this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2024
1349 points (99.3% liked)
Microblog Memes
5402 readers
3085 users here now
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
Rules:
- Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
- Be nice.
- No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
- Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.
Related communities:
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
If they stop selling dumb TVs, I won't own another TV in my life. Not even being funny right now.
My current TV is an old one I got from a friend of my dad when he got a bigger one. It's a bit glitchy, but it's not smart, and that's what matters.
You can always buy a digital signage display and use it as a tv.
Those are usually more expensive and don’t do HDR.
That's good. My fallback plan was to get one of those school style overhead protectors and just do pantomime shows with coloured paper and wires
Smart TVs are cheaper than dumb TVs because smart TVs can send your watching habit data to be sold. I wish I was joking.
That’s why you buy the cheaper smart one and just leave it air gapped
Until they reach a deal with mobile carriers and start shipping with SIM cards...
Nothing a little bit of electronics surgery can't fix, clip the antenna or put a 50 ohm resistor in it's place. Better yet pull out the power amplifier or cut any power traces.
With e-sim, this is getting more likely all the time
No need, just leave any smart TVs disconnected from your network and they’re harmless
For now ...
I wouldn't put it past them to start trying to mesh network their way out of local network jail. Are your neighbors as diligent as you are about privacy and security?
Yep. I never use the smart TV features. I've a fire stick and yes I see the irony but the firesick is almost used exclusively for Kodi.