Until somebody releases a dumb TV, you just can't connect your tv to the Internet.
Doesn't matter when the neighbor has a smart TV as well, tethering all the bad stuff to yours, whether you like it or not.
LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted
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#123Who the fuck still watches content on an effing TV in 2025?
I'm not giving up my CRT.
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As a none user; what is a karma? Fantasy points?
Yes. It’s profile points. You earn one per upvote on your content. Just like here on HN
Excuse you, it's nothing like that. These fake internet points mean something real and tangible. Those fake internet points are just made up nonsense. (Heavy sarcasm)
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> There is a large difference between 1080p and 4k I cannot tell the difference at normal viewing distances. Up close, sure. This is how they get you to buy the 4K version, in the store you are standing 2 feet from the screen and you can see the pixels at 1080. Sitting at a normal viewing distance and 1080 looks great.
Actually large LCDs (>65") were pretty uncommon in 2010 but if you ever watched a 1080p DLP television I would be surprised if you didn't notice when looking at them side by side. There is also of course the issue where people have bad internet (so netflix or whatever destroys the bit-rate, or they have the cheaper 1080p only plan... is that still a thing?) or old cable boxes plugged into 4k televisions. There is a l…
Problem is I am not looking at TVs side by side. I'm watching a movie or a show, and the enjoyment I get at the correct viewing distance is unlikely to be significantly more on a 50" or smaller TV.
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#126As a proud member of the LGTV community (yes I'm making 2 of those kinds of jokes back to back, fight me), and an occasional reddit user, I'm both horrified by the notion of getting this update and thrilled people are still using old.reddit.com. The new layout, which isn't even new anymore, still falls very short for it I'm looking something up and it's buried in a comment thread where ctrl-f can't find it.
actually, when you share a reddit link, HN automatically converts it to old.reddit
And yet we cannot have dark mode, which would be a simple CSS tweak.
But I’m thankful for the other little things.
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I’ve used some of my friends more recent year TVs and even if they’re not networked the UX is just horrible. One Samsung model eliminated the “input” button on the remote and forces you to go through “Home” to select inputs in a tiled menu festooned with quick tips and baked in ads for Samsung stuff like SmartThings. The worst part is that if it detects an input is connected to a game console, then it moves that inpu…
We really need laws against products that are still tied to the vendor after you buy them. If a product needs to be tied to the vendor, it is a service and it should not be sold as a product.
The problem is that every business seems to be run by fuckheads who would respond to this by changing their business model to "Televisions as a Service"
Every TV would become a rental instead of a product you can buy
Maybe I'm cynical, but I don't see any way to be optimistic anymore. Every company now seems to behave like landlords instead of producers
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We really need laws against products that are still tied to the vendor after you buy them. If a product needs to be tied to the vendor, it is a service and it should not be sold as a product.
The problem is that every business seems to be run by fuckheads who would respond to this by changing their business model to "Televisions as a Service" Every TV would become a rental instead of a product you can buy Maybe I'm cynical, but I don't see any way to be optimistic anymore. Every company now seems to behave like landlords instead of producers
Yes, but if it is "TVs as a service" then it completely changes the game. We can force them to replace the TV when it dies. Or make them take the TV back when we stop the service. Repairability would be their problem, not ours.
This could arguably be a win for the environment.
Of course, many people would still want to own their products, so that would be a market opportunity then.
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The management of reddit doesn't seem to use reddit at all and they seem to be unaware of the fact that a) the "new" layout just isn't that great, and b) their mobile app is terrible. They killed third-party apps, which were way better than their garbage app and they don't seem to realize how much it annoys their users.
They are doing everything they can to increase number of users before IPO. Redit from a text based place, became a place driven by pictures (Can we call that "instagrami-zation"?). The thing, is that discussion is what made reddit good. Now it's mostly low quality pictures, bots and comments written by marketers. Then AI models and google search are trained on this garbage. I wonder if someone will finally disrupt re…
They’ve already IPOed.
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I thank them for that, because forcing me back to their horrid app broke me of my habit of hanging out there. I’ve got six digits of karma, and I’d rather walk away than suffer through its awful UI.
Same. Only thing that ever managed to break me of my reddit habit. No 3rd party apps? Reddit may as well no longer exist as far as I'm concerned.
Welcome back to reddit! There is a third party app called Red Reader, it's free.