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The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 226 points 9 months ago* (31 children)

It's about time the electronics industry as a whole realises that innovation for the sake of innovation is rarely a good thing

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  • [–] 80 points 9 months ago* (16 children)

    It's not even innovation, per say. It's just Big Number Go Up.

    Nobody seems to want to make a TV that makes watching TV more pleasant. They just want to turn these things into giant bespoke advertising billboards in your living room.

    Show me the TV manufacturer who includes an onboard ad blocker. That's some fucking innovation.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    The galaxy brain move is buying an old dumb tv for a pittance and use it for watching Jellyfin/Plex/stream from a browser with uBlock Origin/DNS filtering – all running on some relative's "obsolete" smart toaster from last year that they happily gift you because "the new version's bagel mode IS LIT – pun intended – but it needs the 128 gb DDR7 ram of the new model, can barely toast on the old one any more".

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (14 children)

    You can't really find a dumb TV anymore. I might see how big of a monkey I can find when I'm ready to upgrade, but I doubt I'll find one big enough and cheap enough.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I hooked my computer up to the HDMI and have used that as my primary interface.

    It's not perfect, but it screens out 95% of bullshit

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    That doesn’t, unless you’ve blocked your TV from network access, because they use ACR - Automated Content Recognition - that literally scans what is being displayed over your hdmi port and then sells it off to advertisers.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I think you missed the part where the TV doesn't have access to the network.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Just don't give the TV your wifi password, boom dumb TV.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    That won't save you anymore. My boss bought a smallish smart TV in contravention of my explicit instructions for use as a CCTV monitor because it was "cheap." It nags you on power up with a popup whining about not being able to access the internet, and if you don't feed it your Wifi password it will subsequently display that same popup every 30 minutes or so requiring you to dismiss it again. And again. And again. Apparently the play is to just annoy you into caving and letting it access your network.

    Instead I packed it up and returned it. Fuck that.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    If you are at a business you should have an access point or router that is capable of blocking specific devices from WAN access. But I would create a new segmented network, block that network from WAN access entirely, put it on its own VLAN, and then connect the TV to that network.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I'd assume it nags whenever it can't connect to the home server, and just says "network".

    So when they go out of business any remaining units will nag forever.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    You can use your router or access point tools to check what address it’s trying to resolve and then set up a redirect to a device that can respond with a fake response.

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  • [–] 151 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Look, we can’t have TVs that last 15 years anymore!

    We need to keep people buying every year or two. Otherwise line not go up! Don’t you understand that this is about protecting The Economy?!

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  • [–] 62 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Boomers economic policy is like if Issac Newton saw an apple falling from a tree, and came to the conclusion it would always accelerate at the same speed no matter what, even though the ground with the entire ass planet behind it is right fucking there.

    Numbers can not constantly go up, it's just that's what was happening their whole lives and they can't accept that their childhoods was a blip and not how things always were and always will be.

    They just can't wrap their heads around it. They have such shit tier empathy they can't comprehend that they're an exception.

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  • [–] 30 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    A large number of the problems we currently face and will in the future come down to boomers being worse than their predecessors at grasping, understanding, and accepting their own impermanence and unimportance on the grand stage of reality.

    Most of them need to have a series of existential crises or maybe read some fucking Satre so they can stop with the Me generation bullshit. It’s wild that the first generation to do LSD in mass is somehow the one that needs to experience ego death the most

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago*

    It’s wild that the first generation to do LSD in mass

    I want to say hippies were less than 1% of that generation, but for some reason I think it was recorded as 2-3% which would be a gross over-estimate.

    But for every hippie you think of sticking daisies in rifles, there was 100 spitting on Black kids for going to the school they were legally required to go to.

    It would be like if in 2080 they think we're all catboys with blue hair and 37 facial piercings.

    Sure, those people exist as a fringe demographic, but they're not the norm.

    Bmost hippies had more issues with peers their own age than their parents age, that part of the folk tale gets left out tho, because the people who want us to think they were hippies and "grew out of it" were the ones beating hippies for being different.

    All they were ever trying to do was lie to younger generations in the hopes they'd confirm to decades old social norms. Like, it's weird how many people still don't understand the boomers just lie about shit instinctively. They grew up in a world filled with lead and are literally incapable of caring about logical inconsistencies. They want younger generations to think they were cool, so they just fucking lied about what they were like as a generation.

    If you ever run into a real deal old hippie some day, ask them what the majority of people their age was like back then.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    To be fair Boomers didn't create this economic policy. Their parents elected Nixon, who broke the Bretton Woods agreement "temporarily", and then we adopted Keynesian macroeconomic policy afterwards to justify it.

    Inb4 someone regurgitates a defense of this "boomer" policy and proves that it's not just them and never was. It's always been the rich and their loyal servants.

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    FireWire got killed too soon. 

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Wha?

    AFAIK FireWire is part of the Thunderbolt protocol, you can get FireWire 800 to Thunderbolt adapters. Apple even used to sell one.

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  • [–] -3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Apple killed Firewire 4 years before Lightning came along.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    ??? My 2012 MacBook Pro had FireWire, that’s the year Lightning came out…

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