cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/51919648
Reposting this from here from 2023, after I stumbled across it tonight and it hits hard.
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I love my smart TV. I love the way it takes a long time to boot up because it’s trying to refresh the advertisements on the home screen. I delight in the way it randomly restarts because it’s downloaded an update without asking me, each of which makes the TV slower and slower with every subsequent install. I adore the way it buries the apps that I want to use, and that I use without fail every single time, below the apps that it’s being paid to promote and which I have never touched in my life and would never use without the cold metal of a glock pressed hard against my sweating temple. I am infinitely thrilled by the way the interface lags constantly, due to the need to have one thousand unnecessary animations rendered on hardware ripped wholesale from a ten year old phone. I feel myself borne aloft on wings of pure joy when I am notified that my data will be collected and analysed to determine my usage patterns. Even now I am writing this from a field of beautiful flowers and soft luscious grass as I lie and look up happily at the bright blue sky, smiling happily to know that this is the future of technology
I also have an lg oled that is connected to the internet but it I have changed the dns server to one I manage through my own server that runs AdGuard and also blocks all lg related services. Runs pretty well as a result but still a bit laggy. No updates and it’s rooted with a lot of homebrew stuff which helps
I also have a cheap tcl/roku tv which doesn’t allow this, you are not allowed to customize wifi or Ethernet connections. Sucks if you need a custom dns or proxy config. You can only connect via dhcp. Changing it at the router level also makes the roku os go haywire, if it can’t load ads it goes nuts and none of the apps load correctly. Hostile bullshit and I’ll never buy another tcl or roku product again.