Onsotumenh
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- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 3 weeks ago:
Exactly! I just don’t want constantly have to fight my devices. It tires me out and sucks the fun out of them.
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 3 weeks ago:
I’m still agonizing over it. However, I stopped caring as much and decided to focus on picture and capabilities. I’ll use it as dumb tv and try to beat whatever streamer will follow my shield into submission. Saves me getting a new dac for my hifi as well as none of my possible choices seem to support usb audio passthrough.
My biggest problem right now is that I always end up in the premium oled section ;)
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 3 weeks ago:
I think it is a drama, because it’s not just the tvs doing that. Almost everything is getting more and more annoying and restricting. Things are starting to constantly nag you one way or another, shove things into your face you don’t care about, take away functionality and generally worsen user experience… It’s just mentally exhausting.
And yes I know you can reliably turn that data collection stuff off (at least in the EU) but hopping through those hoops each and every time for each and every device and service can and will hollow out your resolve (and you have to find all the buried options every time…). Thats how you get masses that just don’t care anymore.
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 3 weeks ago:
I’m in the market for a new tv and all this crap just makes me want to scream in frustration. But prolonging the decision will just make it even worse.
On top of that my 2017 shield is starting to show its age and there is really no comparable 4k (streaming) alternative thats not a security risk. I feel more and more pushed towards piracy, so that I can use my linux box and decide how and where to watch content. I hate it…
- Comment on Amazon: The same 31 products you don't want, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I’ve been doing that for years on every site I use frequently (so far that I even got my own YouTube filter list on github). It doesn’t help with broken searches ignoring operators, but it makes the web a much better place nonetheless!
- Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD** 1 year ago:
The question is how long that will help. Just recently read about the first TVs popping up that try to connect to any available open WiFi to phone home, regardless of your settings. Soon our TVs will need tinfoil hats 😱