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I only purchase Sony TVs, and I simply just connect an HTPC to them. If there are any smart features, I just choose not to accept the EULA and not to connect it to the Internet.

This is excellent news!

The Writing Tools are a gimmick, but the improvements to Siri on the iPhone 16 are great. I haven't used the visual intelligence yet, but I always thought Google Lens was cool, so I hope it works just as well. Image Playground and Genmoji are pretty stupid, I have no idea why they wasted time on that.

Message/email summaries are super weird. They show up when they want to, which is barely at all.

Say what you want about this Apple Intelligence stuff, but it's nowhere near as intrusive or annoying as Gemini or Copilot. You can turn it off and ignore it.

Call me old fashioned but I'm fine with a few AAA batteries.

When I think cheap and works out of the box, Mac is the last thing on my mind.

It pretty much is. You will find that barely anyone actively uses XMPP, let alone anyone you know.

Yes.

Why is this legal? Who allows this? What do we do?

Dumbest shit I've read today. Nice job!

No, it hasn't. Never seen anything relatively nice from a Chinese company, even when it's another one of their piles of manure with a different name like OnePlus.

I'm completely OK with American brands making Americans their primary target again.

Clearly they have been just letting homelessness be an issue if they're able to pull all this as of recently to freely house random people for political brownie points.