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Simple solution I use: Fuck television sets, get a computer monitor and basic speakers instead. A display should do only one thing and do it well.
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You know back in the day they were like easily half a dozen custom Android ROMs for any given phone. I'm pretty sure that there's still a diversity of ROMs available.
Why is this not the case with televisions?
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If you want a serious mind fuck read "stand On Zanzibar" a science fiction novel from 1969.
One of the things that the writer predicted was Mr. & Mrs. Everywhere, a gimmick where your TV would insert your family into advertisements.
The novel is full of other, equally accurate predictions...
I still use a dumb TV, and I will for as long as possible. I'll never buy a new TV ever again. only used from Facebook. most stuff I only watch on my computer anyways.
I make my smart TVs dumb. No internet connectivity.
That is my solution as well for now. I bet TVs will start to come with cellular chips soon though.
Does anyone make a living room sized Faraday cage?
HOW EXCITING...
said no one ever.
I wish there was a TV with absolutely no built in smart features and a slot in the back for a compute module (like a RP CM5).
They call them projectors. They're just way too expensive to be reasonable replacements for the average user.
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Someone once said on here that NEC made TVs like that but I couldn't find anything
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Or just a few Display Ports and HDMI
NOPE
This is why you block the camera with a little diorama that shows a single white male viewer...frantically masturbating.
Wait, TVs have cameras now? That sounds super creepy
And an array of microphones. But it's not like they have a clear view of their surroundings. Wait
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Close. This is why I mastubate frantically infront of the cameras. It satifies they kink for surveilance and my kink in exhibitionism.
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Good idea, though, this isn't actually about cameras watching you as the title looks like.
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I’ll never connect a TV to the internet again.
This is actually about analysing the shows you watch, so it's invasive, but not insidious in the way, say, the screenshots of hdmi content is.
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