Now that Musk and the rest of Putin’s puppets feel they have sufficiently compromised America’s integrity, they are moving on to a new target. They will lap up and amplify all the far right bullshit that originated from the Russian troll farms.

His own cars have already been doing that more than enough. So maybe he feels a bond with AfD over this incident?

It’s already bad enough that many American believe that war was started by foreign invaders and that it ended in a resounding victory for the US.

EU: “Hey Canada, wanna do some trading?”

Free with the service: a thrice daily digest of edgy quotes from The Xavior, reasons why He is perfect and completely enlightened, and a plethora of ads for musk-related merchandise and products.

No unsubscription option from this will be available. But that’s okay. The cult will gleefully lap all that shit up.

And the governments response to China, Russia, and Iran? “How dare you!!!”"

And their response to Israel? “Aww, it’s okay boo, you can keep going.”

Haha, no worries. I did find it a bit confusing. All good though.

And how those same people are cheering about Captain Brainworm’s intentions to discontinue the polio vaccine.

Behold the power of mass lead poisoning. We truly live in the most stupid timeline.

I’m just going to assume they got all tuckered out playing with that yarn.

So you’re saying he got… terminated?

It’s getting difficult to find outright dumb TVs now. Although some (including some Sony TVs) give you the choice on setup of choosing either “smart TV” or “basic TV”.

Yes, I might be able to help. I changed my Onn set top box (which uses Android TV) fairly recently to use FLauncher (or Projectivity, I don’t remember which one I chose in the end), but it kept defaulting back to the default launcher. So I jacked it to change what the detail launcher was. After enabling some options ( developer options, USB debugging, verify apps over USB) on my Onn box, I plugged the box into my computer and then used the adb command line tool to change the default launcher (launcherx).

I imagine you could do the same to your Android TV. As long as it has a USB port.

Hope this helps.

ETA: Here are some more detailed instructions I took when I did this:

1. On the ONN tv box installer flauncher and/or projectivity launcher via the Google Play store

2. Make sure developer options is enabled on the ONN tv box (hit okay on Android TV OS build several times)

3. Look up IPv4 address on the ONN TV box under Settings > System > Status

4. Go to the new Developer Options menu item on ONN > settings > system, and make sure: a) Enable developer options is set to on b) USB debugging is set to on c) Verify apps over USB is set to on

5. Download adb platform tools on windows from here: https://developer.android.com/tools/releases/platform-tools8

6. Plug in usb cable between PC and ONN tv box

7. On the ONN tv box go to Settings > System > Developer Options and make sure Select USB Configuration is set to MTP (Media Transfer Protocol)

8. On Windows, open a command line as administrator and go to the adb path

9. In the command line window on windows type: a) adb start-server b) adb connect [ONN ip address] (Note: it might initially say “failed to authenticate to [ip]”, that’s okay, see the next step)

10. On the ONN tv box a pop-up window should appear asking to allow access from windows pc IP address, say OK

11. In the command line window on windows type: adb devices

12. You should see the device as active on the ip you stated and on port 5555

13. Next in the terminal window type the following to disable the default ONN tv default launcher and listener: adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx

14. Then in the terminal window type: adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.tungsten.setupwraith

15. On the ONN tv box click the home button. It should now either a) go to the additional launcher you installed or b) prompt you for the home app (if you installed multiple additional launchers) so select the one you want (e.g. FLauncher)

16. Now when you hit the home button on the ONN tv box it should always take you to the FLauncher launcher, not the default ONN launcher

Note: If you need to re-enable launcherx, you can use these commands in adb:

adb shell pm enable --user 0 com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx

adb shell pm enable --user 0 com.google.android.tungsten.setupwraith

My adventures with doing this were based on this post on reddit.

Oh, fair enough then!

ETA: Yes, the lack of mentions of Matrix, etc are a bit disappointing. But I think Matrix is waaay outside their target democratic.

That article may as well be sponsored by WhatsApp. Zero direct mentions of Signal, but tons pushing people to WhatsApp. That’s a bit disappointing.

Edit: I was wrong, it does talk about Signal as well.

Massive boomer energy right there.

Do you reckon the 5 is powerful enough to run a media server with the possibility of transcoding on the fly?

Agreed. While there are a few ranty, hostile, irrational replies here, they are much fewer and farther between than on reddit. Not to mention the raiding and mod witch-hunts here are much milder. That shit got insane on reddit back in the day (I don’t know what it’s like now, since I abandoned reddit about 18 months ago).

So Jarrod Fidden is behind the account. But let’s also acknowledge the full influence of Elon Musk in this too. The article hints at that. But Musk has a bigger hand than many acknowledge. It’s not only the lax moderation policies he’s imposed. His shitty, politically-driven, right-wing evangelizing and misinformation has emboldened and drawn in assholes like Fidden and ramped up their misinformation.

Plus the left two have a beige backpack, while right bottom has a dark grey backpack.

And it’s been happening for basically 3 decades now.