I have Google TV on my Sony TV and found that I was able to disable the ads and crap.
There was a setting to toggle. They tried to make it unattractive by saying I wouldn't be able to use the Google Assistant feature but this just seemed like a win for me.
I don't need my TV to be fancy, it just needs to accept signal from my consoles and HTPC.
I do kinda miss seeing all the suggested dogshit movies sometimes tho XD
Interesting post, honestly feels like the NFT cult: Discord full of true believers, leader with wildly optimistic takes on everything, nonsensical profit model.
I will say, however, that the authors one comment "Vlad is one of those people who thinks not everything is political" annoyed me a bit.
I get that for people living in the US it can seem like everything is political but I don't think it is and more importantly, I don't think it's a healthy attitude.
Not everything is political but there are certainly people who will try their best to make it seem that way, usually as a means to engage in politicing, often with unpleasant results.
I can judge the Kagi founder negatively for a lot of things in the post but this isn't one of them and it's a weird little jab to throw in that says more about the author of the post than the Kagi guy.
This is why I preferred Shadow Warrior 2 to Borderlands. Millions of randomly generated guns sounds nice, except they're mostly trash. I'd rather have the 70 hand-crafted options in SW2.
Nintendo bring this in themselves with their own policies.
There are so many hardware platforms I can support, and one that hardly ever does sales and refuses to bring their games to other platforms is not that appealing.
I buy games on PC, I buy games on XB, I've even rebought some games between the platforms to play couch co-op with my kid.
Steam and XB have enough sales to make this an option, Nintendo on the other hand is adamant about wringing every last penny from you.
These days I don't have time for Nintendo's nonsense. They want to live in their walled garden, they can have it.
Right...because requiring developers to actually grasp the code they're outputting is gatekeeping.
If you want to pretend the rush to AI won't lead to more incompetent chefs in the kitchen than we already have (which is too many as it stands) then feel free, but acting like it's some kind of "party" people are being kept out of is daft.
Standards exist for a reason, not just to make people feel bad for not meeting them.
Corporations and governments do consist of people and people do care...but it's also the case the being a cog in a large organization does have a tendency to induce stuff like "I was just following orders" or "It's not my problem, someone else needs to fix it" :-/
Fun fact, I generated an image for Homo Sapiens a few hours ago (After trying white man, black man and neanderthal with no success) and was greeted with someone that looked very much like an Orc XD
There was a setting to toggle. They tried to make it unattractive by saying I wouldn't be able to use the Google Assistant feature but this just seemed like a win for me.
I don't need my TV to be fancy, it just needs to accept signal from my consoles and HTPC.
I do kinda miss seeing all the suggested dogshit movies sometimes tho XD