How do I free my television?

  • DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee
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    4 hours ago

    Nvidia shields with an alternate home screen have been a good solution for me? TV isn’t connected to the network directly, just to the shield.

    I’ve got RetroArch, Plex, Spotify on each of them - that sort of stuff.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world
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      6 minutes ago

      bingo. never put the tv on the network, just budget for adding something else. tvs have been known to update after a year and start injecting ads outside return policy LOL. fucking scam’s man. my shield fucks up, it gets flashed. or traded out.

      • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee
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        46 minutes ago

        Do people actually use their TV without a console or computer of some sorts connected? That’s absolutely feral behavior. Like boomers avoiding self checkout cause it’s too complicated.

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          Your smart TV is a computer of some sorts. You can do shit like watching Netflix with it. If that is all you want to do, why should you use another device with it, that brings no benefits but uses more power?

    • socsa@piefed.social
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      3 hours ago

      Yeah I use a GoogleTV and don’t let the set itself connect to the internet. I held onto an HTPC as long as I could but it just got too troublesome to coax high quality streams out of it after a while.

    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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      4 hours ago

      Yes, something like that would work. The stock OS would still be on the TV but as long as you don’t connect the TV to WiFi it should be fine.