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   ɹ uɐp :antifascism: (dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Jul-2025 23:35:19 JST ɹ uɐp :antifascism:

   I haven't bought a TV in a while

   this TV here is showing me smart TV crap on the screen even though I'm using an HDMI input which doesn't include that crap.

   I won't be buying a TV anytime soon

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     Tock (tock@corteximplant.com)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Jul-2025 23:35:16 JST Tock

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     @JessTheUnstill @Kiernian @dannotdaniel The magic words for most shops: "digital signage display/monitor". https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/digital-signage-monitors/ci/36550

     (Literally my day job: provisioning Digital Signage at a multi campus College.) Sizes around 50" are generally the cheapest and come out maybe $200 more in price than their enshittified cousins.

     Steve's Place repeated this.
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     Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Jul-2025 23:35:17 JST Jess👾

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     If you're willing to spend a little more up front, you can get a "commercial TV" that are less enshittified and have longer lifespan/warranty, since businesses aren't going to want all that crapware when they're trying to use it for their stores. I should have looked into one the last time I was shopping, but as you say, I just went with whatever was on sale at Costco.

     @Kiernian @dannotdaniel

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Jul-2025 23:35:18 JST Jess👾

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     I really wish there was a FOSS project to be able to flash TV firmware to make it 100% basic...
     @dannotdaniel

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     Kiernian (kiernian@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Jul-2025 23:35:18 JST Kiernian

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     @JessTheUnstill @dannotdaniel Smart TVs drive me almost as batty as smart phones. Low lifespan, underpowered, bloaty garbage that does weird things with DNS from brand to brand.

     When smart TVs first started being slightly more available than regular TVs, I rebelled pretty hard and went to "Monitor + PC + DVD drive".

     I caved for a year and change in 2018, angrily reverted to a PC+monitor solution again for 4 more years, caved once more a year ago, again for simplicity's sake, and am currently planning on switching when these 5+ year old used smart TVs I have finally burn out.

     So far the only thing that makes the PC+Monitor solution lackluster by comparison is the fact that the interface is designed around mouse+keyboard, not a remote. I can create individual desktop browser shortcuts to each specific streaming service easily enough, but navigating while laying in bed or curled up on the couch snuggling sucks compared to smart TVs. Not even conference room "presentation" peripherals are quite the same as a TV remote.

     Smart TVs keep getting more invasive and less robust, and Roku has been talking about injecting ads over HDMI regardless of what's connected to what for years now but honestly, I don't want a modern smart TV for the same reason I don't want a mid-range smartphone or a home grade router. They're underpowered for any period of use greater than about 2 years. I chose the phone I got last year solely because it has 12 gigs of RAM. I would have ditched the smart TV in the bedroom sooner because the wireless radio in it is such utter garbage that I wouldn't put it in an IoT thermostat, but instead I put in an additional subnet and stood up a whole piece of infrastructure for a single extra AP because it was CHEAPER (wtf?).

     I'd like to see someone release a truly usable model of smart TV that has a full "business laptop grade" wireless radio with antenna wires that aren't nestled up next to the power molex, the functional equivalent of an i5 6th or 7th gen, 16 gigs of ddr4 2133ghz RAM, and a cheap 256gb SSD but despite that being the specs on a $100 computer on amazon these days I doubt we'll see anything like it on TVs, or even any improvement, because if consumers see that these things CAN perform better than nearly everything currently does, I suspect lots of people will quit buying off of the revolving carousel of lowest common denominator disposable black Friday deals they're currently shelling out for, and how would the landfills curb their appetite then?

     This topic incenses me because things COULD be SO much better and at not that much extra cost to the consumer, but then they'd last longer and that'd cut into the continuous rise of quarterly profits.

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     Tock (tock@corteximplant.com)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Jul-2025 01:38:08 JST Tock

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     @JessTheUnstill @Kiernian @dannotdaniel Fun Fact: Panda Express, Starbucks and Taco Bell have one thing in common. When Delphi sends out a bad update, you get to see they're on an old Ubuntu LTS release for their menus and ordering systems. 😆