Absolutely yes. My prescribed CPAP came with 5G that uploads data for their app and for your physician to monitor your progress. You basically wouldn’t even know it had one, the plan must be managed by the company and automatically connects where ever you take it.
Maybe not yet - but 5g was built with the idea of making them cheap. It takes a couple years to design the cheap modems and then a few more years to get them in TVs, so they could well be coming in the near future yet - only time will tell. And the modem will also be your wifi so you can't really rip it off without losing other useful things.
>but 5g was built with the idea of making them cheap
For bandwidth, maybe. It's still going to add cost to the BOM. They'll have to recoup that somehow. Say a 5G modem costs $20 (random number). For it to actually make money, it'll need to be otherwise not connected to the internet, otherwise it can just use wifi instead. Out of 100 people, how many do you think won't connect it to the internet for privacy reasons? 1? 5? 10? Keep in mind, if they don't connect to the internet, they'll need to go out and get another device to watch netflix or whatever, so they're highly incentivized to. Say 10 out of 100 don't, and with this sneaky backdoor you now can sell ads to them. For that privilege, you paid $200 per disconnected TV, because for every disconnected TV with a 5G module, you need to have a 5G module in 9 other TVs that were already connected to the internet. How could you ever hope to recoup that expense?
assume they are aiming for $1 in large quantites. I don't know thier number but that is closer. And the cost will be low because they are bulk buying excess data. They can send this at 3am when everyone is asleep so cell companies can give a deep discount.
again the above is the plan, reality often changes.
Adafruit sells ESP32 for less than $3. Any manufacturer can get quantity pricing to lower the cost. ESP32 doesn't have cell (AFAIK), but it wouldn't be technically that hard to add if they wanted. While $1 might be a bit on the low side, it is reasonable.
If you're planning on using the TV as a dumb display for another device, and are determined enough to physically remove a cellular modem, then the TV's own WiFi is not a useful thing either, even if integrated into the same chip.
If you want the TV to be on your network (for casting or streaming or whatever) and you also want to filter that traffic (allowing connections only to the services you want to use) then you need it to be on your own network (wifi, if there's no ethernet port) and not on someone else's network (cellular).
The CPU, wifi, and modem are all in one in this future (think ESP32). That is the direction this is likely to move. You can't remove one without the rest. I suppose you could put your own CPU in and write software, but otherwise you are stuck.
I have not purchased a TV or car with these misfeatures, but I expect I will have to at some point in the future.
The most vulnerable part might be the antenna? Required by laws of physics to be a certain size and shape, and is not easily integrated into another more essential component?
If found, it can be removed entirely, or replaced with a dummy load to satisfy any presence detection circuits. But radiation can be minimized or eliminated.
Now obviously a device can choose not to function (or to be especially annoying in its UI) if it doesn't find a network. But people take cars (and TVs) to places with no WiFi or mobile coverage, and I don't know how the device manufacturers deal with that.
> We've chosen main specifically as it's the default for newly-created repositories in GitHub and the renaming will leverage the GitHub tooling built to make this easier.
Suuuuure.
The original master -> main folks should have been laughed out of the room the first time around. At this point it's a religion.
It's a performative, bikeshedding protest rather than going out to Broadview risking being hit with pepperballs protesting an unwanted, lawless, occupation force racially profiling and arresting people without a judicial warrant.
It is performative, I agree with that. However, if ICE breaking the law, then why didn't you point that out a few years ago? Why wait until 2025 to complain? The law that they enforce was last amended in 1991 and signed into law by, let me double check… yes, noted Democrat Bill Clinton.
I used to not like history class growing up, now it's quintessential to understand it so people like this don't soil and twist the definitions of words. The irony of people misusing and abusing this word is that often THEY exhibit fascistic tendencies.
Man. Drew DeVault has made some cool projects-- I'm particularly interested in Hare. But he's like the inverse DHH. I don't boycott projects based on their leader's political rants, but it does dampen my enthusiasm.
> Omarchy and Ladybird are both run by fascists
No. They are not. I've met actual, real-life fascists and white supremacists. They exist, and they are a nasty breed. Omarchy and Ladybird are absolutely not run by fascists. By people who lean right of center? Maybe. But, that's not fascism.
I had a situation, admittedly niche, where some git based package dependency wasn't being updated properly (tags vs. commit hashes) and thanks to poetry being written in Python I was able to quickly debug and solve the problem. I think it's more a matter of core functionality (that affects everyone) vs. more esoteric or particular use cases (like dataframe libraries) that make sense to FFI.
Which open source agentic tooling are you using. I'm a fan of Aider but I find it lacking the agentic side of things. I've looked at Goose, Plandex, Opencode, and etc. Which do you like?
I've been personally involved in the hiring process of our startup and I give you my word the school you went to makes no difference. In fact one of my favorite coworkers that I had an honor to work with was self taught and had a philosophy degree. In fact I've seen big school degrees go straight to heads and egos and been actively an obstacle to those folks.
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