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What’s the bet this’ll end up with Sky News installed on all new TVs by default.

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[–] baggins@lemmy.ca 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Make it mandatory to have an option to disable the smart bs.

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A dumb TV that is just a monitor and your choice of STB. Our house has an AppleTV as HDMI1 on all devices and a HD HomeRun in the server rack to broadcast LiveTV over the network.

Other people have similar setups using Raspberry Pi’s running various HTPC packages, which I can recommend for those people who aren’t interested in Apple products.

No one should ever need to purchase a FireStick, Roku or Google Home thingy and no one should ever connect their TV directly to their Home Network.

[–] No1@aussie.zone -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Wow. Everything is bad, except AppleTV and raspberry pi?

Drink any coolaid lately? Do you reply to any Android texts? Or just block them?

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As someone who hates Apple, I feel like you didn't even read his comment.

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago

JokeDeity, Thankyou for your support, despite our idealogical differences. This is why I love Lemmy and Mastodon over Reddit and others.

I personally don’t hate Apple, I do see a lot of things that are wrong with their platforms, but I don’t see solutions to these problems in other commercial platforms either , except for the open platforms.