Try to buy a new TV without « smart » features. It’s nearly impossible and all of them will come with some kind of ads on it. I fear it will become impossible to buy a fridge without screen and ad if we don’t find a way to stop this. It’s pure profit for manufacturers and the consumers are fucked since fridge are basic necessities.

My last two televisions both came from the "Sceptre" line at Walmart which seemed to be the last holdout of non-smart TVs. I don't know if they're still holding the line; the model I checked just now says it has "V-chip" but doesn't say anything about a "smart TV" operating system or any of that nonsense. It's not very well-advertised but it's still around. I don't know of any way to find a normal TV that isn't from Walmart or a thrift store, though.

There are still a number of TVs marketed towards hotels who don't want their guests being able to mess with complex states that smart TVs provide. They tend to be a bit behind on the tech side tho.

And what if the manufacturers decide to sue you for disabling the screen? Or decide to simply disable your fridge? This isn't a far out scenario either, the whole right-to-repair movement was based on a company not allowing you to do things with the tractor you bought.

I've long wondered what would happen if, say, NYT sued me for blocking their many ads (despite being a paying subscriber). My argument would be that I'd never click on the ads anyway out of principle, so the ad blocker is just me delegating the ignoring of ads that I would've done myself regardless. Also that if I couldn't turn off ads, I wouldn't have subscribed and they'd make even less revenue.

That said, I doubt these companies would sue because of the risk of setting a precedent in favor of the consumer. Scary legal letters (e.g. cease & desist letters) perhaps. But given enough customers, at least one will have the resources to hire a good lawyer and fight it all the way to court.

The lawsuit you described in the first question would be without merit. The class action lawsuit stemming from the second would be choc full of merit.

If the fridge is in my house and hammers aren't banned yet then that fridge will not be showing me ads.

It might also not be keeping your food cold, if they build it so that a screen failure bricks the thing

If a company intentionally spoiled my food out of spite I would sue them. If they did it to all of their customers that becomes class action. They cannot force their customers into a contract which would include allowing them to spoil your food out of spite, that contract would not be legally binding.

Good luck suing for "my fridge stopped working after I intentionally hit it with a hammer".

It would be with merit, because it would be part of the contract you signed when you bought the damn thing. We already live in a world where any attempt to bypass DRM on things you've bought is tantamount to a potential legal battle if they really wanted to be assholes about it. Where you don't really own the things you buy.

And what about ads on gas pump?

In many places, you can't legally buy gas outside of a gas pump that have a strong tendency to show more and more ads.

You don't own the gas pump, and it isn't in your house.

No for everybody it won't. Not to even mention the waste.

No one can force you to watch ads, they're your eyeballs. There will always be a solution to this problem; if it's in your domicile then no one can stop you from spending time coming up with solutions

It's a fridge. We are not talking a server, a raspberry pi, a phone, we are talking about a fridge.

Do you want to talk to my 70 year old father about how he should come up with solutions to ads on his fridge? Yes he can grab a garbage bag and some tape, we can all probably agree that the day stuff like that is commonplace we have very, VERY evidently failed as a society when it comes to dealing with this specific issue.

“Ma’am we’re not going to do anything about that flasher. No one can force you to look at him, they're your eyeballs.”

"Officer, take that ugly man away, we don't want to have to look at him"

Don’t confuse things we can change with things we can’t.

People are born naked, there's nothing inherently wrong with being naked unless there's something inherently wrong with being a person.

I used a "modern" app written in Cincom Smalltalk this year (still maintain and sold a high price), and you don't see the underlying system. Like you don't see the source code when opening any other app, in fact. The app resets the state at startup, so no lingering eternal session.

It's funny because in the past I got the chance to test izware Mirai, which is written in Lisp — when the app got into a problematic state (which was often on my machine) you were sent to the REPL where you could inspect the memory and so on. It was alien to me at the time. Today I dream of having that.

> (still maintain and sold a high price)

I was surprised a couple years back they still maintain Mantis, a 4GL I used on a mainframe (it was kind of Rails for the 3270 terminal). Even the documentation is hideously expensive. I asked if they had a “hobby license” I could use to run under Hercules. They seemed genuinely perplexed that someone would imagine they would allow me to use their software without sacrificing my firstborn.

Your comment show a lack of understanding of the condition. With ADHD, we suffer from difficulties with executive functions, like adhering to a planning, being able to chose to work on something... I have obsession: I can't decide on what. I can work at length on complex subjects, again, probably not the one you expect.

It's not a choice.

Medication is not a silver bullet, but it allows, as explained in the parent article to do those things.

> I have obsession: I can't decide on what.

This is something that some good old-fashioned introspection (and meditation definitely involves introspection) might be able to fix for you. Learning to harness and redirect the inner energy of your "bad" tendencies is a well-established aspect of many kinds of therapy.

> Your comment show a lack of understanding of the condition.

Perhaps, since I'm not a specialist. I did use to think like you but I changed my mind through personal experience and helping relatives and friends with the same condition.

I wish you well.

I’ve seen friends with stimulant and can say with full confidence they are not reacting to them the way I am. They’re « high », ideas everywhere and nowhere, acting like their overstimulated, full of energy… when I’m quieter, energy level normal, can think at one thing at a time without switching… and sleeping under the effect is not an issue. I a have great nap.

So no. Maybe if I try a récréative drug will I have my adhd multiplied, but here it’s not. I think it should have been fun while younger discovering that amphetamine could quiet me when everyone was dancing under the influence.

It’s not perfect. No medication are. If you abuse it, take it without need… yeah it can be abused. Don’t try heart medication either. Or lithium for kicks. Or…

> I’ve seen friends with stimulant and can say with full confidence they are not reacting to them the way I am.

That means very little. Do you think all people react the same way to all medications? If someone takes an SSRI and it doesn't work, then does that mean they do not have depression, anxiety, or whatever the medication is indicated for? Do opioids only work for people with chronic pain?

As someone with ADHD, it's extremely common for people with ADHD to think they are some sort of rare subspecies of humans where everything different in their life is due to ADHD. In all aspects of life, people with ADHD are far closer to normal than they might want to believe. It's why people even doubt the existence of ADHD at times. I've yet to see anyone seriously doubt the existence of Schizophrenia, for example.

Well, for me it’s not enough because I need to get back to where I was, repeating the same actions so it gets to the same state. With live dev I don’t need this, or a history replay method. I only update the running code. Heck I could also update the in memory var too if so I want.

It’s good that it’s fast. Still no good enough!

Well, I have access in Files to a lot of content from my apps - that’s a decision of the app creator to not use this and keep the content created in the locked area of the app.

For example, the apps from Omni do this, as do obsidian, Linea…

Let’s assign the blame where it should be here.

> Let’s assign the blame where it should be here.

Obviously the blame lies on Apple for locking away your device's contents from you. Developers should not be able to have more control over what you can access on your device than you do. Even if they make bad choices (like making accessing the files hard) it should be you who has the final say, not them.

Apple making it possible for developers to make bad choices and go against users' control over their own devices is to blame.

But all other platforms also make it possible for developers to make bad choices, so I’m not sure why Apple is being singled out here?

Because Apple invented this kind of walled gardens.

Try to hide the files on GNU/Linux.

That's easy, just store all the user-generated data in an encrypted file. You might be able to copy the blob but the vast majority of users won't be able to extract the files within.

This is much harder and can't be done accidentally, unlike on Android.

Music is about nuance, finesse, expressivity.

You don't have that with a computer keyboard. Music is hard, don't set yourself for failure so early, for no good reason.

Rebelle is very good. It’s fast, work fine at high resolution and so on. Less feature rich than painter (but that’s a good thing)

What’s still missing : the proper feel for dry materials (like charcoal) and a deep integration with the surface of the support. Right now it’s more or less a light depth map - nothing as gritty as wood, harsh paper (or even cloud ones)

My favorite at the moment.

And yeah, color mixing has been very good for a while there.

Not all DMM have probe small enough to connect to the lane. If it's even possible. What's more, you need to know where to put it, which can be daunting without the proper knowledge. Switching hardware is easier, faster and often the best solution in those case.

Finding hardware fault is hard. Tracing it is even harder.

I think there's something wrong with your DMM probes if you can't measure the ATX power connector with them.

It's still a very high motivator to keep the service up though. It's not a guarantee of anything as you said but I've been on call for this kind of contract. And then you get very good at pointing fingers too. Not too sure about this though :D