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I got this popup ad on my TV while watching a DVD (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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we live in hell

I don't even understand the pitch? you have the disc playing, in your hands, your ownership, no buffering, no subscription required. and they're saying....hey do you want a worse experience?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

I rooted my 2013 Samsung TV and overclocked it from 800 to 1200Mhz (the whole system is actually build for 1200Mhz but only the Highend-Ones are qualified for it). To my surprise the amount of data it send to Samsung was quite reasonable but still I removed most of it. Full removal of Internet is not an option because then I lose HbbTV and Prime TV which is like 50% of what I use that device for. And since I rooted it I also use it for BS and the public broadcasting mediatheks. Also, it now runs Quake2 in 1920x1080 in ~20fps.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

It’s called “Post-Purchase Monetization”, and it’s why your 65” OLED tv is so cheap. They capture and sell your viewing data - but only if you hook it up to an internet connection. So don’t hook them up to an internet connection.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pretty soon you won't be allowed to use a tv to watch stuff that isn't state approved media from a state approved source. I had an airbnb once that was set up in such a way that you could sign in to any streaming service you wanted but hdmi was blocked. I doubt the owner intentionally did that but it's scary to actually see this type of shit firsthand.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Replace state-approved with corporation-approved and yeah, this is our world now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Both, states & megacorps hand in hand.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And this is why we buy dumb TVs

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes! got any recommendations because people are searching for dumb tvs and can’t seem to find them anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You probably want commercial displays. They'll cost a bit more, but they're also designed to run 24/7 (think the screens they use in menus, signs, etc) so they could probably last forever as a TV.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So you’re saying I need a commerical display to display less commercials?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The comments suggesting the system sends 2 screenshots a second is truly worrying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Article in question mentioning it

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Protip: Do not connect your TV to the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I ended up giving up and just putting a Linux PC attached to my TV as a media center. I host plex on it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Until Plex gets unbearable as well. They have been getting a lot shittier lately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The shark’s in the tank and they’re putting their waterskis on

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Other server software are available of course. The concept stays the same though. Very much recommend doing this. I'm halfway there, running Plex on my desktop PC and watching on my TV and other devices at home. Very comfortable setup. But I wish I had a small computer like a Pi or something, and a NAS to hold my drives. That way my desktop PC could rest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Personally I was a fan of buying something like a Dell optiplex as my my NAS and Pihole but I do wish I had a better enclosure for the drives as any truly good one seems to be hundreds of dollars and mildly defeats the idea of self hosting being cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just use an old crappy hand-me-down mid-tower gaming case I stuffed some drives into. As long as you can keep them cool, dusted, and away from vibrations (with HDDs), plenty of (used?)cases will have enough HDD slots to get you started.

Also old rackmount servers on ebay have plenty of slots I hear, but rackmount fans are waaaaay louder.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Room is my main issue. Living in an apartment I can't have large boxes/computers just standing anywhere. So it has to be very small and quiet. 😅 Pi should be perfect. Maybe mount it underneath my desk where my desktop PC is or something. 👍

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Right on, that makes sense!

If you're not planning on storing absolutely tons of data at first, you can also squeeze a lot into so-called "1 liter PCs". Traditional platform, a little more power and room than a Pi, and you can neatly tuck them away!

I hear they float around eBay quite readily these days.

Sadly haven't been hearing the very best things about the Pi 5, but earlier ones can do well as little servers.

I've been learning a lot from the self hosted podcast lately haha. Also one of the hosts runs this site (which I happened to find first) that can be pretty helpful!

https://perfectmediaserver.com/

I remember some folks on reddit saying USB isn't the most reliable connection for long-term drives, but I'm not 100% sure what that was about. Maybe the connectors wear out?

Perhaps someone who knows more can enlighten me.

Best of luck! I hope you have a lot of fun. 😁

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Late reply...

Thank you for all the tips!

I'm curious: what things have you specifically heard about the Pi 5, if you don't mind sharing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Sure thing!

What I've heard about the Pi 5 specifically is that they dropped hardware acceleration support for video encoding. Which is kinda weird, but admittedly I'm a bit out of the Pi loop to really weigh in.

I believe I heard this on the "Self Hosted Podcast" a while back. (Edit: oh I mentioned them already lol)

I imagine that might hurt for someone trying to use it for streaming Jellyfin or something like that 🤔.

I found a forum link here:

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=2139082#p2139126

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is the way (Jellyfin here)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I'm new to all this. Got any recommendations how to learn about Jellyfin?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Anytime you see the word "smart" in the name of the product, remember to mentally replace the word "smart" with "tracking".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Same with IoT

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The S in IoT stands for security, and the P stands for privacy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

😂😂😂

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Turn off Smart TV experience on your Roku.

Disable Roku Snooping

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

See the problem is that you let a display device connect to the internet

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Connected a Samsung smart TV to my network when we first got it. The thing damn-near crashed my pi-hole asking for so many ad/tracking domains. Factory reset it later that same day. I think my % of requests blocked went from 15% to 68% in just the 3 hours or so the Smart TV was connected.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They started to wisen up and hard-coded dns requests to 8.8.8.8 to bypass dns ad blockers now. Heck, some apps like Netflix already do it for years now. If your router can transparently redirect all dns requests to your pi-hole, you should use that feature.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

or use the blocking feature of your firewall. Here’s Roku being persistent and ignoring my pihole. Firewalla for the win.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What brand? so I know NOT to buy it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I believe it's Roku. That purple symbol in the bottom right is on the remote as well.

Very budget so this doesn't surprise me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Fuck Roku. Don't buy these. They shove ads down your throat constantly, and they proactively, aggressively stop methods of circumvention.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Wtf I thought roku TV were one of the good ones. I use a Roku thing that you plug in and I haven't seen this yet.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

The poster really needs to just turn off the Smart TV experience.