It protects against system breakage and malware because the core of the OS is sealed and updates can only fully complete or fully fail, you can’t have a half-uodated system like Ubuntu would be if you unplugged the PC half way through.

And because your apps and commandline tools are sandboxed with Flatpak and toolbox/distrobox so malware getting in through one doesn’t compromise the whole system.

You should just get a smart TV which allows setting it up without wi-fi instead.

Plug your own devices in with HDMI.

You should update the Shield. You’ll get security updates and the Pihole will remove ads.

You need to keep the frame rate matching on and motion smoothing off. On an LG you turn “Real Cinema” or “Cinema Screen” on and turn “TruMotion” off. On a Sony, you set “CineMotion” to High and “MotionFlow” on with both sliders set to minimum.

You can make the Samsung even better by turning off the energy saving to make it brighter and turning off the motion smoothing so it doesn’t hallucinate extra frames in 24/25/30 fps video.

If you use the built in smart apps, then 100% YES. However if you leave the Wi-Fi disconnected then plug your own box in then they’re fine. The same applies to most smart TVs, except Roku and Fire models.

Most let you use the HDMI ports and antenna. Only some like Roku models block everything.

People have them because there is no other option. I would love to see a TV version of GrapheneOS with no BS come out some day.

You can get a smart TV and set ut up without Wi-Fi. You can do that on Google TV, Tizen and WebOS. You will have to turn off the eco mode and motion smoothing so it is not dim and blurry.

Get a smart TV which lets you go through set-up without Wi-Fi. Google TV (which is suprising for GOOGLE) models support that.

It could be picture settings. Make sure the Fire stick’s HDR is set to adaptive (it defaults to always on which looks horrible), and on the TV itself the power saving is turned off.

Read this last bit again: "Without Grok providing users with easy access to “undressing” capabilities, his family doubts he ever would have generated the harmful images, which he allegedly trafficked online in trade for “CSAM produced by other child sex predators.” He traded them for CSAM of other girls.

There is a setting in the update manager which deletes the kernels for you. Regular Mint is also the better option because of the Ubuntu base.

Games should work in Steam with “Steam Play for all titles” enabled. What are the apps?

And Sony “solved” the issue by requiring you to use software called Sonicstage to transfer music, and that software re encoded everything as ATRAC with OpenMG DRM.

It’s not just ipad kids. Those who just want to work and not mess with the system are better off with Mint or Zorin. If you have to google how to install VLC then an OS has already lost for productivity.

They want your ID because they’re legally forced to. A VPN will fix it.

They should implement bot detection that looks at the volume of posts and duplicate posts posted across the whole fediverse from one account, bayesian and LLM based filters to detect spam programmatically, PoW to slow down bots which get through.

As well as checking for signs of automation (Puppeteer/Selenium/Playwright) and suspiciously fast or perfect mouse movement in the web client, and showing a captcha to post/comment in the mobile client.

I don’t think most instances do any of that at the moment, and what looked to be a fake Gofundme ended up on the front page, from an account which was absolutely spamming Mastodon relentlessly.

Look at MVNOs. They use the big three networks (Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T) but are much cheaper because you are not paying the uninformed tax.