But the situational absurdity, the unbelievability, is what makes it funny. Like me moderating an Android community on a niche tech forum. It's hilarious.
Hisense with Android TV or TCL with Roku seems to be the least bad of the smart TVs about ads, and you can easily not connect them to your WiFi. If you want smart TV functions, you can always hook a PS5 or XBX/S or OSMC PC to the TV with HDMI.
Hisense U8K this year has good reviews from rtings.com and is probably the best you can get without going into OLED territory.
None that I visit regularly, but occasionally there is one annoying link somewhere that refuses to display correctly in Firefox and forces me to use Chrome to see the content
(I still use FF as my primary browser on the phone.)
Firefox has its own set of problems on Android(mostly website compatibility) , but it is a much more pleasant experience not having to deal with ads at all on the phone.
Why do you think Sam Altman is always using FUD to push for more AI restrictions? He already got his data collection, so he wants to make sure ""Open""AI is the only game in town and prevent any future competition from obtaining the same amount of data they collected.
Still, I have to give Zuck his credit here, the existence of open models like LLaMa 2 that can be fine-tuned and ran locally has really put a damper on OpenAI's plans.
The primary issue in this is that for years, both organizations and people have accepted that inside the office is the way that work has always been conducted (not true, by the way), that working in the office is an fundamental, unchangeable human nature and the only way which work can be done, and all attention to keep people happy at work is to iteratively improve by putting foosball table and catered lunches in the office.
So, when COVID showed that working from home is possible, even more efficient at times, against the perceived human nature to show that change can happen and the office isn't even NEEDED, the cynicism kicked in: to admit that work from home regularly is even possible would be to admit that the previous system was fundamentally wrong, and that having a giant office at all is ultimately a waste of money, which is why they are so desperate to revert and remove work from home to somehow justify paying for an office for all these years and that things can never change for the better, ever, and the broken system was to be always accepted.
It's a form of expression of despair, and despair often isn't logical.
Because he is way less funny than he thinks he is.