They can connect to open (and hidden) networks without your consent.

That’s a wild claim and either I accidentally skipped a paragraph in the article or you should cite a source. Quick googling doesn’t show up anything of that sort for me.

Why would you connect a dishwasher to the internet? Setting a timer can tell you just as well if the dishes are clean.

It’s honestly better to just have a bare wall and a projector.

Consumer projectors come with the same “smart” shit as TVs these days. Just don’t connect either to WiFi. Problem solved.

This would’ve worked just a few years back but due to shitty “age verification” laws, even TV manufacturers willl force users to create an account the very least for the TV to even start up.

Surely only for “smart” features but without enabling any of that shit, you shouldn’t get any age verification prompt.

Don’t connect TVs to your network.

They write down that the current feature set will not be paywalled but mandatory account registration and paywalling future features are absolutely on the table.

That hardware requirement is something they could work on for upcoming phones.

Only for people who don’t use proper web browsers with a proper ad blocker.

Looks like Firefox with a theme

Microsoft approving of the practice

Says enough.

Metric = Freedom units confirmed!

The EU has 27 armies. Take that puny Murica!

If that hacker only knew about tracking by Windows…

In the 1990s we were unsupervised 90% of the time between school and bedtime.

I’m not one of them, but what makes them idiots? Seems kind of uncalled for.

It’s obviously a play on the common phrase that the honest guy ends up being the idiot. Not because the honest guy is stupid but because the honesty ends up backfiring. It’s used all the time in video game DRM contexts.

Why did you link to another Lemmy post instead of submitting the article?

If only the world’s largest game publisher, owner of Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, Minecraft, and Xbox, would port their games to this Microsoft machine. Too bad this will never happen because Microsoft and that publisher, whose name escapes me at the moment, don’t cooperate.

You’d still be relying on Nvidia’s userspace blob for graphics. As you perhaps know, Nvidia drivers are always only one unimplemented feature away from functional parity with Mesa drivers that Radeons and Intel GPUs use.

Admittedly, not before there is Linux support.

It’s still Nvidia hardware. Fuck Nvidia.

I’m voluntarily paying for my LW account but the admins don’t know whose money transfer belongs to which account.