only so many free "5 minutes" people have in a day.

I have researched second opinions from professionals on dermatology, nutrition, and plumbing, and reviews on the ones I do hire.

A bunch of 5 minute segments of gut check research avoids a ton of pain in life.

Everyone connecting these TVs to the internet, has access to the internet to tell them not to do that.

Obviously though, the TV makers are at fault. I just am baffled how so many still fall for this.

> Everyone connecting these TVs to the internet has access to the internet to tell them not to do that.

> I just am baffled how so many still fall for this.

Because you're assuming everybody else is you, cares about the same things as you, does the same things as you, and has the same priorities as you.

You're astonished the world isn't you, and that is a vastly more astonishing take than people-just-wanna-watch-Netflix.

Genuine question - are there any $20 streaming sticks that don't put their own advertisements in?

A Pi Zero running an SD card image built for streaming. Plenty of them. Take your pick.

Would anyone be able to describe the workflow set up? OP, how are you getting seemingly innocuous prompts to run for so long?

I’d like to improve my skills - I am surely in actual prompt kiddie territory.

But I’ve got a personal injury claim coming up that is very complex, with tons of docs, legal speak, laws, etc. I’m hoping to have a set up like OPs that can go deep for a long time. How do I set that up? (Currently looking at Claude projects for context file storage, and just asking gemini for now to convert pdfs to raw text, and summarize them)

I’ve also got a cheap scanner that throws errors no matter what os/hardware I use. Sounds like a fun thing to throw some time at.

You should be in your project description stating something like I know you are not a lawyer but use your best effort to help me find supporting legal information as by law I am allowed to represent myself.

I did this for a demand letter for a friend who was fired after reporting a sexual harassment claim in California - which is a legitimate duty to investigate.

I have compared Opus 5 High and Sol High for legal advice and I consider the advice infinitely better with Sol. Far fewer hallucinations (zero, in fact, with Sol and the right prompt). The suggested text and responses also felt much less like AI. The research was more accurate with Sol. It's positively German in its attention to detail and thirst for being technically correct. Which is exactly what you want in a legal case. Opus 5 High is more of an ideas guy and is much less concerned with the letter of the law.

>I’ve also got a cheap scanner that throws errors no matter what os/hardware I use. Sounds like a fun thing to throw some time at.

Did you try NAPS2 or Vuescan?

Thank you for the suggestion! A lot of troubleshooting later but naps2 helped me confirm the correct error code. Turns out it’s a fatal hardware issue that was hidden through many usb connection error codes.

Simple, ask the AI to give you a prompt that triggers extensive research or work into a topic.

Do we know how the attacker used this knowledge to access wallets? I’m not super familiar with crypto or wallets but that’s the last piece I’m missing

1. Generate all possible seeds.

2. For each seed, generate a few addresses using BIP-32.

3. Use a blockchain explorer API to check if those addresses have been used.

4. For each address that contains unspent coins, generate the corresponding private key (again using BIP-32) then create a transaction sending the coins to the attacker.

An FDIC insured wallet would solve this, similar to bank accounts.

Interesting topic, but I don’t like this writing style. It’s a lot of words to say very little and repeats sentence structure often. The author assumes the reader knows about this hack already, and doesn’t not provide context on what it is, or details like why the attacker is storing coins in 4,000+ wallets.

That’s because it’s, at least partially, authored using an LLM. From experience it reads like Anthropic’s

Is there a good summary somewhere for those not already following the story?

Pure clickbait to define a start home solely by the price and nothing else. The titles claim is correct overall, correct for some cities, but incorrect for many cities. No mention of volume - how many homes are in the large “start home” band v the small top 5% band?

Regardless, even calling them lower cost houses still supports the thesis: more data on the K shaped economy.

Clearly the bottom section of that K should bootstrap themselves harder. Or work on their firm handshake.

Joking aside, the amount of people who have absolutely no understanding of how bad the housing market to income ratio of the average person is so comically stupid it must be deliberate at this point. To share articles like this just belabors that ignorance.

Except this company is brand new and 100% skipped the ceo and cmo steps.

I’d rather have an NP 10 times out of ten for primary care

While they definitely serve a purpose, primary care is not that.

If you present with anything other than healthy and fine, the ones I have had to see are less than helpful.

They simply do not have the depth or breath of training as a doctor. They're very good at executing a plan as part of a care team, and even making changes to that plan based on patient need. But they just simply aren't as good as doctors.

There's a reason they're replacing doctors. . . They're cheaper. That's it.

If you're more or less healthy they're fine. When things start to go sideways my experience is that they get out of their depth pretty quick.

Eh. There's a reason the entire noctor subreddit exists. NPs have their places. Replacing doctors with them isn't it.

A lot of internal stuff ends up on Oracle cloud since it’s easier, jira, confluence, etc

You can’t really expect insurance companies to identify and support policies in areas where many homes may be at huge risk of flooding, while another has zero.

That’s massive operational overhead and is definitely not as simple as looking at elevation, and that overhead is reasonably not worth it for those companies.