Probably the best idea I guess as long as you can set the TV up without Internet.
Just don’t connect it to the internet and it’s a dumb display, simple as that
elrik@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Eiri@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
For now. I suspect some evil person will eventually think of baking in default ads for when it can’t connect to the network to get new ones.
ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Last tv i bought wouldn’t let you set it up without connecting to the internet. Guess we’ll need open hardware tvs next if they don’t aleady exist
Rubanski@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Couldn’t you theoretically set it up and afterwards unplug the wifi adapter?
ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I just returned it, but my idea was a separate VLAN and block all connections except for whitelisted ones for streaming. Smart tvs/rokus/etc do a lot of talking and they could theoretically brick themselves if there isn’t an internet connection available.
The future is a wonderful place!
Pika@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
rokus will DoS your DNS servers if you block their telemetry, I had to disable most logging on my pihole due to that because I was getting 2 or 3 gigs worth of DNS daily logging which was almost fully the sole roku Premier upstairs. It’s so bad.