I would also put a good bit of the blame on executives and marketing people being way out of touch with the average person.

i haven’t seen academy yet, have they explained how the Jem’Hadar were able to breed? In DS9 they were grown synthetically by the Changelings afaik.

this is so cursed

to get something as flexible as my android tv i’d need an nvidia shield and those are going on ten years old at this point. maybe if/when they do a hardware refresh, assuming sideloading isn’t completely impossible by then.

Yeah. To be honest on the DNS side it would probably be far easier to just do a whitelist instead, block everything except your specific service. and yeah, its a stupid amount of work. i hate smart tvs but i’ll be damned if im gonna pay extra for a streaming box =|

just saying its possible

Not sure if you mean hardcoded DNS IPs or hardcoded “phone home” IPs. Hardcoded DNS addresses in devices are annoying, the only way i’ve found to get around that is using destination nat rules (DNAT) which requires more than a consumer router typically. hardcoded phone home IPs would get blocked by your firewall. you set up a rule that denies all outbound traffic from the TV, then only allow port 443 (or whatever port your streaming service uses) on the specific IP/IPs that your service uses. Here’s Netflix’s published IP info for example.

no it helps to block everything that isnt just netflix or whatever streaming service you use. you combine a DNS adblock along with blocking all the unused ports and it severely limits the communications. you could also add a vpn to add another layer of security.

It’s relatively easy to restrict a smart tv to TLS/HTTPS traffic only using your router and a dns adblocker.

hence the quotes around their. these people are flat out anti-america.

consumer level copyright infringement is generally a civil matter, not a criminal one. you’d have to be doing something like selling bootleg dvds for it to turn into a criminal issue.

For me it was buying star trek the next generation on blu-ray and getting annoyed with having to flip through fifty blu-ray disks to watch an episode.

The problem of non-white people being in “their” country, I would guess. But I don’t care to dig too deeply into the psyche of these monsters.

Mine will chase after something if i throw it but then she expects me to come pick it up and throw it the other direction haha.

It’s actually incredible for getting real reading done without my ADHD taking over and opening up 30 tabs of “ooh whats this?”

lol if it ever gets to that point i’m just gonna go straight Lynx.

If anyone has any suggestions for browsers hook me up, I’m running out of browsers with thier own engines to try. I don’t see much point in using, say, LibreWolf if the engine is still the same as Firefox (Gecko in this case). Maybe I’ll give NetSurf a try and pretend like it’s 1996 again.

edit i don’t see much point because doing some about:config shenanigans is nearly the same amount of work to me as switching browsers.

a good reminder that fiat currency is literally worthless or else these insane values would be impossible

At restaurants here you would ask the host/waiter the market price before deciding to order.

So with things like fish that can change day to day are they required to just update it every day? that sounds nice.