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michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Nothing prevents you from using your Smart TV in the same way as a dumb TV. Just don’t connect your TV to the internet and use a third-party device via HDMI.

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Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If you do that, depending on the TV, you might have some system messages and stuff on startup…

But yeah it’s a good start.

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- michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If TV can’t remember last used HDMI port that TV is a shit.
  
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TK420@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Ahhhh if only it were that easy

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- michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  What is the problem?
  
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  - TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Many, even when offline, will constantly pester you to connect to a network, or will attempt to connect to any open one it finds.
    
    Some have offline, non-targeted ads from factory.
    
    There have recently been trials of Amazon-powered TVs automatically linking to any Echo devices it can find and using it as a bridge to get internet. I’m unsure if that’s something they’re actually going to go ahead with right now though.
    
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  - TK420@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Roku doesn’t let you use your device unless you accept their TOS for example.
    
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