Article about technology being used against people
Posted by ZeroCool, known hacker extraordinare
Wake up, sheeple!
this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2024
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this article is a load of bollocks;
i really love my smart idiot box!
but wait, this may sound bad,
we interrupt this limerick for an ad --
have you thought of switching to our socks?
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“CTV” is a new term that I wasn’t familiar with.
It's also slightly confusing because CTV is a major TV station in Canada. I've never heard CTV to mean Connected TV.
I'm not even Canadian and the CTV television station is what came to mind. Have also never heard "CTV" to mean connected TV.
Asstechnica site itself is failing my trackers filter. 😂
Wait until they hear about cell phones.
Or the patent with a camera to make sure you're watching the ad.
And cars, and smart thermostats and smart cameras and smart fridges and routers and literally every fucking thing in your house that is connected to the fucking internet. Every single thing in our homes is a data miner.
God damn! You know things are god damn grim when even Oswald Cobblepot has gone woke!
my TV incurred my wrath by having the gall to show me a banner ad while I was in the middle of a game.
so I promptly cut its balls off. (disabled the internet entirely). now it is a dumb TV. and it behaves like a TV. and not an ad machine.
But what device do you use to stream? That's the dilemma I'm in, streaming sticks and devices are all so spammy.
Just plug in an Android streaming device and use Projectivity launcher.
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Another chiming in on the best device by a long shot is the AppleTV. It’s damn fast and its UI is actually nice to use. Oh and all the apps are always up to date. Zero ads just sitting on the screen anywhere.
I usually hook my Steam Deck up to my TV via a USB hub and HDMI, and then fire something up on Plex, which I keep running on my desktop.
Bonus: Make it a wireless HDMI dongle (which I'm too cheap for but are a thing), and now using it from the couch is even more convenient.
Join the darkside, and run something like a Raspberry Pi with Kodi, and/or Plex, etc.
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I bought an Apple TV after I had some smart tv related issues with my Samsung. I’m happy with it and it supports any app you’d want.
I use a rooted Xiaomi Mi Box 2S rooted and degoogled filtered by pi-hole and I only use stremio or jellyfin and smartube for youtube.
I just run an old PC plugged in to my TV. It's been running Windows, but I'm strongly considering switching it to linux now that it seems HDR on linux is getting stable. I might even use SteamOS directly since it's got a nice interface for controller use.
Same here, still on Windows 10 though it's desperately trying to reinstall it's crapware removed from the image with NTLite.
Will be switching to some flavour of Linux at some point (we also use this PC for some Steam games), so I'll check SteamOS out!
Google "Rii i6"
You'll thank me later.
Looks like a nice little device. I've already got a similar Logitech keyboard that's a bit bigger and is missing the IR remote, but I'm still able to turn on my TV via an HDMI CEC command.
Ah nice. We were using a mouse/on screen kb for a minute before i got fed up and did some looking around. we also didn't have a TV remote so we thought we were killing two birds. Turns out you can only copy IR commands from another source, so I hit the bullet and bought a cheap 7 dollar remote too to program it that way were just using one device for the bedroom TV.
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I've been using a Chromecast for years. I cast whatever I want from my phone. It plays media and that's it.
I wouldn't bet on one of the biggest data harvesters not using a smart device to harvest data.
Honestly, the apple TV is the least spammy by a long shot. I also hear great things about the Nvidia shield, but it is pretty ancient by now. Or use a computer, but of course that's got its own annoyances. Of course these are all the most expensive options, apparently for a reason.
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