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Post by contravariant »

magicalhippo wrote: post #362
contravariant wrote: post #306

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I reckon contrast is more important than peak brightness. The eye is good at adjusting to brightness, and 1000 nits just seems overkill. You might need that much if the TV is surrounded by a white wall directly lit by the sun, but in normal indoor lighting conditions it just seems excessive.

Everything within reason of course, but even in a batcave the increased brightness of a proper HDR display is quite noticeable.

It might be noticeable, but as someone who has trouble dialling down the brightness far enough to make them comfortable to look at, I'm not sure if I'd want it to be that bright. That might just be a personal preference though, obviously.

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Post by t-writescode »

fapjacks wrote: post #353
matheusmoreira wrote: post #221

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How can we block all of this? Is Pi-hole sufficient?

NO! Beware! It has been demonstrated by multiple research groups [0] that Pi-hole DOES NOT stop this tracking by your televisions. I hated having to type that sentence. The future is stupid. [0] https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1177570679232876544

I need more details on why it doesn’t, and that was one long Twitter thread. You can add more DNS entries to pihole for it to send to 0.0.0.0

Are they sending them over presumptuously and normally safe subdomains?

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Post by w0mbat »

Gaelan wrote: post #312
w0mbat wrote: post #290

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The skinny, slippery, round cornered, black AppleTV remote seems to be designed to be as easily lost as possible. Weeks often go by without finding it, during which we use other streaming devices instead. The Amazon FireTV remote is quite easy to lose, but I stocked up on spares when it was on sale for $15. The TiVo remote is not only too big to lose, it has a remote-finder feature where you can induce it to play a t…

If you have an iPhone, it can function as an Apple TV remote.

If you do that, you will immediately lose your iPhone, as the curse is transferable.

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Post by jiggawatts »

stallmanite wrote: post #70
snarfy wrote: post #29

Samsung really needs to just flush their entire software division. It's all garbage. Their android software is a frustrating joke. Tizen is a hot mess. Every issue I've ever had with a samsung product was with their software, and it's why I've sworn off the brand as a whole.

The management maybe. I have a hard time believing that the rank and file engineers get to call the shots on this garbage. I have no special insight into how Samsung works internally though.

I've talked with coworkers who visited the Samsung mobile division headquarters. They all reported that it was a horrorshow, top-to-bottom.

Things like: They hired a contractor to modify a website used for thousands of staff to log in, but they had him modify the production system live because they were too cheap to build a dev system. Several days of everyone sitting on their hands in the morning ensued. Several.

Another fun one was that instead of using Access Control Lists and unique accounts for Active Directory security, like rest of the world does it, everyone is an admin, there's no security, but your IP address is logged. You are your network address, it's assigned to you like a user name. If anything 'bad' is logged from it, you are blamed and/or fired. So, it's basically network security through punishment instead of... you know... actual security.

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Post by fapjacks »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #361
fapjacks wrote: post #352

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Hello! I would like to recommend to everyone one of the few utilities I've found in the last few years which blew my socks off, called x2x [0]. It is a small console program you can use to link your X session with a remote session (over SSH), so that you can move your mouse off your current laptop (or whatever) desktop and onto the remote "TV computer" desktop, and type things into that desktop with your keyboard. I'…

How is this different than Synergy (which I’ve been using on Linux, mac, and Windows for years)? Is it the same functionality?

I have no idea. Perhaps you could research this and report back your findings?

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Post by willstrafach »

ogre_codes wrote: post #184
nostromo wrote: post #163

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1. Turn off your Samsung TV's internet connection 2. Connect Apple TV via HDMI Not only does this improve your privacy, but it improves the UI and remote of your TV.

> Not only does this improve your privacy, but it improves the UI and remote of your TV. Two out of three anyhow... the Apple TV remote is pretty mediocre. Gets rid of a lot of junk I never use, and a bunch of stuff I really miss (the mute button for starters).

This one is well worth a try: https://www.amazon.com/Remote-Control-Alternative-Replacemen...

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Post by xnyan »

sumtechguy wrote: post #91
corobo wrote: post #53

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> why can't I just pay more and opt out Because they one day realised they can make you pay more and show you ads to get both of the moneys Honestly this is why I fully back adblockers of all kinds. Companies associated with ad tech would do much worse if they thought they could get away with it

That is exactly what happened with cable TV. Their main selling point was no commercials because you were paying for it. Now just sitting down and watching something on cable is a chore. I gave up and built my own library of things to watch. Was visiting some family and was watching a marathon of some show. It was the same 10 commercials over and over. Each break was usually 3-5 mins long. It was a good reminder of w…

I really can’t understand it. When I visit family/hotels with cable, its absolutely unwatchable even for free - paying for it is unbelievable to me.

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Post by xnyan »

duncan_bayne wrote: post #355
mikestew wrote: post #131

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I keep seeing people who argue that TVs would be notably "more expensive" if they didn't come with ads. Yeah, ad revenue couldn't possibly be just "found revenue" to layer on top of existing profits. Why folks are so willing to carry water for corporations, by making unsubstantiated excuses for them, mystifies me.

> Why folks are so willing to carry water for corporations, by making unsubstantiated excuses for them, mystifies me. Because if you don't keep making excuses for them, you're left with the alternative: doing a bunch more work yourself, which many people don't find remotely enjoyable. Which reminds me, I need to go and try installing Axolotl on my PinePhone again :)

> Because if you don't keep making excuses for them, you're left with the alternative

Well, except for the alternative of not watching content with excessive ads at all. If companies feel like they need intrusive ads I guess I they can do that, but they are dead to me and my life is better for it.

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Post by blacksmith_tb »

kevin_nisbet wrote: post #121
blacksmith_tb wrote: post #100

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I hate (and block) ads everywhere I can, but if we take your numbers as a starting point, doesn't that $30/yr translate to an extra $300 for Samsung in those 10 years, a 30% boost in their income on the sale of your TV? My naive assumption is that they make more money on ads in the short run, which is why they're doing it. But they may (should!) lose money in the long run if competitors can sell ad-free alternatives…

I think one thing to watch out for is revenue vs profits. So while it might be more revenue, the ad system needs infrastructure, developers, troubleshooting, sales department, etc, etc. So I'd be really curious how this equates to the profit on the TV, and how much those costs can be amortized between the install base vs actual revenue per user. At previous company (wireless telco), while not the same thing, we had t…

Absolutely - it wouldn't surprise me at all if it's a money-losing proposition for Samsung, you'd hope that someone, somewhere in their Accounting dept. might notice that as well...
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