It’s pretty cool how things we purchase can just lose functionality at the drop of a hat.

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      2 months ago

      Those things have ads? Why would you intentionally buy an advertisement billboard for your house?

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        It’s a toss up, but it pretty much only shows just photo/link ads. The one that they’ve really been pushing recently is that Disney platformer game on the Switch for some reason.

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          Yea but you still willingly put a little billboard in your house and you even paid them to do it 🤷‍♂️

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            Sorry, what I meant was that the ads are extremely easy to ignore, and you can immediately swipe through them if you want to. I use mine exclusively as an alarm clock anyways.

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      Ah, similar trick works with some viruses. If you set the keyboard layout or timezone to Russian, the ransomware will not encrypt your files.