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On a lark I watched a recent video of Tiny Chef where the main character is ordering pizza in bed. Notice something?
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💰 Grifter "Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions
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And asians. That's literally the ONLY two groups I see driving tesla trucks.
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You can buy an amazon TV (FireTV) and just use the HDMI input rather than the FireTV aplication. bought one and changed the setting to boot to last selected input rather than home. You don't need to sign in or connect to the internet. I never have.
I would have rather bought a TV that didn't have an OS but as far as I could tell all new TVs do.
I would have rather bought a TV that didn't have an OS but as far as I could tell all new TVs do.
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When I was like 17 a relative had an Amazon Alexa, and it didn't work anymore, but randomly at 2AM it just began to make these horrible sounds and I thought someone was breaking into my house, I had swept the whole house and then it made the noise again and I unplugged it and threw it away. Amazon has ghosts in their robots.
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To clarify the make of my TV is not Amazon, but it runs FireTV which is an Android based OS made by Amazon. That doesn't change your point but I guess if it's android based you could in theory change it.
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It's actually just the soul of dead workers powering all their chinese circuitry.
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and also absolute slow garbage.
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Short of torrenting everything then using screen mirroring what's the alternative?
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I literally do this right now. I have a Walmart TV thing and have VLC connected to a network drive that has my videos on it. Then I have SmartTube for YouTube.
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I looked at services like Plex but it seems overkill compared to just buying a couple of portable hard drives. I still use regular YouTube, just with Brave Shields, Sponsorblock, and the Bypass Age Restrict extensions.
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PC direct into LG. They make the panels, webOS isn't as bad as people say it is, they have a setting for last input so you don't need to see the home screen.
The new Samsung OS makes you log into an account every time you want to use an app. I don't know if you can get rid of that. I got my parents an Apple TV 4K cause they're old. It works well I don't get calls all the time about it not working.
I'm an AV fag in the industry though so I have to test every new TV OS each year.
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You could get one of those cheap APU pcs and connect it to the monitor with HDMI if you want to have a home theater setup (an SBC would work too if you don't care about 4k). Anything you would want to do with a smart-tv or tv box can be done that way, unless you want to stream Netflix at max quality because I'm pretty that only works on TVs with DRM. It would probably also work better with a disc reader than a smart tv would.
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I figured the Samsung OS would be a lot better purely from the description of it. I don't pay attention to TV tech much outside of considering what is worth getting when I eventually find the space for one.
My current solution has been to buy a pair of 2TB hard drives to torrent things onto. As for 4K, I can't find torrents for most things at 4K and the file size is huge. Unless TVs get rid of USB ports entirely then I should be fine.
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That's what I'd suggest. I have a relatively small flat screen I bought in 2014 or so connected to my PS4 for watching DVD or Blu-rays. I'm in the process of buying more hard copies of TV and movies I like.
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I don't watch movies or TV but I guess that doesn't surprise me. However, lots of Youtube videos are available in 4k and sometimes it's worthwhile to watch them above 480p (sometimes it's even worthwhile to watch them above 720p), so that could be a factor for some people.
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No you don't understand I NEED that 100" 8K OLED.
I barely watch anything that's come out in the last 6 or so years, so 4K torrents are rare unless they get re-released. With YouTube most of the channels I watch don't do 4K videos yet.
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There is nothing marketed as a TV these days that I would suffer to stay in my house.
If I wanted to watch things on a bigger screen, or entertain guests with such, I'd get a big commercial display monitor and just hook up a tiny computer to it. Or possibly get a projector and do the same.
Commercial displays are expensive because you pay a premium to not be spied upon and treated as a product yourself.
I received an Amazon Alexa device for free. I put it, still in its shrink-wrapped box, into an e-waste recycling bin. My phone spies on me enough as it is.
If I wanted to watch things on a bigger screen, or entertain guests with such, I'd get a big commercial display monitor and just hook up a tiny computer to it. Or possibly get a projector and do the same.
Commercial displays are expensive because you pay a premium to not be spied upon and treated as a product yourself.
I received an Amazon Alexa device for free. I put it, still in its shrink-wrapped box, into an e-waste recycling bin. My phone spies on me enough as it is.
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