Yes.

Not to you or me, but there are tons of people, even here, that are absolutely incredulous towards the idea that its possible.

What?

are you saying we shouldnt be allowing the Saudi’s to use billions of gallons of water, to grow tons of alfalfa (one of the most water intensive crops there is) in the middle of the desert, in a drought, just so they can ship it all back home to saudi arabia to use as animal feed?

I live in a neighborhood that regularly (as in, at least once, often more times a week) has people blasting concert grade speakers until like 4 in the morning, with revving cars, fireworks, gunshots, etc etc.

and thats from people who live there. no airbnbs.

Shitty people are shitty people. at least with an airbnb you have a chance at a break in the neighbors being dickheads.

Theres been only a couple times in my life where I considered an AirBnB over a motel/hotel.

Every time I ended up staying at the Hotel/Motel, because it ended up being cheaper.

I remember looking at an airbnb that was like 25 dollars a night, and went to check out… and had to do a fucking comic book double take because the 25 dollars a night (was only needing it for one night) ended up being like 250 dollars thanks to bullshit cleaning fees and other exploitative, hidden bullshit.

So if that 25 dollar a night place is now being displayed as 250 dollars a night… then I forsee AirBnB bookings plummeting.

the motel I ended up at instead was only 75 bucks all in, just as point of reference.

With technology and politics, always assume the worst.

i knew it what it was before i even clicked the spoiler, lol.

“I dont want it to have anything, except google, the biggest invader of privacy there is” :p

i wager it has all the TV stuff gutted out, including the tuner… Which admittedly is only a problem if you use OTA and not cable.

If it gets me Bea Arthurs nudes then its a sacrifice i’m willing to make.

Damn you for making me feel old by realizing my computer monitor is bigger than my childhood CRT TV.

Who doesnt get a raging rock hard at the sight of Bea Arthur.

they’re putting radio in the waves that are turning the freakin networks gay!

I wouldnt be surprised if it randomly connects to unsecured/public wifi networks to still send the spy data if it can find any in its area.

Continue to never buy LG products again?

Gotcha. The advertising works, i guess…maybe not how they wanted to, though lol

I mean… It doesnt exactly take being hackerman, master of all hackermans to open a dropdown menu, bro.

welp I signed up for the waitlist.

I’ll use it for a disposable email at first, and if it endures and does well I’ll move my main shit off to it.

Whats wrong with the thunderbird client.

Even when I was on windows back on XP I used it. Never had a problem with it or its functionality, personally.

because microsoft is shifting focus from selling you a product, to selling you as a product

And they need a unique account to track every single click and thing you do on your PC, and the web, and everywhere else to facilitate doing that with greater control and ease.

Its literally what, and for the same reason, google has done for the past decade+

You’re the kind of person that gets told repeatedly that X is bad, don’t do X.

Then you do X, get in deep trouble, and cry about how could anyone possible let this happen, and expect everyone else around you to clean up the mess, arent you.

Google dominating the internet IS a privacy problem.

Taking google tracking bullshit out of your browser does nothing to address their monopolistic power that allows them to violate your privacy even without their tracking shit in their browser. Using Chrome/Chromium hurts privacy. Because using google shit in general hurts privacy. Using chrome/chromium furthers googles base, further forces the web to align with what google wants, and is bad for privacy, and for everything.

And Chrome was never the most performant. Google just sabotage their own services to run worse on competitors browsers, because end users are stupid and will just assume "not google browser = bad " and use chrome.

And if you still cant wrap your head around it, then you’re hopeless.

its still furthering googles control of the internet, which is an inherent threat to privacy, regardless if you think you are participating in it or not.