I have Google TV on my Sony TV and found that I was able to disable the ads and crap.

There was a setting to toggle. They tried to make it unattractive by saying I wouldn't be able to use the Google Assistant feature but this just seemed like a win for me.

I don't need my TV to be fancy, it just needs to accept signal from my consoles and HTPC.

I do kinda miss seeing all the suggested dogshit movies sometimes tho XD

Do you mind sharing the guide? I am already on the "Apps Only Mode", but I still get the full banner ads on the home screen.

Ad-blockers still work fine on the site tho, you're paying Google money for no good reason.

Money of which only a small part goes to the creators.

If you actually want to support the creators, do it via a more direct method than paying Google to send a few pennies their way.

There is some talk that YT are making it such that trying to seek will not skip the ad.

If you have the entire video file downloaded locally they can't stop you from seeking.

Tends not to matter, the context usually makes it clear what is being discussed.

Just your usual internet attention seeking I guess.

Narcissism is a powerful stimulant ;-)

Oh really?

So when some local newspaper reports about some random old person in an old-age home that's political?

Please, take this destructive attitude and reassess it.

Not all things are political and making them so actively makes the world worse.

Yeah it is political lol. What do you think political means? Why is it important to society that we know more about old people in the old age homes? Do they need more or less support? Social security and supporting older people past retirement is a political choice. Choosing to publicly fund Healthcare for the elderly is a political choice. Who owns the newspaper? What are their goals? Why are they using their limited space to express this story?

Political isn't always negative but the news is always political. All news, including good sources like NPR, is promoting a point of view. Nothing is impartial even if that's the goal. Ignoring this doesn't change it.

Interesting post, honestly feels like the NFT cult: Discord full of true believers, leader with wildly optimistic takes on everything, nonsensical profit model.

I will say, however, that the authors one comment "Vlad is one of those people who thinks not everything is political" annoyed me a bit.

I get that for people living in the US it can seem like everything is political but I don't think it is and more importantly, I don't think it's a healthy attitude.

Not everything is political but there are certainly people who will try their best to make it seem that way, usually as a means to engage in politicing, often with unpleasant results.

I can judge the Kagi founder negatively for a lot of things in the post but this isn't one of them and it's a weird little jab to throw in that says more about the author of the post than the Kagi guy.

This is why I preferred Shadow Warrior 2 to Borderlands. Millions of randomly generated guns sounds nice, except they're mostly trash. I'd rather have the 70 hand-crafted options in SW2.

Early 3d generally hasn't aged as well, probably due to extremely low resolution textures and so forth.