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You can often buy the "digital signage" of TVs. Same pannel, but it's just a screen. I think it's targetting businesses but you can buy them too!
Oh, the same company that screenshots your content even if you use it as a dumb display? Who could've predicted this!
Who the fucks connect tv to the internet
Straight to the work bench, remove the back, physically remove the wifi adapter, replace back of TV. Yay, i am ready for xbox.
I just set up a rule on my firewall to disallow outgoing web traffic from my TV so I can still control it over the wifi. Then if I want to sell it I haven't broken any functionality.
If I had done that, I would have never gotten the firmware update to enable VRR support on my HDMI 2.1 ports…
There's probably a procedure to load firmware from USB. Maybe.
Probably not unless you have the signing keys.
Buy products based on the features they have out of the box, not promises about future updates
I need someone to explain to me, what situation could possibly arise that would require me to use Copilot on my fucking TV?
Play the movie where Darth Vader dies.
Of course there are features enabled by ai. But to force it down our throats, that's the problem.
The same reason why windows has that stupid desktop search - so that some twat with an MBA can brag about user engagement and justify his existence. Also, to hoover up user data for slop machine training.
Don't think about what copilot can do for you that's some socialism talk!, think about how it could squeeze profits and data from your instead ~Microsoft lunatics
I believe we're talking about the "number go up" scenario
"Go away, I'm batin'!"
I'll throw my money at any TV manfucturer that just sells me a dumb OLED TV with great picture quality. Heck, even drop the speakers, I won't be using them anyway. Just a dumb panel with plenty of input/outputs.
This comes in handy...
Shit, Kodi isn't mentioned once in the article. That's a sign of the times.
Smart TV OSes help TV-makers stay afloat in an industry with thin margins on hardware. Not only do they provide ad space, but they also give OS operators and their partners information on how people use their TVs—data that is extremely valuable to advertisers.
I turn my tv on, turn it to whatever channel, and then I just go about my business. I even leave the house. Go to work. Ect.
So if I had a smart tv, I they would get info like "oh, he's been watching tv for 36 hours straight...."
Meanwhile, I may have watched 3 hours combined at different times.
Oh, you want to pay these companies more money, because more people are watching? Ok.....but I'm not even home. I've been at work for 5 hours. I just turn the TV on so it looks like someone is home.
Wait until the add cameras, telescreen style...
This comes up a lot, and I don't necessarily get it. I have all smart TVs, and I just never, ever, EVER let them connect to wifi even ONCE for any reason. It's not like it NEEDS it for anything.
It’s not like it NEEDS it for anything.
I see this take online a lot, but in person, everywhere I go people play netflix and whatever directly on their TV. I think there might just be a huge divide in perspective between those with and without game consoles of some sort always connected to their TV.
I have my TV on WiFi network that has no Internet access so at least I can control it via homeassistant still. It doesn't need Internet for anything but the UI so just get a shield and strip that down
Good.
Remind them who's in charge.
Assert dominance and look at them while you're at it by the built-in camera.
Well LG did me a favor. Don't buy LG tvs, Samsung appliances or HP printers.
LG's recent software update has forcibly installed Microsoft Copilot, an AI assistant, on smart TVs without removal options, sparking widespread user backlash over privacy, bloatware, and loss of control. This highlights growing tensions in smart devices, where monetization often overrides user preferences.
Sure is ironic that the article summary is itself AI-generated.
