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'Silo' renewed for two more seasons as series finale looms
This is really bad reporting. When the series first started, they based it on a 3 book series, and they said UP FRONT that Book 1 would be season 1 & 2, and then Books 2 & 3 which each be one season each, for a total of four seasons. It's not ending early, or being cancelled, and the cast and crew are not being stopped from wrapping up the story. It's being renewed exactly like the plan was form the very beginning.
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New iPhone 17 rumors point to a radically different rear camera layout
This makes a TON more sense than the current design - a bar like this allows for greater separation between the two cameras used for spatial photos (closer to your eye separation distance, though not quite there) to take better 3D spatial photos & video. Even better would be to align them vertically.
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How to stop your LG or Samsung smart TV from tracking you
This is what we do - the TV is not connected to the internet/wifi, and we watch literally everything through all Apple TV box. Maybe one a year or so I'll look online to see if there's a firmware update and update it manually. I just want the TV to be a dumb monitor and Apple TV to be the box I watch everything from.chasm said:Thanks for this eye-opening article. This is a lot more information than I would have guessed smart TVs collect. We watch, but we are truly being watched as well.One alternative way to minimize this issue is to use the Apple TV hardware device rather than your smart TV's interface, which is usually ad-cluttered and poorly-designed anyway. The Apple TV's interface is far more pleasing and doesn't offer any direct ads, though it does show images and previews of shows for various services (including Apple TV+) at the top. This can beI don't have one of the brands profiled above, but it's likely that some degree of what's detailed in the article is probably happening with most other brands, or soon will be.
If you don't have an Apple TV box, get one. If you can't get one for some reason, disconnect your smart TV from the internet after first checking for a firmware update and allowing that if one is available. Most cable companies now offer services like Disney+ and Netflix (et al) through your cable service rather than you having to subscribe directly, and in some cases that works out cheaper (and consolidates those services into one bill).You can reconnect the TV to an internet connection on an annual basis to check for firmware updates, but I'd suggest leaving the TV "dumb" as much as possible for your situation.
