Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app

Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have a smart TV and a Bluray player as well, but other than that, only phones, computers, and my Switch connect to the internet. My next TV will likely not be smart, because screw ads, and I’ve ripped all of my Blurays.

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  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve stopped buying TVs. It’s difficult to find a dumb one nowadays. I watch on my phone or my computer monitor.

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    • 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I just dont connect the TV to the internet and hook a separate media center up to the HDMI port.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Would be nice, but I have kids, and it’s really hard to watch a movie together on a phone. I need another soon-ish, so I’m going to look into hospitality TVs and projectors.

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      • na_th_an@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Why not just buy a TV and not connect it to the internet?

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  • frostysauce@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why does a Blu-ray player need to connect to the Internet?

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It can play Netflix and a few other streaming services.

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      • frostysauce@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh, that’s cool!

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    • purplemonkeymad@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bd players need internet as they only have keys for the discs made before they were made. So if you stick a newer disc in it won’t play until it gets updated.

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  • mdd@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My last two TVs were dumb ones.

    It is getting harder find dumb TVs because the smart stuff included with most TVs subsidizes keeping the initial price low. Manufactures are betting millions of dollars purchasers will sign up for the monthly apps.

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    • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Buy smart TV. Open the back. Remove WiFi card.

      Purchase cheap Chinese mini PC, put Kodi on it.

      That’s all you need

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s not always easy, sometimes the WiFi is on the board itself and not just an add-in card. Or you get annoying warnings or something on the TV.

        Commercial TVs will probably last a lot longer than regular retail TVs, so if I’m not going to be using all the features of the TV, I might as well spend a bit more and get something that’ll last.

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• viking@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I own some things that can, but that doesn’t mean they do.

  My bloody dishwasher asked for my wifi password when I first connected it.

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