Smart meters automatically send usage data to the utility company (electricity, gas, water, etc) so they don’t have to come and read it manually themselves. Are you interest in any particular detail about them?

I agree, but unfortunately it’s a reality of a capitalist society that large private companies have a lot of the wealth, and so people set themselves up for retirement by owning a very tiny part of those companies.

I was going to say that I use Hoarder and like it, but it looks like it’s been renamed to Karakeep. I like the AI-powered tagging functionality.

I can’t see the link you posted. It goes to a Twitter login page.

A lot of people don’t realise that around 40% of the value of the S&P 500, and the majority of the Nasdaq 100 (i.e. QQQM) is big tech companies.

You could always build a portfolio that excludes companies you feel are unethical (for example, exclude oil and gas companies, exclude big tech, etc), but if you were to exclude all companies that have done something unethical then you’d probably end up with the S&P 0 (an empty list)

As much as I hate Facebook, they at least pay people to do moderation there, and regularly update their site

Facebook pays content creators too (https://creators.facebook.com/earn-money ), including for things other than videos (like photo/image posts). Platforms like YouTube do too, but as far as I know, Reddit doesn’t.

Do those code snippets on the Stackoverflow post allow you to capture the entire screen regardless of which app is open, or do they only allow you to capture the app the code is running in?

Capturing the app itself makes sense (for things like bug reports) but does Android really let any app capture whatever is on the screen?

The one time I do connect the TV to the internet is when there’s a firmware update that fixes an issue I’m encountering. That’s rare though.

I still have it on my network so I can control it using Home Assistant (eg have a backlight come on and dim the main lights when the TV is turned on) but it’s on an isolated VLAN.

This is why my TV is on a separate VLAN (with no internet access) and I use an Nvidia Shield for streaming. I haven’t seen any indication that the Shield does anything like this.

I was going to say “that article mostly just seems to debunk the ‘my phone is always listening to me’ conspiracy theory” but then I got to the part about over 50% of analyzed Android apps having permission to take screenshots :/

is free

What is their business model?

Is this why Business Insider articles are trash? They have so many clickbait headlines (including Buzzfeed-style ones like “we tried five things. You won’t believe which one was the best”) attached to articles that aren’t worth reading. Whenever I click one in Google News, I usually regret increasing their view count.