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• Fungah@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I opened my smart TV and removed the Bluetooth/WiFi PCI card that was inside it.

  Good fucking luck connecting to something you privacy invading piece of shit.

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• Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This just doesn’t seem to click for a lot of people for some reason that I cannot explain whatsoever. I don’t even have mine connected to electricity I’m not using it.

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  • triptrapper@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To be honest, I recently got a TCL Roku TV and I almost gave up on trying to use it as a dumb TV. I’m not a beginner at this, but setting up a network connection was so embedded in the initial setup, from the moment you turn the TV on. I did a couple factory resets and I could not figure out how to bypass it. Turns out I had to set it to “store display mode” at a certain point and then connect my other streaming device.

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    • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, the Roku OS is REALLY baked in there and REALLY wants your data, and they recently updated it to make it even harder to circumvent. The trick is to just block its connection at the router level.

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      • triptrapper@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Oh my god that didn’t even occur to me. Maybe I am a beginner!

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      • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        My gf has one of these and I tried to plug and Apple TV into it to bypass all of that and it won’t take the signal …. It works everywhere else but that Roku TV is like “nah fam, no signal sooorrrrryyyyty”

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  • SamboT@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Mine gets put in the garage when its not being used. Microphones to record you can work on battery ppwer.

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    • Arbiter@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I keep mine chained up in the basement when not in use.

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    • Lexam@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m picturing a big screen on the old school TV carts.

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• eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Exactly what I did. I’d get a 65" monitor if there was any. But an always offline smart TV will do.

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• leisesprecher@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Even then you still have a bunch of cheap hardware crammed into an insufficiently ventilated box that will lead to problems down the line.

  My TV is 15 years old, not very smart, thick as oatmeal, but works like a charm.

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    you don’t have to use the smart bulllshit.

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    • leisesprecher@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s still there, though.

      And since it’s usually one integrated board, a failure in the “bullshit” will likely affect the not-shit.

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      • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        this is just pure speculation. if they design the boards to cool properly during the warranty period it’ll be fine after that too.

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m not worried about me using the smart bullshit. I’m worried about it using me

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      • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        you can opt out of all that stuff. They bury the options deep in the settings but you can do it and it works.

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