I think about the ending of Roger Ebert’s 2004 review of M Night Shyamalan’s The Village on a regular basis. It is a perfect piece of writing.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-village-2004
The Village movie review & film summary (2004) | Roger Ebert
"The Village" is a colossal miscalculation, a movie based on a premise that cannot support it, a premise so transparent it would be laughable were the movie
All of this is exacerbated by the fact that LG’s settings UI was apparently designed and organized by a raccoon on meth. Wish there was a toggle switch that just said “Dumb TV” to turn all this shit off.
And even then, if you say Alexa, it still shows an undismissible alert with a link to that same user agreement. So then I have to find the LG remote (which we don’t use regularly) to get rid of it so I can go back to whatever I was watching on my Apple TV.
So far the only fix I’ve found is to navigate to Support > Privacy > Agreements and uncheck the Voice Recognition agreement and then click the Agree button. That’s right, Agree to disagree.
At some point my 2023 LG TV started responding to “Alexa”. It just opens the Alexa app which shows a QR code to sign in to Amazon and nothing else. I do not want this.
Today I got the same birthday gif from two different friends.
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Netflix getting TKO’d right now.
Apparently if you’re wearing a mask and an Apple Watch, and you have ‘FaceID with mask’ and ‘Unlock with Apple Watch’ enabled, AND Face ID fails to recognize you with your mask on, then the Apple Watch unlock is ignored. Turn off ‘FaceID with mask’ and the watch unlock works every time.
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