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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Try "lcd tv non-smart", "lcd tv hospitality", or "lcd business tv" or any variations thereof.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

So I just bought a brand new "dumb" TV for $150 off of Amazon (43" 1080 Sceptre). It isn't high end in the slightest, but it IS brand new and not some weird old stock and the picture and sound don't feel too far off from my significantly more expensive higher end LCD TVs. I wanted one that I could put on a rolling stand and move between a few rooms and saw no benefit to 4k at that screen size. Other than that, there are some decent "digital signage" TVs that were decently priced available as well from Samsung and a few other brands. I didn't see anything that was OLED, but I was burned hard (quite literally with burn-in) on earlier OLED gear, so I am avoiding it until the prices get low enough that I can be fine with the chance that it will be crap after 4-5 years of use.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

It's implied and repeated several times in the ToS.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Not to be confused with what happens when you ask Oracle a question. Their answer is always "give me a shitload of money".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I am right there with you. My Pixel 4a is still going, but there doesn't appear to much anything on the market to replace it that doesn't have a boatload of caveats.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Super annoying because all the earlier smart phones did have all that, even early Android. The OSes just keep getting more dumbed down and locked down to the point that I went from a phone enthusiast to despising all smart phones.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I had no idea Apollo got resurrected. I gave up hope after a few months when it went down many years ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

DALnet and EFnet were both great for that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Absolutely agreed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

RED and the defunct Apollo both welcomed WCD refuguees at first, but they filled up fast.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I was a gifted kid, I'd say most our class was really freaking weird in some way or another. There were definitely those weird ultra good rule followers on one side and the totally weird misfits/defiant troublemakers on the other with very few seeming "normal" kids in the middle. Despite having higher IQs, I don't think that the students were generally more successful than other students in life. In fact, based on those that I am still in touch with, they might be below average in that respect.

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