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Smart tv updated to remove the ability to exit their app and use the others the tv supports. Unless you use voice commands.
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Can you use a "smart tv" without internet? Never connect it.
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Aug 29, 2023 04:27
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redshirt posted:Can you use a "smart tv" without internet? Never connect it. Yes but they're starting to get that video game problem where the TVs don't work quite right out of the box and you may need updates for bug fixes. ... god the future sucks.
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Aug 29, 2023 04:37
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wash bucket posted:Yes but they're starting to get that video game problem where the TVs don't work quite right out of the box and you may need updates for bug fixes. We got the boring soul crushing dystopia instead of the radical soul crushing dystopia. Was kinda hoping to at least get crushed by a flying cop car or synthetic mind control zombie virus or something. Probably just gonna get cancer from contaminated food and die in an unair-conditioned trailer while an 'smart' TV controlled by racists tells me to eat more fast food. Lame.
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Aug 29, 2023 05:10
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redshirt posted:I agree with this take. Weedon understands genre in his fuckin "inappropriate behavior for a show runner" bones, it's all the people going huh that looks easy that have hosed it up.
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Aug 29, 2023 07:53
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Still.the most deceptive movie marketing so far Y’all not read the book? It was popular when I was a kid, I mean it’s been out since 77.
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Aug 29, 2023 08:01
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Blue Moonlight posted:Those were Flexplay DVDs - once they turn black, they’re unplayable coasters. I knew someone that worked at Circuit City during this era. They had "recycle bins" for dropping off the dead discs, but the company never implemented any recycling program at all. They filled up and the entire displays sat in the stockroom for years until someone hucked them out with the regular trash when nobody was looking.
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Aug 29, 2023 08:22
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Dip Viscous posted:I knew someone that worked at Circuit City during this era. They had "recycle bins" for dropping off the dead discs, but the company never implemented any recycling program at all. They filled up and the entire displays sat in the stockroom for years until someone hucked them out with the regular trash when nobody was looking. That was DIVX, the one you had to buy a special player from CC for and you activated over (at the time) dialup modem and could buy more time on because of a barcode or something. The first implementation of phone-home digital video media bankrupted CC, just absolutely demolished it, because they bet their entire loving future as a corporation on it, with that plan. Flexplays were a non-starter because nobody wanted to rent DVDs from their grocery store that instantly started degrading and turned into trash within days because it was a bad idea. Disney heavily invested in those. Times were different *checks notes* 25-12 years ago (the official death of Flexplay was 2011 lmao)
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Aug 29, 2023 08:25
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Dip Viscous posted:I knew someone that worked at Circuit City during this era. They had "recycle bins" for dropping off the dead discs, but the company never implemented any recycling program at all. They filled up and the entire displays sat in the stockroom for years until someone hucked them out with the regular trash when nobody was looking. That's every special recycling program.
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Aug 29, 2023 09:01
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And every plastic recycling program
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Aug 29, 2023 10:13
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is pepsi ok posted:Related to all this, I hate how every moment of tension has to be undercut by the comedy relief character getting a quip in. God forbid the audience experience a negative emotion for more than 5 seconds without someone jumping in to go "well THAT just happened!" or "awwwwkward." Add to this how often the “comedy” is entirely based on the actor’s previous work. Oscar Schindler stares open mouthed at the stack of hundreds of murdered Jews, their bodies being burnt in an attempt to hide the evidence. “Gasp.. and I thought they.. gasp.. smelled bad on the outside!”
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Aug 29, 2023 11:42
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We’ve been getting walloped with a ton of rain here and the mosquitos have just tripled in amount. Like you can see them swarming, it’s awful, I’ve never gotten bitten so much since living here.
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Aug 29, 2023 11:53
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Triikan posted:YouTube music randomly replaces my playlist songs with other versions of the song. Sometimes it's the clean version, remixes, live versions, or even covers. With some genres that I find a song I like but I'm not too familiar with (mainly electronic), the song is just lost to me forever. There's a rap song that sampled Monster by Meg and Dia that I am positive I'll never find again. Google replaced it with a dubstep song. Thanks. Not one of these ones, per chance? https://www.whosampled.com/Meg-%26-Dia/Monster/
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Aug 29, 2023 13:00
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Target's website lists products from third-party sites now and it fuckin' sucks.
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Aug 29, 2023 14:12
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Target's website lists products from third-party sites now and it fuckin' sucks. God that really is the beginning of the end for any online store.
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Aug 29, 2023 14:23
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Amazon hid the Wish List functionality, removing the ability to add a bunch of stuff to a list to compare at your leisure. Everything is basically being shaped toward impulse buying.
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Aug 29, 2023 14:52
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Amazon Prime Video used to have a category called "Free to Me" and it was all the stuff included with Prime membership. Very useful when trying to navigate their trash interface. They got rid of it, now you have to wade through all the content, a good deal of it for purchase.
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Aug 29, 2023 15:00
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redshirt posted:Amazon Prime Video used to have a category called "Free to Me" and it was all the stuff included with Prime membership. Very useful when trying to navigate their trash interface. Removing a feature that makes it difficult to use something you specifically paid for? Why would that a be problem?
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Aug 29, 2023 15:15
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Welp, YouTube seems to have finally defeated my ad blocker. I'm seeing commercials for the first time in forever.
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Aug 29, 2023 15:29
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Nothing here yet, but there's always firefox if it's a chrome thing.
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Aug 29, 2023 16:17
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I think I am going to get a paper newspaper subscription This is insanity on the internet
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Aug 29, 2023 16:21
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wash bucket posted:Welp, YouTube seems to have finally defeated my ad blocker. I'm seeing commercials for the first time in forever. I had one ad try to play but I got a few seconds of audio with no video. Then my ad blocker shoved that poo poo back down the dark hole where it belongs.
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Aug 29, 2023 16:28
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wash bucket posted:lol. I remember that being a thing with new editions back when books were made of dead trees but it's kinda messed up they can do that to an ebooks you've already bought. Though I remember buying music on iTunes and having the album art randomly switch up after the fact. My book copy of Watership Down is my older sister’s from 1978 and was passed down to me since I saw the movie several times before reading the book. Across the top it says, “America’s beloved #1 bestseller, now an enchanting motion picture!”
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Aug 29, 2023 16:29
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wash bucket posted:Welp, YouTube seems to have finally defeated my ad blocker. I'm seeing commercials for the first time in forever. They're starting to directly stream ads packaged with videos. Ad blockers could theoretically detect this and "fast forward" you or something but for all intents and purposes it'll appear the same as any other video and will be unblockable. Youtube is rolling this out slowly so they avoid too much backlash about it. ergo we need a new youtube.
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Aug 29, 2023 16:36
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in all seriousness, i'd put everything i wanna see in a cue, record it and time shift it like in ye olden days.
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Aug 29, 2023 16:41
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*mom from the waterboy voice* internet ads are the devil!!!
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Aug 29, 2023 16:50
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My TV is 15 years old and still going strong. Are all TVs "smart" now, or can you buy a normal TV and avoid all that dumb bullshit?
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Aug 29, 2023 16:52
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You can make your own tv. Buy a caseless screen, speakers, all the components. Hook it up to a raspberry pi or something. Surely some artisan is making and selling these already.
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Aug 29, 2023 16:53
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Fitzy Fitz posted:My TV is 15 years old and still going strong. Are all TVs "smart" now, or can you buy a normal TV and avoid all that dumb bullshit? not really. i had to buy a smart tv recently when my 15 year old samsung died, which i wasnt happy about . but its not that big a deal, i just never connected it to the internet and only use the hdmi feeds. so it behaves just like a regular tv, thankfully
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Aug 29, 2023 16:59
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Fitzy Fitz posted:My TV is 15 years old and still going strong. Are all TVs "smart" now, or can you buy a normal TV and avoid all that dumb bullshit? You can get "monitors" or there's a commercial version meant for sports bars and other displays.
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Aug 29, 2023 17:00
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anonumos posted:Amazon hid the Wish List functionality, removing the ability to add a bunch of stuff to a list to compare at your leisure. Everything is basically being shaped toward impulse buying. I still wish list often, it's just a small text link  
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Aug 29, 2023 17:01
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Fitzy Fitz posted:My TV is 15 years old and still going strong. Are all TVs "smart" now, or can you buy a normal TV and avoid all that dumb bullshit? wash bucket posted:Best Buy's Insigia TVs still come in not smart flavors and they're the ultimate old person TV. My Dad burned through a bunch of Samsung TVs he hated until he found one of these. He loved it so much he went back to Best Buy and bought a second one as a spare.
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Aug 29, 2023 17:02
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Pray for my tv. I don't think I can handle this twenty-first century.
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Gotta Time Dive to get one of those fucknormous sony trinitrons from right before the LCD switch. The letterboxing/snapped spines from carrying it will be worth it. Maybe.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:not really. i had to buy a smart tv recently when my 15 year old samsung died, which i wasnt happy about . but its not that big a deal, i just never connected it to the internet and only use the hdmi feeds. so it behaves just like a regular tv, thankfully I bought a TV last year and specifically paid extra for a model that wasn't a smart TV. Every time I turn it on, it wants me accept a licensing agreement and connect to the Internet and I have to cancel out of it.
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Aug 29, 2023 17:30
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Random Stranger posted:I bought a TV last year and specifically paid extra for a model that wasn't a smart TV. Every time I turn it on, it wants me accept a licensing agreement and connect to the Internet and I have to cancel out of it. Have you considered connecting it to the internet? Then disconnecting it?
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Aug 29, 2023 18:27
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StormDrain posted:Have you considered connecting it to the internet? Then disconnecting it? At this point hitting cancel is more me flipping the bird to "smart" features than anything else.
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Aug 29, 2023 18:28
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Where are the hackers fighting against all this stuff? William Gibson promised I'd be able to find a guy in a sewer pipe that could fix my poo poo.
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Aug 29, 2023 18:34
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Triikan posted:Where are the hackers fighting against all this stuff? William Gibson promised I'd be able to find a guy in a sewer pipe that could fix my poo poo. They all got jobs with cyber security firms
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I have a Philips flatscreen from 2006 and I dread the day it stops working because it's got a surprisingly decent RGB upscaler built into it for some reason? It makes my Dreamcast games look all sexy and crisp and it's the primary reason I refuse to replace it.
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