Just don’t give the TV your wifi password, boom dumb TV.
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chocrates@piefed.world 15 hours agoYou can’t really find a dumb TV anymore. I might see how big of a monkey I can find when I’m ready to upgrade, but I doubt I’ll find one big enough and cheap enough.
TheKingBee@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
That won’t save you anymore. My boss bought a smallish smart TV in contravention of my explicit instructions for use as a CCTV monitor because it was “cheap.” It nags you on power up with a popup whining about not being able to access the internet, and if you don’t feed it your Wifi password it will subsequently display that same popup every 30 minutes or so requiring you to dismiss it again. And again. And again. Apparently the play is to just annoy you into caving and letting it access your network.
Instead I packed it up and returned it. Fuck that.
tyler@programming.dev 11 hours ago
If you are at a business you should have an access point or router that is capable of blocking specific devices from WAN access. But I would create a new segmented network, block that network from WAN access entirely, put it on its own VLAN, and then connect the TV to that network.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
I’d assume it nags whenever it can’t connect to the home server, and just says “network”.
So when they go out of business any remaining units will nag forever.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I hooked my computer up to the HDMI and have used that as my primary interface.
It’s not perfect, but it screens out 95% of bullshit
tyler@programming.dev 11 hours ago
That doesn’t, unless you’ve blocked your TV from network access, because they use ACR - Automated Content Recognition - that literally scans what is being displayed over your hdmi port and then sells it off to advertisers.
sketchyenchantment@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
I think you missed the part where the TV doesn’t have access to the network.