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They still need to finance future costs?
Re:Valve Removed Steam Deck from Steam on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @10:16AM (#50353067)
Interesting.

It still shows up in the search preview, but when I click on it, it goes back to the home page.

You can physically remove your mailbox, but then you won't get other mail you might want.
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:53AM (#50337633)
FYI, OP is wrong about "pulling the wireless module and voiding your warranty."

In the U.S., merely doing something like that will not void your warranty due to the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act. Companies will lie and claim that, but in my experience, they immediately backpedal when you ask for that in writing (or if it was already in writing, thanking them for admitting to breaking the law).

Re:CatGPT – The Platform for Your Cat on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:27AM (#50335924)
I was hoping this was a program to try to translate cat meows.
Defrost cycle
Re:Frontier Airlines Likely Breached on Sunday November 01, 2026 @11:06PM (#50333014)
TIL… thank you!!!
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:10PM (#50332256)
I tried the URL and got this:

  The domain name
  dumb.tv
  is for sale!
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:09PM (#50332251)
Yep, that solves the problem for 95+% of the population that barely knows how to use a screwdriver. /s
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:08PM (#50332235)
Where are you buying them? I can't find them and other users seem to reporting the same. I'm thinking they are silently discontinued.
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:06PM (#50332220)
Better hope that no guest connects the TV to their phone hotspot to watch their Netflix like one user in a previous post reported happened to them.
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:06PM (#50332219)
Better hope that no guest connects the TV to their phone hotspot to watch their Netflix like one user in a previous post reported happened to them.
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:05PM (#50332209)
Better hope that no guest connects the TV to their phone hotspot to watch their Netflix like one user in a previous post reported happened to them.
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:05PM (#50332203)
You have local repair shops?
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:03PM (#50332186)
Better hope that no guest connects the TV to their phone hotspot to watch their Netflix like one user in a previous post reported happened to them.
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:02PM (#50332182)
Do they sell them in stores, because they seem to always be sold out on the website every time I check?
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:00PM (#50332165)
Better hope that no guest connects the TV to their phone hotspot to watch their Netflix like one user in a previous post reported happened to them.
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:59PM (#50332160)
"for now"
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:58PM (#50332156)
Better hope that no guest connects the TV to their phone hotspot to watch their Netflix like one user in a previous post reported happened to them.
Good point, thank you.
Re:Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:50PM (#50298509)
It took me a bit to understand what I think you meant:

Even when the cartridge is physically 3/4 full, the software will claim it is empty and not print.

Yeah, that sucks too.

Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:45PM (#50298461)
Yep, Thank you
Re:Proton goes all in on using AI on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:44PM (#50298452)
> demand for software is more or less infinite so if coding agents make everyone a 10x engineer eventually we will easily find use for 10x more software.

That will probably be true.

Re:Proton goes all in on using AI on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:36PM (#50298379)
Commonly attributed to Upton Sinclair:

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

Just like other advances in technology have replaced jobs, AI will replace jobs.

I'm sure the elevator opperators lamented push-button controls that anyone could just press too.

It sucks, but I imagine most programmers are smart enough to be able to pivot careers or how they do their jobs.

I remember when Gizmodo just posted cool technology stuff. I even had my stuff featured on their website a couple of times.
Re:Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:06PM (#50298065)
I don't understand what you mean.
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:05PM (#50298049)
Yes
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Thursday October 29, 2026 @07:49PM (#50297907)
Your method does not protect against what the person you replied to, posted.

If your paper wallet, generated offline, used a bad RNG, it is just as vulnerable.

Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Thursday October 29, 2026 @07:48PM (#50297889)
Wasn't there an offline wallet that used a poor algorithm to develop seed phrases, and thus someone stole all of those coins a couple of months ago?
Re:Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:10AM (#50287714)
Idk if they still do this, but a long time ago I had a Brother inkjet that wouldn't print black and white if one of the color cartridges was empty (cyan iirc).

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