🍹Early to RISA 🧉M to [email protected] • 3 months agoAnon buys a TV without researchingsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square227fedilinkarrow-up1764
arrow-up1764imageAnon buys a TV without researchingsh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉M to [email protected] • 3 months agomessage-square227fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink75•3 months agoFirst rule of smart TVs: if you really have to buy a smart TV, then never connect it to the internet!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink23•3 months agoI’ve read at some other post that some smart TVs won’t work at all if you don’t connect it to the internet. Read with caution, I haven’t verified this.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•edit-23 months agoI’ve also heard people say that they’ll automatically connect to any open wifi networks. People make up a lot of stuff. Just don’t tell your display device how to send any 1s or 0s to any server outside your home, and you’ll be fine
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•3 months agoImagine if they came with default ads prebundled in the firmware.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•3 months agoAmazon fire TV requires an Amazon account to use basic features and they intentionally tell you they lock “certain” features
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•3 months agoIndeed, I remember people complaining about Roku for that. My TLC hasn’t done so up until now.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink17•3 months agoI lobotomized our TV after making the mistake of connecting it to the internet when we first got it. The ads slowed down the menu to switch sources so much it actually angered me. No more internet for you, you get to be a dumb tv forever now.
First rule of smart TVs: if you really have to buy a smart TV, then never connect it to the internet!
I’ve read at some other post that some smart TVs won’t work at all if you don’t connect it to the internet.
Read with caution, I haven’t verified this.
I’ve also heard people say that they’ll automatically connect to any open wifi networks. People make up a lot of stuff. Just don’t tell your display device how to send any 1s or 0s to any server outside your home, and you’ll be fine
Imagine if they came with default ads prebundled in the firmware.
Some of them use wifi for the remote too.
Amazon fire TV requires an Amazon account to use basic features and they intentionally tell you they lock “certain” features
That should be illegal…
Indeed, I remember people complaining about Roku for that.
My TLC hasn’t done so up until now.
Back to the store it goes then
Like those single player games…
I lobotomized our TV after making the mistake of connecting it to the internet when we first got it.
The ads slowed down the menu to switch sources so much it actually angered me. No more internet for you, you get to be a dumb tv forever now.