It’s been a bit for me, but I used to run either Gentoo or Arch.

I’m still on Win10, but the second I see yet another ad on my pro license, I’m wiping the drive. As long as I have some kind of choice, I will not run hostile operating systems on my own hardware.

Oh, absolutely. It’s just a bit big for my pockets is all.

This is such a great point. If ChatGPT suddenly started manufacturing cars, would you purchase one? It would be like considering buying a Fisher Price phone when looking for your next cell phone.

There’s a ton of software running on these chargers, right? They need to handle financial transactions, metadata, etc. What happens when something requires maintenance in a month/week/day?

The government just tryna get it’s money back from buying the data from them first.

So…potentially unreliable, potentially unsafe, inefficient, expensive, bad quality control, bad customer support, and buying one supports a complete baby man to try to continue to mess with our country’s politics. What are the benefits of buying one of these again?

The 4/20 restart date makes sense for a start-up company that needs to grab headlines, but that isn’t Tesla any more. They are an established company in the industry now - it’s time for the company to act professional.

Interesting tech, but I can’t imagine trying to spend my entire day working with a dysfunctional equivalent of a Siri assistant. It can’t even set timers, what a strange feature omission.

Appreciate the response, but I will stick to my non-criminal protest against the ad industry.

That only works while this is still a niche use case. Just wait until they find out how many more places they can shove ads while we are forced to stand/sit somewhere for 20 minutes!

I really can’t afford to commit a crime by damaging the pumps, but if I found a way to temporarily disable them I’d be all for it.

Custom DNS probably explains how the fucking thing throws a pop-up display informing me that I can watch the movie I’m watching using their Roku app instead if I want to. I was wondering how it knew the name of the movies I have been watching, lol. I will probably just go and reset my WiFi password on my router and 50+ devices, or rip the WiFi antenna out of the TV, not sure which yet.

I’ve tried pressing every button at every pump I’ve used in my area and this trick doesn’t work. I want to epoxy the speakers and screen and glitter-bomb the entire thing.

I won’t. But I want to.

Ugh. Both of these exist already:

https://www.adquick.com/media/transit/train

https://simpleflying.com/inflight-advertising/

Sigh. They also have them in the rain:

https://www.streetadvertisingservices.com/discipline/rain-advertising

I already have Pi-hole with a bunch of additional lists to be blocked. I also cancelled all streaming services that service ads, and I use Adblock. I still see ads occasionally. What do you suggest for dedicated ad-blocking hardware?

Also, I don’t know what to do about the environmental ads.

Is there an anti-ad community on Lemmy? Or another non-Lemmy place to work through blocking/avoiding this bullshit? I’m so fed up with the advertisement industry. I don’t want ads on my devices. I don’t want ads in my operating systems. I don’t want ads in my content. I don’t want ads in the sky. I don’t want ads in the ocean. I don’t want to be forced to see or hear ads while putting gas in my car.

I really can’t emphasize how much I am willing to go through to rid my life completely of advertisements.

I blocked my TV from using WiFi, but there have been times I have need to unblock it (like using AirPlay or Google Cast), so it gets updates occasionally. I’m open to throwing my TV straight to the dump and buying another TV to avoid this at all costs.

15 years on Reddit before leaving. It was the only social media platform where I actually felt leadership personally hated its users.

Huh. It kind of puts that very recent mandatory arbitration agreement into question, doesn’t it?

Knowing Reddit, they will likely just find a reason, however valid, to make the sub go permanently dark just before IPO.