Jackbox Games coming to Smart TVs for free
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Despite privacy and bloat concerns from some people online, I don't think a single person I know would buy a TV if it couldn't run streaming apps on it.
@simple @JimVanDeventer with all the piracy risk, I would NEVER connect my TV to internet. All IOT poses a serious risk of both piracy and privacy.
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This one I played. It's a cool idea but many of the survey answers are just really stupid. I swear sometimes they just asked 14 y/o shitposters online instead of real people.
Yeah. I know what you mean. We still have fun playing it and just take it as it is.
Anyone can answer the questions at the main menu so maybe it'll get better over time.
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@simple @JimVanDeventer with all the piracy risk, I would NEVER connect my TV to internet. All IOT poses a serious risk of both piracy and privacy.
It sounds from the way you phrased this like you feel that every IOT device is just a ticking time bomb waiting to become a malware and privacy nightmare.
If so, as someone with some Cybersecurity expertise, I just want to say that is a reasonable conclusion supported by all of the data that I'm aware of.
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Are people buying smart TVs because there is something to like about them or is that the only kind of TV available in some parts of the world?
Where can you still buy dumb TVs?
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I can't imagine it will be free and actually useable in any form.
Free*
*except you can only play one game in 24 hrs.
*you can only play with four people
*there is only a small set of prompts availableIt's also entirely possible that you can't host any of the games. If the host owns the game, anyone else can play for free through a browser. It could just be access to the jackbox.tv website from the TV itself.
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I setup rules on my router to block outgoing traffic from my LG OLED but I still have it on the network so I can use wake-on-LAN.
care to share those rules?
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care to share those rules?
This would vary based on what router you use, but this is the way I handled it on my Ubiquity EdgeRouter.
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I added a DHCP reservation for my TV so it's IPv4 address on my local network doesn't change.
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I added a new firewall policy (with the highest priority) that accepts all traffic by default between my internal LAN network and the WAN interface of my router.
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Then I added a rule to that policy to drop traffic from the IPv4 address I assigned to my TV.
Now the TV can no longer phone home to send obnoxious notifications or issue surprise firmware updates but I can still turn on the TV and adjust the volume over the local network. I use home assistant for this, but I think the LG remote android app would still work as well.
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Where can you still buy dumb TVs?
The landfill.
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This would vary based on what router you use, but this is the way I handled it on my Ubiquity EdgeRouter.
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I added a DHCP reservation for my TV so it's IPv4 address on my local network doesn't change.
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I added a new firewall policy (with the highest priority) that accepts all traffic by default between my internal LAN network and the WAN interface of my router.
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Then I added a rule to that policy to drop traffic from the IPv4 address I assigned to my TV.
Now the TV can no longer phone home to send obnoxious notifications or issue surprise firmware updates but I can still turn on the TV and adjust the volume over the local network. I use home assistant for this, but I think the LG remote android app would still work as well.
thank you so much! pumped to get rid of those pesky notifications but the home assistant Notifications are awesome
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While there's no release date yet for the service, Jackbox Games is hoping to bring a beta version to "one or two smart TV platforms" in spring this year. More platforms and features will then follow.
Buy from yurop. Second hand shops in every major city, can't miss them. They stink of old.
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