I’m honestly shocked that nobody has mentioned mesh networks. It might also just scan for any unsecured network it can connect to without informing you in any way. Not connecting your TV to your WiFi is not nearly enough to preventing it from phoning home. You need to open the TV and ground the antenna(e) to physically disable the wireless capabilities. Even then, there may be other antennae hidden under or inside components you can’t disassemble.

Short answer: No. Your smart TV is smarter than you are.

Have you heard of mesh networks?

I know my role. Someone’s gotta do it.

Who’s offended?

I can’t chill ever

It’s a curse

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid_state_drive/NVMe

Namespaces are the construct in NVMe technology that hold user data. An NVMe controller can have multiple namespaces attached to it. Most NVMe SSDs today just use a single namespace, but multi-tenant applications, virtualization and security have use cases for multiple namespaces.

  device v
/dev/nvme0n1p1 < partition
namespace  ^

There are two types of people: Those who are able to identify gaps in their knowledge and actively seek to fill them… and whatever this meme is.

Just copy your nix config over and build again. Non-issue. What? You don’t have a backup? You deserved it then.

Listen, I think you that you think that I think that bidets aren’t better than wiping. You’re wrong. I agree with you. Bidets are better.

My entire point is that normal people don’t have shit smeared in their drawers for no good reason.

let me give you some advice… never, ever say that to anyone ever again. so unbelievably fucking creepy and it does not communicate your point at all.

I don’t use my asshole to interact with the world

What the hell? This literally never happens to me. You don’t need a bidet to not get shit visibly smeared all over your underpants and asshole.

That was super interesting, I love talking about this sort of thing. Really appreciate the thoughtfulness of your reply.

It seems like our conceptions of vampirism differ in how far from human-ness vampirism takes the host. In my mind, vampirism takes the host just far enough away from human-ness that they can never live like a human again, but not far enough that they wouldn’t want to. The reason it’s a curse is because they’re so torn, kind of like drug addiction in a sense. Being addicted to meth is probably torment, but doing meth is ecstasy, so a meth addict might viscerally want to go back to a normal life but at the same time viscerally never want to give up what they have. I think breathing, among a lot of other things (like wearing clothes, drinking wine, conversation, etc) are totally unnecessary physiologically, but absolutely necessary to maintain the appearance of a human, which in turn is necessary for the psychological well being of a vampire. I think without these things (or without blood too) they convert to the monster form, becoming more and more distorted as time goes on without their needs met. Their mind also becomes more and more animalistic, but only to the point that they are confused and scared, never fully immersed in the monster mentality. Like they’re aware of how much brain function they’ve lost which is terrifying. Due to how blood deprivation and social deprivation have essentially the same physical toll, I think their “psychic” nourishment is as important as their blood intake and thus not breathing could be not only the medulla oblongata panicking but also a form of supernatural psychic damage to them.

Also, I’ve never seen Buffy. Should I watch it? I absolutely loooove vampire movies and shows. I’ve exhausted everything that is obviously going to satisfy me already so I need to look to others for more recommendations. My favorite vampire movies are Only Lovers Left Alive, Byzantium, Interview with the Vampire, and the original Dracula. Hbu?

This is a really bad coping mechanism to rationalize failing to develop important skills and to justify giving up. We have at least 200 more years of misery in store before it’s all over, in my opinion.

In my internal version of the vampire canon, vampirism is definitely a curse passed down from ancient times. When someone gets the curse, their corpse is now inhabited by the spirit of vampirism itself, which flows to fill the imprint their soul left. Like their individual curse of vampirism changes to resemble the soul it replaced. This, combined with the (internal canon) fact that vampirism can only be spread to the freshly dead, results in a brain that is mostly the same and something like a soul that is mostly like what they had before.

Think about other types of eternal (un)life, like a specter for example. In my internal canon, specters usually appear where they died and continue the action they were taking when they died. Like a specter who died in a house fire might appear in the charred husk of the house every full moon or something, just to pantomime burning to death and desperately trying to scratch through a door that won’t open.

I think vampires would continue on with their mannerisms and habits that they had before, including breathing. The circuitry is still all connected for it, the muscles still work. On the flip side, the circuitry that causes panic when not breathing is also still connected. I think a vampire could easily “survive” being locked in a coffin at the bottom of the ocean… but it would be excruciating for a century or so until that neuronal connection simply burns out or fades away or whatever. Or maybe that would never happen and it would be eternal suffering.

Do vampires not breathe? I imagine they do, but only to maintain appearances

you would need therapy if you lived here, trust me

bad advice, i like breathing

do you actually do this sort of thing or are you all talk?

“Never went” implies you were supposed to go.

since we are doing semantics, this is incorrect. “never went” does not imply anything

So you’re just gonna read my other comment and pretend like this conversation never happened when you realize you’re wrong?

Trying to deny and strip me of my judaism is quite fucking anti-semitic and any decent person would apologize for that. Anyone who isn’t a complete scumbag would at least acknowledge their mistake. What kind of person are you exactly?