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There's hope for privacy yet (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 2 days ago by ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I ran my old 2004 Samsung television into the ground: the EL backlight was so worn out that the picture had large dark holes in it, and the TV would take 20 minutes to warm up and display something.

And today it wouldn't start at all anymore. It's deader than a dead dodo. But hey, 20 years for a modern TV ain't bad. I'm pretty pleased with that.

So I went to the supermarket to find the cheapest set I could find. I asked the salesman if they had a cheap, but most importantly NON-SMART TV - thinking non-smart TVs are probably the cheapest of them all, if they still existed at all.

The man said "We have this dumb 43" TV here, but it's the last one, and then we won't get anymore dumb TVs for 3 months."

I looked at the price and it was - gasp - $20 MORE than the cheapest Android-encumbered smart TV of the same size.

I asked the man how come and he said "Well, dumb TVs are hard to get and they sell almost immediately. So they're worth more than the smart ones."

Wow. So people actually WANT dumb TVs and are willing to pay a premium for em. It means attitudes towards the value of privacy are changing and that's great!

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not all android TVs are bad, but I think a lot of the cheap ones are pretty bad. Mine is horribly laggy, and will occasionally refuse to turn on unless I powercycle it.

Which Chromecast do your parents have? The ones pre-Google TV are pretty brainless to use, but I hate the new google TV ones as well.

[–] Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I'll be honest, I have no idea. Its a white round one and knowing that its a Chromecast is the extent of my knowledge because I tend to avoid anything Google like the plague so have next to no knowledge about them beyond going to battle with my parents Chromecast every time i visit 🤷🏻‍♀️

This comment brought to you with my secondhand Google Pixel rocking GrapheneOS 😅

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 9 hours ago

White round one with the remote? That's the awful Google TV ones. The earlier versions have no remote, and you really can't go wrong, just press cast and it'll go.

[–] Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My Sony Bravia had an update that made it horribly laggy. After screwing around a bit I found out that closing apps made it run faster. Somehow they broke the suspension system with the update and it keeps running out of RAM is what I'm assuming happened.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Mines always been bad, but I use a Chromecast all the time anyway, so it doesn't matter. I'd be livid if I had bought it, but it was free :shrug: