 If I don't agree, I cannot use the TV that was ALREADY PURCHASED UNDER A DIFFERENT AGREEMENT! And I just read some of it. I don't agree. That's it! I'm fucking done. My next "TV" is just going to be a monitor. I don't want anymore smarts in what's just being used as a display 25 comments
 @kiri @hellomiakoda Hard agree. If I didn't sign a contract when I bought the thing, damned if I'm acknowledging their ToS. @kiri I wouldn't be mad if there was a disagree button, a week grace period under the old agreement, and then it just logs out and became a dumb TV. @kiri I have the smaller version of this same TV upstairs in my room... BUT, I had logged out and put it in "dumb mode" (it's not as dumb as I want it) and thus did not get that pop up (that I know of. I had it unplugged the past 2 days to test a different TV with my PS5) @kiri  @hellomiakoda *Definitely* going with dumb displays from now on. @chronohart @hellomiakoda I've made the argument about why TOS should be regulated and, oddly enough, it started with TVs. https://robertvanwey.substack.com/p/the-year-is-1984 @hellomiakoda I already sent off my opt out with a nice P.S. about dick move something something. @hellomiakoda there are commercial tv's that have none of this crap at all. largely because businesses would never tolerate it. they are at least double the price. they also, supposedly, have a longer mean time before failure relative to "consumer" tv's. @homelessjun @hellomiakoda Try searching the Web for "commercial display" or "digital signage display". They're expensive, but not outrageously so. @hellomiakoda I noticed that email from Roku today. That's irritating because my LG sucks more every month, has gotten really slow, and I was planning on buying a Roku this week. I had a good experience with whatever model was current 10 years ago. Hardware should not be allowed to do that. It makes me want to arbitrate something. @hellomiakoda There seems to be a lot of folks online saying to deny it Internet access. Some are even saying drill out or unsolder the wifi chip  @hellomiakoda @randomgeek I will never, under any circumstances, buy a tv that requires an internet connection, and the one I buy will never see an IP address in its life. This is pure madness. @hellomiakoda and smart TV apps are low key not very usable 💀 Crash, freeze, bottleneck…  Yes. That's my plan too. I'll be getting the largest monitor I can instead of a smart TV when my current one dies. I'm not buying a TV that requires an account to even watch broadcast TV from an antenna. @hellomiakoda I bought a commercial TV. It's "smart" but there's no apps, no connection necessary; it's like a TV from 2010 but it's 4K!  Why do I sense a back to basics movement? Today, a monitor and a NUC suffice. A tuner would be fine for broadcast.  |
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@hellomiakoda 100% agree!