Yeah, I would expect those thingies to also have much better quality internals, that are less probable to cause the kinds of problems that might happen in industrial environments.

Yeah, but you will have to make a fake Samsung/LG server with the correct IP address, use a quantum computer to get their https private keys and reforge a certificate for that fake server and implement all required API endpoints before you can make the TV activate.

Just for this comment, I'm doing so.

If I can find that thread, I will link it to you.
You can convince that chap to not buy a smart tv.

I should have made the grammar explicit:

• God might come and randomly tell you to murder your child
• God might randomly rape you wife

And yeah, if you are masturbating while not wanting to masturbate and don't like it, then you are raping yourself.

In my defence, I had put them in the same bucket in my brain.

Although I tend to put all of them in the same bucket given enough time, including the company I am working for...
My simple response to a net connected device is to drop them a mail asking whether the appliance will work its whole life without requiring an internet connected activation and if I have either no response, or some "we care for customer" bs, then I just don't buy.
The underside of a rock sometimes feels much better.

get a new Samsung or LG TV is “Don’t.”

I have seen the answer to that...

The person absolutely wants 4K 50" for some reason and monitors that come for that much are industrial ones that cost 5x as much.
I am more than happy with 27" and don't even require 4K, so MSI, ViewSonic etc work well.

Well, I don't really remember seeing motion blurred pictures.
Only saw motion blur in games, so I guess that part I am not good at.

But last I tried applying motion blur in an image editor (it was Paint.NET iirc), it was pretty unidirectional.

God hasn’t really selected you to go to Heaven

well... not particularly into heaven anyway, so better of going with not trying in that direction.

Well, I see that as a "stay away from me" sign that actually works.

Or a "leave me alone" sign? Well whichever it does better.

That would be lovely to see implemented.
Samsung execs unable to go withing 100m radius of any random chap who might have bought a Samsung TV in the past 10 years.

So I zoomed in to make sure and realised there is nothing to make sure, with what the image compression seems to be doing.
And then I zoomed out to normal, then blocked the lower half and looked at the upper half and it looks like it is dropping straight down. Then I blocked the upper half and looked at the lower half and it looks like it is going straight up.

So, I guess you need to be scrolling from down to up to be able to get the illusion of it escalating instead of dropping.