Democrats have blocked two impeachment votes on Trump in the last year. Both parties are working together to protect him.

God their TVs have become so terrible over the last decade. Not only the firmware but the quality of them. I got one to use as an office monitor and it randomly glitches out showing static on the screen until you unplug it. My BIL also buys Samsung TVs and has seemingly gone through half a dozen of them in the last few years because they keep breaking. Same with all the Samsung appliances that he buys too.

For my last TV, I got an LG C3 OLED from Costco and the picture is incredible along with the price and we haven’t had any software issues or annoyances with it either. I have blocked the LG domains on my router though so that it won’t nag me about updating the firmware.

AFAIK Knox would trip a fuse if you installed custom firmware and would prevent you from using banking apps and the like permanently but you were still able to flash the firmware.

I dont run custom ROMs anymore either but I have needed Odin a few times over the last few years to flash different OEM firmware to devices. Examples are a couple of work phones the company let me keep after upgrading which had Sprint firmware. I was able to flash Tmobile firmware to them while simultaneously removing all the locked-down work stuff that was preventing me from doing anything with the devices like activating developer mode.

As far as my personal device, an S21 Ultra, I’ll probably need to upgrade it in the next couple of years and I think its finally time to ditch Samsung. I had similar feelings before getting the S21 but compromised since the market was shit for higher-end devices (I typically get a higher end device and then keep it for years and years) and i have no interest in Apple. It sucks because the market is still weak as hell in the US. Every device I’ve come across that looks decent is a EU device that doesn’t support all of Tmobile’s bands.

Why would you specifically zoom into the Midwest while arguing there aren’t refineries on the coasts?

You’re telling me nobody is interested in attacking the largest ball of twine in America or the biggest rocking chair in the world?

That’s how it was handled prior to 9/11

It is very racist, though, any elevated melanin levels in the skin will make you subject to getting picked out and searched.

Ive seen this first hand at LAX too. They let me, the white guy go through the metal detector while forcing my wife, MIL, and SIL with brown skin to go through the body scanner.

Ive had LG, Vizio, TCL, and Samsung TVs (still have all but Vizio) and haven’t ran into one that requires internet yet, not to say that some manufacturers haven’t/wouldn’t do this at some point.

If you don’t connect a smart TV to the internet, it’s functionally the same as a dumb TV.

I think Jellyseer gives you the ability to watch trailers or see external links (imdb, tvdb, etc) for the show/movie.

Like others have said, this stuff is really about building a collection not streaming something the moment the idea to watch it pops in your mind. It can replace Netflix but you’d want to build it up first (with plenty of HDD space to do so). Mine is also shared with family and friends so it supplements their watching too.

give them scritches under the chin, move down to the upper chest, and inch your way lower to see how far they’re okay with going.

This quickly turned into cat fan-fiction

Him or the big red dog are where my mind goes.

You’re still affected by this as nearly everything you buy was transported on a truck.

They did stop selling garbage which is precisely why they’ve almost completely left the passengar car market in favor of trucks and SUVs, which sell like hot cakes.

Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep is owned by Stellantis which is based in the Netherlands. They haven’t been an American company for quite some time now.

This thing looks like it was designed and manufactured in 1518 not 1918.

But what about the majority of cars sold in the US which belong to foreign manufacturers, and what’s your answer for why none of those nations are able to compete with what China is doing either?

Apparently no other government in the entire world is “competent” by your standards, or perhaps it’s about one nation leveraging their position and influence in order to build a monopoly and not about competency at all.

Who’s going to build them though? GM and Ford have almost completely eliminated producing vehicles that aren’t SUVs and trucks because nobody was buying them and Tesla is floundering with a Nazi leading the company. Most people are buying German, Japanese, or South Korean cars and they aren’t able to compete against China either for all the aforementioned reasons.

The fact that nobody else in the entire world can match what they’re doing despite hundreds and hundreds of collective years building and selling cars should clue you in to what’s happening. It’s like saying a city should subsidize their local general store to compete against Walmart and wondering why nobody is doing just that.

What US companies? Only three remain (GM, Ford, Tesla) and they make up a fraction of sales here in the US. The Chinese government is dumping truckloads of money into subsidies and development, control nearly all rare earth minerals, and don’t shy away from environmental disasters and human rights abuses which is why they’re the only nation on the planet that’s able to develop this rapidly and sell their vehicles for way less than anyone else on the planet. Once they control everything you can kiss those low prices and rapid development goodbye, but you’ll still buy from them because nobody else will be left standing.

Sorry but your attached bathroom has an attached closet?