Why would you buy that. Ten years ago I had an Amazon phone and it would fill my home screen with ads. I guess if you hadn't experienced that scenario but otherwise why would you pay for that. Besides the ads fuck Amazon why give them any money. Go to Newegg, Walmart anywhere else
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Oh sweet summer child, Google is NOT going to be any better at this. That will just be changing one corporate evil for another.
The track record for people using that condescending phrase while not understanding what's happening continues...
The smart TVs operate on Android TV, made by Google.
Amazon uses their own version of Android, and that's where all the shitty stuff comes from.
I've got a nice name brand android TV, the only ads are "this movie is on streaming" or "this show premieres in a week".
I got a cheap Amazon TV in another room, in the same place for ads on the home screen, it has ads for random products
There is a marked difference. They are "better" at this. Obviously no one in 2025 thinks google is "good"
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Haha. Are people even supprised? I mean come on.
The best thing you can do, is just DIY your own display with a microcontroller and have some fun in building it. Maybe run Linux on it and voila.
While we still have that option... I'd bet money that the second when most people start deciding to DIY their own home tech, they'll lobby these techs as unsafe and dangerous and potentially ban their use outright, or require special licenses and degrees.
they'll lobby these techs as unsafe and dangerous and potentially ban their use outright, or require special licenses and degrees.
They have a strong foundation in the DRM built into HDMI. I suspect this is exactly the real reason it is there.
F*K the HDMI forum. Those people are the cause I can not run 4k 120Hz TV on HTPC using AMD video kernel drivers on Linux. Because these drivers are open-source and the HDMI folks do not want this support in the open source drivers.. FK them hard.
Whatever accelerates us getting off our asses and seizing the means of production quicker, I'm all for it. Take the TVs, I fucking dare ya
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The stupid part is how incredibly obvious this outcome was yet a bunch of clueless morons bought them anyway.
Google is NOT going to be any better at this
What are you talking about? Google Home devices have been out for like a decade at this point, they don’t play ads on them.
Yet
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Same. I owned several devices at the time.
you bought them?
I did once, sadly. Before I knew better.
Additionally, Echo Shows may play audio ads when users listen to Amazon Music on Alexa.
Idiots. It's called - get a media player and a bluetooth speaker of which the media player can connect to. Both of which don't contain ads.
How inconvenienced are we that simply having a basic alarm clock - which has no ads, a dumb tv - that gives you no ads and among other stupidly simple but workable technology is just not enough?
They're just glorified tablets slapped onto the Echo speakers. Fucking morons.