Wrong
The “smart part” absolutely makes those TVs bad. The meme even addresses this with the line about hardware being ripped wholesale from an old smart phone. Smart TV hardware barely functions when it’s brand new. Fuck everything about smart TVs.
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Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 week agoBut you don’t need a dumb TV.
The smart part isn’t what makes those TVs bad. It is the internet connection that sends you ads, scrapes your data, causes lags and reboots because of updates, and makes your network less secure.
Just connect an other device over HDMI like you would a dumb TV, and never connect it to the internet like you would a dumb TV.
PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Kanda@reddthat.com 1 week ago
What if I just want the screen to turn on, displaying the last output I used? No, we gotta boot Android and then select the output through a menu for no reason
Tja@programming.dev 1 week ago
My TV boots to the last input selected. It’s a smart tv.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Mine too, just takes a while to go through all the google, android, TLC screens before it gets there.
Good thing that is only at the start.
Alice@beehaw.org 1 week ago
That’s true. I was even more tech illiterate back then than I am now and couldn’t figure out how to switch inputs without going through the menu, which I couldn’t get to without connecting to the internet and going through the whole setup process.
No going back now since I mostly cast from my phone these days since it’s the laziest way for me to watch without ads.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Except some models won’t let you do anything until you “activate” your smart TV, which requires an internet connection.