Totally worth mentioning, some LG OLED TVs are able to be jailbroken and run homebrew software!
It can block firmware updates and telemetry, so no spying and no surprise “feature” additions.
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smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 days ago
Incredible. What a shit idea.
Anyways, kids, remember: never let your smart devices talk to the internet. We actually love our LG OLED - it’s fantastic hardware. But it has not once, and never will, get the chance to phone home.
mik@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
ad_on_is@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I reworked my entire home network. Going from an Asus router to an opnsense firewall, just to put the HP printer and the LG TV on a VLAN with absolutely no internet access.
These two poor guys ping each other every day, in the hopes one of them gets a connection.
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 day ago
Awesome haha. ALmost exact same setup here, incl. OpnSense with an isolation vlan in which (brother) printer and TV are.
Fit_Series_573@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I got a Sony OLED that was on a steep discount near the beginning of covid since it was clear me and my roommate would be home a lot more (Ended up just being in nature more and used it sporadically). Thankfully their interface was minimal at the time so it was just a blank homescreen in offline mode but I’ve saw tvs now adays some people are buying that will have an overlay even while on any hdmi inputs, that you must connect to the tv. A friend of mine got a cheap Walmart one after a move like 2 years ago and the overlay took up a third of the screen. He just moved too so he had no internet to connect to for a couple days so couldn’t even use his PS4 on it.
djdarren@piefed.social 2 days ago
Yeah, my LG OLED is a genuinely wonderful thing, with which 99% of its use is via an Apple TV. The other 1% is me casting my phone to it, because it’s a Pixel and Apple are pricks who won’t let AirPlay work outside of their ecosystem.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
remember: never let your smart devices talk to the internet.
Especially a smart phone!
wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Exactly, I basically just use mine as a big monitor connected to my PC sat beneath it
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 1 day ago
That’s the way to go, fuck all these limiting android slop boxes.
Sepix@feddit.org 2 days ago
But what do you use instead? The onboard apps work well and having two remotes always sucked.
mcforest@feddit.org 2 days ago
Thanks to HDMI-CEC you can control additional media players with your TV’s remote. Sometimes it might not be perfect for things like long presses and stuff, but for basic controls it works.
That’s my experience with an Nvidia Shield and a Raspberry with KODI. I wouldn’t really recommend the Raspberry though.
sorghum@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
So long as the GabeCube is at a decent price it is going to be my TV’s media center. My old plan of building a new main rig and repurposing my old rig with an arc B580 upgrade went out the window for my budget when ram prices went through the roof.
Canuck@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Install KDE Plasma Big Screen, Waydroid Android TV, and you’ll be golden
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Modern replacement as a kodi box for both shield and pi is ugoos am6b+. ~120$ on aliexpress (probably more with tariffs) and once you flash it with coreelec it can natively playback pretty much any format except av1. You still dual boot to android so can also run all the streaming apps too, if you want, and the android is really stripped back vs the shield (especially the later releases where ad bullshit creeped in quite a bit) though not fully degoogled because the play store is still present.
Main downside is some issues with hdmi-cec. It works 99% but power on doesn’t when in coreelec. Ugoos locked the bootloader for some reason and refuses to unlock it. Fixes for this depend on equipment and use scenario. Some people on the forum that watch tv a lot just disable power on/off cec and leave it running 24/7, it’s pretty low power. I have an avr that works with hdmi-cec and home assistant so I have hdmi-cec on/off turned on, it will turn off when I turn the tv off with remote, and when I turn the tv on the avr turns on via CEC then home assistant sends a wake-on-lan packet to the device, which turns it on. A bit of a delay, but works.
Only device on the market that can properly play back Dolby vision though, including commercial bluray players. If you download 2160p remux with the dv layer for lg oled this is literally the only thing that plays it back correctly. Alternatively just get hdr rips
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 days ago
A separate box with apps that work better and just use the one remote.
not_me@piefed.social 2 days ago
I usually use my graphene smartphone connected with adapter cable usb c to hdmi on television.
Hule@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Do you happen to know a guide about setting that up?
djdarren@piefed.social 2 days ago
I use an Apple TV with mine. You can control the TV and soundbar from its one small remote.
humancrayon@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I have a Frame connected to an Apple TV. I’ve never let the Frame online to do anything. Its been perfect so far. The day it sneaks itself online through some means is the day it will probably go in the trash. I can’t even begin to imagine the amount of sludge it would download and wrap itself in if given half the chance.
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 2 days ago
But then isn’t there a worry about Apple tracking everything?
djdarren@piefed.social 2 days ago
Everyone is tracking everything anyway, but having been a user of Apple products since 2007, they’ve got what they can on me.
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 days ago
I only use the Nvidia Shield remote. It obviously does everything on the Shield, plus tv on/off, and volume. Then I remapped the Netflix button on it to open a little quick actions menu to select brightness/picture mode levels.
Haven’t touched the lg remote since
crossover@lemmy.world 2 days ago
AppleTV.
arstechnica.com/…/all-the-ways-apple-tv-boxes-do-…
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is a fascinating article. As someone who has never owned an apple device in my life out of principle, this is actually making me consider one.
harmbugler@piefed.social 2 days ago
I have two AppleTVs and while they are great at what they do, I won’t buy another. The reason is that they are still locked down to what Apple allows you to do. Want to watch YouTube? Your only realistic option is Google’s app, complete with ads. If you connect a real computer to the TV, you have significantly more control over what’s going on, but you may lose some of the convenience of a dedicated TV device. Hopefully with things like the GabeCube, more Linux OSes will be dedicated to big screen TV use.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Nvidia Shield or chromecast. Two remotes is really not a big deal.
TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Would you connect it to the internet with all its consequences to be able to use one remote instead of two?
fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 2 days ago
just block it from being able to reach wan AND wan from being able to reach it
TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I know, but OP says they want to use onboard apps and don’t want to use two remotes.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Literally any device plugged into a dumb screen is better than a smart TV.
The hardware on a smart TV is typically absolute trash. It’s why they’re so slow.
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Chromecast
Mertn33@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I have an lg TV. Never use it’s remote.