They won't even let me transition, let alone give most people general healthcare. Insurance would never cover augmentations

You can have botox and lip fillers and you'll be happy about it.

the fun stuff from cyberpunk are getting banned,

I'm not sure honestly it's been over a decade. Yeah, reddit got weird, bots and people paid to down vote popular opinions. It's like you get a bunch of down votes and nobody has a reply. A lot of it has to do with text being misunderstood. You can write a text and someone will think you mean something else. Also it's more fun here, it's like stepping back in time when people actually wrote to each other on a forum. And yeah, anything that touches change or addresses an actual issue, you're a radical.

Seemed like it...

So you are left with a -micro? A mega?!

Lmao

So if the remote still works then wouldn't that mean there is still a microphone? Or have they gone back to line of sight infrared? Or am I just thinking of the really really old remote tech?

oh no

While it’s not always the case, try to look for a 2x4 silver rectangle with a hole in it like the one on my finger. The casing is to isolate it from the nearby radio waves and the hole to let sound through.

Has to be proven that it occurs first I suppose. But it would also be a difficult thing to workaround. Like in your example the only thing stopping them is a firmware update that dictates the tv connect to as many other clients as possible and blacklist clients that can’t receive a challenge code or success packet or something

Of course I’m sure if that happened people much smarter than me would spoof all that too, make a spoofer that creates dozens of pseudo devices, break challenges and such, etc. cat and mouse game. Luckily these things are usually super lazily implemented by the ad scum but frustratingly that’s bc dedicating resources to this is not worth it usually (eg many people, a sizable and increasing percentage of users, may simply not connect their tv to the internet but once a raspberry pi or docker container or whatever is involved you’re in strictly nerd territory)

At this point I think privacy is just a myth.

This is the cop in your head to kill. State surveillance capabilities are limited. While in theory it's difficult to block targetted surveillance the key is to avoid being targetted by blending in.

James Micken's model of mosad and not mossad threats apply. If a state turns its gaze on you, you will lose. However passive dragnet methods to try and decide who to turn the eye of Sauron on can be hidden from.

More info on the light thing?

They can track you using your wifi router now, the shit is crazy

Any more info on the "vibrating windows for rich people" actually for sale or being actively used on windows? Or is that theoretical?

Privacy is not a myth, you just practice compartmentalization.

The TVos is the malware.

You'd have to pair this with removing the mics (as shown above) and clipping the speaker leads (or just damaging the diaphragm enough by poking something through the speaker grille).

After that?

Not an audio engy but I image a lot of external amps are built to prevent back-feeding out through the line in.

Worst case use s/pdif, and you'll know that the only thing going through that wire is good ol' one-way pcm-digital audio.

Also its not impossible to find a sound bar that doesn't have smart features yet. Even if it is, they tend to age way better than TV's.

Personally?

My living room has 480i and 1080i tubes at around 26/27inches each.

My bedroom has a dumb 1080p panel.

If I need something prettier I use my higher-res computer monitor (no baked in OS, just firmware for display settings.)

Does it have WiFi? It doesn't need cables to look for other devices to communicate through.