Some TVs will sneakily connect to open APs to try and phone home. It is nasty but it does happen. You can only be worry free if you yank out the radio module. Some TVs make it easier than others (My LG TV made it as easy as opening the back of the TV and disconnecting, YMMV)
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Is that why sirens are red and blue? They want you to surrender?
CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•What's your favourite OS that does not use systemd?31·9 days agoAlpine. It’s very lightweight.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought Idiocracy didn’t propose any solution at all. If I remember correctly, smart people not having kids was just a plot driver. Sadly, with the way things are that is how it’s gonna happen in our lifetime most likely. Education is getting worse over time, so the ones who’ll be able to educate their kids properly are those who are already educated.
CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift?9·16 days agoBig knives are up to something
Didn’t know this phenomenon had a name. That’s what I’m doing right now however. I want to have enough money to be unemployed for a year or two.
CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Elon Musk allegedly took large amounts of drugs including ketamine while advising Trump – report16·24 days agoAnd the sun rises in the east.
CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•(Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46]English3·26 days agoYou’re preaching to the choir. That’s why we spend time making remuxes and encodes. But for release groups to make those we need the format to survive, because Hollywood won’t make the physical media if there’s no copy protection.
CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•(Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46]English1·26 days agoIt’s not really dead, but they’ve definitely scaled down their operations. With streaming services increasing their prices YoY I believe the return to physical media will be cheaper in some cases.
CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•(Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46]English5·26 days agoHighly doubt you can monetize it. Most groups do it as a hobby because they care about preservation. Internal groups don’t lack the time or storage space. What we do lack is dedicated BluRay rippers from distant regions.
CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•(Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46]English3·27 days agoYeah, really makes you wonder if it’s by design as some sort of evil anti piracy measure.
CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•(Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46]English11·27 days agoYou would be surprised but in the US DVDs are still king. They sell far better than regular BluRays and even better than 4K UHD BRs. So saying it’s dead is difficult.
CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•(Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46]English39·27 days agoAs a ripper myself for one of the internal groups, both DVDs and Blu rays have this annoying thing where they include the subtitles in image format (PGS for BRs, forgot what the DVD one was). It’s a headache for the rippers and encoders because we then need to OCR the subtitles for the encodes we put out there. Sometimes if we get lucky the movie is on a streaming platform making this process obsolete as we grab the .vtt files from the streaming service and sync it with the BR we’re making (as well as transforming it to .srt) . My only assumption as to why MPAA decided on image format subs for both DVDs and BRs is because it makes it easy to deal with different languages and the likes, you just display a static image and fk everything else. But for the people putting out quality releases if we ship PGS that means we’re just doing a bad job.
Support your fav trackers (and their internals!)
CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•AI Led Business SimulationEnglish49·28 days agoMore coherent than the ceo of my company
CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•X (formerly Twitter) has been experiencing international outages for a second time in a week.English19·30 days agoHaha, the excuse they like to use in situations like this is “DEI hires caused this”. Musk, have you been DEI hiring?
CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Former President Joe Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' prostate cancer9040·1 month agoWhat are these comments? You people are vile.
S21, S22 and a Pixel 5 or 6. The latter was the one to break the camel’s break.
It was one S21, S22 and a Pixel 5 or 6. I didn’t overpay for the mux delux version, just the basic one.
CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•China calls for 2-state solution with Palestinian state to move past Nakba32·1 month agoThat’s one way to look at it, but I doubt it’s productive. We should be trying to get a two state solution out there.
No, you can leave via Egypt or Jordan.