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Comment on Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users

I had a Samsung TV over 10 years ago. One of the early “smart” ones. It got quite a few updates where a happy little text box told “your samsung smart tv got even better” or some shit like that. Even if they actively removed features and now unsupported apps. You know after like 2 years or so.

Like fuck it. It still works as regular ass TV till this date. But the whole software and update experience was so shit that i never bought a samsung device ever again. Wait, thats a lie. I bought two of those 25 buck dumbphones from them. They were pretty good for what they were, ngl. But apart from that Samsung is a big no-no for me and i get proven right year after year.

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zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yeah, they have been on my shit list for a good while. The only thing I’d still buy from them would be memory, either ram or flash, but now the AI induced prices have put even those purchases on hold.

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CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
God their TVs have become so terrible over the last decade. Not only the firmware but the quality of them. I got one to use as an office monitor and it randomly glitches out showing static on the screen until you unplug it. My BIL also buys Samsung TVs and has seemingly gone through half a dozen of them in the last few years because they keep breaking. Same with all the Samsung appliances that he buys too.

For my last TV, I got an LG C3 OLED from Costco and the picture is incredible along with the price and we haven’t had any software issues or annoyances with it either. I have blocked the LG domains on my router though so that it won’t nag me about updating the firmware.

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- MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I wish you could just buy a fucking tv. I don’t want your shitty-ass proprietary version of YouTube or Netflix. I don’t even want WiFi or an Ethernet port. I’ll but a fucking Roku or Apple TV or whatever. Or just watch Blu-rays.
  
  I tried blocking so off those ports from one of my Samsungs. Eventually YouTube couldn’t work. You’d have to jump through massive hoops including unblocking their servers and hard power cycle — I can’t even remember. I thought they legit bricked it because I didn’t want any updates or spying or ads forced on me.
  
  TVs are just awful. Monitors are way better, but I have yet to find 85" monitors.
  
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  - TotalCourage007@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I have two functioning 50 inch Scepter TVs reality will pry from my cold dead hands because they are the last dumb TV. I’d like an 80 inch but am not interested in any smart bs, wish I could store 10 different Scepters for future use.
    
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  - empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    wish you could just buy a fucking tv.
    
    You can. Look for commerical displays. They typically have no smart shit and are designed to have a display box plugged in via HDMI or be served static images and nothing else. You won’t get the best tech though as they dont make commercial displays in OLED or anything.
    
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    lemmyng@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Case and point: www.samsung.com/us/business/…/commercial-tvs/
    
    Been rocking one since I bought it new off of eBay a few months ago, and it just works. Bought the latest Samsung soundbar system to pair with it and it also just works.
    
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