Nice. I don’t think I saw SmartTube before. Will check it out. Thanks.

I changed to the projectivity launcher on my Android TV and it was night and day in terms of performance. No ads. The UI doesn’t change every other week to make me look at some new show I don’t care about. I can literally just hide everything I don’t want to see.

I should probably look into actual entire OS swaps available for my TV but I don’t have the time. Changing the launcher and using ADB (over lan) to disable updates and apply some optimizations was worth the day it took me.

Turns out the hardware on the TV is fine. The software was just complete garbage and got worse with every update.

Now if only I could fix the UI in the actual apps like YouTube. But still it’s a lot better. I’ll probably install the YouTube alternative app one day when I have time.

My wife started using the TV over her tablet after I changed it. She said she hated how slow it was to just turn on and start that she just would go to her tablet instead.

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I work for Microsoft. When I had a kid they sent a “care package” with some items. But literally every item had “Microsoft” or “Met Life” (our employee life insurance I think) all over everything.

I ripped the “met life” shirt off of the snoopy plush and trashed everything else.

It’s not just limited to backpacks. They try to turn everything, even a kids blanket, into a fucking ad. It’s so gross.

You can’t send some cheap items to your employee without branding it with an ad.

I don’t work for MetLife. Why the fuck would that even be on there? I guess they want to keep reminding me to get life insurance because I’m a kid. Like, holy fuck, I hate this shit.

Fuck Microsoft. Fuck their support of genocide. I didn’t even choose to work here. They bought my startup company for pennies on the dollar during Covid.

I think it’s actually a positive sign. Liberalism has always been very good at keeping the masses passive with “toys”. Previously, this would have been some story about a kids toy or going to Disney world. But they’ve shifted to this and I think it’s a sign.

For the last 40-50 years the US has had enough power and control over their population that they could afford not to be so blunt in their propaganda. They had the luxury of allowing this illusion of freedom and free thought.

I think the increase in this type of thing is just a sign that the means of controlling the population are failing. Or at least that the capitalist class is worried it is. They are having to resort to more direct methods of indoctrination and on a greater scale.

The problem is, it’s transparent, at least to adults. You can’t brain wash a kid into believing a religion when their parents do not. It’s extremely difficult. This is very much the same dogmatic education as religion might teach.

This will backfire and have the opposite effect. This isn’t the 1900s. Kids won’t only be exposed to information they learn in school. And kids are ALWAYS looking for a way to defy authority.

The fifth grader will definitely fall for this. But their education will not end there. If you do this in high school a lot of kids are gonna catch onto this dogma the harder it is pushed onto them.

Think you hit the nail on the head. God I hate how capitalism was applied during the induction of computers and the Internet. It ruined so much trying to force “scarcity” driven supply/demand on a technology that fundamentally removed the supply problem. At least in terms of software.

Software never should have been allowed to be restricted by past limitations only to ensure profits could be made.

But we force it on it. Only for the benefits of companies that serve to prevent innovation more than they produce it.

That’s absolutely fucked.

When https://massgrave.dev/ exists it’s even worse.

I think this tax on tech illiterate people is getting too high.

Should I start selling USB drives for $5? I don’t wanna encourage Windows. But I feel bad for the normies. $211 is insane.

MS literally allows massgrav on GitHub. They have for years. They do not give a fuck.

Paying for windows at this point is a normie tax. And it’s gotten too damn high!

I hate capitalism. This guy is a symbol of wholesome good hearted teaching and entertainment. But somehow after you die people can suck the profits out of that until every time I see his face somewhere I have to be reminded that we live in a world that didn’t deserve him.

Do we have to let every fucking part of our culture be reduced to a damn dollar sign?

Yes. You’re correct. The script will execute with /bin/bash by default but only in a bash shell. #!/bin/bash is still a good habit to have. Some platforms may be running an “sh” shell by default. In this case if you ran the script it would execute with /bin/sh instead. Which would work or not work depending on if your script was written in purely sh syntax and not using any uniquely bash style syntax.

Bash can run all sh scripts but sh cannot run all bash scripts. So explicitly stating for which one your script was written for is good practice to not run into errors if you move your script to a different environment.

It makes it usable without typing bash. Same would apply for a python script. For example you can make a python script named with no extension and add #!/usr/bin/python to the top of the file. Bash shell sees this and knows to execute the script using that python path.

Then you just include the directory in your $PATH and chmod +x the script. Then you can type $python_script instead of $python python_script.py