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What's a current or growing trend only you seem to have concerns about? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

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[–] starman2112 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have your TV connected to the internet? If my TV came with ads preloaded I would have brought it back to the store the same day

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Every smart TV is like that now. Every single one has ads of some kind, at least that I've tried. I mean there might be one weird knockoff brand that doesn't but chances are it's got even larger problems, and forget about finding apps for it.

But yeah, I have my TV connected to the internet. One of the things I had plugged in to my old "dumb" TV was a Chromecast, and the Android TV has one built in... but that requires it be on the internet for it to work. It is running Android so you bet your ass I loaded it up with all sorts of sideloaded goodness (Revanced, SmartTube, Retroarch to name a few). I just haven't gotten around to replacing the launcher to get rid of the ads, since it's a bit involved.

Oh, also it didn't originally have ads, that came in an update about a year later. I'd care more if I spent much time on the home screen, but most of the time the TV's just displaying the output of the Roku.