• @[email protected]
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    461 year ago

    Any way to connect it to an internal network so I can still cast from local devices? Otherwise it’s just going to exist plugged into a laptop.

    • @[email protected]
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      451 year ago

      Something like a chromecast would be the easiest solution.

      Me personally, I just like having a media pc hooked up to my tv. I bought an amazon fire tv cause it was fairly cheap for 4k and its never been hooked up to the internet.

        • @[email protected]
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          231 year ago

          It is a problem, my shield tv started having ads on the home page, but I was able to install a new launcher on it to fix that.

          Overall having a media player plugged in to a disconnected tv is the way to go. It is easier to replace a chromecast than the whole tv.

    • @[email protected]
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      171 year ago

      Depends on your router. Some have the ability to disable internet access to single devices while leaving their internal network access intact.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 year ago

      You probably can give it a static ip through your router and block any access to the internet for it. Could even set up pihole to block the ads from coming in to any device. That said, it’s possible the TV has built in ads or error messages to show in place of the ads when offline/blocked, or may just not even work if offline for longer than x minutes/hours/days

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        I have an old Intel nuc that I could slap a hard drive in. It wouldn’t have to handle all traffic, right?

      • Patapon Enjoyer
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        91 year ago

        I think a PiHole wouldn’t work cause the ads come from the same place as the videos

        • Boomer Humor Doomergod
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          61 year ago

          Not sure about Samsung devices but I’ve got a few Rokus and my pihole does a great job of blocking ads.

          They still push “promotions” into the menus and every month I have to go through and turn them off, but I don’t see ads in the UI.

        • @[email protected]
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          131 year ago

          Samsung, AFAIK, doesn’t have a streaming service so that doesn’t matter.

          We weren’t talking about ADs on some streaming service, we’re talking about ADs displayed on the TV from Samsung themselves

          Also, AD proxying with content isn’t always guaranteed, I’ve seen YT do it ofc

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      That’s how I handled my “smart” TV - I had a spare minipc from my old homelab, threw Linux on it and plugged it into the HDMI port.

      It has never connected to my network, despite the BestBuy employee insisting it would need firmware updates for better picture.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        Omg, that reminds me of a time when a retail employee insisted that installing Linux on a particular machine would rock crashing the hard drive. This was, oh, maybe 2006 or so.

        I did not buy a new computer that day.

      • Wugmeister
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        21 year ago

        Smart TVs can also scan the input from their hdmi ports and relay that to advertisers.

          • Wugmeister
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            11 year ago

            True. That said, another comment has claimed that some smart TVs seek out open wifi and use that. Not a big problem in my area though.

    • unalivejoy
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      1 year ago

      You can probably get a DNS based ad blocker and configure your router DHCP to assign it to devices.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      if it gives you the option you could try setting the DNS settings to something that doesn’t exist.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Sure, break it’s routing. You can give it a fake DNS server (like a pihole that blocks everything), you could set up routing rules that block everything not addressed in the network ip range, there’s a ton of ways I can think to do it off the top of my head. It might require some tinkering though