My current Xiaomi phone has an IR blaster, but what I miss is having an IR receiver as well, trying 100 random remotes to find which one works with your obscure TV/AC is such a pain when you used to be able to just clone one instead.

For anyone wanting to learn more there's a bigclive video covering the extraction process.

I hope that the switch version would be easier to bypass as there's no way they're going to force you to connect to the internet to verify anything like the do on the PC.

Mishaal Rahman's ASUS contact have since clarified that they aren't and to "stay tuned".

Active when I want to lurk and Newest comments when I'm in the mood to discuss.

FWIW they at least have their own indexer instead of relying on bing/yandex (looking at you ddg). Although I guess selling content you've crawled as your own is still a pretty shady thing to do.

task.org seems to be an oldschool under-construction page, do you mean tasks.org? Also is there a reason you specifically recommend OpenOffice instead of LibreOffice or Collabora Office?

From a psychological view, the best we can do is provide the information and hope that they come to the right conclusion themselves. You're almost never going to convince a person by telling them that they're wrong, and surely not by talking how their children are going to suffer and their house is going to get flooded.

I mean the 2 year drum up to elections so that even my nan who doesn't speak a word of English knows all of the candidates. US is also on the front of the culture wars as well as popular entertainment, so there's a lot of that as well. Anyway, I'm sharing my personal experience and don't feel like there's a need to argue about that, if your local TV presents you a balanced world view great for you.

"Configure port forwarding" covers pretty much all of the steps. I don't think that it would be any less secure than quickconnect through a relay, but if security is a priority, then look into setting up a VPN to your network instead.

Wait, is this google basically admitting they've been scamming advertisers by taking their money to show ads to bots?

I don't know the details, but, even though I appreciate the tech behind it, in my experience signal hasn't been that great (not even accounting for the need to ask people to install it). The calls always have a delay, the UI isn't as responsive as either Telegram or WhatsApp, no ability to edit sent messages, no history when logging in from a computer. Any of these aren't that big of a deal, but definitely a downgrade compared to the competition.