Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge

ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Twitter post that reads "Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize.

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  • ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Classic!

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• expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  smart tv: what is my purpose?

  me: HDMI 1

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• Catpuccino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Which projector do you use?

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  • ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I use an Epson and just hook up Roku for streaming or use a nearby PC. It has Android TV, but I never use it.

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    • papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wait, so you got a projector to avoid the smart features of a tv, but the projector has the smart features anyways, you just don’t use them?

      What was the point of getting a projector over a tv?

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      • ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        For the size/space, and portability. Plus I’m an Android Developer, so I can play around with the Android stuff and disable a lot of stuff if needed. And I use it to test some of my apps. But never for anything else. But it is far better than the garbage that is Samsung by miles. It’s streets ahead.

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• ricdeh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Unfortunately lots of affordable projectors are also “smart” these days, running some kind of Android TV

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  • Anivia@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah, but affordable projectors sadly all are garbage in the first place, regardless of being smart or not

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• Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Car, computer, printer, stove etc…

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• Taldan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How long until we have no real choice? The vast majority of TVs are smart TVs now

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  • regedit@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But at least, for now, they still require you to connect to a network to receive updates and ads. Once they connect with no user interaction, to non-home networks, then we will be fucked!

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    • papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      One of these companies is gonna do a cost analysis on how much they could be making in additional ad revenue and how much it would cost to equip all their TVs with 5g antennas and pay for the data.

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