If your TV is known/open HW and you've installed the OS and software and configured it to do exactly what you want, then yes.
Or, alternatively, if you're using a random shady media box from an appliance manufacturer or advertising company, yes.
Otherwise, no. The idea here is that the media box you use will not be one designed to make you the product as they say. It will be your tool that does what you want it to instead of leaking your data and showing you ads. But YMMV. Maybe your smart TV is good enough. Most people don't seem to be happy or comfortable with theirs.
This post has had me thinking for most of a day. I kind of love the phrase that these are things that humans just do.
But I think that learning and improving and sharing ideas and methods are perhaps even more a thing that people do. So, practicing and studying e.g. music or dance should be peak human activity.
Making it a business is.. let's say an opportunistic option. Definitely should not be a necessity or a default, but possibly an option.
(40+ years of music practice for me, too. I'll never be professional, but I also won't voluntarily ever stop.)
There aren't many, if any, places on the world that still looks safe or will look safe for long. Of course some will hold out longer if no global catastrophe hits and things just keep falling apart piece by piece.
I've mostly heard that from boomers. I thought it was some weird post war mentality and upbringing that you need to be doing profitable work all day and sleep all night and breed and that's all that matters.
That's insane. Those poor mammal populations. I would have been surprised at 3% but 36 is just horrifying. Yet another reason human overpopulation is the worst disaster to hit this planet.
Way back in maybe 90's when I first got some better headphones, it was startling. Had to listen to all the records that I had or could borrow again because there was all kinds of new stuff I hadn't heard before.
First Sennheiser pair after Sony and the like was similar and Genelec brought the same level to speakers. But it's probably kind of plateaued there in that there's not so much new things to be found. Just good results. I wish I remembered some specific examples.
Sometimes there's a stereo or surround thing that only really stands out of you have headphones or are in just right spot in the room. And you can hear compression artifacts and distortion and hyping, so there's that. But I'm not overly good eared really. Adequate is adequate for me.
Looks like Sylvester Stallone to me