Everything is a problem
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My poor tv is like, "connect to the internet? I need to call home! Help, i've been abducted by a luddite!"
Tv, you are never getting my wifi password.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Through absolute chance (the TV i wanted was sold out on clearance so I got a different one on clearance) I ended up with an Android TV-powered sony bravia. It lets you go into the app permissions and disable the optical recognition whateverthefuck they call it software. The rest of the analytics can be blocked by some regex firewall/DNS rules. It's the only smart TV OS that I would recommend.
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This is absolutely a problem, but credit where credit's due, I'm really happy that the specification for Matter requires local control without calling out to the internet. Though Matter devices can still call out to the internet for additional features. I know Matter has it's issues, but I believe it is slowly improving the smart home. But I fully understand people that want to reject the smart home altogether.
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what brand is your television? I wanna avoid it at all costs
Mine is LG. I really really hate the privacy invasion software, but no internet for the tv and it shuts up. No 'no internet' popups at least.
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I have this smart lightbulb that I got for halloween last year because I thought it'd be cool to make the porch glow purple for trick or treaters. Now I have to replace it because the app that controls it has decided to try and blackmail me for camera and location access and the bulbs default state without the app is to flash on and off in a way seemingly deliberately designed to cause headaches.
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Mate you're already in the restaurant. If you couldn't talk to anyone, or move your own weight - you wouldn't have made it inside the restaurant to the counter. Those issues already had solutions to get to the point of ordering.
I've personally got no problem talking to people or moving my own weight but if I've been on foot the whole day I'd rather sit down than stand in line
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TVs seem to have been pretty much taken over by 'smart' features.
I don't mean this as a dare or a gotcha, but genuinely asking if you know of a decently priced modern TV that's 'dumb' please let me know so I can buy it.
Yeah when I brought a TV a few years ago I could not find a good one that wasnt 'Smart' except for commercial variants that were an extra couple of thousand.
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Yeah when I brought a TV a few years ago I could not find a good one that wasnt 'Smart' except for commercial variants that were an extra couple of thousand.
That's because the TVs are subsidized by selling your stolen info.
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the fuck, which features?
Cruise control automatic distance keeping
Cruise control lane assist
Seat heating
Something else that I don't recall
And I'm sure a lot more, I didn't try much else after that.
Either way, I will NEVER buy a car with any of that shit
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I have this smart lightbulb that I got for halloween last year because I thought it'd be cool to make the porch glow purple for trick or treaters. Now I have to replace it because the app that controls it has decided to try and blackmail me for camera and location access and the bulbs default state without the app is to flash on and off in a way seemingly deliberately designed to cause headaches.
My sister bought me a smart desk light that insists on using an app and 'doesn't work' without it.
Thing is, it will work as a normal desk light....if you're willing to sit through 10 minutes of intense blinking while it tries to connect before finally giving up.
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I have this smart lightbulb that I got for halloween last year because I thought it'd be cool to make the porch glow purple for trick or treaters. Now I have to replace it because the app that controls it has decided to try and blackmail me for camera and location access and the bulbs default state without the app is to flash on and off in a way seemingly deliberately designed to cause headaches.
What kind of bulb is it? There's a chance that homebridge or something could control it through an API without needing the app.
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I've got some bad news
Obviously you just forgot to lick the tines!
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This is absolutely a problem, but credit where credit's due, I'm really happy that the specification for Matter requires local control without calling out to the internet. Though Matter devices can still call out to the internet for additional features. I know Matter has it's issues, but I believe it is slowly improving the smart home. But I fully understand people that want to reject the smart home altogether.
My whole home automation is using Zigbee devices, they don't even know what internet is, and it doesnt matter which brand it is as longs it is supported by Zigbee2MQTT. Matter is great, so is Thread.
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That's because the TVs are subsidized by selling your stolen info.
Ugh how depressing
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My whole home automation is using Zigbee devices, they don't even know what internet is, and it doesnt matter which brand it is as longs it is supported by Zigbee2MQTT. Matter is great, so is Thread.
Yeah! Where I can, I use matter over thread. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think that should provide the same benefits as zigbee? From what I remember, thread evolved from zigbee.
Unfortunately matter over thread simple doesn’t exist for some categories of devices. For light bulbs, only Nanoleaf offers matter over thread, and the quality is pretty terrible. Do they even make matter over thread air conditioners?
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If only eARC worked well. It's support seems garbage.
I had nothing but problems with eARC. DRM errors. Sound cutting out constantly. Device detection not working so the TV swaps back to internal speakers.
Not one problem since swapping to optical.
...i use optical PCM for all my stereo sources; unfortunately with multichannel audio its bandwidth is sufficient only for lossy compression...
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Did you know that Ryobi has an app that lets you register tools you've bought?
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TVs seem to have been pretty much taken over by 'smart' features.
I don't mean this as a dare or a gotcha, but genuinely asking if you know of a decently priced modern TV that's 'dumb' please let me know so I can buy it.
I think they are saying to just not connect whatever. E.g. buy the smart TV and don't connect it to the internet.
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This is one of the reasons why I still only use wired headphones.
Tough to find phones that still have a jack. USB headphones or a dongle?
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Every time I have to wait for a 10 year old game to "update" I want to murder whoever is responsible.
There was a recent update for Fallout 4 which broke a bunch of mods. Fallout 4 was released in 2015 and is a single-player game. Why did it get an update?
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I have this smart lightbulb that I got for halloween last year because I thought it'd be cool to make the porch glow purple for trick or treaters. Now I have to replace it because the app that controls it has decided to try and blackmail me for camera and location access and the bulbs default state without the app is to flash on and off in a way seemingly deliberately designed to cause headaches.
Phillip k dick (i think) wrote a story about this.
