So far all the Roku TVs I’ve tried will let you skip setting up Internet on them and then default to a dumbed down mode where the Homescreen is just TV inputs, and you can access the settings menu. Haven’t had a chance to test a recent Android/Google TV.

Update: Seems Sony, TCL, and maybe some other Android/Google TV makers allow using the TV without linking a Google Account.

https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00115361

https://support.tcl.com/us-androidtv-common-questions/do-i-need-to-have-a-google-account-to-enjoy-android-tv-58

https://support.tcl.com/can-i-just-use-basic-tv-on-a-tcl-google-tv

Update 2: Samsung seems to let you skip logging into their TVs during setup via a Skip button in the top-right corner, but it’s unclear if you can skip connecting to the Internet at all.

Mostly. None of the browser extensions work on Windows, which is really annoying.

That tip of a handle bar that makes you wonder if that square counts or not.

Yep, had basically a throw away account for the occasional thing that basically required a Facebook account, and then I guess because I never posted anything they locked my account and demanded ID. Hell no.

MSF2020 runs offline too, it’s even sold on discs in certain regions. You just don’t get any of the satellite imagery or live weather. Obviously that means a degraded experience, but it still works.

At least, not this case. AI music is its own can of worms that hasn’t been decided on in court or law yet.

But the main issue in this case is that he was scamming listens from the music services. So if he’d just let people naturally discover the AI songs somehow, and he earned money just like other Music publishers, then he would’ve been fine.

Mustard actually just did a video on the first attempts of this by the Soviets/Russians.

https://nebula.tv/videos/mustard-the-man-who-built-a-spotlight-in-space/

In the US at least it’s still fairly common for the card to be taken by the employee of the Drive-Thru/Restaurant to be run through their POS.

There needs to be a ban on any judge presiding over something within at least one or two degrees of separation of relationships with said judge. Any direct relationships, either direct relatives or friends or direct investment, and possibly second degree relationships like a relative or friend being invested, or a relative/friend of a relative/friend.

Ah, I missed that since it’s an unofficial flatpak so it wasn’t listed on their site or forums.

Haven’t tried it on Linux recently, but MakeMKV still supports Linux apparently. You have to build it yourself though.

https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=224&sid=1674d5df36b036b50d6fabdfb380e72c

I only accept Touch Screens for Media and Navigation. Everything else better be a button.

Not sure, I didn’t make it. Just part of my collection.

^^so ^^hard ^^picking ^^which ^^meme ^^to ^^use

Also it’s better for Devs than buying grey market keys bought using stolen credit cards.

It’s really sad because the artists have little to no control over this. It is the venues who are contracted through Ticketmaster.

Yeah, it’s like if every movie theater only used Fandango. It would be ridiculous if that was the case, yet that’s what’s happened to live events.

Unfortunately, the lack of Japanese input makes it a total non-starter for my use case so I had to go crawling back.

Ack, I also need that. Oof. Guess I’ll have to keep looking.