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I removed the WiFi card from mine.
Do you remember which model it was and the format of the card? M.2? Card-express?
Probably M.2 since its the most common form factor for them
Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse
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Well that's illegal in almost all (western) countries. A device need to have an declaration of all radio equipment inside in some form (depending on locale). It also would be a lot harder to profit from ads when you have to pay for lte bandwidth especially with the prices in the US.
(not op) > Well that's illegal in almost all (western) countries. A device need to have an declaration of all radio equipment inside in some form (depending on locale). I agree, but I'm pretty sure that it will be buried on the declarations page. > It also would be a lot harder to profit from ads when you have to pay for lte bandwidth especially with the prices in the US. You vastly overestimated the costs of wholesa…
Can you extract that SIM card and use for free internet?
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Samsung's appliances have a pretty bad reputation in general, especially the refrigerators and side loading washing machines.
Front loading washing machines just seem like an all around more fragile design that is also less usable. I have an HE top loader. It uses just as little water, but it can wash a lot more clothes when needed. I can push a button and it stops being HE and can fill its tub up to wash blankets and comforters. Also front loaders just can't clean synthetic fabrics that water beads off of. I've seen fabrics come out of a f…
My wife says front loaders are more gentle, so do less damage to delicate clothes. Maybe due to the lack of the central agitator (do new top loaders still have that)?
The big reason I prefer them though: I can put a counter top above them for folding laundry and things.
They are an absolute pain in the ass to keep clean and odor free though.
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> This thread feels very...Hacker News Bubble? Smart TVs is one of those recurring HN topics where it’s clear that people made up their minds years ago, likely from a single bad experience. Now they can’t imagine that any progress has been made since then. There’s not much reason to buy a new TV these days if your old one still works (with an external TV box) You can still find terrible smart TVs out there, of course…
Some of these comments have a real "old man yells at cloud" vibe. Modern, mid-range or better Smart TVs are great. They let me enjoy streaming content or gaming without wasting time trying to configure something, torrent something, fiddle with subtitles. The newest models offer unparalleled gaming experiences via HDMI 2.1 features. There's (justifiably) privacy and other concerns on HN, but no one else is aware of th…
>no one else is aware of those concerns or cares too much. The market has spoken.
It means the market spoke from ignorance, there isn't much value in that speech, the market was deceived.
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Color TVs superseded black and white because it was objectively an improvement for the customer. There wasn't any benefit to the manufacturer besides selling a new unit. the "Smart" TVs of today are riddled with spyware and telemetry that provides a second revenue stream to the manufacture since 95% of the population is too lazy or uninformed or doesn't have the time to turn it off. Yes, there benefits to the consume…
In addition to the spyware and telemetry, Samsung's smart TVs also show ads in their interface. Yes that $1000s TV you just bought. Sigh...
Yes. I bought two for my office wall recently and really regret it solely for this reason. I never really see the ads because I use them as dumb displays, but it pisses me off every time I do spot them.
It didn’t seem enough at the time to warrant sending the TVs back but perhaps I should have.
They’re segregated from the rest of my network at least. I may try to MITM them and strip out the ads.
Re: Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse
#686Earlier quoted context omitted.
Samsung's appliances have a pretty bad reputation in general, especially the refrigerators and side loading washing machines.
Front loading washing machines just seem like an all around more fragile design that is also less usable. I have an HE top loader. It uses just as little water, but it can wash a lot more clothes when needed. I can push a button and it stops being HE and can fill its tub up to wash blankets and comforters. Also front loaders just can't clean synthetic fabrics that water beads off of. I've seen fabrics come out of a f…
> Also front loaders just can't clean synthetic fabrics that water beads off of.
None of the front loaders I’ve used has had a problem with that. Are you sure the one data point you apparently have experience with wasn't just an older and/or relatively low-quality front-loader?
> Aside from space savings, I really don't get the point of a front loader at all.
They are easier to get stuff out of than a top loader of similar size, particularly for larger ones. I’ve also never seen a top loader with a steam cycle, though I guess its possible they exist.
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The magic remote kind of ruins my LG TV for me. I like the UI, but hate that bumping my remote brings up that darn cursor that flies around the screen.
It's switched on after powering up the TV, but then I just press twice the down-arrow on the remote and then the cursor disappears and appears only if I use the scroll wheel (which I never do)... .
Really? For the the cursor appears every single time I touch the remote. There is no disabling it.
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I think it was more of example as using term ”popular” in different context, regardless of it is true or not. Arguing if it is not true, does not take this example away.
Of course it does, because “popular” in the original example was referring to their ubiquity and lack of over viable alternatives. An example of a once-dominant product that appears to be losing in the market to a fast-rising new alternative is not analogous.
Argument goes then more for “is this scenario possible at all for term ‘popular’?”, when it certainly is. Example was just weak.
Another example could be, why driving a car is “too popular” on country side to move between places. It might be popular, because there is no public transportation. Is the situation same with public transportation? Can we call it popular, because it is forced?
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It's definitely real. A/V receivers are the typical devices to support HEC, so you can run one Ethernet cable to the receiver and use a smart TV with the HDMI audio return channel, with one HDMI cable.
> A/V receivers are the typical devices to support HEC Then you surely can name a few models that support Ethernet over HDMI? (Somehow people keep claiming that this is totally a thing, but nobody ever can confirm a single device)
Not one of these says anything about HEC being discontinued: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hdmi+with+ethernet
Can you name a manufacturer of devices or chips that has committed to never implementing Ethernet over HDMI? The same wires are used for the audio return channel, so they have to be present in cables. The HDMI consortium website still refers to cables as "HDMI with Ethernet".
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It links to https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/01/huawei-reportedly-plans-f... And it opens with, > Though its 5G products are not entirely welcome in the United States, Huawei is reportedly pushing forward with a unique new product: the world’s first 5G television. As Nikkei reports this morning, the Chinese company plans to use the cellular-enabled TV and new PCs to challenge Samsung’s and Apple’s dominant positions i…
That's not really what's being talked about, though. The fear is that if you don't connect your TV to your wifi network, it will have a secret, hidden LTE radio that it uses anyway. It doesn't seem that Huawei is being at all secretive about this; they are advertising it as a feature.
You're ignoring the part where Samsung TVs are actively connecting to open networks.