Do you have any recommended links for such a setup? I don’t connect my TV to the network and use it with an Apple TV. But I’m interested to know more on this.
If not, you can try and find one on Ebay or local classifieds that is. That's the hardest part.
Then you setup a VLAN (I use OpenWRT, which has great support for this) and some firewall rules that forbid all traffic that isn't port 80 or 443. Then you create a dnsmasq blacklist for all the LG domains (good list is [1]).
> Is there any smart TV that I can actually just use a TV how I want?
I’ve heard that large computer monitors and TVs intended to be used as displays can be used without connecting them to a network.
> Or am I reduced to buying an Apple TV device and unplugging the TV from the internet entirely ?
An Apple TV is a good choice even otherwise. I’ve never seen a smoother and quicker interface on a native Smart TV (granted that I’ve only seen Android and webOS). I use my Apple TV as the only network connected device while my TV is not connected to any network ever. Once in a while, I update the TV’s firmware by downloading it to a thumb drive and plugging that into the USB port of the TV.
Better yet, use a Linux HTPC. The Apple TV box is comically restricted. For example, because there is no web browser, there is no straightforward way to watch YouTube ad-free on it.
The default Google launcher is a disgusting mess. But since it is an Android, you do not have to use it and can use one of the many ad free ones. I use Projectivy
This is quite surprising to me, since I thought the percentage would be a lot lesser.
But I don’t really know what the Firefox team does with crash reports and in making Firefox almost crash proof.
I have been using it at work on Windows and for the last several years it always crashes on exit. I have religiously submitted every crash report. I even visit the “about:crashes” page to see if there are any unsubmitted ones and submit them. Occasionally I’ll click on the bugzilla link for a crash, only to see hardly any action or updates on those for months (or longer).
Granted that I have a small bunch of extensions (all WebExtensions), but this crash-on-exit happens due to many different causes, as seen in the crash reports. I’m too loathe to troubleshoot with disabling all extensions and then trying it one by one. Why should an extension even cause a crash, especially when its a WebExtension (unlike the older XUL extensions that had a deeper integration into the browser)? It seems like there are fundamental issues within Firefox that make it crash prone.
I can make Firefox not crash if I have a single window with a few tabs. That use case is anyway served by Edge and Chrome. The main reasons I use Firefox, apart from some ideological ones, are that it’s always been much better at handling multiple windows and tons of tabs and its extensibility (Manifest V2 FTW).
I would sincerely appreciate Firefox not crashing as often for me.
It is hard to judge, but a crash on exit seems to me a possible consequence of a damaged memory. Firefox frees all the resources and collects the garbage. I expect it to touch a lot of memory locations, and do something with values retrieved.
> this crash-on-exit happens due to many different causes, as seen in the crash reports
It points to the same direction: all these different causes are just symptoms, the root cause is hiding deeper, and it is triggered by the firefox stopping.
It is all is not a guarantee that the root cause is bitflips, but you can rule it out by testing your memory.
I don’t know, but it seems like it’s overselling its capabilities. I tried with Firefox Focus and it said I’m using incognito (private mode) and assigned a unique visitor ID. Immediately tried with a private tab in Safari on iOS and it said I’m not using incognito (private mode) and assigned a new unique visitor ID. Then I switched networks and tried. One more unique visitor ID.
I’m not claiming that fingerprinting is not possible, but this website is not good at it. Seems like it uses plain cookies.
When I use Windows, Everything is one of the first tools I install. I also disable Windows search and indexing.
I use this with Keypirinha [1], which is a launcher (kinda like Quicksilver [2] on Mac) that integrates with Everything using the Everything package. [3]
This combo makes finding files as well as launching programs (or doing quick calculations or currency conversions) a breeze!
It doesn’t explicitly state anything about the email contents in the privacy policy page. People generally trust their email providers to not snoop in their emails. I wonder why anyone should trust a cloud based service (such as this).
There's also no names listed of anyone associated with the project, nor they mention the country where they are located, so you don't even know which sets of laws applies.
If you have a Pro or Pro Max model of iPhone from the last several years, it has a LiDAR that allows the pre-installed Measure app to measure lengths/heights, etc., using the camera. Several higher end Android phones may also have the same.
> "Hold on. I think I hear another heckle. What is that? There are mobile phone apps that can measure things now? Really? Right. Security. Where's security?"
> You can search "!w Gabriel Weinberg" and it will open the Wikipedia article because of the leading exclamation mark and w
Just for anyone else who isn’t aware, the bang commands can be anywhere in the search string, and need not necessarily be at the beginning.
All these queries will take you to Wikipedia for the term:
"!w Gabriel Weinberg"
"Gabriel !w Weinberg"
"Gabriel Weinberg !w"
Many a times when I find the default DuckDuckGo search results inadequate and want to go to Google search, I just put a “!g” as a separate term anywhere within the search string and hit enter. This is especially useful on mobile where the search string may be a lot longer than the visible text box and I can’t be bothered to move the cursor.
Tapping in different parts of the text box, or dragging the finger in the text box, allow a lot more precise control than what one can easily do by dragging the space bar in the iPhone keyboard, much closer to what you can do on a full computer with regular keyboard and mouse.
The difference is especially noticeable for tasks like editing / deleting / selecting specific parts of long URLs, and on smaller phones where the iPhone space bar is smaller than on larger phones.
How can anyone trust such an application that declares in the App Store listing as “Data Not Collected”?
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