It's not about right to violence, it's about all kinds of rights in a pyramid form. Feudalism is about fiefdom, in that context even LG TV spyware is a form of digital feudalism.

Enjoy watching a spinning wheel for the whole time then "Your TV is trying to connect..."

I've had great success blackholing and haven't seen this.

I have an LG I bought around three years ago. The first year-ish it was connected to the internet normally. That's when I first heard about the LG spying issue, and also had noticed that the TV seemed to slow down a bit with every new update it got (what a surprise).

I then isolated it to its own VLAN with no internet access whatsoever. Only other device on the same VLAN is a virtual interface on my Home Assistant server that allows me to keep using the LG webos integration and send Wake on LAN packets to the TV.

Surprisingly most of the slowness seemed to also disappear after cutting the TV from the internet. It's probably not quite as fast as it was when it was brand new, but the most noticeable difference is when turning the TV on. It's almost instant again now, compared to something like 5+ seconds it took when it had internet.

Just because you can call doesn't mean you can install an app, plenty of people use dumb phones

This is a better excuse

> a trail of liability you can use to sue LG.

The average user would not realize LG was the reason, if they do they will loose more money and effort; LG's reputation and public image won't be even damaged enough for them to take a notice. You are an ant for them and ants are only powerful if they work together.

“Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on”

- Larry Ellison (Oracle Corporation)

> the original definition of “user,” which read, “a child that is the primary user of a device,” and technically classified every device owner in California as a child.

which technically makes California a "Nanny state"

And how would I make calls with it?

They still make dumb phones. And you can get a voip client on Linux.

Many so called dumb phones are just Android phones with buttons, real dumb low powered devices are being phased out because you don't get support for VoLTE Emergency

My Nokia 105 has 4G (as well as 3G and 2G) and is definitely not a smartphone and absolutely not an Android. It runs S30+.

What do you mean by:

> support for VoLTE Emergency

If it can't call 911 you're not allowed to sell it as a phone. Phone calls use VoLTE which is newish technology. Therefore it's illegal to sell older technology as a phone.

Allowed or not, if you bought your phone before the regulations were in place you'd still have no connection on some models, even 4G phones

> https://www.whistleout.com.au/MobilePhones/Guides/Check-if-p... "But it's not just 3G phones that won't work on Australian mobile networks; certain 4G phones won't work either if they don't support Voice over Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE) Emergency Calling."

Why would I want to call 911? The number here is 999, or 110, 113, 113 in the rest of Europe. And of course I can call it.

Right, and if your phone can't support whatever the network uses for it, you're not allowed to sell it as a phone.

Even fake toy phones for kids need stickers that say there's no emergency service.

For voip, I recommend jmp.chat and cheogram. I've been using it for years now.

What do you think chromebooks are?

> What will happen once people are priced out of buying computers? I find this worrying.

What happens is that people start buying Chinese mini PCs, some of those even have spyware preinstalled along with another malware that is Windows 11

Chinese mini PCs are also affected: they're shipping with less RAM, at higher prices, or both.

This is a great route. Just yank or wipe the windows disk, install Linux, and it’s way more secure and performant than any preload windows would be. It probably runs games better too.

The last Gigabyte Brix I got my hands on, ended up into the recycling center, there was no way to have Linux distributions, whichever one I tried, to boot from UEFI, while the same distributions would boot from external drives over USB.

After several months of wasted lifetime, it died and got the deserved burial at a recycling center.

Probably faulty nvme commectors, but Gigabyte Brix are notorious for their ability to brick themselves

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