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I have a smart TV. It is connected to two things. The wall socket for power and HDMI #2 for my PC.
Edit: Also I have a PFSense router, I use PFBlockNG to also block the IPs behind the blocked DNS entries. My phone is GrapheneOS and all of my computers are GNU Linux. Any blocked incidents I get are usually from websites. If I surf the web a lot in a month, I maybe get 200 blocked incidents. If my normie friends stay over with, for example, a Windows PC and an iPhone, I get 2000 per day. It's wild what's going on with these devices.
I've got my pc and steamdeck on my tv.
The settings menu still asks me if i want to connect for "corpo reason". -
Buying old TV (as long as LED) or 2K resolution TV is still worth it for me because i don't like Android TV, Smart TV, or other crap and shits. For me a TV doesn't need to have that kind of features, if you want android just buy android tv box like NVIDIA Shield or Minix
Couldn't you just buy a new, awesome TV and then not hook it up to the internet?
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Several people have already tested and confirmed this and I believe them that even the big tech giants are somewhat afraid of the GDPR claws.
people have tested and confirned
That i believe. Fuck yeah; tech audits!
afraid of the gdpr
Im not as sure i believe that.
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I'm waiting for these smart devices to come with their own mobile modems.
And/or some weird legislation that mandates connecting them to your home network. Because you wouldn't want them to not be able to phone home with the thousands of screenshots so their AI can verify that you are not stealing copyrighted content, right???!
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Couldn't you just buy a new, awesome TV and then not hook it up to the internet?
Many newer smart TVs will literally not boot up past a certain point until you connect them to the internet to "activate" them. It's actual madness.
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I live in fear that someone in my house will connect the tv to the WiFi and an update will just absolutely fuck it up.
Block the MAC on the router.
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We do a lot of streaming in my house unfortunately, mostly using Kodi to pirate anime. So it needs Wifi in our case. If I had some old (working) laptops and router around, I'd do a Pihole and VPN but alas.
Load Kodi and PiHole on the same Raspberry Pi 4 or 5.
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And/or some weird legislation that mandates connecting them to your home network. Because you wouldn't want them to not be able to phone home with the thousands of screenshots so their AI can verify that you are not stealing copyrighted content, right???!
"oops each one somehow malfunctioned and the registry id's were corrupted."
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Couldn't you just buy a new, awesome TV and then not hook it up to the internet?
wrote last edited by [email protected]That's what I did with my brand new whatever-inch big fucking flatscreen. Like 80% of the buttons on the remote make a little notification come up saying the feature's missing since the TV wasn't set up "properly", but it works fine.
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Many newer smart TVs will literally not boot up past a certain point until you connect them to the internet to "activate" them. It's actual madness.
Can confirm. Returned as defective.
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"oops each one somehow malfunctioned and the registry id's were corrupted."
In fascist America, believe it or not, straight to jail.
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In fascist America, believe it or not, straight to jail.
it's fine. I don't have any smart appliances in my home.
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Couldn't you just buy a new, awesome TV and then not hook it up to the internet?
It takes ages to boot, might have integrated offline ads, draws power when on standby for features you don't want like remote controllability via network, and it'll probably nag you forever to let it online. No thanks, a display will always just be that in this household. Separate concerns please, also easier to upgrade or replace.
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Time to do the ol' firewall redirect for port 53
DoH, DoT, dnscrypt, whatever else
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Time to do the ol' firewall redirect for port 53
DoH, DoT, dnscrypt, whatever else
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it's fine. I don't have any smart appliances in my home.
I really hope that continues to be an option.
I worry it’ll end up like trying to buy a car that doesn’t constantly report your location (physically disconnecting the cellular antenna is still legal for now) or living without a cellphone and only paying with cash. With enough time, any semblance of privacy becomes weird, then illegal.
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Couldn't you just buy a new, awesome TV and then not hook it up to the internet?
I set up my Samsung give it its initial update, and then blocked it from internet at my firewall. If I need it to do something I unblock it for a few minutes and then block it again when I'm done. I use streaming sticks for all my other work and they're just pie holed regularly.
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It's Pi Hole. Everything's computer.
'pretend this is transparent' is sending me. Bra-fucking-vo!
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Welp, time to set up a MAC address whitelist.
Add a parental lock to the TV settings too.
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We do a lot of streaming in my house unfortunately, mostly using Kodi to pirate anime. So it needs Wifi in our case. If I had some old (working) laptops and router around, I'd do a Pihole and VPN but alas.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Slap one of these under or behind your tv. Put pop-os Linux on it it. You can run pihole/Jellyfin/kodi off it at the same time. It will host your anime and index it with jellyfin, filter your entire network for ads, and give you kodi's excellent interface.
Jellyfin can grab metadata/subtitles/autoskip intros/on and on and has native kodi integration. It will run better on a beefer PC than the one above, but if youre just using it on 1 tv with kodi, you should be fine.
