Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• kalkulat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I heard a talk a few days ago, and the fella said that if you want a non-smart monitor, you’ll need to pay somewhat more for what he called an ‘industrial monitor’. He said the ‘smart TV’ is cheaper because of all the data it’ll collect, and they can sell that data to make the price-to-the-user lower. (Don’t know for myself, my old Samsung monitor’s only smarts were to send data out to one URL, and I was able to change that URL to a site that doesn’t exist.)

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  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Pi hole is required internet safety

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    • kalkulat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh yeah! But not so many people can handle that option.

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  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s gotta be a market for taking cheap smart TVs, replacing the guts with dumb tv, and reselling it, right?

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    • kalkulat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Absolutely … smart thinking! Each brand is likely to have different ways to lobotomize it, might take a while to decide which is easiest/best return, then start stocking up.

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