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99.9% of all these "problems" can be solved by using an ablocker DNS and a couple of adb commands (on Android).
Too bad adv commands are blocked on firetvs 😢
Well, yeah, though luck... Amazon (the store) is entirely banned from my house.
And it won't stay on the selected input. No signal? Gotta go back to the screen with ads.
Which brand is this? So I never have to go near it...
I have a Samsung TV from a few years ago, never connected it to the TV, so when I turn it on it just goes to the last used input (HDMI1 in my case). The bootup isn't even that slow , maybe 5 seconds or so. Not great, but not terrible..
Sounds like an obvious spot in the market for a bullshit-free smart TV. You'd just have to get the UX right.
Yeah, it's bound to happen eventually, although they'll probably never be exactly as good or cheap as the ones for the sucker mass-market. Think Fairphone.
In the meanwhile, we just have to keep kludging in old solutions or alternate solutions, like a monitor. Or you could personally launch an enterprise if you're so positioned, I guess.
I'm surprised I've yet to hear of a homebrew industry of completely cutting out the microcontrollers and soldering in a Pi or something to drive the raw display. I don't predict it to be easy, but it doesn't seem completely unobtainable?
Flashing a custom bootloader would be even better, but I assume that hasn't been done because they got that shit cryptographically locked down at the chip level.
~~There's definitely custom ROMs; I run one on my current phone. You should too, if your model makes it possible - they tend to be OSS Android forks and can do whatever the stock one can, but better. (DivestOS being my personal choice, for the Google-freeness)~~
~~I suppose I could have cut out the SoC and replaced it with the same SoC but not locked already. I didn't think of that, lol! Maybe I still could - it's still relatively new, but selling the thing feels like letting a great evil back into the world. I have no idea how hard the particular one is to pull apart in a controlled manner.~~
~~Using a different chip would be pretty hard. You said microcontroller, but a phone is closer in function to a desktop PC than a dishwasher. There's high-bandwidth things going on and you're going to need a lot of bespoke circuitry and software to kludge it. Forget about the end product having the same form factor, too.~~
What?
This is a discussion about televisions.
Fuck, wrong thread.
Somewhere else I was talking about a phone I bought expecting I could flash it, but that I couldn't. I read this as a reply to that.
Yeah, it seems like it should be doable. Actually, it's weird that big monitors cost so much considering it's the same size of display.
OT, and I'm usually not the type that comments with gun trivia, but
the cold metal of a glock
Wasn't Glock famously made of ceramic polymer and became popular for evasion of metal detectors?
Sorry for the sidetrack, that single point irks me even if it's way outside my wheelhouse.
Nope, that's a line in Die Hard 2 that the armourer hated.
I recently got into amateur radio and the radio usage in Die Hard 1 is bonkers. They both talk at the same time a ton, it's just all over the place.
As a qualified amateur operator, I'll just say: that problem isn't exclusive to die hard movies, nor die hard 1.
Yeah, I recently got licensed and have had an interest. Someone mentioned the movie Frequency and I saw the same thing in the trailer lol.
For me the icing on the cake on that image is the "Translate" link which makes me wonder how you might translate this into say Klingon or CEO talk or ELI 5.
Other than that, it's a sad state of affairs that we've allowed this to happen unchecked and wholesale across the planet.
I just never connect my TV to the internet and never have any problems. My old Chromecast is showing its age though.
You can always get a new Chromecast (we were forced to as the ancient bullet proof one told us to "fuck off, I want to die"). The new one has a remote control and apps, which I always thought were missing from the minimalist Chromecast family of products. So look at us, now we have a shitty roku when all we wanted was a device that I could send things to from my phone. Needed and wanted nothing more, but I got it. My tone is muddled here, so I'll make it clear that it's worse than it used to be, and I'm annoyed I was forced to pay to downgrade.