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Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition
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#512I'm getting ready to go full Battlestar Galactica in all of my appliances. It's now difficult to find high end washers and ovens without these features. At least right now we can choose not to connect the devices, but what happens if iot LTE connections get cheap enough that the choice is removed altogether, like with Tesla and other high end modern cars? I don't think I'm just being a Luddite. This really seems like…
How my devices configuration look (all their mac addresses banned on router level, they dont have access to internet): - tv, not connected to network, using raspberry pi 4 for kodi, connecting outside trough squid proxy limiting domains it can connect to. Was never connected to internet - roborock vacuum cleaner, rooted, software disabled, replaced by open source version - android deviced moved to microg lineage, arm…
What resources did you use to root and install open source software on your Roborock?
Re: Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition
#513I'm getting ready to go full Battlestar Galactica in all of my appliances. It's now difficult to find high end washers and ovens without these features. At least right now we can choose not to connect the devices, but what happens if iot LTE connections get cheap enough that the choice is removed altogether, like with Tesla and other high end modern cars? I don't think I'm just being a Luddite. This really seems like…
Except for a TV, and I wanted a great plasma, I just do not buy new appliances.
Tons of used ones, many easy to service, parts available online for a song.
Have saved serious money over the years. Have no plans to change.
I hate all the extra, useless features. Just do not need any of this garbage.
For the TV, it never goes online. Whatever it does, stays home.
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> And then the next generation will have signed firmware that doesn't allow the device to start until the spy packets go out and the response is received. Some Chromecast products already won't function unless they can talk to Google DNS servers[1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19170671
It's possible to redirect DNS requests to a server of your own choosing in order to get around this. But the fact that doing so is severely limited to those with the technical knowledge and ability means it's still not a forgivable situation. It also scares me as to what the future holds when such devices are hard coded with a DNS server using DoH.
> It's possible to redirect DNS requests to a server of your own choosing in order to get around this.
I've dug into this, and this is true for certain models and firmware versions, but not for others.
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I reckon that, given enough time, it’ll go the same was as everything else. Either you pay a subscription to remote it (and the inevitable ads that will appear), or you pay a premium for something without that functionality. I don’t see how this stops. Advertisers will stop at nothing to invade your life, and businesses are more than happy to facilitate them if they get some more money out of it.
Root + alternate ROM
Is there much of a community for installing alternate ROMs on IoT devices?
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I’ve never personally seen a TV that can’t have the soap opera effect turned off, but I believe you they are out there. Apples to oranges feature though.
it was the first thing i turned off when i bought my LG tv. funny thing: i did not know the name of it and i couldn't not understand why "Avengers: Infinity Wars" was so upsetting to watch. took me literally 20min of poking around to find out the option and turn it off (it's called "TruMotion").
Yea, it’s usually something with Motion or Smooth in it.
What’s crazy to me is that some people can’t see it! Or think they line it... or the lunatics that actually do!
Once you see it; I don’t think it can be unseen.
Re: Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition
#517I'm getting ready to go full Battlestar Galactica in all of my appliances. It's now difficult to find high end washers and ovens without these features. At least right now we can choose not to connect the devices, but what happens if iot LTE connections get cheap enough that the choice is removed altogether, like with Tesla and other high end modern cars? I don't think I'm just being a Luddite. This really seems like…
Samsung always seem to be the worst, whether it is recording stuff, to getting on fire. Not too hard to avoid them.
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> full Battlestar Galactica This is a truly marvellous turn of phrase.
I've watched the show (only once, for now ) and I love it but didn't understand the reference :|
It refers to the human's cybersecurity technique of banning inter-computer communication. The ship Galactica survives the initial cylon attack because it's too old to have networked devices onboard.
Re: Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition
#519I'm getting ready to go full Battlestar Galactica in all of my appliances. It's now difficult to find high end washers and ovens without these features. At least right now we can choose not to connect the devices, but what happens if iot LTE connections get cheap enough that the choice is removed altogether, like with Tesla and other high end modern cars? I don't think I'm just being a Luddite. This really seems like…
> high end washers Consider Speed Queen. Best buy (pun intended) I've made in a while. Stop with Samsung and LG - all they do is chip things.
I've thought about getting Speed Queens next time around. As it stands though, I have the cheapest XL washer/dryer Whirlpool makes and they've held up fantastic over 5 years of heavy use. The washer is loud and makes the lights flicker, but I think that's kinda par for the course for those.
I'm not sure what a high end samsung would offer over a low end whirlpool that makes it worth spending 3x more.
Edit: I feel even more strongly about that and refrigerators. I definitely 100% don't want an internet connected fridge that requires security updates lol.
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Sounds like the trick will be to convince my TV that I’m in EU.
The TV would know where you are by knowing what phone masts are in your area. But if you are in the US then ain't California pushing for tighter data collection regs? But I get what your trying to say. Time to spin up a Software Defined Radio and start faking cell towers so your TV thinks it's in the EU :-P
Doesn’t GDPR apply to EU citizens, regardless of geography?
I know that at my place of work, I have to get consent from EU citizens to email them, even if we are talking in the US