How the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy foresaw AI chatbots, voice assistants, and irritating kitchen appliances decades before anyone else
Re: dumb TVs, Sceptre makes a great 55" 4K dumb TV. I have one. If Roku and the other streaming services could hire a UI/UXpert to fix all their broken menus, life would be better.
Next month, I'm putting aside time to buy a Beelink minipc. I'll install arch and Jellyfin, and connect that to the TV. Then i can unplug the television from the internet. As for my current TV, after owning it for 3+ years, advertisements started appearing on it last month. Which is shockingly rude.
When I was looking for a dumb tv a few years back, I couldn't find one, so I capitulated and bought a reasonably priced smart tv. I'm glad you told me about the Sceptre one. I think used to own a sceptre, years ago. I'll see how the beelink+jellyfin setup works and let you know.
As a fan of Salman Rushdie I’d just like to recommend his children’s books for their humour in case you missed them. Haroun and the Sea of Stories and Luka and the Fire of Life were written for his two sons and share the fantasy of many of his other books without the more serious messages.
I have no ill-will towards Rushdie, I promise, I'm just having fun with his idea and showing how vulnerable he is to his own logic. The other thing is, I think AI is going to make us laugh before very long, and I don't feel the need to panic about it; I'd be more panicked about how corporations will make life more irksome, instead. I think advertising is going to become horrific.
Customer service representatives compete with chat bots and clippy for most annoying things in life...and make one desire a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.
Re: dumb TVs, Sceptre makes a great 55" 4K dumb TV. I have one. If Roku and the other streaming services could hire a UI/UXpert to fix all their broken menus, life would be better.
Next month, I'm putting aside time to buy a Beelink minipc. I'll install arch and Jellyfin, and connect that to the TV. Then i can unplug the television from the internet. As for my current TV, after owning it for 3+ years, advertisements started appearing on it last month. Which is shockingly rude.
When I was looking for a dumb tv a few years back, I couldn't find one, so I capitulated and bought a reasonably priced smart tv. I'm glad you told me about the Sceptre one. I think used to own a sceptre, years ago. I'll see how the beelink+jellyfin setup works and let you know.
As a fan of Salman Rushdie I’d just like to recommend his children’s books for their humour in case you missed them. Haroun and the Sea of Stories and Luka and the Fire of Life were written for his two sons and share the fantasy of many of his other books without the more serious messages.
I have no ill-will towards Rushdie, I promise, I'm just having fun with his idea and showing how vulnerable he is to his own logic. The other thing is, I think AI is going to make us laugh before very long, and I don't feel the need to panic about it; I'd be more panicked about how corporations will make life more irksome, instead. I think advertising is going to become horrific.
Customer service representatives compete with chat bots and clippy for most annoying things in life...and make one desire a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.