Fusty

I guess that you cannot read well so I will say it plainly, when a TV has no access to the outside internet over the lifespan of the TV, zero information or files will ever be uploaded and will stay on TV with no external copy existing anymore.

Attend to your mental health and do research to decipher hyperbole from information. Concepts is not information.

There is no meaningful data for the OS to capture if it used as a display for externally connected devices.

The only way to have 100% privacy on all devices is not have internet service.

Yes, plugin ethernet, install updates, unplug ethernet, never connect it to wi-fi, there is no risk to privacy.

Are people aware that they can buy a smart TV and never conntect it to wi-fi and never plug in the ethernet? There is no risk if TV never gets an IP.

I do agree with your explanarion. Your initial responce came across as flippant as if there is only one approved opinion, and that is to hate Twitter, as opposed respecting people's decision to only use Twitter.

I see the hyocritical posts on the fediverse to hate on X/Twitter, but at the same time the fediverse is constantly begging to be accepted as relevant. Considering it's only a small number of people that use Twitter on a weekly basis, Mastadon is completely meaningless and will forever be nothing, and nobody has ever heard of Lemmy, but Lemmy has already garaunteed itself to remain nonexistant to discussions on the stredt and in busineasaes.

I do wonder if Mastodon is doomed to be forgotten, even if there are servers still running it, but it's too early to say. But I will bet cash money that absolutely nothing from fediverse will ever have broad appeal and fediverse will permanently stay in a tiny nothing hole separate from society.

No, there will not be. The RX 8000 will top at the mid range. There will be no successor for the 7900 XTX. Maybe the 9000 in 2027 will have a 9900 XT. I wish there will be a 8800 XT for $500 to put pressure on nVndia, but with Blackwell 50 series using GDDR7 and RX 8000 using GDDR6, an RX 8800 XT for $500 might make no difference.

Is that the same as the misnomer or fallacy that privacy is dead?

It would be good to sell the codebase for Chrome, if it actually happens.

Here's a thought expirement, what would be more devastating, selling Chrome and losing all of that tracking and ad revenue, or being to change to GPLv3 license and make chromium or Chrome libre/free software? I say GPLv3 because version 2 does allow linking to binary blobs, version 3 does not. I would predict that Chromium GPLv3 would instantly rule the entire internet and bethe de facto browser on any operating syatem.