The home page of my $1700 smart TV has a full page ad about watching ads

[theosintguy@sh.itjust.works]

There are some cheap Bluetooth TV remotes so if you want to take some time out of your day, there's a few Linux distros that ship with similar GUI to some TV's.

[maxprime@lemmy.ml]

Probably 4k oled

[uienia@lemmy.world]

That is the way

[slapnutsgt@lemmy.world]

I recently took my brand new stupid fucking tv off the grid. I use Apple TV so not a big deal with the ads and shit but the damn thing forced an update mid movie, reset, and black screened. Couldn’t get it back on and went to bed, figured I’d deal with it in the morning. Luckily it worked the next day after that no more internet for you.

[atheartengineer@lemmy.world]

I agree. I switched from Roku to apple tv recently (and I don't really have apple devices), and it was worth it.

[shepherdpie@midwest.social]

If you think that's bad, my Denon receiver had to update itself which for some reason fails 100% of the time when using wifi so I had to find the longest ethernet cable I have to connect into the back (or disconnect 20+ wires from the back to move it closer to the network switch) so that it could finish downloading the firmware and complete the update before it would start working again.

[goosefinger@sh.itjust.works]

Hisense. Name and shame baby

[goosefinger@sh.itjust.works]

Oh, and if anyone knows why pfBlockerNG might fail to update some DNSBL AND IPv4 feeds during cron events, I'd be forever grateful. I'm getting tired of my router crashing every hour.

[goosefinger@sh.itjust.works]

I figure the ads are just cached from earlier. I took this picture a few hours after I finished setting up my pfBlockerNG feeds and changing my DNS to AdGuard's public one.

If nothing else, this ad certainly reaffirmed my decision to update our network.

[alk@sh.itjust.works]

Shield pro is the best, end of story

[alk@sh.itjust.works]

I've found the shield pro is better, especially for customizability.

[dickarus@lemmy.world]

A cheap computer. HDMI cable. Ublock origin (sprinkle some sponserblock and privacy badger in there). A TV that is never connected to the internet. Voila. No ads. None. Zilch. Zero. Ad free.

Streaming platforms that have gone to ad supported formats make me laugh because it's just a 3-5 second black screen, not the ad, and it's back to the content. Been doing it for decades. Don't sit there and get reamed by their bullshit.

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

People who don't have the tech chops for self-hosting can also check the market for shop displays (like you'd see above the counter in a fast food joint). Those are "dumb" displays, no ads bs built-in because they aren't expected to be used outside of a commercial environment.

They cost more than smart tvs because the ads subsidize consumer models. Rather, they cost as much as tvs this size really cost (after markup). $1700 is not realistic for a huge screen if it didn't have ads. Also, fuck ads.

[chairmanmeow@programming.dev]

I have a Philips GoogleTV. I installed a different app launcher on it, now I don't get any ads anywhere anymore.

[notfromhere@lemmy.ml]

What do we do when they come with 5G modems built in?

[_stranger_@lemmy.world]

I have a very old 4K Toshiba TV with a built in "smart browser" that, due to me never plugging into the Internet, has a home page with news about how well Obama's doing in the polls for being a relatively unknown junior senator.

[yerbayerba@lemm.ee]

Razor blade to specific pcb traces?

[notfromhere@lemmy.ml]

Detailed instructions for things like this will need to documented. It starts with ads… does it evolve into 1984? Who knows, but it seems more likely in light of recent events.

[maccentric@sh.itjust.works]

Are they still making those or are they all 5+ years old (2019 was latest I could find on eBay)?

[asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev]

Which one?